Autocast Issues Warning (UPDATED)

[Acherontia]

Just as a heads-up:

Cower
Bite
Rabid

all seem to currently have autocast bugs. Several of my pets, including some newly-tamed, have Bite autocast toggled OFF, and I didn't do it (& no toggle macros on my bars). I only noticed this after a boss fight where Focus Fire wasn't useable once/no Frenzy stacks gained.

Cower doesn't appear to be using its autocast at all.

Rabid is not being autocast during quite a few boss fights, as I'd mentioned earlier.

I'm having to put Bite on my pet's action bars to keep an eye on it, and Cower as well so I can manually use it when my pet gets focused in PvP.

For Rabid:

#showtooltip Arcane Shot
/cast Arcane Shot
/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
/run SetCVar("Sound_EnableSFX","0")
/cast Rabid
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/script UIErrorsFrame:Show()
/run SetCVar("Sound_EnableSFX","1")

Replace Arcane Shot with this macro to attempt to cast Rabid every time you use Arcane Shot; it suppresses error text/speech messages for every attempt.

[peanutbuttercup]

I saw someone mention it on MMO Champ a while ago and verified it by going to World of Logs and looking at my pet buff/debuffs after a kill.

Here's a macro to cast Rabid with your Cobra/Steady Shots (for steady obviously replace Cobra with Steady).

#showtooltip Cobra Shot
/cast Cobra Shot
/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
/cast Rabid
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear(); UIErrorsFrame:Show()

[Vephriel]

Oh wow, I had no idea. Thanks for the heads up and also the macro.

[Lisaara]

Thanks for the macro!

[Mychelle]

Ive noticed that on *ALOT* of fights Rabid is not being used. >.< Well. At least Ive noticed it not being used before on other fights, not just the dragon. Its annoyed the heck out of me. =/ I thought maybe I was just bugged or something, heh.

[Wassa]

Ive noticed that on *ALOT* of fights Rabid is not being used. >.< Well. At least Ive noticed it not being used before on other fights, not just the dragon. Its annoyed the heck out of me. =/ I thought maybe I was just bugged or something, heh.

Rabid used to not work on auto cast unless your pet was getting hit, so during raid fights a pet might never use it. I never noticed if this was fixed since I've used a macro with steady/rabid and cobra/rabid for a long while because of this bug.

[Rawr]

OMG, I thought I was the only one with that glitch! And yeah it's not just Ult, I'm constantly having to manually cast Rabid in DS. It's a rather annoying bug that's been here for a while.

[peanutbuttercup]

Oh yes, since I forgot to mention it earlier - pets also needlessly cast Dash on Ultraxion (I assume Dive as well but have not tested). Looking at logs from my last raid (where I forgot to turn it off) my pet used Dash 8 times. So that's 30 focus it could be spending on something else or using towards Wild Hunt, if you have that talented.

[guntitan]

No wonder my DPS sucks on this fight as BM.

[Lisaara]

Oh yes, since I forgot to mention it earlier - pets also needlessly cast Dash on Ultraxion (I assume Dive as well but have not tested). Looking at logs from my last raid (where I forgot to turn it off) my pet used Dash 8 times. So that's 30 focus it could be spending on something else or using towards Wild Hunt, if you have that talented.

...FML.... *headdesk* C'mon Blizz...fix the hunter class....please. We'll do anything.

[Sesamee]

I had no idea this was bugged. Thanks to this thread I took it off auto cast and macro'd it to my other shots. IDK if it made a difference or not but last week I was second dps on Heroic Ultraxion!

[Acherontia]

Just wanted to post to reiterate this point--it doesn't seem to be casting when set to autocast for ANY of the DW encounters, for me :/

[Talaridan]

Ugh, that is highly annoying!

I will have to start using the macro during raids.

[Acherontia]

If anyone wants a macro:

#showtooltip Arcane Shot
/cast Arcane Shot
/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
/run SetCVar("Sound_EnableSFX","0")
/cast Rabid
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/script UIErrorsFrame:Show()
/run SetCVar("Sound_EnableSFX","1")

This just macros Rabid into Arcane Shot (replace it with whatever ability you like) while suppressing error messages & sounds for Rabid.

[Galaxy]

macro-ing in *LE SIGH*

though, my dps is ridiculous as BM in pvp gear, I imagine this should be fun times to test....

but still... when can I let this macro gooo and just hit arcane shot??? QQ. QQ. QQ.

QQ.



QQ.

[Acherontia]

Just replace Arcane Shot with this. Every time you try to use Arcane Shot, it attempts to use Rabid as well, and won't throw sound or text errors if Rabid isn't yet off cd.

[Talaridan]

I just noticed last night (not sure if its been mentioned), but Rabid is also not working during the end fight in Well of Eternity against Mannoroth. It seems to work fine on Varo'then, but when it becomes time to attack him, it needs to be hard-cast.

[Worba]

Just be aware if you're frequently toggling Sound_EnableSFX off/on it can sometimes get stuck in the "off" position, so it can be helpful to also have a separate macro with just:

/run SetCVar("Sound_EnableSFX","1")

[Acherontia]

Just be aware if you're frequently toggling Sound_EnableSFX off/on it can sometimes get stuck in the "off" position, so it can be helpful to also have a separate macro with just:

/run SetCVar("Sound_EnableSFX","1")

I haven't actually ever had that happen (I use a very similar macro for my rogue, and have done since TBC)--is it the same command you use? & do you mean the basic sound effects/error voiceover or all sound effects? (Just curious, as I actually don't know if the command toggles anything other than just error messages!)