The Glade 4.0

Unless I'm missing something (and please correct me if I am), Lock and Load already reduces the cooldown on Explosive shot, so as long as you are watching the cooldown and hitting it every time it's up, you'll already see that Lock and Load has proc'd, because ES will be right back up after the global cooldown, instead of the 6 sec it normally takes.

This is true.

I prefer to use Power Auras to tell me when the explosive shot debuff fades from the target- makes sure I don't clip them.

I would also suggest poweraura notifications for Black Arrow and Serpent Sting timers on the target.

The addon that I just found and love is Lunarspheres- it's a mod similar to the sphere addon for locks and a few other classes.

Basically, it's a single ring (health bar, mana bar) surrounded by 10 hotkeys. Each can be set to a 3 keystroke functions, one of which is opening a menu of up to 12 other hotkeys.

So for my paladin, I can set up a 'Blessings' bar, and only extend it when I need to change someones blessing manually or in fight.

It also lets you set up expandable bars with the normal WoW stuff on them- bags, inventory sheet, etc.

Very useful, and cleaned up my UI a lot.

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Thats nice Khross, can you post a mod list?

I'm actually Marksman/BM, so i have little advice for Survival. I appreciate the damage potential of survival, but I really hate the feel of it. Beast Mastery itself is almost useless, but Survival and Marksman are pretty much both even and interchangeable (and very complementary if you have two hunters, they'll boost each other a lot). Beast Mastery at least has a few uses that make it unique from MM or Survival (such as the ability to solo Chillmaw without paying attention. It was also useful in the "Faction Champions" fight in TOC-10/25.)

As for UIs, i've always been afraid to switch away from default.

I also am curious about the buttons thing, Lenas. While Marksman certainly uses a lot more class abilities than survival does (Odd Rotation: Hunters Mark > Serpent Sting > Misdirect > Chimera Shot/Silencing Shot > Aimed Shot > Rapid Fire > Kill Command > cooldown thingies > Readiness > Misdirect > Chimera Shot/Silencing Shot > Aimed Shot > Steady Shot > Steady Shot > Steady Shot > Steady Shot > Chimera Shot > Aimed Shot...refresh rapid fire after 15 seconds...etc. etc. etc.), I do keep my right side hotbars loaded up with things I occasionally use, just in case I want them. I would never remember hotkeys or such for them, and it's nice to have your traps and aspects and such, or portions, or even melee attacks, available with a simple button push. I don't want to hunt through my list of abilities or inventory every time I want to use something.

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I have everything bound around my left hand and things like aspects/traps consolidated into a single macros.

Q = volley
shift/ctrl/alt + E = traps
shift/ctrl/alt + ` = aspects

etc etc.

I never have to hunt for abilities unless it's generally a niche ability, like Aspect of the Wild. I do actually enable another bottom bar if I plan on doing pvp (melee stuff, etc).

Everything is hotkeyed in my UI, even the things most people don't think we'll ever use. The only two abilities I'd have to search for are Eyes of the Beast and Eagle.

In any case, I'll check with Mookhow about making my UI Available for Download.

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This is true! So I suppose I'd downgrade it from the necessity category, but it's still helpful to know ahead of time so you aren't surprised when Explosive Shot ends up not having a cooldown. PowerAuras is really easy to set up for this and it's pretty unobtrusive an addon. I'd generally agree with your "no addon" approach to help someone really learn the core of a class/spec, but PowerAuras is something of an exception to me.

But then again I'm a PowerAuras addict. I generally will have at least one PowerAura set up on every char I play by level 10 or 15. Just so flexible an addon.

That'd be fantastic. I'd love to play around with it.

Currently I'm working on making more things state dependent. Ideally, if I'm in town, the only thing that will be visible is the chat window.

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