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Beast Masters, have I got a WeakAuras script for you

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Focus Fire is a very finicky and situational buff that Beast Master hunters have to be juggling a lot in order to maintain our top DPS.

WeakAuras is an addon that lets you import scripts that can tell you when and where to push buttons and things.

You can see where this is going.

Yes, there is a WeakAuras script that will display little bouncing icons telling you when to use Focus Fire and when to wait.  I put off installing this script for a while, because as I’m sure all three of you long-time readers that are still here recall, I was always proud of eschewing macros and scripts and things for, well, doing things the hard way.

Obligatory old-school raiding screenshot to break up the text.
Obligatory old-school raiding screenshot to break up the text.

But this script is great and, honestly, probably necessary because of just how much micromanagement you’ve gotta do with Focus Fire in order to get the most out of it.

Basically, install WeakAuras and then copy paste this entire script in.  Next, head to the nearest training dummy or proving grounds and watch in amazement as you’re suddenly doing more DPS because you’re timing Focus Fire correctly thanks to the WeakAuras alerts and warnings.  (With thanks to Summonstone for the tip-off).

Alrighty, that’s your guide for today.  Next time on How To BM Hunter: Ten Trillion Cooldowns, Juggling, and YOU!

4 thoughts on “Beast Masters, have I got a WeakAuras script for you”

  1. So let’s say for the sake of argument that I want to know what it does before I import it. Where might one find that info? Or is it more like “just trust the macro and input your credit card number and PIN at the prompt?”

  2. And also is there no way to subscribe by email to comments? I don’t see any, though I freely admit that it may be because I suck at vision.

  3. The first link I posted (the one after Focus Fire) should tell you basically everything the script does, in-game anyway. I don’t know any of the techie details on it, though.

    I can look into a subscribe to comments option!

  4. “I was always proud of eschewing macros and scripts and things for, well, doing things the hard way.”
    Well, this was before Blizzard decided that the pinnacle of great gameplay was whack-a-mole proc management, remember. So enjoy! They asked for it.

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