On my Beast Mastery hunter, is there a macro to activate my pets special ablities that applies to all pets? In other words, a macro that I don’t have to swap out for each special abilities as they pertain to each unique pet.
OK, this is super non-intuitive.
- Dismiss any active pet
- Go to your spell book and look for an ability called Command Pet.
- Drag this to your button bar wherever you want it.
Weirdly, this ability only shows when you have no pet active, but once you bring a pet out, it will be replaced by whichever class ability the pet has: Primal Rage, Fortitude of the Bear or Master’s Call.
For family abilities, what you can do is always put the special ability (Tendon Rip, Monstrous Bite, etc.) in the same place on your pet bar, then keybind that spot to whatever key you want. However…
Sometimes, for weird OCD reasons, I want the family ability on a different bar than the pet bar. Then, you have to get creative, as you can’t drag a pet family ability to your regular bars. I put the ability on what I deem my “family ability” slot on the pet bar, then I use a macro like this on the regular bar:
/click PetActionButton7
Lastly, if you want a more complicated macro than the “/click PetActionButton7” you can build it around that. EDIT: You can use some macro modifiers with the “/click” command. I am having trouble with the targeting commands, like @pet, @target and @focus, etc. It seems to always want to use @target.
If you have to use named abilities to get your macro to work, then you can at least narrow down by family type. You probably only have a handful of pet families you use regularly, but you can do stuff like this:
/cast [@pet, pet:Stone Hound, dead] Eternal Guardian
/cast [@pet,exists,nodead] Mend Pet; Revive Pet
So Eternal Guardian will only ever be tried if the pet type is Stone Hound (and dead).
And you can stack that so that you have a line instead of the Mend Pet:
/cast [@pet, pet:Spirit Beast, nodead] Spirit Mend
To have the pet heal itself, for example, and additional lines for different family types, telling them what you want them to do with their special ability.
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