The Aegis Hikari Guide to a Better Scholar Gamepad/Only Edition

[AegisIvory]

Hey everyone,

I'm seeing a lot of questions out there regarding fairy control, and effective healing techniques using a gamepad. I’ve been using the gamepad since beta, and no one has really put anything together so I'm going to share what works for me and how to set it up. The idea of this set up is to maximize the control and output of the pet while putting in as little effort as possible. I won't be telling you HOW to heal so much as give you tools to make things easier. So you can focus on the important things like Landslides... This might not work for you but I hope that it will at least give you some fresh ideas to build off of. If you have anything to improve or add to I'd love to hear it, but without further ado lets get started!

I'm going to write this guide in 3 sections. I'll start off with the macros that I use and why, followed by my hotbar set-up, and finally settings to manage the cross hotbar inside, and outside of battle.

1) Macros:

Stance: Updated: May 5th 2014

With the update, selecting "Obey" will allow Eos to follow your commands. She'll continue to follow you, and cast Embrace as per usual. The big difference is that it makes it so she'll only use her cooldowns when you tell her to. Placing her, or recasting her won't change her stance anymore. Make sure you do this each time you log in! (About time!!)

Pet Actions

Single Target Healing:

/micon "Physick"
/ac "Physick" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <t>

/micon "Adloquium"
/ac "Adloquium" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <t>

/micon "Lustrate"
/ac "Lustrate" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <t>

(*Removed Aetherflow as it may not be beneficial for new players*)

/micon "Leeches"
/ac "Leeches" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <t>

These will let you micro manage Eos's healing without having to do anything different. Basically for every heal you throw, she'll back you up! Leeches is optional but I'm trying it out because I figure if I'm healing a DoT it'd be cool for Eos to top off at the same time.

Double Target Healing: Added: May 5th 2014

This is something I've been playing around with and it has been working really well. A little more advanced for those who are looking to micro manage a little more. Make sure you're using these with the targeting macros below!

/micon "Physick"
/ac "Physick" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <f>
/pac "Embrace" <t>

/micon "Adloquium"
/ac "Adloquium" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <f>
/pac "Embrace" <t>

/micon "Lustrate"
/ac "Lustrate" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <f>
/pac "Embrace" <t>

This way Eos will prioritize healing your focus target. Allowing you to heal the party while still pre-curing the MT. In addition if you want to get fancy you can use the "Set Focus Target" Macro to change focus targets on the fly and have Eos heal them. However if you have to focus target the boss (Looking at you Twintania) she'll still continue to heal your target.

Targeting:

Set Focus Target:

/focustarget


Target Focus Target:

/target <f>

Super simple, super effective.

AoE Healing:

/micon "Rouse"
/ac "Rouse" <me>
/pac "Fey Illumination" *
/pac "Whispering Dawn"
/ac "Succor" <me>**

By repeatedly pressing this button you and Eos will look majestically synchronized. Eos will buff up (+40% Rouse + 20% Illumination) before unleashing a massive AoE HoT, while you cast a buffed Succor on the party. Perfect for Tumults or whatever else multiple DPS decide to walk into.

Added: May 5th 2014
*: This macro still works great if you separate Fey Illumination into it's own button. Gives you greater flexibility while keeping Whispering Dawn up more often.

**: Having Succor on the end is completely optional. Use with your discretion. I eventually opted to remove it.

OR

So this something really cool I learned recently. By using /pac "Stay" Eos will stop whatever she's doing and use your commands immediately. Be careful because you could accidentally cancel your Whispering Dawn cast. I'm working it into the buffs without Whispering Dawn because I don't want it to be cancelled. Make sure you don't forget to tell her to /pac "Heel" afterwards if you need her to follow you.

/micon "Rouse"
/ac "Rouse' <me>
/pac "Stay"
/pac "Fey Illumination"
/wait 1
/pac "Heel"

(For this one keep Whispering Dawn on a seperate hotkey and press it right after this, should cast right away.)



Off Cooldown Awesomeness:

Swiftcast Resurrection:

/micon "Swiftcast"
/ac "Swiftcast" <me>
/ac "Resurrection" <t>

Pressing this button repeatedly will allow you to use Swiftcast and Ress before the body can even hit the floor! Impress your party and your parents! Bonus points! If you don't target a dead person it acts as a regular Swiftcast macro!

Virus and Fey Covenant... At the same time!!!

/micon "Virus"
/ac "Virus" <t>
/ac "Virus" <tt>
/pac "Stay"
/pac "Fey Covenant"
/wait 1
/pac "Heel"

This way whether you want to target a specific monster for the debuffs, or if you want to debuff the monster interacting with your tank. This macro has you covered. Usually use Virus before big AoEs, some of them are magical damage ie Tumults. Plus it's easy to forget to use otherwise.


