Welcome to the BM Qa’Pla Counter Meta.
We’ve all heard you can only play SFE or Rylaks, and even with those leggos, as of 1/29/21, we are at the bottom of the dps charts for progression raiding. Well if BM is going to be at the bottom of DPS, let’s have some fun!
IMPORTANT: This macro is designed to be used with a Qa’pla legendary. Don’t ask why this macro sucks if you are not using it, I will make fun of you.
IMPORTANT: The Bloodletting conduit is required, it’s necessary to push down the BS recharge to get the simple rotation to work. Also the natural consequence is we cast BS more often so the damage boost from Bloodletting is also yummy.
IMPORTANT: Scent of Blood talent. Nuff said.
ALSO IMPORTANT: You need as much haste as possible to push your GCD under 1.25 sec, unbuffed, around ~700 rating.
Why Qa’pla? Because it simplifies our cast priorities to a simple rotation: KC,BS,KC,CS,CS
This rotation allows us to easily keep a 3-stack frenzy, but with enough wiggle room to cast a Kill Shot or Bestial Wrath without losing our stacks. However, to pull this off, you need to keep your GCD low with a proper haste rating. This also means you need to forego ilvl upgrades if it means dropping your haste below this threshold.
Does it really work, am I going to top the DPS meters? Tee hee, you know you’re playing BM, right? Nope, not a chance, but my testing has had great parses with a macro that requires little to no
attention paid to Barbed Shot to maintain high stacks of Frenzy. Last night I observed blue/purple parses, with even some ~95%+ ilvl parses with 99% BS uptime and ~85% 3-stack Frenzy uptime. For example, on heroic huntsman, I had 4245 dps in only 199 ilvl, which was a 86% ilvl parse. YMMV.
Why should you use this macro or listen to me? Honestly, I am a complete lazy scrub, you probably shouldn’t listen to me and you get what you paid for this macro. Seriously though, if you are mythic raider, you are most likely not using these macros. This is for the rest of us AOTC wannabes that don’t want to be carried over the finish line.
Truthfully this isn’t a 1-button macro, but more accurately a 4-button since I prefer to manage my Bestial Wrath, Aspect of the Wild, and Wild Spirits separately. However, you will spend the vast majority of the time spamming 1 button.
- Wild Spirits / AotW macro
- Barbed Shot/Bestial Wrath “opener”
- ST Spam Macro
- AoE Spam Macro
A typical pull for me:
- potion 1 second before pull
- cast Wild spirits/Aspect of the Wild macro
- Bestial Wrath opener that depletes Barbed Shots and kicks off Bestial Wrath
- move to ST macro spam
Typical fight
- spamming ST macro
- watch Bestial Wrath cooldown (weak aura), then when available, use the BW opening macro which again deplete BS and kick off another BW.
- return to ST macro spam
It is also expected as you near the next BW you will likely run low on focus, this is OK since the BW macro will have downtime to recover focus since you will likely use several globals that consume little to no focus (like BS and BW)
So, here it is, all these macros should be able to run at a flexible click rate since its primarily the leggo and a castsequence that drives this. In fact, if you want to cast your Kill Shot manually, you don’t need GSE at all.
Barbed Shot/Bestial Wrath “opener”, press and hold until you fire BW. You can also use this to restart Barbed Shot if it has fallen off. I use a weakaura to remind me to get myself off the button:
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Single Target:
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AoE, This isn’t as well tested, but tries to sneak in MS in a regular rotation to maintain beast cleave:
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WS/AotW manual macro with some trinket and residual SFE stuff:
/use [mod:alt] 14
/click [mod:alt] SmartMisdirect
/cast [mod:alt] Aspect of the Wild
/cast [mod:alt,@cursor] Wild Spirits
/castsequence [@cursor] reset=10 Tar Trap, Cobra Shot, Flare
Bonus: These use a SmartMisdirect button, here is the WA for it. Use it if you like, or remove it.
https://wago.io/rdRQBLKGX
I also like using this WA to track my frenzy stacks:
https://wago.io/FrenzyTracker
So cheers folks. Remember you won’t top the meters, but press and hold your way to respectable parses so you are not carried all the way to AOTC.