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Beast Mastery Hunter Macros & Addons - Battle for Azeroth 8.3
By BendakWoW
Last updated
2020/01/13 at 10:49 PM
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Macros and Addons provide many quality-of-life improvements in WoW, allowing players to improve how information is displayed in-game or automate decision-making to optimize performance.
In this guide, we will go over useful Beast Mastery Hunter macros for World of Warcraft: , explain how to make your own macros, and cover some of the best Beast Mastery Hunter addons for both hardcore raiders and general players alike. Whether you're looking for specialized Beast Mastery Hunter macros to help you gain a competitive edge, or creating a custom user interface to expand your view of the game world, this page will help get you started with some of the most popular choices within the Beast Mastery Hunter community.
For details on specific community tools and addons, please visit our
Macro and Addon Guide Section
.
Overview
Beginners
Azerite
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Talent Builds
Rotation, Priority, and Abilities
Advanced Concepts
Stats
Gear
Consumables
Simulations
Correcting Mistakes
Mythic+
NEW Ny'alotha Tips
Macros & Addons
WeakAuras
Common Terms
About the Author
My name's
Bendak
and I've been maining a Hunter since the launch of WoW. In addition to the
Beast Mastery Guide
, I've also written several Hunter pet guides at Wowhead including the
Battle for Azeroth Hunter Pet Guide
, and
Mechanical
and
Feathermane
Hunter pet guides. You can also find me at my personal Hunter blog
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Macros
Macros are simple, in-game tools which allow you to sequence spells together, create custom names and icons, cast different abilities depending on whether the target is friendly or hostile, define targeting conditions, and much, much more. While the amount of options can be complex, making them is easy, so in this section we'll go over how to set them up yourself.
To open the in-game Macro interface, type "/macro" or "/m".
Choose between the General and Character-specific macro tabs. Then click the "New" button on the macro window.
Choose a Name and an Icon so you can easily recognize your macro, then click "Okay."
Select your new macro and use the text editor below to tell it what to do. If copying ours below, you can simply copy/paste the text in.
Click the "Save" button, and drag your macro icon onto your bars, which will allow it to be used just like any other spell from your spellbook.
To close the window, click "Exit", or just press Escape.
For more information on creating macros, including full lists of conditionals, modifiers, and other command customizations you can use, check out our full
Macros guide
.
Pet Attack Macros
By baking /petattack into some of your abilities, your pet will become more responsive and switch targets without delay. Prior to Battle for Azeroth, this was necessary for
Kill Command
, but now it seems like this functionality has been baked into that ability. However, it's still useful to keep it in so when you spam the Kill Command button you can tell your pet where to attack even if its on cooldown. I wouldn't recommend using this on Cobra Shot or Chimaera Shot since you'll sometimes want to quickly shoot a target without removing your pet from its current target (example: Explosive orbs in Mythic+).
How to use:
Replace your existing ability buttons with the appropriate macro.
Kill Command:
Not necessary, but helpful.
#showtooltip Kill Command
/petattack
/cast Kill Command
Barbed Shot:
Usually your pet will automatically switch targets when you cast Barbed Shot, but it works inconsistently when targets are close together. This makes it consistent.
#showtooltip Barbed Shot
/petattack
/cast Barbed Shot
Multi-Shot:
It's important to use this on Multi-Shot so that your pet is cleaving where you're shooting. In large groups, cast Multi-Shot on the target nearest the center of the group to maximize the targets hit.
#showtooltip Multi-Shot
/petattack
/cast Multi-Shot
A Murder of Crows:
Optional, only really necessary if you are using this as an opening attack anywhere.
#showtooltip A Murder of Crows
/petattack
/cast A Murder of Crows
Basic Attack Macros
Baking your pet's Basic Attacks (Claw, Bite, or Smack) into abilities will maximize how many are cast. Basic Attacks have a 3 second cooldown, but your pet doesn't always immediately auto-cast it on cooldown for unknown reasons, which results in numerous missed casts in a boss fight. The average delay is about 0.6 seconds. You can force out more basic attacks by adding them to all of your offensive abilities in macros. As you are spamming your abilities, there is a greater chance that basic attacks will be cast on cooldown or as close to cooldown as possible. If you're someone who spams their buttons during GCDs, the actual gain from this should reduce the basic attack cooldown to about 3.1-3.3 seconds (down from 3.6 seconds) on average. Note that you still leave your pet's basic attack on auto-cast, the purpose of these macros is to try and cast it sooner within that 0.6 second window.
Is this necessary?
No, but you gain extra DPS for doing it, and there's no downside. It's highly recommended.
These are the necessary lines you should add to offensive abilities in a macro (just put them at the bottom of your macro)
/cast Claw
/cast Bite
/cast Smack
Below you will find examples of these macros (these also include the /petattack macros from above, so only use one or the other). Remember, in order to use these you just replace your existing ability buttons with these macros.
Kill Command
#showtooltip Kill Command
/petattack
/cast Kill Command
/cast Claw
/cast Bite
/cast Smack
Multi-Shot
#showtooltip Multi-Shot
/petattack
/cast Multi-Shot
/cast Claw
/cast Bite
/cast Smack
Barbed Shot
#showtooltip Barbed Shot
/petattack
/cast Barbed Shot
/cast Claw
/cast Bite
/cast Smack
Chimaera Shot
#showtooltip Chimaera Shot
/cast Chimaera Shot
/cast Claw
/cast Bite
/cast Smack
A Murder of Crows
#showtooltip A Murder of Crows
/petattack
/cast A Murder of Crows
/cast Claw
/cast Bite
/cast Smack
Cobra Shot
#showtooltip Cobra Shot
/cast Cobra Shot
/cast Claw
/cast Bite
/cast Smack
Spirit Mend Macro
A Spirit Beast's
Spirit Mend
is quite powerful now. It's worthwhile to turn its autocast OFF so you can save it to use as a mini healing cooldown. This macro will cast it on whatever friendly player you're mousing over on your raid frames, and if you're not mousing over anyone it will cast it on you instead. Also note that the ability only has a 25 yard range, so either you or your pet needs to run into range in order to use it.
#showtooltip Spirit Mend
/cast Spirit Mend
Misdirection Macros
This macro will cast
Misdirection
on whatever player you are mousing over on your raid/party frames (i.e. your tank), and if you're not mousing over someone it will cast on your focus target. If that also fails, it will simply cast on your current target:
#showtooltip Misdirection
/cast
This macro will cast Misdirection on your pet.
#showtooltip Misdirection
/cast Misdirection
Counter Shot Macro
This
Counter Shot
macro interrupts your focus target, and if you have no focus target set it will interrupt your current target instead.
#showtooltip Counter Shot
/cast
Trap Macros
These macros will cast your traps at the location of your cursor. This lets you shoot traps in a single button press rather than having to press it once, aim, then press again. Note that you will not get a targeting reticule with this since it's all done in one button press.
#showtooltip Freezing Trap
/cast Freezing Trap
#showtooltip Tar Trap
/cast Tar Trap
Note: You can optionally replace the @cursor with @player to have the traps automatically drop at your feet, but that is probably of more use to a Survival Hunter.
Addons
Addons are powerful tools that can be used to both customize your gameplay experience, ranging from graphical overlays, replacement action bars, and unit/raid frames, to performance enhancements such as rotation helping spell reminders, buff/debuff tracking, popup reminders, and boss warnings. Here are some of the highly recommended and commonly used BM Hunter addons, which are certainly not required to play, but can go a long way toward increasing the information available to you in combat or simply make for a more pleasant viewing experience.
Unlike Macros, managing Addons is done outside of the game, but our
How to Install and Maintain Addons Guide
will take you step-by-step through the process.
Improved Stable Frame
Revamps the Hunter stable frame to show all of your pet stable slots on a single page rather than 6 pages. Makes it easier to move and organize your pets since you can now drag pets anywhere in your stable freely.
RangeDisplay
Shows how far away you are from your target. Useful for positioning yourself at max range, plus some talents like Stampede only have a 30-yard range and this will let you know if it will hit your current target or not.
DejaCharacterStats
The base UI removes some important information from the character sheet such as Focus regeneration, GCD time, and speed. This addon restores all of the old details from the pre-Legion character sheet and adds more. Can be customized to show whatever stats you want.
Deadly Boss Mods
Boss mods are a must have for dungeons and raids. An alternative to DBM is
BigWigs Bossmods
.
WeakAuras 2
This addon helps you keep track of buffs, resources, cooldowns, and pretty much anything you can think of. Check out the WeakAuras section of this guide for a selection of useful Beast Mastery Hunter WeakAuras.
More Recommendations
User Interface
ElvUI
- Very popular all-in-one UI overhaul.
Azerite Tooltip
-Shows Azerite Powers available to your specialization on gear tooltips.
Bartender4
- Highly customizable action bars which can be moved and organized however you like.
Chatter
- Replacement chatbox addon, with custom themes, fonts, and functions.
Deja Character Stats
- Adds more stats to the character panel, with customizable filters.
Elkano's Buff Bars
- Replaces the standard buff/debuff icons with ordered lists, including names and bar graph-style durations.
Mapster
- World map enhancement which adds coordinates, icons, and more.
Move Anything
- Allows any part of the default UI to be moved around.
OPie
- A specialized radial menu style actionbar, very useful for condensing less frequently used spells that don't always need to be on your main bars.
Sexy Map
- Makes your minimap sexy!
Shadowed Unit Frames
- Customizable player, target, and raid unit frames.
ThreatPlates
- Customize nameplates styles and add various information including buffs, debuffs and casting indicators
World Quest List
- Attaches a sortable list of active world quest lists, filtered by zone, to the edge of your map.
Combat and informational
BigWigs Bossmods
- A lightweight, open source raid encounter addon.
Deadly Boss Mods
- A more robust encounter addon for dungeons, raids, PvP, and more.
Details
- A highly customizable damage and healing meter
Exorsus Raid Tools
- Modular addon containing raid coordination tools for raid leaders and officers.
Omen
- Threat meter
Pawn
- Helps you find gear upgrades when combined with a string from SimulationCraft
SimulationCraft
- Simplifies simming your character by generating an in-game script to paste into SimCraft or Raidbots
WeakAuras2
- A very powerful addon that can display a massive variety of information including procs, casting indicators and raid boss warnings.
Of course, these recommendations are not the only useful addons out there; there are hundreds to choose from, of every type imaginable. If you're looking for something a little different, search through
Curseforge
or
WoWInterface
to find the right Beast Mastery Hunter addons for you.
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