Hunter Marksmanship Rotation & Opener

First ~12 casts of actual top-ranked kills. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Aimed Shot 2 Explosive Shot 3 Explosive Shot 4 TrueshotOff-GCD 5 Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD 6 Rapid Fire 7 Aimed Shot 8 Arcane Shot 9 Aimed Shot 10 Arcane Shot 11 Aimed Shot 12 Arcane Shot 13 Rapid Fire 14 Aimed Shot 15 Moonlight Chakram

1 Aimed Shot 2 Explosive Shot 3 Explosive Shot 4 TrueshotOff-GCD 5 Golden LusterOff-GCD 6 Rapid Fire 7 Aimed Shot 8 Arcane Shot 9 Aimed Shot 10 Arcane Shot 11 Aimed Shot 12 Rapid Fire 13 Aimed Shot 14 Arcane Shot 15 Volley

1 Aimed Shot 2 Volley 3 Explosive Shot 4 Explosive Shot 5 Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD 6 TrueshotOff-GCD 7 Rapid Fire 8 Aimed Shot 9 Arcane Shot 10 Aimed Shot 11 Arcane Shot 12 Aimed Shot 13 Arcane Shot 14 Steady Shot 15 Aimed Shot

#showtooltip Aimed Shot
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Trueshot
/cast Aimed Shot

Ability	Top-player CPM
Aimed Shot	10.4
Steady Shot	6.1
Rapid Fire	4.9
Arcane Shot	3.8
Explosive Shot	3.5
Multi-Shot	3.1
Volley	1.2
Kill Shot	1.1
Survival of the FittestOff-GCD	0.7
Moonlight Chakram	0.6
TrueshotOff-GCD	0.6
Exhilaration	0.4
Aspect of the Cheetah	0.3

CPM = median casts per minute across the sampled top kills. If you're far below on a core ability, that's usually the first thing to fix.

First ~12 casts after the pull starts, taken from actual top key runs: the AoE opener is the first pack of the run, the single-target opener is the first boss. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Multi-Shot 2 Aspect of the Cheetah 3 Steady Shot 4 Steady Shot 5 MisdirectionOff-GCD 6 Harrier's CryOff-GCD 7 Algeth'ar Puzzle 8 Survival of the FittestOff-GCD 9 Explosive Shot 10 Explosive Shot 11 Volley 12 TrueshotOff-GCD 13 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 14 Rapid Fire 15 Multi-Shot

1 Hunter's Mark 2 Aspect of the Cheetah 3 Explosive Shot 4 Volley 5 Harrier's CryOff-GCD 6 Explosive Shot 7 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 8 TrueshotOff-GCD 9 Golden LusterOff-GCD 10 Rapid Fire 11 Multi-Shot 12 Aimed Shot 13 Multi-Shot 14 Aimed Shot 15 Multi-Shot

1 MisdirectionOff-GCD 2 Multi-Shot 3 Harrier's CryOff-GCD 4 WrathstoneOff-GCD 5 Explosive Shot 6 Explosive Shot 7 Volley 8 TrueshotOff-GCD 9 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 10 Rapid Fire 11 Multi-Shot 12 Aimed Shot 13 Multi-Shot 14 Aimed Shot 15 Multi-Shot

#showtooltip Multi-Shot
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Misdirection
/cast Harrier's Cry
/cast Trueshot
/cast Multi-Shot

The Patch 12.1 Omnium Folio has five rune rows. This is what the sampled top logs actually run in each row, read from the runes' own damage, healing and buff traces. Bold = most picked. Rows 1 and 5 are procs, so their share is inferred from the traces they leave.

