Hunter Macros… You can Haz them
So In my searching for a new way to spec my marks tree I decided I would post about marks and some of the macros I use with it also one of the macros I use is very helpful for my Surv spec. Now the thing about these 3 macros is that they all have a shot + silencing shot + kill command all in one macro and kill command is only used if your pet is out/yout pet has a target so it’s never wasted. These macros aren’t that hard to find out there on the webz im sure if you do a quick google for hunter macros they might even come up, but I had never seen them before when I was looking for hunter macros. So I felt I had to share them with you all!
#showtooltip chimera shot
#sAimed Shot:
Chimaera Shot
#showtooltip chimera shot
#show chimera shot
/cast [target=pettarget,exists] kill command
/cast chimera shot
/cast silencing shot
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Aimed Shot
#showtooltip chimera shot
#show chimera shot
/cast [target=pettarget,exists] kill command
/cast chimera shot
/cast silencing shot
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Arcane Shot
#showtooltip arcane shot
#show arcane shot
/cast [target=pettarget,exists] kill command
/cast arcane shot
/cast silencing shot
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I also have a mouseover macro setup for Master’s Call which helps really well on fights like Hodir when you need a quick dispel and a healer hasn’t dispelled you yet.
#showtooltip Master’s Call
#show Master’s Call
/cast [target=mouseover,exists][target=player] Master’s Call
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My final macro I use is great for any hunter really it casts Hunter’s Mark then changes your tracking to the type of mob you just casted mark on.
#showtooltip
/stopmacro [noexists]
/run for i=1,GetNumTrackingTypes() do local n, t, a, c = GetTrackingInfo(i); if string.find(n, UnitCreatureType(“target”)) then if t~=GetTrackingTexture(i) then SetTracking(i); end end end
/cast Hunter’s Mark
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Yeh.. Lot’s of text on that one, but It works I promise!
Now on to talking about the marks spec I’m working on.
With the new changes to Hunter’s Mark and the mana reduction to shots that Master Marksman now gives I went back to looking at how I could improve my marks spec for more DPS. I went looking over at EJ to see if I could find the answers to my questions there and I had some success. The thing though was the majority of posts I could find about BEST DPS spec for marks assumes that there’s another hunter in your raid already w/ Imp Hunter’s Marks or Trueshot Aura. Well thankfully we recruited an enhance shammy recently so I was able to give up the Trueshot Aura, but That still left me in the dark on how to spec to get the 3 points I needed for Imp Mark.
Well after some toying around I decided on an 6/58/7 Build I’ve also been contemplating making it like this 7/57/7 or 7/57/7 . The difference in these are that both have 2 points in Focused Fire instead of just 1 and one of the builds has 2 points in Rapid Recup while the other is 1 point in RR and 1 point in Imp Barrage.
I like doing my testing inside of Ulduar to see what kind of real numbers I get I mean the discrepancy in DPS between these 3 builds can’t be alot, but I’m sure one of them does more than the other I just need to find it! 
A few tips I want to point out for marks inside Ulduar is that depending on the fight trap dancing is still pretty good DPS. Take for instance Auriaya at the start of the fight and all throughout adds are spawning. Drop explosive trap! I watched myself get a good extra amount of DPS from the explode and the ticking damage I got from hitting her and her cats. Hodir, You’re usually always getting close to that dude on Flash Freezes drop an immo trap every Flash Freeze and watch the DPS go up!
Those are the two easiest fights to get trap dancing working on, but you can get it going preatty easily on the other fights too especially if you used to trap dance you know exactly how it needs to be done. I don’t really recommend this for surv since you want to be using Black Arrow, but on Auriaya I usually use explosive trap WHEN there are multiple adds up and that nets me more DPS in the long run then using BA at that time.
Well I hope these macros and words of advice help all you other hunter’s out there!
Til nex time .. Happy Hunting!
Kami
