How To Train Your Faerie: A Comprehensive Guide

Oh holy...

Thx in advance - now this is going to become more than handy <3

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Thanks for posting that, Ragology.

I use something similar to that on SMN since Garuda no longer has issues necessitating macros. On SCH, I use macros for faerie skills and it is unfortunately not possible to use a macro to switch macros on your cross hotbar. I do however have a regular hotbar up just so I can see cooldowns. I use a summoning macro to change those slots.

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Originally Posted by giantslayer

Thanks for posting that, Ragology.

I use something similar to that on SMN since Garuda no longer has issues necessitating macros. On SCH, I use macros for faerie skills and it is unfortunately not possible to use a macro to switch macros on your cross hotbar. I do however have a regular hotbar up just so I can see cooldowns. I use a summoning macro to change those slots.

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uhm okay that would be the next question... faerie skills work perfectly but like u said there isnt a way to place macros, is it hm?
well... than that last spot has to be changed manually… not optimal but fine for me :)

I'm currently running Savage A1 as an Astrologian and really feeling the desire to switch to SCH, which I haven't played since AST launched. This has really helped me prepare myself, thank you so much!

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Originally Posted by Neela

uhm okay that would be the next question... faerie skills work perfectly but like u said there isnt a way to place macros, is it hm?
well... than that last spot has to be changed manually… not optimal but fine for me :)

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There is, actually. As a basic example:

Eos (change bar):
/macroicon "Summon"
/ac Summon
/chotbar copy SCH 5 SCH 8

Selene (change bar):
/macroicon "Summon II"
/ac "Summon II"
/chotbar copy SCH 6 SCH 8

Hotbars 5 and 6 are exactly the same, with one key difference:
5 has Eos' 3 skills as well as the following macro: "Selene (change bar)"
6 has Selene's as well as the following macro: "Eos (change bar)"

Basically, 8 is accessed by L2/R2. This gives quick access to each pet's skills by copying them depending on who I have summoned. :) You can extrapolate this to change your other macros by using any other "unused" hotbars. This also works with regular hotbars, as well, just change "chotbar" to "hotbar."

I couldn't fit the rest of it on the previous post because of space restrictions, but you should also check what Ragology posted.

You don't have to attach it to a summoning macro, nor do you have to replace the entire bar (mine's set up that way for quick ease of sharing with other players). You can do this with anything. My alt that I'm playing with is a Qestir, so she's not allowed to talk. I have several "custom" macros to express various things...None of these have skills attached, but I access them the same way. I have one slot that calls those macros in to replace parts of my hotbar (depending on what I need to convey), then another on that bar to switch them back if needed. This is also great for quick marking and other things as well. It's much easier to navigate than the default menu selections on the hotbars that we get. :/

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Originally Posted by Savail

There is, actually.

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Yeah, this is exactly what I've been using. This kind of macros are extremely useful also for war when swtching deliverance/defiance and smn when switching egis.
I think I'll put some screenshots here to show how I've set my crossbars since it seems that for a lot of people proficiently playing sch using a controller is hard even though it's not when the right macros are used.

hmm i see but technically its just swaping the whole bar right?
so the macros are placed on fix slots... its not for changing skills on the same bar?
therefore i need 2 bars for SCH and 3 bars for SMN just for switching through them via the summon-macros hmm...

well playwise its the same outcome but technically its more like a workaround...
hmm im gonna give it a try thx for the input :)

Great macros! to add - Some very useful macros I've discovered:

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Add "Fey Wind" to (nearly) every macro

Basically you don't want to worry about having to manually cast fey wind yourself and want your fairy to just autocast it, so we add:

/pac "Fey Wind" <me>

to (nearly) every macro we have on our bar to get it to just cast for us without us having to think about it

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Eos 1 button wonder:

/macroicon Rouse
/ac "Rouse" <me>
/pac Steady
/pac Guard
/pac "Whispering Dawn" <me>
/pac "Fey Illumination" <me>

This will make Eos (or Selene) roused, and then make Eos cast Whispering Dawn giving some super boosted healing.. if you also need to you can hit this button again to get Fey Illumination to go off which will further boost the healing

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make Cleric Stance a bit less annoying

/micon "Cleric Stance"
/macrolock
/ac "Cleric Stance" <me>
/pac "Fey Wind" <me>
/wait 1

Prevents you from accidentally hitting this off and back on again and then being stuck in cleric stance for 5 seconds. (also see the fey wind in there for good measure)

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Silent Dusk reliably assist in a silence rotation

/micon "Silent Dusk" pet "Selene"
/p Selen-ce! - <f> <se.14>
/pac Steady
/pac Guard
/pac "Silent Dusk" <f>
/pac "Silent Dusk" <t>
/pac "Silent Dusk" <tt>

Silent Dusk has a long recast, but if your party is lacking other silencers, or your silencers are slacking you can reliably help out a silence rotation.

