Marksmanship Hunter DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — Dragonflight 10.2

• Casting Aimed Shot and Rapid Fire as much as possible, both on single-target and AoE.
• Managing your Focus — Never capping it but also ensuring you have enough Focus to cast Aimed Shot off cooldown.
• Spending Precise Shots stacks on Arcane Shot/ Multi-Shot, generated by Aimed Shot.

• All the same goals as the single-target Rotation.
• Maintaining that Trick Shots is up for all of your Aimed Shot and Rapid Fire casts by casting Multi-Shot between them, or with Volley. The T31 2PC Tier Set Bonus will also cause Rapid Fires cast during Trick Shots to give you Volley, which gives an additional 6 seconds of Trick Shots, and so on.

In the Single-Target and AoE sections, you will find a highly detailed priority list breakdown of the Rotation, as well as optimal openers.

1. Ensure Hunter's Mark is active on the target from you or another Hunter in the group!
2. Pre-cast Steady Shot when there is ~1.75 seconds left on the pulltimer.
3. Cast another Steady Shot to apply Steady Focus.
4. Pre-cast Aimed Shot roughly 2.5 seconds before combat begins.
5. Activate your Potion.
6. Cast Rapid Fire.
7. Use Steel Trap.
8. Cast Explosive Shot
9. Use Death Chakram.
10. Send any on-use Trinkets here.
11. Use Volley at your enemy's feet.
12. Activate Trueshot
13. Cast Aimed Shot
14. Cast Aimed Shot
15. Cast Rapid Fire
16. Cast Aimed Shot
17. Continue with your normal rotation, according to the priority list below.

This priority list describes the optimal single-target Rotation for Marksmanship Hunter.

1. Use Mirror of Fractured Tomorrows alongside Trueshot, and ideally your Potion. It is worth delaying the Mirror for Trueshot at the 4, and 8-minute marks.
2. Use Ashes of the Embersoul alongside Trueshot, and ideally your Potion.
3. Use Witherbark's Branch alongside Trueshot, and ideally your Potion. To play this Trinket optimally, you want to collect the spheres it spawns in a staggered fashion. Collect the first one immediately, then collect the other two when the buff is just about to expire, thereby extending its buff. Doing this properly is a ~1.5% DPS increase over simply collecting them all. Try your best, but do not fret if you cannot play it perfectly every time.
4. Use Darkmoon Deck Box: Dance during Death Chakram. It lines up naturally with every 2nd Chakrams cast.
5. Use My'das Talisman during Death Chakram. It lines up naturally with every 2nd Chakrams cast.
6. Use Bandolier of Twisted Blades during Death Chakram. It lines up naturally with every 2nd Chakrams cast.
7. Use Steady Shot to apply and maintain the Steady Focus buff. Refresh when it drops below 5 seconds and you would have cast one Steady Shot regardless, or apply it if it is down. Do not bother refreshing Steady Focus this WeakAura to help using this.
8. Cast Rapid Fire if Trick Shots would expire within the next GCD.
9. Cast Kill Shot on cooldown, even during Trueshot.
10. Use Volley on cooldown. Make sure you have macro'd Salvo into it. Check out the AddOns and Macros page if you have not.
11. Use Volley on cooldown. Hold it up to 20 seconds for Trueshot.
12. Use Serpent Sting to apply and maintain the DoT. Refresh it when it drops below 5 seconds, outside of Trueshot.
13. Use Explosive Shot on cooldown.
14. Use Stampede on cooldown.
15. Use Death Chakram on cooldown.
16. Cast Rapid Fire on cooldown.
17. Cast Rapid Fire on cooldown, provided that Aimed Shot will not cap charges before you would next cast it.
18. Use Trueshot, your main cooldown, as many times as possible during the fight. Save it for important add spawns and damage amplification phases.
19. Use Aimed Shot on cooldown at all times. You should always spend all of your Precise Shots stacks first, provided that Aimed Shot is not about to reach 2 charges.
20. Use Volley on cooldown.
21. Cast Wailing Arrow on cooldown, outside of Trueshot.
22. Cast Steel Trap on cooldown. Remember to throw it at your target's feet. We recommend using the cursor macro from our AddOns and Macros page.
23. Use Chimaera Shot to spend your Precise Shots stacks or when you have over 55 Focus.
24. Use Arcane Shot to spend your Precise Shots stacks or when you have over 55 Focus.
25. Use Steady Shot when you have nothing else to do, as a filler.

1. Ensure Hunter's Mark is active on the target from you or another Hunter in the group!
2. Pre-cast Steady Shot when there is 1.75 seconds left on the pulltimer.
3. Cast Explosive Shot.
4. Activate your Potion.
5. Use Death Chakram.
6. Use Volley at your enemy's feet.
7. Activate Trueshot
8. Cast Aimed Shot
9. Cast Rapid Fire
10. Cast Aimed Shot
11. Cast Rapid Fire
12. Continue with your normal rotation, according to the priority list above. The goal is to not have to cast Multi-Shot often at all, by using Rapid Fire regularly to extend the Volley-provided Trick Shots windows throughout your entire Trueshot window.

This priority list describes the optimal AoE rotation for Marksmanship Hunter.

1. Use Mirror of Fractured Tomorrows alongside Trueshot, and ideally your Potion.
2. Use Ashes of the Embersoul alongside Trueshot, and ideally your Potion.
3. Use Witherbark's Branch alongside Trueshot, and ideally your Potion. To play this Trinket optimally, you want to collect the spheres it spawns in a staggered fashion. Collect the first one immediately, then collect the other two when the buff is just about to expire, thereby extending its buff. Doing this properly is a ~1.5% DPS increase over simply collecting them all. Try your best, but do not fret if you cannot play it perfectly every time.
4. Use Darkmoon Deck Box: Dance during Death Chakram. It lines up naturally with every 2nd Chakrams cast.
5. Use My'das Talisman during Death Chakram. It lines up naturally with every 2nd Chakrams cast.
6. Use Bandolier of Twisted Blades during Death Chakram. It lines up naturally with every 2nd Chakrams cast.
7. Use Steady Shot to apply and maintain the Steady Focus buff. Refresh when it drops below 8 seconds and you would have cast one Steady Shot regardless, or apply it if it is down. Do not bother refreshing or applying during Trueshot.
8. Cast Kill Shot when available to spend Razor Fragments procs.
9. Use Explosive Shot on cooldown.
10. Use Barrage on cooldown when there are 8 or more targets active. It is not worth using otherwise.
11. Use Death Chakram on cooldown.
12. Use Stampede on cooldown.
13. Use Wailing Arrow on cooldown.
14. Use Serpent Sting to apply and maintain the DoT on all targets. Hydra's Bite causes it to hit multiple targets, but you should still ensure that all targets are covered.
15. Use Volley on cooldown. Macro Salvo into it as well. You can find the Macro on our AddOns and Macros page.
16. Use Rapid Fire on cooldown. Make sure that Trick Shots is active before casting it.
17. Use Trueshot, your main cooldown, as many times as possible during the fight. Save it for important add spawns and damage amplification phases.
18. Use Aimed Shot on cooldown at all times. You should always spend all of your Precise Shots stacks first. The only exception is if Trueshot is active, where keeping it off 2 charges is a higher priority than spending all Precise Shots. Make sure that Trick Shots is active before casting it.
19. Use Rapid Fire on cooldown. Make sure that Trick Shots is active before casting it.
20. Use Chimaera Shot on 2-3 targets to spend your Precise Shots stacks and when you have over 55 Focus
21. Cast Multi-Shot to apply Trick Shots if it is down. You should also cast it to spend your Precise Shots stacks when above 55 Focus, and you should also cast it if you have 10 stacks of Bulletstorm.
22. Multidot Serpent Sting.
23. Cast Steel Trap on cooldown. Remember to throw it at your target's feet. We recommend using the cursor macro from our AddOns and Macros page.
24. Cast Kill Shot whenever it is available and you have more than 45 Focus.
25. Use Steady Shot when you have nothing else to do, as a filler.