Anyone else have this problem? I’m playing a BM hunter and my pet always seems to be on the other side of the battlegrounds somewhere. It’s just straight up MIA when I need it the most. I seem to lose out on a lot of damage and the longer pet res time doesn’t help either.
Are there any good macros or anything that can help with pet management?
Your pet has 3 different settings on its bar. They’re called something like “aggressive”, “assist”, and “passive”.
You want to keep it on “passive” at all times, and just keybind a /petattack macro to send your pet into your target when you want it to.
Yo thank you. For some reason I didn’t think to keep my pet on passive, I’ll try that.
BM is One of the, if not the most macro dependent classes in the game. at higher levels of play, almost every single ability on your bars will actually be a macro for that ability. One of the most major reasons is pet management.
you can try always forcing your pet to be attacking your target. also, pets don’t use their special attack abilities fast enough and you can speed up their use of them by using it in a macro.
#showtooltip Kill Command
/petattack
/cast Ravage
/cast Bite
/cast Claw
/cast Kill Command
something like this, I wrote this from memory. unfortunately Hunter is just simply really really dependent on macro use to push the higher edge of performance.
I attach Attack, Follow, Go There to MiddleMouse, Shift-Middle, and Alt-Middle for easy presses mid fight. Its become second nature for me to just lean 1 finger a tad(pressing middle mouse) when i switch targets and tell my pet to target the new target. Making “Follow” a macro to function as “Call pet1” and “Revive/Mend pet” is also a good attention saver/practice.
Also it helps to regularly be aware of your pets’ HP, and positioning. Just good habits to have.
I wrote an addon called PetControl. It distills pet management down to one button, with modifiers. You make a macro (or add to an existing macro) with /click PetControl and it does it’s thing.
Click sends pet to attack and puts it on assist, click while pet is attacking calls it back and puts it on passive.
Ctrl+click calls pet to your side, does not adjust stance.
Alt+click brings up the reticle for the PetMoveTo command.
I have it macro’d with Mend Pet using a /stopmacro [mod:shift], so if I shift+click, the pet is healed and keeps doing whatever it was doing, and if I click normally, the pet is healed and comes back to me.
It’s on Curseforge, you can get it through WoWup or Overwolf or you can download it directly.
Thanks I’ll give this a look!