Issue with pet

Anyone else having issues with Eos not embracing the target. I have my macro set up for Eos to heal with my physick and yes Eos is set to obey. Typical run is

Me: tank needs health. Let's him him Eos.
Eos: no. I want to heal the dps that can't dodge AOEs.
Me: no Eos heal tank or we're all dead!
Eos: you ain't the boss of me. I'll do what I want.

It gets annoying to have eos embracing other targets than the one I'm trying to heal. Does Eos auto heal above my command due to programming ie other party mar has less % or they are closer to eos than the target I want to heal?

Eos/Selene auto-Embraces anyone who falls below 80%.

Make a Embracespam macro. Better than Physick+Embrace. Less effort.

Put your fairy on "steady", and she won't autoembrace anyone. This is useful for those focus-healing-on-the-tank situations; no grabbing errant DPS at critically bad moments ^^

on obey she simply heals automatically unless you order her to do it on time. it might take a while but if she is busy casting the spell or on cooldown, it just might not work because she is still busy casting her embrace on someone else.
instead of pairing it with adlo or physick i actually just put embrace icon along my adlo and physick, that way i can track cooldown and know when to click :)

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

Put your fairy on "steady", and she won't autoembrace anyone. This is useful for those focus-healing-on-the-tank situations; no grabbing errant DPS at critically bad moments ^^

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False. Steady does not stop auto-embrace.

Literally just tested.

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Originally Posted by SeraviEdalborez

Eos/Selene auto-Embraces anyone who falls below 80%.

Make a Embracespam macro. Better than Physick+Embrace. Less effort.

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This won't help with what the OP is experiencing. Eos auto casts embrace the moment the cool down is off, and none of the action commands queue for her, so it is impossible to get your command to register before she auto heals. Your embrace commands do not cancel if she is already casting. As long as someone is under the 70 or 80% (whatever the threshold is), you cannot control who she embraces.

I haven't done testing with steady yet.

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Originally Posted by SeraviEdalborez

False. Steady does not stop auto-embrace.

Literally just tested.

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Hmm. Is this a fairly recent change? I haven't been on scholar much recently but I though steady-obey gave completely control over the fairy, even have an old macro for it...

It's from before they did they change where you don't need a target to set modes, though. ：S

Didn't work before that change either, very sure of that. Not sure where that whole idea came from. With exception to the Obey/Sic changes, pet behavior has not changed since release.

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Originally Posted by giantslayer

This won't help with what the OP is experiencing. Eos auto casts embrace the moment the cool down is off, and none of the action commands queue for her, so it is impossible to get your command to register before she auto heals. Your embrace commands do not cancel if she is already casting. As long as someone is under the 70 or 80% (whatever the threshold is), you cannot control who she embraces.

I haven't done testing with steady yet.

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It doesn't directly help, but there are extremely few situations where both a tank NEEDS that extra Embrace and a non-tank is "stealing" a heal.

An embracespam macro lets you just not have to concern yourself with that at all. If auto doesn't trigger, you loaded a heal onto tank. If auto triggers, it was faster than you anyways. There is no waste here.

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Originally Posted by SeraviEdalborez

Didn't work before that change either, very sure of that. Not sure where that whole idea came from. With exception to the Obey/Sic changes, pet behavior has not changed since release.

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Apologies for the mistake then. But I will add I've had pretty good luck locking the fairy onto a target just macro spamming (which I thought was from steady), ie Lev Ex.

If you really want your fairy glued to the tank, do this:

/pac "Embrace" <7> <wait.4>
/pac "Embrace" <7> <wait.4>
/pac "Embrace" <7> <wait.4>
/pac "Embrace" <7> <wait.4>
/pac "Embrace" <7> <wait.4>
/pac "Embrace" <7> <wait.4>
/pac "Embrace" <7> <wait.4>
... (until out of lines)

Arrange your party list such that 7 (or whatever number you like) is the tank. In fights with tank swap, make and use another with 8 (or whatever). Just remember to hit the macros every now and then. If no tank swap, you can stick this macro to something like physick to save yourself a button click. This setup doesn't even require you to target the tank to fairy heal; allowing you to even dps.

Wait 1, 2, or 4 are more reliable. 3 will get you long delays every time because the next line fires too soon. The fairy takes longer than 3s to cast and complete.

Yup, sorry it's <wait.4>.

Never checked for quite some time.

I did some extensive testing tonight. Here is what steady does: it cancels the action in progress, but the cooldown timer keeps running its full length before the skill can be recast. It will only do this if you are changing stance from something else to steady. Once that cooldown is finished, Eos resumes auto casting as normal. Further uses of Steady will have no effect, unless her stance is switched first.

Attempting to cancel and recast embrace using steady will basically waste your fairy's cooldown for embrace without casting it, and then she will resume her auto casting.

Seravi, here is how I tested the responsiveness of embrace: I set up a simple macro that only does embrace, then jumped off a high building to land at 1 hp, and tried to make Eos heal herself or my chocobo instead of me. I found there was a very short window of time right when the cooldown is ending where I could sometimes get her to do what I was telling her to do. Even button mashing did not reliably produce the desired result, however. