Technical Feedback: Fairy Movement Speed (Combat)

[Mostly meant as a request to the dev team.]

A lot of under the hood changes for SCH in EW have been amazing. Particularly, fairy ability) responsiveness, snappier shields and Deployment Tactics, alongside the shorter Broil cast and DT recast times.

Great job to the team for the changes.

A last thing I think would help for this iteration of SCH:

Fairy trait - Increased Movement Speed when in combat.

One issue with SCH fairy is the latency of fairy actions due to a server timing and pet action queuing. Move in a circle or random direction and we can easily see how she doesn’t follow the character, but instead the most recent snapshot of the character’s position.

This causes some delay. Additionally, the fairy actions are delayed via movement (which, can technically be useful for queueing movement+action).

Request: Attempt testing increasing fairy movement speed by 50% during combat to see how the fairy’s responds and whether that helps SCH’s have more play with their fairy positioning and pet placement commands. The SCH has the fun of having a pet and playing with positioning, something other players can opt out of via playing SGE. I think this would be a great QoL for the SCH to play with without causing an overpowered automated fairy.

Thank you!



(Addition: Another suggestion, remove the pet hotbar and give the SCH two new job actions at level 4 that operate like the pet hotbar Place and Heel. “Send Fairy” and “Recall Fairy”. The nouliths are very responsive and the programming could possibly be used to apply to the fairy. We can gain button space by consolidating Summon Eos/Selene to a single button and utilizing a fairy_glamour variable to reference back for when Dissipation and Summon Seraph ends.

Send Fairy - Commands the fairy to rapidly fly to a location. This is the /pac Place command with a unique animation and increased movement speed. It uses the /pac Place as /pac Stay prevents the fairy from moving to use Fey Union.

Recall Fairy - Commands the fairy to rapidly fly to your side and follow you. This is the /pac Heel command with an animation and increased movement speed until she returns to you.

I think there’s a lot of coding technology already available in-game to take advantage of a pet healer.

Lastly, it would look cool if the Scholar is able to have their fairy zip around the battlefield.

Again, thank you!)

Never found the fairy to be an issue but I just use the place and heel commands consistently. The only thing you might want to consider is the use of a /place <self> macro if it’s bothering you that much. The ground AoE changes were a massive boon to her consistency too.