Attention Scholars: Always place your Fairy!

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Originally Posted by Maku

So what you are saying is she casts faster when on place or stay because she doesn't have the movement check. ^^

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Yes. They should have made a proper moving check, that doesn't direct her to move to the same location as she already is at. Or at least that's what it looks to me.

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Originally Posted by Rainsford

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using the place command is situational and i would not encourage a new sch to place their faery constantly.. instead i would encourage them to learn how to manually heal with her..

I use gamepad and i have my heal set to A and my faeries heal set to B.. if i need big heals i slide over the 2 to make one large heal from the both of us if i need a constant stream of heals i tap both one after the other..

In AK as you suggested to practise placing.. I only place my faery twice.. once on the wall you should place her in the middle as the floor aoe only gives heavy and doesnt effect her healing.. and i also place her next to the tank in the final boss (but behind the bosses head so she doesnt get hit) eos can solo heal the tank in this fight, even on cleric stance and i tend to DPS most of the fight (granted this is with my static group)

I barely place her at all in other places but get full use out of her manually.

I'd like to see some numbers placed vs. heeled (parser ?) for this, because as far as I can tell when someone is low and you are moving she stops and heals.

I'm now placing her every time I'm in a fight where people don't have to move too much and too far. You can still order her around even if she is placed but she won't move to heal someone who is too far away.
Still if you don't place her, asking her to heal before moving yourself is making her heal before the moving check (or she will move and heal if the target is too far).

Long story short, all the debate about placing Vs not placing could be averted if SE would just fix the damn AI, so that they didn't come out of steady and burn all their CD's if you try order them to cast embrace and/or let us macro pet commands

i dont ever see the reason to manually heal with the pet now i do place her it is better pop her to the side of the tank and she will heal her ass off put her in the middle she will heal everyone i will heal tank decent if you need more heals to tank pop her right next to it

I used to place the fairy constantly, but I haven't bothered since I hit 50 in 90% of the time. There are just SO many knockbacks that you will constantly be adjusting your fairy. I don't know if its just an issue I have or not, but I find the button to place her to be bugged a bit. Sometimes I'll click on it but it won't actually activate it, being no AoE indicator around my cursor. Sometimes I'll have to stop and click it 2-3 times which at least until the recent patch meant I had to stop healing for that time.

Now I just move myself to where the fairy will be the most useful, and manually avoid AoEs. It is MUCH easier than moving the fairy around all the time. If I see the AoE regen is almost off cooldown I just run in range of everybody and let her use it, then run away. I'm manually spamming "Embrace" as well, so she always moves close enough to heal someone. The only time I actually place her is at the last boss in AK, simply because I stand at a different statue than everyone else and when I have to hide, I'm out of range to heal.

Also I find that she dies VERY quickly if I manually place her, because she's always in range of AoE's

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Originally Posted by Soukyuu

Better yet, just write a macro. Also usable on gamepad

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If you mean keyboard macro, yes. If you mean ingame macro.. call me when you are able to.

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Originally Posted by Soukyuu

Not being able to heal multiple players at the same time. What I do is not go for the target with the lowest hp unless it's critically low. The fairy (roused) will target that one - meanwhile I get the second lowest. Then switch, if needed (usually, it's not)

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Your pet will still heal Critical target above the selected target... it just heals now instead of picking her nose while waiting for some to below 80%



So OT... yea placing your pet is better then let if float arround... but binding it this way is the best way.

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Originally Posted by fnt

If you mean keyboard macro, yes. If you mean ingame macro.. call me when you are able to.

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Hmm, I never tried to macro it because I'm against manual fairy control except for placing her.
Are you saying you can't do /ac Embrace?

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Originally Posted by peaches

Also I find that she dies VERY quickly if I manually place her, because she's always in range of AoE's

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The keyword here would be "sustain".

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Originally Posted by Soukyuu

Hmm, I never tried to macro it because I'm against manual fairy control except for placing her.
Are you saying you can't do /ac Embrace?

The keyword here would be "sustain".

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You cant, macro him in game. Thats why you need to keyboard to press 2 keys at the same time.

Any why against it? You giving out free heals... you faerie is now wasting most of his time waiting for some to need a heal...