So whats up with my SCH pets?

Can't manual cast anymore or what? Everything is just greyed out.

use the obey action and they become available, kinda stupid...

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Originally Posted by Noctrin

use the obey action and they become available, kinda stupid...

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Not really, if it's greyed out then that means they are controlled by the pet automatically, once on obey they are yours to command. Makes sense actually.

So i have to always be in combat with targeting something with obey, otherwise she will always waste her CDS? Great idea. Best pet AI ever invented.

Why not just add a simple option for each skill to be set to either Auto-Cast or Manual? Sigh...

So annoying.

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Originally Posted by Noctrin

use the obey action and they become available, kinda stupid...

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Tried that, and all other commands to make Eos let me force heal. Nothing worked.

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Originally Posted by Crankysorc

Tried that, and all other commands to make Eos let me force heal. Nothing worked.

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You targeted a mob first when hitting obey? Only ask because I had to teach people how to play their job in Qarn.

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Originally Posted by Trystan

Why not just add a simple option for each skill to be set to either Auto-Cast or Manual? Sigh...

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That and being able to rearrange the pet bar buttons would be nice.

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Originally Posted by Inquisitor

That and being able to rearrange the pet bar buttons would be nice.

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At least we can hide the pet hotbar now. That's what I did and then used another hotbar to arrange pet macros.

You can make pet macros now?

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Originally Posted by Lumidus

You can make pet macros now?

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Yeah it's /petaction or /pac

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Originally Posted by AmalahRose

Yeah it's /petaction or /pac

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Thanks friend!

Steady. It will solve all your problems.

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Originally Posted by Lumidus

Thanks friend!

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You're welcome. :D

This can't be intentional making the pet system more clunky than before. The restriction of not being able to command your pet independent from it's current stance makes no sense whatsoever. Could we be please be able to switch into the "Obey" stance even if no enemy mob is present?

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Originally Posted by Miiu

This can't be intentional making the pet system more clunky than before. The restriction of not being able to command your pet independent from it's current stance makes no sense whatsoever.

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You are. You just need to use a stance, any will do.

I put her on Obey, then on Heel, so she follows me while saving the cooldowns.

It's a little annoying to have to use it at every wipe, though. I wish this was the default.

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Originally Posted by Crankysorc

Tried that, and all other commands to make Eos let me force heal. Nothing worked.

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Had the same problem. You have to target an enemy mob first, then hit Obey. After that it works fine until you resummon. This feels like a bug to me, but with all the other patch fails.. this might be new sch mechanic...

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Originally Posted by Ri_ri

You are. You just need to use a stance, any will do.

I put her on Obey, then on Heel, so she follows me while saving the cooldowns.

It's a little annoying to have to use it at every wipe, though. I wish this was the default.

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Well it seems to be the problem that after you had her on obey once. You can change the stance and will still be able to command the fairy. But if you resummon everything is greyed out until you can't use obey again (enemy mob present).

*edit* Seems like Kam8T88 was faster :)

Of course it is a bug, but pet bugs are in general considered too trivial for fixing. At least that was my impression on the 10 years I waited for spirit bug fixes.

I still remember how you had to basically aggro monsters to get your pet to cast at 0 recast, or they would reset to max recast delay on assault. "Working as intended" as said by any GM I tried to convince to highlight the problem.

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Originally Posted by Malamasala

Of course it is a bug, but pet bugs are in general considered too trivial for fixing. At least that was my impression on the 10 years I waited for spirit bug fixes.

I still remember how you had to basically aggro monsters to get your pet to cast at 0 recast, or they would reset to max recast delay on assault. "Working as intended" as said by any GM I tried to convince to highlight the problem.

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Oh god don't remind me :(

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Originally Posted by RevDeroy

Not really, if it's greyed out then that means they are controlled by the pet automatically, once on obey they are yours to command. Makes sense actually.

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No it doesn't. You shouldn't be barred from telling her to heal because she's set to auto-cast her other spells.

Bump because I think this needs to get some attention :/

Did some testing, pets are bugged:

When you summon pet, everything is grayed out.
If you use obey on an ENEMY, they become available but the pet stop following you..
Once you do that once, it will work fine until you resummon it.

This annoys me beyond words in pvp, if it dies, i have to spend 5 seconds getting it unbugged at the start of the fight.

Obey/Heel part is what i have been doing since before this fix to get Selene to not cast anything but embrace either manually or when placed so its nothing new to me.

Obey>Heel>Steady and you are set.

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Originally Posted by Zorzi

Steady. It will solve all your problems.

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Hum... no... steady was fine before, not now

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Originally Posted by Noctrin

This annoys me beyond words in pvp, if it dies, i have to spend 5 seconds getting it unbugged at the start of the fight.

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I was very confused when I tried PvP on scholar. I thought pets were blocked there or something, because I couldn't order my fairy nor did she seem to even use auto-embrace at any point. :S

SE needs to add /target pc so I can target my party and set her to "Sic" or "Obey". Also in "Steady" everything should be available to click.

So are we going to get any dev response from this ? None of this was in the patch notes and it's a huge pain in the butt to deal with. I can't imagine that this was actually intentional. And if it is, why would we need to target a mob to get the pet to obey the actual scholar ?

I really have little interaction with my fairy, but I was looking forward to stopping my pet from casting regen obsessively at the end of a pull and causing aggro issues. What I would really like to do is be able to set a priority system or scripts, but that is really asking far to much of an MMO. I think being able to specify auto abilities and manual abilities would be fantastic, I would definitely drop auto on standard heal and macro up the other abilities as additional casts for myself. But again, being able to use regen when it's useful instead of random full health drops is probably asking to much.