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Actually my bad about that Dire Beast. It was off GCD in beta...

It is fine to have Dire Beast bound to AS. I mean, it is not optimal but as you said, BM already has a ton of CDs to manage so if you are running out of keybinds, use this macro (or get Razer Naga )  You can, alternatively bind DB with macro for every shot...
If Dire Beast really is fired with this macro then it is because some of reasons below:
1) they changed the way macros work and you can actually now fire abilities even after abilities that trigger GCD. This doesnt seem likely to me, though.
2) you spam the button. In that case these abilities fire each with different click
3) I dont know
Anyway, I would just put DB one line above the Arcane shot.

-All in one macro
You are right that trinkets usually have greater effect than engineering glove tinker. But the way you have it written means that tinker is used first, puts CD on trinket so trinket will not be used. Or should not based on rules. Anyway, the main point is that is is not advised to have too different CD lengths in one macro, except for initial nuke macro.

- Fast pet target switching: consider taking Blink Strike talent instead of Lynx Rush for this fight and depending on how far the bosses are from each other, you can bind it with pet´s Dash ability (sure, it costs 30 pet focus), which should be ready for each target switch.

- Need to know is pretty good light weight addon, I was using it in Cata. But now im using JS hunter bar which has incorporated ICD timers, along with CD timers, focus bar, HM alert, Tranq shot alert, Aspect indicator, CC durations.

Found some macro's that are useful:
#showtooltip Arcane Shot
/cast Arcane Shot
/cast Dire Beast

-> Replaces normal Arcane Shot. DB is on a 30sec cooldown, it's nice to bind it with a spell you're using very often anyway.

Sorry, but unles they changed how macros work, Dire Beast would never be fired because it is AFTER an ability that triggers GCD. You need to have DB before Arcane Shot

#showtooltip Bestial Wrath
/use 10 (slot 10 = gloves, only put this line in if you're an engineer with the glove enchant)
/use 13 (trinket 1 if it has a Use)
/use 14 (trinket 2 if it has a Use)
/use Virmen's Bite (new agi potion)
/cast Rabid
/Cast Bestial Wrath

Sorry, but this macro doesnt make much sense.
1) on use trinkets always share CD so cant trigger them both so one of the trinket´s on use effect is wasted
2) you can argue that having both trinket slots there just lets you put your soingle on use trinket to either trinket slots. That would be true if using Synapse Spring hadnt trigger a 10 sec (?) CD on your on use trinket. And vice versa - your on use trinket puts 20sec(?) CD on your synapse springs.
3) you mix there abilities that have wide range of different CDs - from BW and Synapse spring´s 1 minute, to trinket´s 90-120sec (typically), to Rabid´s 2 minutes to pot. SO if this macro worked, it would only be good for bosses like Spine of Deathwing HC where you have short periods of burst time and DPS in the rest of encounters is more orr less irrelevant. For any other boss it would be DPS loss

#showtooltip Lynx Rush
/use 10 (= gloves, only put this line in if you're an engineer with the glove enchant)
/use 13 (trinket 1 if it has a Use)
/use 14 (trinket 2 if it has a Use)
/cast Rabid
/Cast Lynx Rush

Same as above.


Anyway, here are some macros I use:

#showtooltip Bestial Wrath
/use 10
/cast Bestial Wrath

-engineers only
-lines up usage of 1920 AGI with 10% damage boost (20% for the pet)
-it only delays Synapse springs slightly after back-to-back BWs after usage of Readiness (typically once per fight)

#showtooltip Deterrence
/cancelaura Deterrence
/cast Deterrence

- useful when Deterrence is needed for less than its normal duration (think soaking of Ultraxion´s Hour of Twilight or triggering traps on Ragnaros)
- first press triggers Deterrence, second press cancels it

#showtooltip Any_shot
/startattack
/cast Any_shot

- picks automaticaly next target if you dont have any(saves you pressing TAB) and fires your Any_Shot
- beware, you may actually pull unwanted group of mobs so you need to know what you are doing

/cast Bestial Wrath
/cast Lynx Rush
/cast Stampede
/cast Dire Beast
/cast Rapid Fire

- only opening sequence macro (different CD length, overlapping of BW and RF which is ok here because youa re going to reset CD with Readiness anyway
- you will still need to prepot before this macro and cast Hunter´s Mark
- this macro will be followed by Glaive Toss and Kill Command (KC can be first if pet is already within KC range

I might be using some other macros, too, but I was just writing this from top of my head

EDIT: oh, yes, I use simple target macro...

