Monday Night Macro: Feed your wolves
Monday, February 8, 2010 at 11:29PM | Stoneybaby 
Monday Night Macro is back and with a vengeance. A mean nasty vengeance. But then it wouldn't exactly be a vengeance if it was nice and sweet, would it? Didn't think so.
Tonight's macro is a simple affair but I'm willing to bet most Enhancers don't know about it or use it.
What is it?
Feed your wolves
#showtooltip
/cast Feral Spirit
/use Spiced Mammoth Treats
Put this on your action bar and when you summon your wolves, just hit the button twice if you have Spiced Mammoth Treats in your bag. It increases their strength by 30 and AP by 60. The jury is out if this affects just one wolf or both wolves. Regardless, it's shown to be a dps boost.
And if you're in a 5-man or in some situation where you don't want to waste a treat then don't hit the button twice. It's as simple as that. Twice for buffed wolves, once for normal wolves.
Farm for your feed
I hop on my druid who is a LW/skinner and head out to The Storm Peaks to roughly these two areas. In there you'll find roaming packs of Stoic Mammoths. Even if you're not a skinner, it's easy to get out there and get in the middle of the roamers, get a Magma Totem down and get off a Fire Nova as they go past.
Pull the whole pack.
Kill.
Collect meat.
Pick off any straggler mammoths.
Then move to the other area.
By the time you finish with the roamers and stragglers in one are the other area will have respawned.
Quick and easy tonight.
Just like... farming for mammoth treats. (What did you think I was going to say there?)
May all your hits be crits!
Reader Comments (17)
wow... i never thought about it! I'm understimate my wolves :( even i'm using then a lot on fights.
thanks for the tip :]
LOL who knew that feral spirits can be fed :)
i farm mammoth meat in borean, you can pull like 20-30 at a time. they hit like a wet sock and die super fast. the drope rate is a little lower but they are easier to farm. farm 5 stacks in 20 min or so. same with rhino meat.
You should give credit to the person you took this from.
Thank you blizzard for letting spirit Wolf have a stomach. give all credit to the QA and design team.
I never heard about feeding the wolves, thank for the tip although personally I won't bother. :-)
Speaking of the wolves, I just summon them and use a /petattack command in my stormstrike macro. They seem to use their abilities on their own sometimes, at least the run speed buff. The stun they have might be useful to have keybound though. Or out of combat, the speed buff. It has a 30 second cd so you can cast it twice every summon. Great if you wipe and have to run back to rotface.
How do you use pet abilities in macros anyway?
/showtooltip Feral Spirit
/cast [nocombat] Spirit Walk; Bash
/cast Feral Spirit
Sorry for going off topic.
@muzzlock I did give credit where credit is due, please follow the link to mmo-champions to see the original discussion.
@Jake thanks for the suggestion! I imagine that would be good for non-skinners. As as skinner on my druid I prefer The Storm Peaks because the leateher is better and I can pop off on some worms for jorm scales and worm meat in the mix. Either way
@Rolf I wouldn't use my wolves for running back after a wipe because you want to have them available for Heroism, or at the start of a fight so you can use them twice. I will say that it is a good idea to have Spirit Walk keybound for PvP and leave Bash on auto-cast. Now to find more room on my over crowded PvP bars...
Oh one thing I forgot to mention in the article: if you mash the macro it will consume multiple mammoth treats with no additional benefit. The use of one treat triggers a food CD (but not a GCD) so you can safely hit the macro 2-3 times in quick succession, then leave it be.
May all your hits be crits!
Offtopic but I can't get an email reply from you Stoney! Where is a good source (outside of EJ) for Rogue info? Zaltu retired his blog and I'm on the hunt to find info while playing my new Rogue. Anyone have suggestions?
No wonder my wolves are always howling, they've never been fed. Poor things.
To extend the macro a little:
#showtooltip
/cast Feral Spirit
/use Spiced Mammoth Treats
/cast Spirit Walk
/petattack
...one needs to hammer the button a little, but those of us used to Shock n Awe will probably being doing that with everything else. It'll summon the wolves, feed them, give y'all a sprint and then send them in on the current target. Saves having to keep them in aggresive/use the pet attack button/have to click Spirit Walk...
If you don't want to risk feeding them twice, how about:
/castsequence reset=40 Feral Spirit, Spiced Mammoth Treats, Feral Spirit
I've been wondering, the feral spirits scale with our ap, but do they scale with the ap we have during the time they're active or the ap we have at the moment we summon them?
NWM the post I just made, I found the script that shows yhou their stats in the char tab. Anyway, what i found was a bit interesting, at least it was news for me. If I cast Drums of the wild or drums of forgotten kings the wolves benefit as well. Could make for a quite powerful macro imo, What do you think Stoney?
This is the scrip for those of you that dont have it
/run if not oldHasPetUI then oldHasPetUI = HasPetUI; HasPetUI = function() return true, false; end end PetTab_Update() ToggleCharacter("PetPaperDollFrame")
As a Leatherworker, I always have a couple sets of drums on me. When I have a GCD to spare I've been giving my dogs Blessing of Forgotten Kings and Gift of the Wild. Unfortunately the drums both have a brief CD that prevents you from macroing them into a mashable button.
I could macro one of them onto the end of a macro like this though...
They should make Spirit Wolves a permanent pet, like Water Elemental with the glyph. Thanks for the post Stoney. However, I have become frustrated with the unending complexity of enhancement and the squishiness of shammies. I feel like I'm always choosing between doing maximum dps by focusing on my buffs, debuffs, cooldowns, timers etc., or staying alive by avoiding environmental damage or aoe attacks. Popping Wolves and then needing a macro to Spirit Walk, Feed Them, Tell them to Attack, use Drums on them, and whatever else for the short duration you have them seems like another example of how convoluded the enhancement playstyle has become. At least Monday Macros make it a little easier. Thanks, Ander.
I think this is best for both not wasting treats and still working if you are out of treats:
/castsequence reset=10 Feral Spirit, Spirit Walk, Spiced Mammoth Treats
/petattack
Not sure if you need the petattack as they'll attack your target in normal mode anyway.
Still a 4 button mash.
If you cast drums won't that overide raid buffs on your fellow raiders? They may not like that just for the benefit of your puppies.
No it won't Laara, you get a message saying that "A more powerful buff is already in place" or something like that, and it will ignore the people who already have a proper Kings. I also use them after a mass-brez (we save brezzes for phase changes a lot of the time).