SCH here need help... With my Fairies. Plea for help....

Not sure if I'm the only one but here goes..

I'm having this "Murder Fairy" problem. My 2 Fairies are, well, seems relatively out to get me.

They actually got these small fairy stilettos hidden on them. time and time again, during my CM and AK runs I come across them overcuring the tanks so they can tank the mobs for a cheap thrill or flying in front of a Garlean guard and stabbing him in the eyes!

They seem to dance around heavy fighting so the blood actually gets onto them! You should see their grin on their faces....

I dare not tell them off for fear they might murder me in my sleep.

Most recently, I notice that they are giving me the looks, and talking to my Minions, namely, Beady eye and Baby imp, all that strange laughter. Not sure what they are planning.

Is there anything I could do on my side to save my relationship with my Faires?

Or Should I strike first?

Funny how the powerful casters of Nym disappeared... but the fairies remain.... always remain...always watching...

I don't understand...are you asking how to control the fairies? Use pet commands. Is there a real point to this? RP makes me facedesk so hard.

They can't overcure the tanks. Embrace won't heal enough to pull threat.

Your problem is Eos. Stop using Eos. You can't control Whispering Dawn and, especially in CM, she will pop it immediately if it's on CD. That HoT on 8 players + pets is what pulls threat. Besides, Selene is prettier.

Hotkey "Obey" to a mousebutton.

every sch knows that teh fairy ai is absolutely garbage. Its one of the reasons why i think sch is not as good of a healer as a whm. If you had fully control over the fairy things would be a little different or if you could lach the fairy on one specific target things would be different, alas this isnt the case.

The only real tip i can give you is to bind embrace to a key that is easily spammed. If you do this you can control to a point where the fairy casts his spells. Though keep in mind even with the 2nd GCD the fairy gets with his spells, you cant manually cast embrace or any other fairy spell while you are in the middle of casting your self. you must use embrace before any other healing spell.

Controlling the faerie is actually super easy once you get used to it.

Hotkey "Steady", "Embrace", "Follow" and "Place" in easy to get to locations (I use control keys for them).

Between every fight, activate follow, so the pet will follow you, and "Steady". With Steady active, the faerie will cast ONLY embrace and nothing else. The aggro drawer for Faerie is the AOE heal over time, so you want to keep that in check at first.

When combat starts, place your faerie near the tank, somewhere behind or beside the mobs being fought. Once the faerie is in place, force it to cast "embrace" on the tank. Remember- YOU force it to cast that embrace. Yes, it will normally cast that on its own, but upon being given a command by you it will immediately remove itself from the "Steady" command and begin casting its other skills on its own.

At this point, it will immediately cast all 3 of its major skills (the 2 buffs and then AOE regen). It will then, being placed appropriately near the tank, start autohealing the tank and anyone near the tank. At this point you can forget about it until combat is over. It will do a pretty decent job there :)

Once in AK Selene was too busy staring at Ifrit-Egi to heal people.


WAKE UP GIRL, IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN. D:

Your fairy is actually totally controllable as Tolmos said. You can skip the manual embrace and go right to the triggering of the healing buff if embrace is cooling down already and she will then use regen auto. Resetting her to steady to manually use the regen is very potent (particularly on titan and later).

Honestly, there is nothing wrong with fairy ai, you just have to controll those abilities as though they were your own (cus they are).

Only problem with fairies is the whole, will only cast at reduced range on their own thing. Wish they would fix that.

Bind Embrace to alt+q. Bind Steady to alt+w. Bind Physick to alt+e. Roll through the whole key combination every time you want to manually use Embrace. If you do this correctly, you should be able to manually embrace but prevent Eos from using Whispering Dawn until you command it.

Also, it can be better to trigger the Eos' healing buff than Whispering Dawn, as this will ensure you get a more powerful Whispering Dawn, as opposed to her automatically casting the heal buff after WD. However, the heal buff has a 90 second cooldown opposed to WD's 60-second cooldown, so you don't want to gimp yourself by taking WD off the hotbar.

Pretty much what Tolmos said.

You can keybind your pet hotbars and use them to your heart's content. What I do with my Eos is, I put her on "Steady", place her near the tank (this way she'll always heal anyone nearby at ~80% HP), and monitor her abilities CD. I'm personally fond of Rouse+Fey Illumination+Whispering Dawn combo as it gives massive heals. "Steady" will make her only spam Embrace. Do remember to put her back to "Steady" after you activate her abilities though; don't want her to automatically use them again.

If your fairy is following you, she might not heal (or in this case, "register" to heal) fast enough, so use your keybound Embrace manually. What's cool about this is, you can spam it while you move around avoiding AoEs and other craps (helped me heaps in Titan HM). If she dies, you can quickly Swiftcast+Summon again.

What everyone else is saying. I use controller and just have my Left Trigger Buttons for her moves. My fairies are always on Steady. I don't trust those little Vixens to do things on their own. They are tricky.