Project Lore: Five dudes. Four cameras. One World of Warcraft.

Posted by Dorkins on Friday, August 1st, 2008 - 28 Comments

Tags: 1:1, 3:2, Add new tag, bigredkitty, BRK, DPS, macros, Manito, rotation, shot

Comments

By Alicia on Friday, August 1st, 2008 at 9:02 pm

huh, wow, i hadn’t known about this. maybe now my dehunter will be able to you know… not miss. ^^ thanks a lot.

By Clorfex on Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 at 1:28 am

Great add for us hunters

By grant on Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 at 6:20 am

Sweet Great additon to my hunter thx Dorkins!

By Cloudbearer on Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 at 8:57 am

I’ve never really got into using the macro myself, but I’ve seen it improve a great many people’s dps. I prefer to use Quartz, which was really meant as a mage casting bar addon, but it also contains an auto shot meter. I use it on my hunter and it helps me time my shots so I don’t clip autoshot.

Lucky for us, this won’t a concern in WotLK- they’re making it so autoshots go off all the time, at the same time. This means no more clipped autoshots no matter what you’re doing.

By Ranyhyn on Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 at 4:47 am

That macro is older than the hills. And when you say that hunters only job is “Shooting shit” you seem to forget they kite the striders on vashj, used to kite drakkisath’s add(s), and other various mobs/boss-adds, they misdirect to tanks on certain pulls, or on bosses, particularly the kind that does threat-knockbacks. They chain-trap mobs as a form of CC in 5-mans, and they do tranquilizing shot on frenzied mobs. They also have a NR aura that was very welcome in Temple of AQ on Huhuran, and they occasionally have to FD in order to reset their agro if it becomes too high.

By Emms on Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 at 5:48 pm

Thanks for the add on! It’s pretty useful, but more than that…I’ll be glad when it won’t be need in WotLK, like Cloudbearer said haha.

By Steph on Monday, August 4th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

I’m going to have to try this later tonight… thanks for the recommendation!

By Eric on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 at 6:16 am

Tried it out last night, but it seemed mostly the same as my current macro(combined Macro1 and Macro 2) on DPS, but hey gear changes so I will keep it around for further testing.

Another good tip for the macros are the : /use 13 and /use 14 commands. These will automatically attempt to use your trinket slots when they are available. Nice to not have to worry about them. That is if you have usable trinkets that you want to use as soon as they are available. (i.e. Bladefist’s Breadth or Bloodlust Broach)

By Sacrito on Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 at 9:48 am

“That macro is older than the hills. And when you say that hunters only job is “Shooting shit” you seem to forget they kite the striders on vashj, used to kite drakkisath’s add(s), and other various mobs/boss-adds, they misdirect to tanks on certain pulls, or on bosses, particularly the kind that does threat-knockbacks. They chain-trap mobs as a form of CC in 5-mans, and they do tranquilizing shot on frenzied mobs. They also have a NR aura that was very welcome in Temple of AQ on Huhuran, and they occasionally have to FD in order to reset their agro if it becomes too high.”

well. when they kite they have to shoot the shit (creature) …

By Michael on Thursday, August 7th, 2008 at 7:10 am

Funny blog from my favorite person in the crew. That made my day, now I’m gonna go shoot shit.

By Roberto on Friday, August 15th, 2008 at 9:13 pm

Though that Macro still works miracles for those Clipping ur shots im glad that it will no longer be a must have hunter macro when wrath comes out (Auto shot has been unlinked or what not).

By whitehawk on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 at 12:13 pm

wow tot gona add that one to my hunters macro thingy ty =D

By Vitolas on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 at 7:49 am

I’m a Marksman and when i have a miss it is very very rare i’m always have crits or hits, maybe you should try Marksmanship

By Spence on Thursday, August 28th, 2008 at 9:18 pm

Just as a word of advice from a t6 hunter, the reason you guys/gals miss shots is because you do not have enough hit rating. Hit cap for hunters is 142, and it’s 93 or 94 or 95 for survival. I can’t remember. Anyways keep it up project lore!

By Afroman on Monday, September 1st, 2008 at 2:53 am

You bleep out fucking but not shit? Lmao. Also thanks for this macro it really does help me shoot shit well.

By eskarver on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 at 6:22 pm

im only 12 but im a really good bm hunter but i have know idea how to do this macro

By Drstealth on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 at 6:48 am

Although it doesn’t directly relate to this post, I would highly recommend to a BM hunter who is doing any dungeons and raiding to spend their 5 Tier 2 Marksman Talent points in Improved Hunter’s Mark instead of Efficiency.
For dungeons and raiding a BM hunter should very rarely have Mana issues. On the long boss fights where mana is an issue, gulping mana pots usually solves that problem.
Improved Hunter’s mark will benefit all the melee party members, including your pet I believe. The larger your party/raid, the larger the benefit Improved Hunter’s Mark is to the group.

By eskarver on Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 at 6:53 pm

k my friend helped me but it doesnt work on my computer

By Dprower on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 11:40 am

Ok simple fact is that stuff is wayy outdated.

Its simply broken! it just cuts off shots, it improves DPS, but not as much as it should. in a practical test that macro only functions at speeds of 1.71 or less.

At which point 1:1 is at its best:

Here is the Macro you will need:

#showtooltip Steady Shot
/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
/castsequence reset=2 Steady Shot, Auto Shot
/cast [exists,target=pettarget] Kill Command
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear(); UIErrorsFrame:Show()

By Dprower on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

OK cheak it out - I whent back and wrote it all out here, addons, basic shot rotation and a lil bit of fun I spent some time working on….

http://dorkshunters.guildlaunch.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=348562&sid=ea662b79d8ac7727714f25e025f9a72b&gid=56508

In there I try and explain basic concepts and ideas without going too complex…

By Bestiarius on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

Shocked.

Shocked I am that this was actually news to people.

By Brian on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

Hey dorkins what addons do you use?

I can tell you use a bar mod, and some form of SCT (scrolling combat text)

but theres timer bars your using that kind of jump out at you when say kill command procs.

Can you share what you use please?

By Dorkinz on Sunday, November 9th, 2008 at 2:38 am

Well Dorkinz the question is AS A HUNTER YA NEED MY DPS BITCH. Dorkinz not that u always WANT to follow other people with their fucking macros yours overall is perfect

By DkZ on Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 at 9:05 pm

Yo if u guys wana see some real dps come over to the Horde @_@

By Johnny Appleseed on Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 at 7:12 am

Hello, I would like to know if someone can tell me the name of the addons Dorkins is using for the “Soloing Northrend Videos” One that show a blue box on the bottom indicating range, if i can actually get the full list it would be awesome. Thanks in advance.

By david on Saturday, April 18th, 2009 at 5:11 pm

I NEED HELP THIS PATCH MESSED MY QUEST HELPER I ALL WAS USE WOWMATRIX AND NOW IT IS MEST UP PLZ HELP ME

By brangg on Friday, June 12th, 2009 at 1:21 am

BM?

is bm good now?

i do 1k lower dps with bm then what i do with surlv

By deckard cain on Sunday, October 18th, 2009 at 12:30 am

you could resume your shit text with just the link. The rest of words is totally useless and annoying