MM Opening Shot Rotation

[Talais]

Here's my current Opening Shot rotation for raid bosses. I think it looks pretty good, but i'm always looking for improvement so criticism is welcome. I'm using a Wolf, and at the moment I'm keeping Furious Howl on auto until I get a Darkness Card to stack with it. Keep in mind that this would be at the start of a boss with everything available:

Hunter's Mark
Serpent Sting + Silencing Shot (Added DPS)
Macro (Triggers Rapid Fire, Call of the Wild, and Trinket (Chorium Coaster)
Chimera Shot
Aimed Shot
Arcane Shot
Steady Shot

[Qleoc]

Looks good. Same as me

[Nanite]

MD should be in there, i like to keep silencing shot out of my serpent sting so as to not waste charges of MD on it or pull agro quickly if i dont have md up. I macro petattack into my serpent shot because i only serpent when i switch targets, this ensures that my pet is always dpsing the correct target which makes a huge difference on fights like Jaraxus hard mode. Personally i dont like to burn my CD's till the second chimera shot just to give the tank some fodder, i hate having to FD with all my cooldowns up.

[Talais]

MD should be in there, i like to keep silencing shot out of my serpent sting so as to not waste charges of MD on it or pull agro quickly if i dont have md up. I macro petattack into my serpent shot because i only serpent when i switch targets, this ensures that my pet is always dpsing the correct target which makes a huge difference on fights like Jaraxus hard mode. Personally i dont like to burn my CD's till the second chimera shot just to give the tank some fodder, i hate having to FD with all my cooldowns up.

Ok. So something along the lines of this then?:

Hunter's Mark
Misdirection
Serpent sting, Pet attack, Kill Command(Forgot about this)
etc.

[Elvarg]

I usually do this:

MD on pull
Hunter's Mark+Petattack
Serpent sting
CS
AiS
Steady x 4

CS
AiS
FD
Blow cooldowns+Readiness

[Nanite]

Ok. So something along the lines of this then?:

Hunter's Mark
Misdirection
Serpent sting, Pet attack, Kill Command(Forgot about this)
etc.

basically except kill command is macro'ed into all my abilities besides serpent sting. Its most likely just me being paranoid but i dont like macro'ing any dmg abilities into serpent sting i like to at least give the tank a few seconds. I'd hate to loose my pet to a silly miss by the tank.

[Zurth]

doesn't call of teh wild auto proc? like wolf howl?

[Zurth]

basically except kill command is macro'ed into all my abilities besides serpent sting. Its most likely just me being paranoid but i dont like macro'ing any dmg abilities into serpent sting i like to at least give the tank a few seconds. I'd hate to loose my pet to a silly miss by the tank.

when you say you macro'd in all your abilities, whats the macro?

[Nanite]

when you say you macro'd in all your abilities, whats the macro?

For all Except Serpent:
#showtooltip SPELL NAME
/cast Kill Command
/cast Silencing Shot
/cast SPELL NAME


You can also macro in an on use trinket but i like to use that myself
Serpent is just:
#showtooltip Serpent Sting
/cast Serpent Sting
/petattack

[Talais]

Ok so here's what i've come up with (Keep in mind Kill Command + Silencing Shot are also Macro'd into all shots):
Misdirection
Hunter's Mark
Serpent Sting
Chimera Shot
Aimed Shot
Arcane Shot
Steady Shot
Rapid Fire + Readiness
Kill Shot (If available)

That's without Trinket specials, Call of the Wild, and Furious Howl. Once I get the Trinket that Procs for 300 Agility i'll mess around with these. Until then Im just keeping Furious Howl on Auto.

[Nanite]

Ok so here's what i've come up with (Keep in mind Kill Command + Silencing Shot are also Macro'd into all shots):
Hunter's Mark
Misdirection
Serpent Sting
Chimera Shot
Aimed Shot
Arcane Shot
Steady Shot
Rapid Fire + Readiness
Kill Shot (If available)

That's without Trinket specials, Call of the Wild, and Furious Howl. Once I get the Trinket that Procs for 300 Agility i'll mess around with these. Until then Im just keeping Furious Howl on Auto.

This.

[Zurth]

If you talking about your starting rotation.. me personally (not sure if this s 100% right)

Hunters Mark
*run in* serpent sting
MD
CS
AS
SS
*repeat SS until CS is off CD*
FD
CS
AS
RF
SS
SS
SS
*repeat SS until CS is off CD/rapid fire has finished*
CS
AS
Readyness
CS
AS
Rapidfire
SS
SS
SS
SS
SS etc

Bearing in mind that kill command and all pet howls etc are marco'd in

[Talais]

This.

Why no arcane shot? :-\

[chuck123]

why are u guys opening a md with stings ? i cant follow that logic at all, sry
open with a heavy hitter like aimned or so thats 100000xbetter TPS wise aso

[Nanite]

Why no arcane shot? :-\

If you have over 350 arp, and decent gear Steady shot does higher dmg than arcane shot. So you should only cast arcane if you are on the move and there is no other instant shot to use.

[Kaiten]

Numerous things here.

Never ever use a sting or a silencing shot as one of your three shots after misdirection - silencing shot macro'd with another ability will be fine after 3.3, but not before then.
As far as my opener - I don't count MD as it should be applied before the pull, not after it, same applies for Hunter's Mark. For a regular opener without an MD:

Serpent
Chimera
Aimed
Rapid Fire + Blood Fury + On-use trinket + Call of the Wild + Readiness (these are all macro'd so that they use one button press and one GCD.
Serpent (because this is when your AP is at it's highest, refreshing it will cause it to do more damage for the entire duration it's up - which should generally be for the rest of the boss fight)
Chimera
Aimed
Steady until Chimera is off c/d.
Chimera
Aimed
Rapid Fire
Steady
Chimera
Aimed
Steady etc etc

[Kaiten]

If you have over 350 arp, and decent gear Steady shot does higher dmg than arcane shot. So you should only cast arcane if you are on the move and there is no other instant shot to use.

Actually, that's incorrect. Steady's overall damage is more dependant on your crit rate than your armor pen, because the only reason it betters arcane shot is for piercing shots.

[Nanite]

Actually, that's incorrect. Steady's overall damage is more dependant on your crit rate than your armor pen, because the only reason it betters arcane shot is for piercing shots.

I know this thats why i specified a decent level of gear.
EDIT: would anyone mind tossing up there rapidfire/readiness macro i have just been using one after another a macro would save me a valuable bind.

[Salanei]

Serpent
Chimera
Aimed
Rapid Fire + Blood Fury + On-use trinket + Call of the Wild + Readiness (these are all macro'd so that they use one button press and one GCD.
Serpent (because this is when your AP is at it's highest, refreshing it will cause it to do more damage for the entire duration it's up - which should generally be for the rest of the boss fight)

Use Chimera/Aimed while under the effects of Blood Fury/ Call of the Wild then pop readiness and use them again.

Every time you use Chimera Shot, it refreshes Serpent Sting to your current AP level.

[Talais]

I know this thats why i specified a decent level of gear.
EDIT: would anyone mind tossing up there rapidfire/readiness macro i have just been using one after another a macro would save me a valuable bind.

#showtooltip Rapid Fire
/Cast Rapid Fire
/Cast Readiness