Energy Drain for MP Management and Profit!

/micon "Energy Drain"
/ac "Energy Drain" <t>
/ac "Energy Drain" <tt>

Pretty self explanatory all the fun of energy drain without the hassle of targeting. If you're targeting an enemy it'll hit them, if you're targeting the tank it'll hit what they're hitting. Just make sure it isn't a Spiny Plume!!! You can do this for most offensive spells!

Worth mentioning: With these macros you will get the "Invalid command" ping really often. I've turned off my system sounds to remedy this. Hopefully it's something they'll change in the future.



2) Hotbars:

All right so this is my hotbar setup. It works for me but feel free to change / improve it any way you like. The key here is the Focus Target / Target Focus Target Macros, always mark your tanks and you’ll be ready to respond at a moment’s notice.

Author's Note: The 2 on the left are both D-Pad, the 2 on the right are buttons

R2:
Triangle: Lustrate + Embrace
Square: Swiftcast + Resurrection
X: Physick + Embrace
Circle: Adloquium + Embrace

Up:Target Focus Target
Left: Fey Covenant
Down: Sprint
Right: Leeches + Embrace

L2:
Triangle: AoE Healing Macro
Square: Virus
X: Aetherflow
Circle: Energy Drain Macro

Up: Succor
Left: Sacred Soil
Down: Eye for an Eye
Right: Stoneskin

Hotbar 2:

This is used for offensive spell casting. Keeping our healing and focus target macros in the same spot so we're always ready to throw heals.

Author's Note: The 2 on the left are both D-Pad, the 2 on the right are buttons

R2:
Triangle: Lustrate + Embrace
Square: Miasma II
X: Physick + Embrace
Circle: Adloquium + Embrace

Up:Target Focus Target
Left: Shadow Flare
Down: Sustain
Right: Blizzard II

L2:
Triangle: Cleric Stance
Square: Ruin II
X: Aetherflow
Circle: Energy Drain Macro

Up: Miasma
Left: Bio II
Down: Bane
Right: Bio

Hotbar 6:

This is accessed by pressing L2 -> R2 together.

Triangle: Sprint
Square: Mega Potions of Mind
X: Protect
Circle:

Up: Limit Break
Left:
Down: Set Focus Target
Right:

This is accessed by pressing R2 -> L2 together.

Triangle: Swiftcast
Square: Selene
X: Pet Stance Macro
Circle: Eos

Up: Place Pet
Left:
Down: Set Focus Target
Right: Heel


3) Settings

The settings I'm going to detail here will allow you to make use of Hotbars 1 + 2 + 6 (L + R at the same time) while in battle / weapon drawn. 7 + 8 will be shared between all classes for menu type things.

Now to bring it all together this is all the setting you need to properly navigate the hotbars.

This will make it so your hotbar 1-6 will be class specific, 7-8 will be shared among all classes.




This will make it so that when your weapon is sheathed you will use your menu shortcuts 7-8. When your weapon is drawn you will only use 1-2. Note: This is also useful if you plan to PvP, put PvP skills on bars 4+5. Deselect hotbars 1+2 and select 4+5 in this menu. Viola ready to enter the fray!




This will enable the 6th hotbar by pressing L2 -> R2 or R2 -> L2




This will make it so you won't auto put away your weapon changing your stance. Effectively you'll enter and leave battle mode by pressing R3.

Tip and FAQs

As people leave tips and other goodies I'll post them here.

If you don't mind, I'd like to add something: Order your party list by healing priority. In other words: Have tanks on top, other healer either on bottom or near tanks. This makes it quicker to change targets, and also allow you to always know the position of your tank. My prefered pt list setup is something like

Me
OT
MT -> main target.
Healer
Ranged DPS
Melee
Melee
Ranged DPS 2
Fairy

As this allows me to switch to some of the highter priorty targets easily:

MT? Heal, is the main target.
OT? Up, heal
Me? circle (cancel targetting), heal
Other healer? down, heal

and so on.

Reduce the number of targets you have to cycle up so the higher priority ones are 1-2 button presses always.

I totally agree with this! Everyone will have their own order, mine is something like...

Me
Healer
MT -> focus target.
OT
DPS
DPS
DPS
DPS
Fairy

I'll post a quick guide on how to set this up and what it looks like when I get a chance. Thanks AdvanceWind!


And there you have it, go out have fun and experiment! Ah man look at me... Getting all emotional... They grow up so fast. Feel free to leave questions or comments!

Thanks for reading!