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Rapid Deployment - 1 button wonder (if u have 3 secs)

/macroicon "Deployment Tactics"
/macrolock
/ac "Adloquium" <pet>
/pac Steady
/pac Guard
/pac "Fey Covenant" <me>
/wait 3
/ac "Deployment Tactics" <pet>

adloquium your pet as the pet uses fey covenant then deployment tactics on your pet thus giving your party a strong shield as well as the fey covenant magic damage reduction. It takes 3 seconds to do but if you know you have 3 seconds its an excellent way to mitigate that big raidwide magic damage with a single button .. we use macrolock to prevent us from accidentally interrupting this complex macro

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Emergency Succor

/macroicon "Emergency Tactics"
/macrolock
/ac "Emergency Tactics" <me>
/wait
/ac "Succor" <me>

Casts Emergency Tactics followed by Succor when you need a big group heal rather than a small group heal and a shield can also be used with adloquium in the same way

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Originally Posted by Neela

hmm i see but technically its just swaping the whole bar right?
so the macros are placed on fix slots... its not for changing skills on the same bar?
therefore i need 2 bars for SCH and 3 bars for SMN just for switching through them via the summon-macros hmm...

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This may be a bit late since your response but I had this same problem, especially when switching to a different fairy mid fight. If you don't mind not seeing the exact micon for your faerie you can always do this (requires you never to switch macros and will still trigger just the same, on your bar it will appear grey'd out but it will still work if clicked.)

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/macroicon "Silent Dusk" pet
/petaction "Silent Dusk" <t>
/petaction "Whispering Dawn" <me>

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In this case if your using Selene, Silent Dusk will trigger, as long as a target is selected, or if Eos is being used and pressed Whispering Dawn will trigger with or without a target. If your using Eos, the Silent Dusk micon will still be shown on your hotbar but as long as you know my "Xwhatever" key is used for Whispering Dawn when Eos is drawn it will still work effectively.

Same goes for embrace and all the fairies pet abilities. This for me has been a great work around for me especially because I use <mo>'s for embraces, and -ideally- I like hitting the same button (cntrl+1-4) for using my pet abilities it just varies what it does based on the current pet I have out.

While I wouldn't recommend this to someone starting out new- but maybe for those veterans who may have used the /chotbar copy command to switch their pet actions around to different hot bars depending on pet summoned...

You can even go as far as mixing the buffs that share a different shared cooldown.

For example- you want the same macro button for Fey Wind and Whispering Dawn, but normally Fey Wind and Fey Illumination share the same cooldown pet wise- this macro will still work:

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/micon "Fey Wind" pet Selene
/petaction "Fey Wind" <me>
/petaction "Whispering Dawn" <me>

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!!!BUT!!! you must keep in mind the micon will show the recast for Fey Illumination, since that is the ability shared with Fey Wind, NOT Whispering Dawn.

For this reason I highly recommend coupling the abilities that share the same cooldown (listed below). But in the event there may have been others like myself who played SCH before we had macros or the ability to switch abilities on our hotbar via command and may have done this by hand in earlier 2.0 days, then this method may be beneficial to you~

In the event anyone uses this method and couples their CDs differently meaning switching up the macros different from the shared cooldowns below- it might be a good idea to have /micons of both eos/selenes buffs -somewhere- in your HUD for visual reference of what cooldowns are actually available to you- especially if you are switching your pet in a fight for any reason.

