I havnt raided in a while (quiting the game) but I am pretty sure, if I remember right, you could time your mana pots, and other stuff to not delay your autoshot and even if it does it’s really not a big deal ( you just have to time it right , so in other words use an autoshot timer). I know with drums you have to delay a shot though.

Also some people might hate me for this but if a hunter has to use a mana regen shot rotation ( just autoshot) he mis managed his Mana pot Cooldown. Last option scenario should be switching to aspect of the viper for a little bit. I used to start drinking a pot when I was at around 85% of mana , sometimes more and even then I still had to switch to AoTV towards the end of the fight for a little bit though (until my pot CD was back up to drink some another one). And this is with using a 3/2 rotation.

Which leads me to another point..If a paladin in the raid is not actively trying to put up and puts up JoW get them too, especially if you have a ret paladin in your raid. For a hunter JoW is HUGE. Also having a resto shaman would help a little bit with their mana totems, but more importantly cause of the extra dps you could do with them in your party. A good hunter group IMO should have a resto shaman.

Anyways sorry if I offended anybody just trying to post some tips for my fellow hunters.

LOL, don’t want to argue. I just didn’t see a challenge in running a hunter. No I did not suck as a Hunter. I was my guild’s class leader and I helped a lot of hunters with various builds and all that.

CC, shot rotation is all good.
I still find hunters boring. I am a pvp type so to me the rogue is much more interesting.

You need to study rogues better if your example is how you think it’s done. To provide max dps a rogue has to worry about rotation just as much as a hunter. What to do and when to do it, and time it just right.

It’s boring having my pet doing all the work…just sayin.

the game is a bunch of button pushing whether you use a macro or not; the macro just changes the button. myself, i use ctrl-mouse-wheel down for the 1:1 and shift-mouse-wheel down for the 3:2 when i really want to dish out the pain.

Also, it can be a sign of extreme clipping. You pack your steadys so close together that you miss autos entirely.

I have also gotten results like that sometimes when I have horrible lag spikes. Most likely, for someone in MH, it is a result of a 3:2 rotation…

@Blogzorz, great idea, been meaning to do exactly that. Just need to do some bag organization to clear out more room…. bleh…

just a guess. happens to me wee 65 hunter alla time in instances.

Like BRK says: It depends…

Lets take a look at this anonymous wws log (Rage Winterchill - Custom Split because wws messed up with german combat logs):

http://wowwebstats.com/krlhiu1lsqtjg?s=6565,6957

Let us ignore Deimose cause his pet and some Druid shared the same name.

So we are looking for Diones Stats:

Steady Shots - 123
Autoshots - 113

His gear is inferoir to BRK’s gear and he is using a shot rotation macro. If all of the comments above about GCD and 1:1 macros are true, how is this even possible?

I understand why you were lower on the Leo fight I was bringing it up because because someone was complaining that your overall DPS for the night should have been higher and I mentioned that the Leo fight was the one fight that brought down the average dps for the night.

“It has nothing to do with stacking mp/5.”

As the regen during casting is considered mana per 5.

No. A shot rotation macro is proven inferior for DPSing when you’re still at BRKs’ gear level and doing a 1:1 rotation. If you manually time your shots you are able to take advantage of the server-side queue by hitting your steady shot during the .5 sec auto shot cast, thus eliminating lag from the equation and making your rotation as tight as possible.