EPIC hunter Pet Macro

[Janube]

7itanium, I think you misinterpreted what this does. It's not at the same time. You HAVE to dismiss pet each time and call a new pet each time, and even then, the macro does not cast the pet's ability for you.

Each time you press the macro, it does the next part in the sequence, not combines it all into one.
3.5 seconds you're missing out on dismissing and calling each time. 3.5 seconds you're not damaging. 3.5 seconds you're not using other available CC. 3.5 seconds you're unable to move.

This is JUST a macro people. It does nothing that is not already possible within the game's engine. A good hunter can do everything this macro does on his own, this just streamlines the process for those that find it a useful tactic.

[CaptianCrook]

7itanium, I think you misinterpreted what this does. It's not at the same time. You HAVE to dismiss pet each time and call a new pet each time, and even then, the macro does not cast the pet's ability for you.

Each time you press the macro, it does the next part in the sequence, not combines it all into one.
3.5 seconds you're missing out on dismissing and calling each time. 3.5 seconds you're not damaging. 3.5 seconds you're not using other available CC. 3.5 seconds you're unable to move.

This is JUST a macro people. It does nothing that is not already possible within the game's engine. A good hunter can do everything this macro does on his own, this just streamlines the process for those that find it a useful tactic.

I'm a "good" hunter myself, and I've talked to many other "good" hunters. (All Gladiator+ players) We all agreed without the use of a macro like this summoning/dismissing and resummoning 4+ pets is impractical. The mcro itself is NOT an exploit, at all and no one that understand the power of this is claiming it to be.

You obviously don't play a hunter because re-using pet abilities is NOT detrimental at all :P

[Janube]

I obviously don't play a hunter at all because I'm a PvE player and not a PvP player?

3.5 seconds of lost time is not detrimental at all?
It may be that the benefits outweigh the cost by your agreed collective of buds, but to suggest that losing 3.5 seconds in combat is not at all detrimental is simply ignorance.

In PvE, we don't like to lose time in order to gain abilities that are not worth the time lost in DPS gain. The costs, in this case, outweigh the benefits, thus, we do not want or need something like this.

Yes, with this, you technically save yourself from having to press different buttons, but I've never found myself particularly encumbered by pressing Dismiss Pet followed by the summon I'm looking for. I never said it wasn't useful to certain people. I'm saying that as a macro that does nothing extraordinary, and in keeping with the bounds of game design, this is not an EXPLOIT by definition.

The mcro itself is NOT an exploit, at all and no one that understand the power of this is claiming it to be.

I assume Blizzard never intended for hunters to swap pets so quickly and use up all of their abilities, and seeing as this would be against game design it should be posted in the exploit section.

Something against game design being abused is indeed an exploit by definition, so yes. YOU are claiming that it is. This should be moved to Guides.

[Sklug]

I obviously don't play a hunter at all because I'm a PvE player and not a PvP player?

3.5 seconds of lost time is not detrimental at all?
It may be that the benefits outweigh the cost by your agreed collective of buds, but to suggest that losing 3.5 seconds in combat is not at all detrimental is simply ignorance.

In PvE, we don't like to lose time in order to gain abilities that are not worth the time lost in DPS gain. The costs, in this case, outweigh the benefits, thus, we do not want or need something like this.

Yes, with this, you technically save yourself from having to press different buttons, but I've never found myself particularly encumbered by pressing Dismiss Pet followed by the summon I'm looking for. I never said it wasn't useful to certain people. I'm saying that as a macro that does nothing extraordinary, and in keeping with the bounds of game design, this is not an EXPLOIT by definition.





Something against game design being abused is indeed an exploit by definition, so yes. YOU are claiming that it is. This should be moved to Guides.

I can't help but feel a taint of dumb PVE hero elitism here. Yes, it MAY be worthless in a PVE dps fight were all you do is hit 3-5 buttons in a rotation and barely have to do anything. Look, I have played hunter since Vanilla, and I picked up PVP later in TBC (only because I wanted the cheap S3 two hander and I found I actually liked PVP lol). You know what? I realized that I never really knew my class I until I played competitive PVP. And, while I may have been a good raider and a master double trapper and stuff lol, I really became pro because of PVP

THis macro makes the exploit easier to pull off...

Give this guy a break and some rep and get off your high PVE horse and try to accept that this guy actually came up with something pretty cool and this is ABSOLUTELY an exploit lol.

[Janube]

You're clearly not understanding my posts, so I'm going to stop, since it's an exercise in futility. I'm not giving rep to someone who took a well known exploit since WotLK and made a simple macro for it. Nor is the macro itself an exploit.
However, I will say that nothing screams "high horse" like

And, while I may have been a good raider and a master double trapper and stuff lol, I really became pro because of PVP