Misdirection in all of these Macros. Is it ok to keep it in for raids/dungeons?

Hunter Archive Patch 7.0+
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I’ve noticed snap agro on my pets when in raids and dungeons… I see misdirection in all of the macros and keep wondering if that is the problem? Yes, growl is off :slight_smile:

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You should use the following in your macros:

/petautocastoff [group] Growl
/petautocaston [nogroup] Growl
/cast [target=focus, exists, nodead],[target=pet, exists, nodead] Misdirection

Growl part turns on and off growl depending if you are in a group or not.

As for the Misdirction part. Make the tank your focus, and it will always misdirct to him. If the tank dies or if there isn’t one, it will misdirct to your pet.

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Sir,

Wouldn’t that mean having to change my focus every misdirection cool down and back to the boss. Seems like a lot of having to watch that particular “spell”. Thinking maybe it’s best to just leave it out?

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Forgive me for telling you stuff you already know but is sound like a misunderstanding of the Focus Frame. There are two frames you can use for the boss.

Your Target frame - What you are hitting.
Your Focus Frame - An alternative target window that you can set as a “Watch” Frame.

When I’m hunterering (or rogueing Tricks of the Trade) I set my focus to the Tank and attack my target which is usually the boss.

In the macro above if you set a Focus, it will Misdirect to that Focus without interrupting your target.

When playing a mage I used to do a lot of CC. I would set my focus to the mob i was crowd controlling so I could /cast [@focus] Polymorph without changing my target.

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[quote quote=37196]You should use the following in your macros:

/petautocastoff [group] Growl
/petautocaston [nogroup] Growl
/cast [target=focus, exists, nodead],[target=pet, exists, nodead] Misdirection

Growl part turns on and off growl depending if you are in a group or not.
As for the Misdirction part. Make the tank your focus, and it will always misdirct to him. If the tank dies or if there isn’t one, it will misdirct to your pet.
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This guy knows whats going on, I couldn’t/wouldn’t write a hunter macro without this

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[quote quote=37209]Sir,

Wouldn’t that mean having to change my focus every misdirection cool down and back to the boss. Seems like a lot of having to watch that particular “spell”. Thinking maybe it’s best to just leave it out?[/quote]

Only reason you would need to change focus is groups, other than that it would default to your pet, by change I mean whenever you enter a new group/raid right click your new tank of choice and set focus or
/focus Name-realm

/cast [target=focus, exists, nodead],[target=pet, exists, nodead] Misdirection

The above macro will search for either your Focus or your pet automatically before casting Misdirection

/petautocastoff [group] Growl
/petautocaston [nogroup] Growl

This one checks if your in a group and if you are turns growl off automatically, if your not in a group it leaves growl on.

hope that helps =)

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Thanks all for your help. I haven’t played in a long time and didn’t know about the second focus. All makes sense now

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[quote quote=37234]Thanks all for your help. I haven’t played in a long time and didn’t know about the second focus. All makes sense now
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Np, welcome back to wow =)