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Now that Hunters will be running with a wide variety of pets, we have a wide variety of pet abilities which we will not want to just leave on autocast but will want to control when they are used.

Previously it was no big deal to have a button or two, or even a macro, dedicated to pet abilities. Though now, we're looking at quite possibly having a dozen abilities we need to manage, so dedicating buttons to them all just isn't feasible and macro character limits are, well, too limiting.

So I'm wondering if anyone knows of an addon designed for managing pet abilities. Something that brings up a bar or other interface tool displaying the special abilities of the pet we currently have summoned.

I started to set up a Dominos bar for pet abilities, but I'm looking at Web, Call of the Wild, Taunt, Rapid Recovery, Serenity Dust, Spirit Mend, Dust Cloud, Pummel, Ankle Crack, Sting, Clench etc etc. Way too many to dedicate a bar too and far too many to contain in a macro. So I'm hoping there's an addon out there someone could point to that handles all of this.

Along a similar line, I'd really like to have one key-binding which is "Pet Special Ability" regardless of which pet I have out. I could probably fib it by keeping a consistent ordering on the pet bar, but I was hoping someone might have come up with something more reliable than that. Anyone?

Anyia wrote:Along a similar line, I'd really like to have one key-binding which is "Pet Special Ability" regardless of which pet I have out. I could probably fib it by keeping a consistent ordering on the pet bar, but I was hoping someone might have come up with something more reliable than that. Anyone?

That's basically what I'm after.

For Wrath, I used this macro:
#showtooltip
/cast [pet:spider,help][pet:spider,target=player] Roar of Recovery; [pet:wolf]Call Of The Wild; [pet:cat]Call Of The Wild; [pet:wasp]Call Of The Wild; [pet:wind serpent,help][pet:wind serpent,target=player] Roar of Recovery

That was bound to one button, and that button was whatever special ability corresponded to the pet. It works very well, but now that we can have many pets, the character limit for macros does not facilitate plugging in all the pet and ability combos.

So I'm looking for an addon that basically handles the function of that macro but on a larger scale. I realise one can use the pet bar but I've always found the pet bar clumsy to use and given the fact that our settings on autocast or not get rest on spec changes, it's just far too unwieldy to rely on.