WoW: Classic – Hunter One Button Macro & How To Use It

August 10, 2024
| Tags: WoW News
| Author David Hollingsworth

You’ve probably heard the talk about the Hunter one-button macro. Well, it was real, but unfortunately has been removed.

Note – it’s worth noting that, since the release of TBC and every patch since. This macro was killed, and shouldn’t work. You can still use it, and it does work on any non-live version of TBC still. Below is the unedited version of this article from before any of these changes were implemented late in the TBC beta.

So yeah, this was really a thing, and it worked. The macro worked by taking your ranged attack speed and firing a Steady Shot in between shots, making sure not to clip an auto-attack. This can be done easily without a macro, however, this macro takes out the human error (unless you forget to hit the button). The macro requires you to change just one set of numbers to make it work, which we’ll explain after the macro.

The Macro

#showtooltip Steady Shot
/run UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
/castsequence reset=2.03 Steady Shot, !Auto Shot
/use [exists,target=pettarget] Kill Command
/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear(); UIErrorsFrame:Show()

That’s the macro, and all you’ll need to change is the third line “/castsequence reset=X.XX” replace that “X.XX” with your ranged attack speed.

A point of contention
Some people have claimed that you need to change the above number constantly. For Heroism, when you get haste etc. Now, in theory, that’s true, and based on old forum posts from 2008/09 it would seem that was the logic then. Testing now seems to be that, if you keep it at your unbuffed attack speed (changing when you get a new weapon) you should be fine.

We’ll keep this post updated if that changes once TBC is live, though for now, all seems well.

NOTE: Ranged attack speed is not weapon speed, see below.

Find this number by pressing “C” to open your character sheet.
And that’s it for the macro. To find out where Hunter is on our tier list, be sure to check out our TBC – DPS Tier List for Phase 1 Raiding.

David has written for games media outlets for the last ten years. With his first major esports role being with Esports News UK covering mostly UK League of Legends. David is also a member of the British Esports Association and is an advisor to them on World of Warcraft Esports. More recently David has worked for Esports Insider and Red Bull as an esports journalist.
David later became Editor at ESTNN and now leads the current team.