Re: Hunter builds

Urbin <urbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:12:28 GMT, Rob Wynne wrote:
Urbin <urbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:41:42 GMT, Rob Wynne wrote:
Urbin <urbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think one of the reasons we get a bad reputation is too many people solo
their way to max level, and think "Wow, I've done really well, I must play
my class really well" and then go on raids and discover that it's a
completely different environment and they don't know how to use, let alone
get the most out of, a lot of their abilities.

I had been 60 for more than a year when BC hit and though I had occasionally
been to the levelling instances and a bit more in Scholo/Strat/UBRS/ZG, I
don't think I really learnt some of my most crucial abilities (i.e. chain
trapping) until I had been 70 for a while.


I remember going on a heroic Steamvaults, only the second heroic I'd been
in. Leading the group was our GL's wife, the second-in-command
of the whole guild. (In truth, you'd eventually discover, first-in-command
in reality, but I digress). Anyway, there's that pull just before the
first boss, with the group of four naga that includes 2 casters, and she
assigned me and the other hunter we had along to trap the two casters.
We both failed miserably at the required LOS manipulation to accomplish
this.

I made up my mind at that point that I was going to stop apologizing for
being a bad trapper and start being a good one.

(She later admitted that, since i was new and interested in raiding, this
was done deliberately to test me.

"You wanted to see if I could successfully trap casters?" I asked.

"No," she said. "We wanted to see how good you were at keeping your
composure."

"Oh.")

I remember having to explain to a raid leader in Karazhan that Hunters
weren't mages. We can't just keep someting locked down forever.

On the other hand, there is always a chuckle to be had when there is a sheep
in the frost trap :)


Oh yes. This happens a lot in my lowbie instance group, where I'm the
mage. Usually its because something broke free of our pally tank and the
hunter and I both jumped on it at the same time. :)

No, the 4 seconds reset means "if I don't touch this for four seconds,
start over the sequence."

Hm, in that case I don't understand it. So what happens on third press?
Obviously, to make sure you get out as many shots as you can and time them
exactly right, you will need to spam the macro, otherwise you might miss
that tiny window of opportunity (at least that's how I understood your
former post). So on first press I start steady shot, on second press a few
milliseconds later I start auto shot. What happens on third press a few ms
later? and so on? I don't get how this solves the problem.


No, no. /castsequence just loops around when it gets to the end. if you
keep pressing it, it'll fire steady, auto, steady, auto forever. the reset
tag is just to make sure it starts over at the beginning of the sequence if
you stop pressing the button for 4 or more seconds.

To be honest, it's not strictly necessary in THIS macro, because there's
only two things in the sequence. Consider, however, a macro for warlock
to cast a series of DoTs on a target. You want those DoTs to go on in a
particular order, and you don't want it to stop in the middle. There might
e four or five things in the sequence at that point.

#showtooltip Steady Shot
/console Sound_EnableSFX 0

I forgot to ask in my last post. What is the SFX 0 and 1 for? To suppress
the annoying voice telling you that the ability is not yet ready? I have
turned that off in the interface settings a long time ago. Is it good for
anything else? Or can I leave it out as I turned that voice off for good?


Sound_EnableSFX 0 turns off sound effects entirely. Sound_EnableSFX 1
turns them back on. It doesn't just disable errors speech, it turns the
sound off completely. It's mostly to get rid of that little muted symbol
SFX that it does when it's not off cooldown. It has no *functional* use in
terms of the macro working, but it makes a nicer (IMO) environment.

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