Distracting Shot

Hunter Addons – Ammo-Matique March 2, 2010

I know. I didn’t think I needed it either. I mean, really, I’m a hunter. Ammo is my thing. I think I can manage to equip the epic ammo for raids, and then the regular ammo afterwards.

But after one too many random heroic wasting epic ammo, or one too many raid where I realized I had the cheapo ammo equipped, I remembered reading an old blog post that recommended this very addon, fired up the curse client, and downloaded the addon.

The first thing I liked is that it popped up and politely asked me to configure my settings. You can configure dungeons, outside, and each raid individually, and raids can be configured separately for 10 and 25 man, heroic and non heroic, and trash and bosses. The first time you enter each raid, you configure that raid to use either premium or standard ammo. You can then select which ammo is premium and which is standard, and tell it how much you want to keep on hand, and then when you talk to an ammo seller, it will automatically stock up. You can even have it store all your ammo in one bag.

The one issue is that, due to limitations put in place by Blizzard, no addon can change your gear, ammo included, while in combat. For ToC, for example, when you can’t target the boss before you enter combat, you’ll receive a warning to change ammo. This warning simply says wrong ammo used, it doesn’t say which ammo is equipped or which it thinks should be equipped – I wish it did, just to streamline it all while you’re pressed for time in a boss fight.

In all though, this is a great addon that I strongly recommend to any hunter who is using multiple types of ammo on a regular basis. This makes it trivially easy. The UI is well-designed, you never need to go looking for configuration, the addon tells you when you need to give it information. Highly recommended. Hopefully the author, Anyia, will keep it updated through Cataclysm if we still wind up with more than one kind of non-consumable ammo.