/tar mob1
/tar mob2
/tar mob3

- This is just for super fast target switching (Snobold Vassals on Gormok, Bone spikes on Marrowgar, Elementium Bolt or Mutated Corruption on Deathwing or anything else...
- You can opt to bind Arcane shot to this macro right at the end (this will NOT be your common Arcane shot, though)
- You can list more mobs from one encounter. In this case, higher priority target is on bottom.

Enjoy them.

BTW, dont judge my armory now, it doesnt show my reforges and all enchants that I did last night (I really dont need 12.5% hit ) and still shows old boots

Patch comments .

Not a great one for the numbers, my old head seems to get it right by a system of trial and error and spending vast ammounts of gold on the wrong things a few times first.

But after 5 years of mana management, this just feels wrong at the moment, first impression was good but a shot rotation seems to be hiding itself in a bush somewhere.

Global CD vs Focus management is proving tough, I'm sure there's an answer but cant be sure if we need a tweak from Blizz or I'm just on the wrong track for now.

Will keep posting and hope for some input from fellow Huntards.

Due to the fact that many fights require quite a movement and target switching, Arcane spam/Steady spam (along with crit to mastery reforge) seems to be the way to go. On stationary fights without target switching (read where dont need to reapply Serpent sting repetitively): Serpent Sting + Chimera only to refresh Serpent tends to be more beneficial. Despite PS, think of Chimera just as a tool to refresh Serpent than a shot that needs to be used on cooldown. Oh and by the way, take non-set pieces (most likely Dual-Bladed pauldrons/Pauldrons of lost hope hc,  Logsplitters/Anubar Stalker Gloves/Handguards of Frost and Sleet hc) instead of set pieces if you go with Arcane/Steady spam. You will get some more slots and 4set bonus is useles in that case.

Primes: Arcane, Steady, Kill

 I am very shy on congratulating on this

Who am I with 60 days on my hunter and 20 on my DK?

I made some math: you have spent 1650 working days playing WoW on your L80Ã,´s, that is roughly 6.5 years

Damn....

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The price on dMw Amazon store is really nice - in Czech republic the price will actually be almost double price than this  That might actually make me buy it from dMw store even though I would get the box at least one day later.... Shame I cant buy digital download on Amazon, that will probably only be possible on Blizz site.

Thanks TL. I didnt really mean this thread to go off-topic but my "bit" contributed to it

Picking only one fight to judge someones performance is just ridiculous!

Sorry, I made a mistake with linking Rotface instead of Festergut. However, I think I might not have expressed my point clearly. I didnt want to spam the post with bunch links to individual fights (one reason is that I thought it would be pointless, second reason is that most of our logs have already expired). The purpose of the linked report should have been illustrative.

Especially the Rotface fight does not say anything about the performance of a player in case you saw him only once in that fight. Remember? These little blobs? When you get three or four throughout a fight your performance is neglectable, when you got none, your the shiny, very capable super dps, super super man!

1) there is no player in DMR I have seen only once
2) if you state an argument, you should verify its validity beforehand. Those that were "your the shiny, very capable super dps, super super man" all got 1-2 Mutated Infection which is the same number as most of others did (except for 2 players who got 3). Even if you get 3 of them and it takes 10 seconds to get back to boss on average, still it is mere 10% of the fight thus gimping your DPS by up to 10%. That is far from "neglectable performance".

The performance of a player is not linked gs and to sheer dps neither!

Did I mention the performance is linked to GS and do I think so? Hell no!
Do I think performance in more or less "tank and spank" fight is linked to sheer DPS (or rather damage done)? Hell, yes!  But I do admit it is not lucky and safe to judge by one fight - from many random reasons that are not necessarily the playerÃ,´s fault.

Good raiders are those who do their job and never talk about it!

