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Beast Mastery Hunter WeakAuras, Macros & Addons - The War Within 11.0.5
By Tarlo
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WeakAuras, 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 , 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.
WeakAuras2 is an extremely flexible WoW addon, with near limitless creative potential and control, capable of modifying or replacing nearly any part of the user interface.
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Recommended Beast Mastery Hunter WeakAuras
WeakAuras2 is an extremely flexible addon, with near limitless creative potential and control, capable of replicating or replacing nearly any part of the user interface. While designed as a simple way to create alerts to remind you of buffs, debuff, or encounter mechanics, it has become an integral part of World of Warcraft user interface customization, allowing players to replace their traditional action bars, create and share complex raid information, track other players spell casts, and much, much more. In this section, we've highlighted some of the best WeakAuras for Beast Mastery Hunter, although there are so many different options available that we
highly
recommend visiting
wago.io
to find one that best suits your needs.
WeakAuras Links
These collections are large collection of every single spell and relevant buff in your tooltkit, making for a simple all-in-one UI which covers all the bases. For Beast Mastery Hunters these generally also include a Focus bar and a
Frenzy
Tracker. These collections are meant to be placed in the middle of your screen, underneath your character, so that you're able to hide your default UI. More important individual Weak Auras are covered further below.
Name & Link
Example
Description
Luxthos’ Hunter Package
Fully customizable Hunter WeakAuras You can fully change the design, add borders, customize the amount of icons displayed, modify the order of abilities to match your keybinds and a lot more. Also made for other classes. Can be set up for beginners and experts alike and works well for altoholics.
Doctorio's Hunter Package
Similar basic Beast Mastery Hunter Package is lightweight and customizable.
Effie's Hunter Package
Package made by a Hunter so includes some more fanciful stuff like a
Beast Cleave
target counter. More for the Hunter diehards.
Useful Individual Beast Mastery Hunter WeakAuras
For the most part, these are WeakAuras that have a single purpose, unlike the collections of auras linked above. There will be some overlap here, so if you've decided you want to use one of the collections you won't want to bother with the standalone Focus bar, for example.
Name & Link
Example
Description
Frenzy Tracker
This adds a progress bar that shows the duration of your pet's
Frenzy
buff and how many stacks it has. Changes its color if it won't be possible to refresh
Frenzy
due to GCD or
Barbed Shot
cooldown.This is a handy WeakAura for helping you learn to manage
Frenzy
stacks.
Barbed Shot Helper
This Weak Aura can be used in combination with the
Frenzy
Tracker above, or on its own. This will essentially tell you when it's a good time to cast your
Barbed Shot
by putting a small icon on the screen (if you want, you could go into its options and add a sound alert too). The goal of this aura is to maximize
Frenzy
uptime.
Visual Beast Cleave
This is a really useful WeakAura that gives you lots of information on your pet's
Beast Cleave
. The first part is an icon on the screen that shows the duration of
Beast Cleave
, and how many targets are currently being hit by
Beast Cleave
. The second part adds little swirly icons on your enemy nameplates to show which mobs are being hit by
Beast Cleave
. If the icons are green, you're good to go. If they're yellow, you should be getting ready to refresh
Beast Cleave
on the following GCD. If the icons are red,
Beast Cleave
is no longer active and you should refresh it so it can hit the marked targets.
Hunter's Mark Reminder
This Weak Aura is a simple reminder to apply
Hunter's Mark
to your current target if they're above 80% hp.
Pet Warnings
Several WeakAuras to help you manage your pet. Reminds you when your pet isn't summoned in combat, warns you if your pet is not attacking while in combat (which means it's probably stuck somewhere), warns you if your pet's Basic Attack ability is toggled off, and warns you when your pet's health drops below 20%.
Focus Bar
This is useful if you aren't using one of the all-in-one collections and want a more prominent Focus bar somewhere on your UI (drag it wherever needed). This Focus bar is colored green when your Focus is above 90. Below 90 Focus it is yellow, and below 30 Focus it is red (meaning you wouldn't have enough Focus to cast
Kill Command
).
Smart Misdirect
A Weak Aura which lets you automatically target a tank in your party with your
Misdirection
. If no tank is in your party, it will instead target your pet if you have one out.
It requires this macro to work:
#showtooltip Misdirection
/click SmartMisdirect Leftclick 1
Stacking Buff Tracker
A stand-alone tracker for
A Murder of Crows
,
Huntmaster's Call
and
Explosive Venom
. Allows you to more accurately predict when their effects will go off and avoid wasting them.
Recommended BM Hunter 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.
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 Passive Macro
Pet control is extremely important as any pet class, particularly Beast Mastery. Most of the time you will never need to use this, but occasionally you will want to more carefully control where you pet runs and what it attacks. The best way to do this is to have "petattack" macroed into some damage abilities with a separate macro for "petpassive" which sets your pet to passive, keeping it by your side. This allows you to more readily control where your pet goes, which is especially useful if you are trying to be careful not to pull extra trash in dungeons or raids. It also helps to use when your pet gets stuck or has trouble traversing a specific environment.
