Welcome to Skill Capped’s Overview of the Most Useful Macros for Survival Hunter in Dragonflight
To make it easier to navigate, we’ve divided the guide into the corresponding sections, covering everything from race and talents to gear and macros. These will give you a good idea about what to expect from Survival Hunter, its strengths and weaknesses, and how to get your character ready to conquer the arena. In this section, we will cover the most useful macros for Survival Hunter in Dragonflight.
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Pet Management
One of the most important things for you to get used to is managing your pet. Some people bind the pet action bar, while some still prefer to make specific macros for that. First, is the /petmoveto macro that allows you to have a much better control over your pet. This gives you the ability to position your pet behind targets, dodge skillshots, chase targets more efficiently or simply move your pet out of harm’s way.
/petmoveto
You should also get your hands on petattack and petfollow macros. We suggest that you avoid putting the attack macro into active abilities since you don’t always want your pet attacking the same target as you. In some cases, you may want to move your pet to the healer to interrupt the dring or keep them somebody in combat, for example. And whenever your pet is the target, you may need to put it on passive and have it come back. These macros along with moveto will allow you to have full control over your pet.
/petattack
/petpassive /petfollow
This next macro will allow you to summon a pet and use Growl with one button. If you don’t have a pet out, it will summon the first pet in your stable. You can change it to whatever your main pet is. If you do have a pet out, pressing this will taunt enemy team’s pet, which can be very annoying for classes like Warlocks, Hunters or even Windwalker Monks.
#showtooltip /cast [pet] Dismiss pet /cast [nopet] Call Pet 1 /cast [@arenapet1,exists] Growl; [@arenapet2,exists] Growl; [@arenapet3,exists] Growl
Focus Macros
Some of the most important macros in PvP are focus cast macros. Essentially, they allow you to cast abilities on other units without having to manually change your target. This makes your gameplay a lot more fluid and reactive. For this reason, you should have such macros for important spells like Concussive Shot, Muzzle, Intimidation, Tranquilizing Shot and Scatter Shot.
#showtooltip /cast [@focus] Muzzle
#showtooltip /cast [@focus] Scatter Shot
#showtooltip /cast [@focus] Concussive Shot
Arena Macros
Arena macros do essentially the same thing. The downside of making arena macros is the number of binds you will have to allocate. Not to mention, they are a lot more difficult to get used to. Essentially, you will have 3 binds for each ability. You could start by using focus macros for most of your abilities and arena macros for some of the most important CC, and expand the more you get used to it.
#showtooltip /cast [@arena1] Scatter Shot
#showtooltip /cast [@arena2] Scatter Shot
#showtooltip /cast [@arena3] Scatter Shot
Party
The same principle can be used for party1 and party2 macros. You have some important utility you may need to use on your teammates at the right time. Namely, Roar of Sacrifice, Mending Bandage, and Master’s Call, which are crucial for your team, so you should definitely make these macros for those.
#showtooltip /cast [@party1] Roar of Sacrifice
#showtooltip /cast [@party2] Roar of Sacrifice
Additional Tips
There are also a few other types of macros you could find useful. You could make @cursor macros for Flare, Tar Trap, Steel Trap, Freezing Trap and even Binding Shot. These allow you to bypass the extra click required when aiming the ability, as it will automatically be cast at your cursor’s location. These may take a while to get used to, since you won’t see the range or radius of these abilities when firing them, but it is definitely a lot faster.
#showtooltip /cast [@cursor] Flare
In some cases you may also want to cancel your Aspect of the Turtle early. You could have a separate bind for it or simply macro with another ability like Kill Shot to save a bind and a slot on your action bar.
#showtooltip Kill Shot /cast Kill Shot /cancelaura Aspect of the Turtle