Lightning Breath: Windserpent question

[simonm]

Is there a way you ensure that your windserpent only uses Lightning Breath?

My windserpent knows LB, Growl, Bite, and Dive. LB is the first ability, followed by Growl, Bite, and Dash. I have turned off the autocast for Bite, Growl, and Dive (while raiding), but the windserpent casts 1 LB and then closes to melee (and usually dies to some cleave).

[Darknez]

I don't think any pet could ever be set to "ranged only". Best you could do perhaps is put it on passive, cast LB when available and then call it back each time.
A macro here would probably be best.

[Thor]

Darknez is right. It requires micromanaging your pet so it only casts lightning breath and then comes back since once it doesn't have enough focus for lightning breath it will go in to melee.

[simonm]

I have my pet set on passive, and macro my attacks like:

#showtooltip Aimed Shot
/cast Lightning Breath
/petpassive
/cast Aimed Shot

and I have Growl & Bite turned off....

[Ellipsi5]

I'd like to share the way I've got my wind serpent set up. I've made the following macro:
(be sure to include rank number)

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#showtooltip Growl(Rank #)
/cast Growl(Rank #)
/cast [combat] Growl(Rank #)
/petattack [combat]

I have that macro set to mouse wheel up and I have [follow] set to mouse wheel down.
I also have my pet set to Passive, I have Lightning Breath set to auto cast and I have Growl set not to auto cast.

What does this solve? Why do I need this?

I want the first thing my pet does to be growl.
I want to be able to recall and send out my pet at any time.
I don't want my pet to use lightning breath until it has growled.
I want mouse wheel up to cast growl again.

Without that macro:

If I just made a macro that made my pet growl it will get within melee range, growl and begin auto attacking, It will also auto cast lightning breath. It will even cast growl again if I use the macro again during the fight.

So, what's the problem?

The problem is that if I recall my pet after casting growl, I can not send my pet back into combat as growl is now on CD.

With the macro:

The first attack is growl
The pet can be recalled and sent into battle at-will even while Growl is still on CD.
Using the macro again casts growl if available and if the pet has enough focus.
The only time Lightning breath is cast before growl is if I use the macro, get close enough to be considered "in combat", recall my pet and then use the macro again.

I hope this is helpful to someone. I know not everyone uses a wind serpent but it's the only pet in Classic that has a ranged attack.