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Recently I started using the 3:2 Shot rotation macro listed on this board (the one from Bigredkitty) and it really seemed to work more like a 1:1 rotation. My shot speed is 2.9 (actualy speed 2.14 w/o IAotH) so granted it is a
little
slow, but is still should have worked (I know latency and FPs aren't an issue).
Do you really mean 1:1? Something there doesn't make sense.
First of all any version of a macro using
/cast !Auto Shot
/cast Steady Shot to control your shot timing is depending on the way WoW handles /cast commands as you finish an auto shot (the auto shot will fire as long as the "/cast !Auto Shot" command arrives no more than 0.5s before the auto shot timer ends, otherwise the macro will start casting a steady shot and delay the next auto shot). For slow attack speeds this will always start a new steady shot and you'll see a 2:1 or worse ratio.
The slowest I have heard on anyone successfully using a /cast/cast macro is around a 2.1s attack speed. I appear to have slightly higher latency than they do and in my testing I need to be shooting with at least a 1.9s attack speed to get a 3:2 ratio. In practice this means you need to be a Beast Mastery specced hunter with Serpent's Swiftness to use this kind of macro.
Regardless I told my concern to another hunter friend of mine and he recommended a macro using the castsequence command, looking something like this (removing the kill command and tooltip functions)...
/castsequence reset=3 Steady Shot, !Auto Shot
And suddenly everything worked really well. Anyone else use a macro like this, or is there an issue with castsequence?
That is a perfectly fine 1:1 macro which any spec can take advantage of. MM and SV specs will use it to manage their steady and auto shots while manually adding in instant attacks after every other steady shot or so. BM hunters can use it to control their mana use in cases where the slightly higher damage of a 3:2 rotation is not as important. I use it as a BM hunter as I occasionally have too much lag to use a /cast/cast macro effectively.
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