Ex: pet bar alignment - cooldowns shared
Eos <<>> Selene

• Embrace <<>> Embrace
• Whisper Dawn <<>> Silent Dusk
• Fey Covenant <<>> Fey Caress
• Fey Illumination <<>> Fey Wind

**Technically an Embrace should work regardless of the fairy out if you touch it

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/macroicon "Embrace" pet Selene
/petaction "Embrace" <mo>
/petaction "Embrace" <t>
/petaction "Embrace" <me>

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I know of no way to place macros on bars through macros, other than swapping entire bars, but I use my fairy skills manually and without mouseover etc. I just have two special Summon macros.

Summon 1

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/micon "Summon"
/ac "Swiftcast"
/wait 1
/ac "Summon"
/hotbar pet "Embrace" Eos #2 #1
/hotbar pet "Whispering Dawn" #2 #2
/hotbar pet "Fey Covenant" #2 #3
/hotbar pet "Fey Illumination" #2 #4
/wait  3
/pac "Obey"

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and Summon II

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/micon "Summon II"
/ac "Swiftcast"
/wait 1
/ac "Summon II"
/hotbar pet "Embrace" Selene #2 #1
/hotbar pet "Silent Dusk" #2 #2
/hotbar pet "Fey Caress" #2 #3
/hotbar pet "Fey Wind" #2 #4
/wait  3
/pac "Obey"

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I also have similar ones for Garuda/Titan/Ifrit. I have those macros placed on a sidebar and the fairy skills go onto one of my main bars with a modifier key.

Yeah, I have to click my target, but I can have Eos cast her skills while I cast broil ;)

Hey guys, been running into an issue with the Heel/Place macro since 3.2 hit. If I don't have a target at all, the macro works exactly as it did before patch. But if I have a target, it changes. If the target is an ally, then the move marker instantly vanishes and the pet moves to stack on top of the ally. If the target is an enemy, Place doesn't work at all. Have you guys been having the same trouble? Do you guys know if there's a way to drop target in a macro, so that I can just adjust the macro to drop my target, heel, then place?

Thanks guys!

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Originally Posted by Zhexos

Greetings,

The dev. team is aware of an issue where macros that are used for the placement/movement of pets aren't functioning correctly. We are looking into this so we can address it as soon as possible.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.

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From the thread that was created regarding this issue.

The Place/Heel issue got fixed pretty quickly, in case anyone in the future is cruising this thread and wondering.

Hey giant, thanks for the right up. I'm new to the game and about to become scholar, would you or anyone else using this guide mind putting a screenshot of what skills you have on what bar etc? Would be much appreciated. Thanks again

Just thinking about swapping over from SMN to SCH and I was wondering, which fairy should I use in what scenario? I'm not certain on what either one excels at or which is best for dungeons.

You'll find people have different mindsets about dungeons, and there isn't a wrong answer. Eos because Whispering Dawn every 60s for AoE regen you have on your tank/party along with embrace, while you are staying in cleric stance burning the junk down. Basically look at it whatever you can do to not switch out much and use your own heal skill is the goal.

Also, sometimes those pug tanks don't know a cooldown button exists either and that also can make up the shortfall on pulls, along with the slam-embrace button talked about here.

awesome stuff. I was wondering what the general consensus for using macros while raiding. I just made a static a few weeks ago and i'm trying to up my game a bit more. I'm just wondering how many other players here do and how thats worked out for them vs manual control. Thank you.

tbh i'm always kinda skeptical about macros. most of the time i prefer to manually do them instead of just macroing swiftcast + summon and the like. so most if not all my macros at this point are just notification ones like e4e or virus

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Originally Posted by Gameplayzero

I was wondering what the general consensus for using macros while raiding. I just made a static a few weeks ago and i'm trying to up my game a bit more. I'm just wondering how many other players here do and how thats worked out for them vs manual control. Thank you.

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Playing without macros is the ideal way to go - at least theoretically - since you can't queue macro abilities which causes a tiny delay between macroed skills. I personally haven't played healer with macros since first Coil, and stopped because they felt clunky to me compared to not using them. As SCH, you will also be using different abilities at the same time (for example, casting Adlo while you're using Embrace or Whispering Dawn from Fairy), and you can't run 2 different macros simultaneously (and since Embrace has lower cooldown than your own abilities, tying it to your own casts in a macro slows the fairy down and also prevents you from casting on one target yourself and on another with your fairy). This are the reasons I don't personally recommend using macros. The only macro I have on SCH is /ac "Virus" <f>, which lets me use Virus on my focus target (usually the boss) while I'm healing a tank, for example.