So for my feign death to work properly in the world when questing and such to actually drop dead and stay there I made macro
/stopattack
/petpassive
/cast Feign Death
But I have noticed now in arena / BGs and stuff when I’m FD to clear dots/for the dmg reduction it pulls my pets off my target and I have to resend them losing a small amount of important damage. Should I take the pet passive part for PvP? And just switch in the other macro when I’m doing WQ’s or whatever?
What do other PvP focused hunters FD macros look like?
everytime i use feign death with dots on me, some dots still stay on me. I just hope for the best
My macro is
/stopattack
/stopcast
/cast Feign Death
I have a similar one that also tells my pet to use “Play Dead” when I need to get out of combat
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Well they would unless you’re using craven stratagem and / or survival tactics PvP talent. Not sure why that’s happening bc it looks like you are running survival tactics.
It looks like warlock stuff that sticks trying to find out what it is
Definitely Agony from a warlock will stick. I’m sure theres more.
I dont use a macro, I just get some space and FD. If I want to leave combat to get a camo off I make sure to pull the pet back for a couple of seconds and get some space before feigning and spamming camo.
Survival tactics only removes magic abilities, not diseases, bleeds, or curses. The legendary Craven Strat will removes basically everything except some boss mechanics and exhaustion.
My pvp feign death macro is
#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast Feign Death
and thats it 
For pve purposes I can manage without anything else, but you can add /cast play dead, play dead requires you to learn it though, I think its on AH.
I have play dead seperate on my bars, so I click them both in pve as I dont need to be as fast.
ah remove everything thats what we want
The petpassive line is what does this
I recommend just manually binding pet controls instead of having it in a macro so you always have your pet doing what you want
My only macro for FD is this
#showtooltip
/stopcasting [nochanneling:feign death]
/cast Feign Death
Basically just stopscasting any spell except for the feign death channel itself, so if I were say playing MM, was casting and aimed shot/channeling a rapid fire/casting a steady shot and I see something I need to feign death immediately I can spam my feign death button, it’ll stop those casts, but the spamming of feign death won’t actually break my FD channel
Not really necessary if you’re playing BM since nothing to cast except Venthyr port or something, but if you’re playing SV it would cancel a mending bandage channel if necessary and let you feign death
But ya otherwise I really don’t think you need any special macro for feign deathing, it should stop your attack normally anyways when you feign so you don’t even need the stopattack line. If you want to actually sit in your feign death make sure you’re letting go of right click, turning your character will actually cast feign death too even if you’re not moving.
Then just manually bind pet controls like I said
Ok cool. I have my pets on passive at all times and I bound their attacks into all my spells so they attack kinda auto when I attack but I also have a /petattack and /petfollow bind. I don’t have a /petpassive and I guess it’s not really necessary since follow would essentially do the same thing ? I think my FD macro is just a little bit extra lol
Thank you ! Always great to get input from the goat
Yeah if your pet is on passive just need an attack/follow keybind
Would definitely recommend taking out the macros that have your pet attacking when you’re using an ability. Some examples of situations it would be frustrating is let’s say you send your pet on a healer that’s trying to drink, but you still want to use dps abilities on the kill target. That would cause the pet to run away from the target and off the healer. Just makes things clunky, best to just always have control over what your pet attacks
To make it easy I have pet attack bound to mousewheel up, follow on down so it’s really easy for me to just scroll up while doing other things to manage my pet
Lol that’s exactly what I’m doing. I already had attack as wheel up but I had disengage wheel down so I’m going to switch follow to wheel down bc that just makes sense to me.
After this change I know for a fact I’ll be calling my pets back when I mean to disengage for the next three days, but I think in the long run it’ll pay off
Lol how do you play using a steering wheel
My brother, when playing a hunter, also had petattack to mousewheel up and petfollow to mouse wheel down. Its a cool keybind once you can get used to the camera zoom in stuff via other keybinds.
I never have, to be honest 
Huh? No the little wheel on the mouse lol. You can bind mouse wheel up/back/and pressing it down to abilities. My mouse also has the ability to make press the wheel left or right for my keybinds. The Logitech G600 is awesome. Has like 26 keybinds just on the mouse alone. I have so many macros and stuff that I need probably 30-40 keybinds for most classes / specs.
I have a trackball with 2 buttons and a touch screen? on the laptop. Lol steering wheel
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Idk how you play like that lol
Unfortunately there’s no macro condition for “I’m in pvp”. There used to be a “pvptalent:x/y” that was the equivalent of “talent:x/y” (it was removed in bfa) but even that didn’t know if it was “in pvp” and if you weren’t pvp flagged the “pvptalent” would still show as “true” but the pvp abilities would not be usable and give you an ugly “?” for the tooltip.
You can do one of two things:
- have 2 separate macros: 1 for pvp, 1 for pve
- Make the petpassive conditional, like this:
#showtooltip
/stopattack
/stopcasting
/petpassive [pet,nomod]
/cast Feign Death
If you just hit the macro normally, you stop attacking/casting and the pet (if you have one out) becomes passive and then you cast Feign Death.
If you hold down a modifier key (alt, shift, ctrl) and activate the macro then the pet does not become passive, but you still stop attacking/casting and you feign death.
NOTE: Keybindings take precedence over macros and will “eat” the mod key and it will not pass thru to the macro for processing. By default shift-1 to 6 and ctrl-1 to 10 are keybound to action bar switching and pet commands. Alt generally works.
For more macro info check out the UI and Macro forum and also look here for a fairly complete info on macros
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Macro_commands
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