Row	Raid	Mythic+
Row 1	Rune of Unleashed Fire 100%	Rune of Unleashed Fire 100%
Row 2	Rune of Self-Mending 49% Rune of Void-Tainted Shell 20%	Rune of Self-Mending 59% Rune of Void-Tainted Shell 28% Rune of Lynxlike Reflexes 13%
Row 3	Rune of Lingering 100%	Rune of Lingering 100%
Row 4	Rune of Critical Power 54% Rune of Masterful Cunning 28% Rune of the Versatile Warrior 15% Rune of Burning Haste 3%	Rune of Critical Power 72% Rune of the Versatile Warrior 18% Rune of Masterful Cunning 10%
Row 5	Rune of Overload 95% Rune of Echoes 5%	Rune of Overload 90% Rune of Echoes 10%

The GearInsight addon shows the same table next to your own current runes and can switch every row to the recommended one in one click.

Collected from public Patch 12.1 guides and checked for this patch. Spell names follow the language you selected on this site and must match your game client. If a macro does not work on your client, report it with the button on the card.

/focus [@mouseover,harm,exists,nodead][@target,harm,exists,nodead]
/tm [@mouseover,harm,exists,nodead][@target,harm,exists,nodead] 4

#showtooltip Counter Shot
/cast [@focus,exists,nodead,harm] Counter Shot
/stopmacro [@focus,exists,nodead,harm]
/focus target
/cleartarget
/targetenemy
/cast Counter Shot
/target focus
/clearfocus
/startattack

#showtooltip Disengage
/stopcasting [nochanneling:Rapid Fire,nochanneling:Boomstick]
/use Disengage

#showtooltip Volley
/stopmacro [channeling:Rapid Fire]
/use [@cursor]Volley

#showtooltip
/use [@cursor]Freezing Trap

#showtooltip
/petattack
/use [nochanneling:Rapid Fire]Aimed Shot

#showtooltip
/petattack
/use [nochanneling:Rapid Fire]Arcane Shot

#showtooltip Kill Shot
/stopmacro [channeling:Rapid Fire]
/use [@mouseover,exists,harm][]Kill Shot

#showtooltip Explosive Shot
/stopmacro [channeling:Rapid Fire]
/use [@mouseover,exists,harm][]Explosive Shot

#showtooltip Black Arrow
/stopmacro [channeling:Rapid Fire]
/use [@mouseover,exists,harm][]Black Arrow

#showtooltip
/use [nochanneling:Rapid Fire]Rapid Fire

#showtooltip Steady Shot
/use [nochanneling:Rapid Fire]Steady Shot

#showtooltip
/stopmacro [channeling:Rapid Fire]
/use [@mouseover,harm,exists,nodead][]Hunter's Mark

#showtooltip
/stopmacro [channeling:Rapid Fire]
/use Trueshot
/use Blood Fury
/use Berserking
/use Ancestral Call

#showtooltip Multi-Shot
/use [@mouseover,exists,harm,nodead][]Multi-Shot
/petattack
/petassist

#showtooltip
/use [@mouseover,exists,harm,nodead][]Tranquilizing Shot

#showtooltip Aspect of the Turtle
/stopcasting
/stopcasting
/use Aspect of the Turtle
/cancelaura Aspect of the Turtle

Keybinds are personal — this is not a layout to copy wholesale. What it does say is which abilities you press most, measured from the same top parses above: the more often an ability is cast, the less effort its key should take. Interrupts, defensives and movement are deliberately left out; they barely register in cast data yet must always be within reach, so choose those yourself.

Rows marked Passive are not pressed at all — they fire on their own (auto-attacks, procs) and get no key, even though they top the casts-per-minute table.

Key	Ability	Top-player CPM
1	Aimed Shot	10.4
2	Multi-Shot	7.6
3	Steady Shot	6.1
4	Rapid Fire	4.9
5	Arcane Shot	3.8
Z	Explosive Shot	3.5
X	Volley	1.2
C	Kill Shot	1.1
V	Survival of the FittestOff-GCD	0.7
R	Moonlight Chakram	0.6
F	TrueshotOff-GCD	0.6
T	MisdirectionOff-GCD	0.5
G	Exhilaration	0.4
Shift+1	Hunter's Mark	0.4
Shift+2	DisengageOff-GCD	0.4
Shift+3	Aspect of the Cheetah	0.3