/petpassive
Pet Attack Macros
By baking /petattack into some of your abilities, your pet will become more responsive and switch targets without delay, even if the spell is on cooldown. It also lets you control your pet even if the pet is on passive. I wouldn't recommend using this on
Cobra Shot
since you'll sometimes want to quickly shoot a target without removing your pet from its current target. For
Kill Command
and
Barbed Shot
they can ensure the pets sticks to the most important target. For
Multi-Shot
it can help position your pet in the middle of the enemies so it can hit as many targets as possible with
Beast Cleave
. Remember your pet always goes behind the target.
Kill Command
#showtooltip Kill Command
/petattack
/cast Kill Command
Barbed Shot
#showtooltip Barbed Shot
/petattack
/cast Barbed Shot
Multi-Shot
#showtooltip Multi-Shot
/petattack
/cast Multi-Shot
Mouseover Macros
Having a mouseover
Kill Shot
macro is quite useful, especially in AoE, to snipe those low health targets. With
Venom's Bite
, it also lets you multi-dot more easily. The
Barbed Shot
macro similarly facilitates multi-dotting. The
Kill Command
macro mostly has use if you're running
Killer Instinct
, allowing you to snipe out low health targets to maximize damage and cleave with
Kill Cleave
.
Kill Shot
#showtooltip Kill Shot
/cast
Black Arrow
#showtooltip Black Arrow
/cast
Barbed Shot
#showtooltip Barbed Shot
/petattack
/cast
Kill Command
#showtooltip Kill Command
/petattack
/cast
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 0.3 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. 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 0.3 second window.
These are the 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 and mouseover macros from above). Remember, in order to use these you just replace your existing ability buttons with these macros.
Kill Command
#showtooltip Kill Command
/petattack
/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 Claw
/cast Bite
/cast Smack
Cobra Shot
#showtooltip Cobra Shot
/cast Cobra Shot
/cast Claw
/cast Bite
/cast Smack
Kill Shot
#showtooltip Kill Shot
/petattack
/cast Claw
/cast Bite
/cast Smack
Black Arrow
#showtooltip Black Arrow
/petattack
/cast Claw
/cast Bite
/cast Smack
Spirit Mend Macro
This macro will cast
Spirit Mend
on your current target if you have a friendly target. If not it will cast on your mouseover target if it's friendly (works if you hover over raid frames too). If you don't have a friendly mouseover target either it will cast on yourself. 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, and it might cause your pet to briefly leave the boss to heal.
#showtooltip Spirit Mend
/cast Spirit Mend
Aspect of the Turtle Cancel
Most of the time, you will use
Aspect of the Turtle
to avoid a specific instance or burst of damage. This usually means that you do not want to have turtle up for the full 10 seconds since you would be unable to attack for the full duration. The solution to this is to macro a "cancelaura" into one of your other abilities that you can hit to cancel
Aspect of the Turtle
when you are ready to resume attacking. This functionality is also built into the game but usually takes an extra second to cancel compared to using a macro.
Example:
#showtooltip Cobra Shot
/cancelaura Aspect of the Turtle
/cast Cobra Shot
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
This macro utilizes the
"Smart" Misdirection Weak Aura
which prioritizes tanks if you are in a group with one. If not, it will prioritize your pet. You can even customize the Weak Aura to prioritize
Misdirection
on specific players if you want to. Read the Weak Aura page for more info.
#showtooltip Misdirection
/click SmartMisdirect Leftclick
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
Normally to use a Trap or
Flare
it takes two actions. First you need to press the bind for the ability, then you need to click on the target location. By macroing into your ability's cast, you reduce that to a single action since the ability will automatically target your cursor to place it. You can do this for any similarly targeted ability by simply replacing the name in the macros below. Note that you will not get a targeting reticule with this since it's all done in one button press.
Implosive Trap
#showtooltip Implosive Trap
/cast Implosive Trap
High Explosive Trap
#showtooltip High Explosive Trap
/cast High Explosive Trap
Freezing Trap
#showtooltip Freezing Trap
/cast Freezing Trap
Tar Trap
#showtooltip Tar Trap
/cast Tar Trap
Flare
#showtooltip Flare
/cast Flare
Note: You can optionally replace the @cursor with @player to have the traps automatically drop at your feet.
Recommended BM Hunter Addons
Addons are powerful tools that can 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.
User Interface
ElvUI - Very popular all-in-one UI overhaul.
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.
OmniCD
- A specialized addon to track your group members' cooldowns.
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
Method Raid Tools
- Modular addon containing raid coordination tools for raid leaders and officers.
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.
About the Author
Hello! My name is Tarlo and I am the writer for the Beast Mastery Hunter guide here on Wowhead. I have mained Hunter since the Burning Crusade and currently do high-Level Mythic raiding. I also sometimes dabble in Mythic+. You can find me as a moderator in the
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Special shout-out to the various theorycrafters, Simc implementers and other Hunters who help make this guide possible.
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