100% agree on the part with doing their job. However, they can (and in my opinion should) point out when somebody doesnt do their job - not because they are jerks but because they want the others to improve and do their job, too. Do you know how much it plssed me to see people ignoring Bone Spikes on Marrowgar just to hear stupid "excuses" like "I thought others will do it" "lol lag" "my AoE sucks" - generally from the SAME people that were a bit later AoEing like crazy despite Plagued Scientists were marked and it has been called out on TS single target those scientists?

I will tell you what in my opinion makes good player a good player: He is not trying to search for excuses and is not blaming bad luck for his poor performance. How can 3 Mutated infections be a bad luck? It is NOT. All you have to do is look where the offtank is, get to him in 3-4 seconds, wait till the oozes merge and get back to boss in 2 seconds. I admit, it sucks if you are melee and get the first Infection. But is is not a bad luck that will make your DPS neglectable in the whole fight.

In my opinion bad luck is if on heroic Marrowgar you get impaled, then hit by Coldflame and Marrowgar picks you as a target of Bonestorm. Or on hc Deathwhisper you get MCed into Death and Decay and get targeted by Vengeful Spirit - that means things that kill you no matter what your decisions are.

I have written far too much more than I intended and perhaps far too more that needs to be written just to say that good gear can be worn by players that are not good.

Good job!  That means you have cleared Lower Spire, Rotface, Fester, Lana'thel and Valithria, right? Now the real fun begins Good luck! (You really have to experience a wipe on Sindy with her having 27K health left )

Thanks Tirk! Also gratz to first Deathwhisper HM kill, it is one of the harder bosses imo.
Anyway, if you are interested, this is our first kill of Sindragosa 10 HM from yesterday (Sorry for spamming your forum with our stuff - this is penultimate video - but I hope someone is still interested in seeing it

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It's been proven before, that ppl in lesser gear, can do more than ppl in better gear, just down to pure knowledge of their class.

IÃ,´d say it's been proven even more, that ppl in great gear, can do far less than ppl in worse gear, just down to pure ignorance of their class

I mean, I have seen people in blues doing over 5K on Festergut 10 with 25% buff and then I have seen people in full t10 doing 6-7K in 25 man(regularly)

Hi guys, some of you congratulated us yesterday to our first Putricide 10 hard mode kill so here is the video from me. This tim however, it is not from hunter PoV. I was there on my DK tank and was the abomination driver so it will be a bit different than my other videos. Enjoy.

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I just didnt realize that the Onyxian drake doesnt have that pineapple on its tail
A little bit off-topic but when you spoke about seeing that rare drake once, look at what (or rather who) have I seen yesterday. I started playing in summer 2008 so this is pretty rare sight for me (in fact, I have never seen him before):

now all I have to do is try and get a nice drake (I love the drakes with those "pine apple" tails).

Your list in order of availability:
[ITEM=43951]Bronze drake[/ITEM] - just run CoS heroic and you will most likely get it
[ITEM=43955]Red drake[/ITEM] - get exalted with Wyrmrest Accord and pay 1600G
[ITEM=44178]Albino drake[/ITEM] - get 50 mounts and then check your mailbox (30 faction ground mounts, 8 faction flying mounts,  7 Argent tournament mounts, Wintergrasp mammoth, and maybe some AQ mounts..... it is not even expensive these days to get 50 mounts.
[ITEM=43986]Black drake[/ITEM] - get couple of people together and zerg OS10 + 3D. Then win a roll. Drop rate 100%
[ITEM=43954]Twilight drake[/ITEM] - get couple of people together and zerg OS25 + 3D. Then win a roll. Drop rate 100%
[ITEM=43953]Blue drake[/ITEM] - list yourself for random heroic, pray it is Oculus (chance 6.7%), kill Eregos, loot the chest, open sack and hope it is ther (drop rate 5%)
[ITEM=43952]Azure drake[/ITEM] - get couple of people together and kill Malygos 10 or 25. Then win a roll. Drop rate 1%
[ITEM=49636]Onyxian drake[/ITEM] - get couple of people together and kill Onyxia 10 or 25. Then win a roll. Drop rate 0.5%