Okay, so what should I be doing, and how should I be doing it? - Builds, Talents and Class Mechanics - Hunter Forums

Yes I know it's a strange thread title for an old hand hunter, but I never said I was a good hunter. Am I sure, well I hope not anyway. I may have said I had improved... don't think I ever said I was good. Okay, maybe I posted some screenshots where I topped the table in damage and kills in various battlegrounds, but that was reporting, not bragging! Anyhoo...

First off, I'm trying something new! Maybe not new for you guys, but new for me. I am trying to play by using my WASD keys, well primarily my W key for forward movement, A and D for strafing and I have my S set up as Disengage. I can walk backward if I want to, thats Shift-W.

So what have I been doing all this time? Well... my wife was playing WoW before I was. And when I came over, she told me to navigate completely with my mouse and use my left hand purely for attacking. Okay, I thought. (Before WoW I played Archlord using WASD and DDO using WASD so it really took me some effort to learn to only use my mouse to navigate. (both buttons to move forward and of course mouse turning, I have always had my A and D in strafe mode, not a keyboard turner. No way! Never that! (Well maybe a little while till I learned better... but that was way back.) It's safe to say, ALL my WoW experience has been using mouse both for navigation and manual target selection.

So now I've rolled a new hunter, and can't for one minute think why I never called him Darrwyn, go figure! Anyway, I am making a serious attempt to use my mouse purely for target selection and turning, and using my W key for forward movement.

I can't quite figure out my best set up for hot keys. Targrun is only a level 24 BM so I still have a lot of attacks, defences etc to cater for, but this is what I have been doing so far...

F1   Blood Fury (Yep an Orc)

F2   Growl/Cower toggle I hit this going in and coming out of an instance...

F3

F4

1    Pet Recall

2   

3

4   Hunter's Mark - send in the pet

5   Concussive Shot

6

Q  currently Steady Shot, has been Kill Command

E  currently Arcane Spam (incorporating Hunter's Mark and Serpent Sting... yeah I know about castsequence macros...)

R  currently Kill Command, has been Steady Shot

T  Multi Shot (I always use T for AoE attacks in every class)

Y  Intimidation (I always use Y for target specific attacks like Hex, polymorf etc Intimidation seems to fit that category)

F  (unused at mo, usually used for speed or haste boosting spells/potions etc)

Z  Mend Pet

X  Health Pot/bandage

V  Stance toggle (all classes with varying stances use this key... DK, Druid, Warrior etc)

Keys not mentioned are currently not used. I know I have Bestial Wrath, Widows Venom, Kill Shot etc to come

I find I am constantly changing where I have Steady Shot and Kill Command, and when I get Kill Shot things will get even more complicated.

I am using Tell Me When (TMW) to indicate when Focus drops below 35% and I have Comergy displaying Focus in a bar beneath my toon's feet.

I don't really have a need for a Serpent Sting or Hunter's Mark indicator as my spam macro is:

/petassist

/petattack

/castsequence reset=target Hunter's Mark, Serpent Sting, Arcane Shot (x 4)

/cast [@pettarget,exists] Kill Command; Mend Pet

/cast !Auto Shot

As indicated above, I don't simply let KC go off on it's own, I have a hot key for it but in the thick of battle and all the visual effects I can miss visual (and even audible) cues so at least here it has a chance of going off on it's own if there is sufficient focus. I don't find losing a GCD on a second HM matters as it rarely gets cast a second time on the same target anyway.

Apart from telling me to never use a castsequence macro... that is an argument you will always lose with me, as previously documented, what advice do you guys have for me?

Thanks in advance

D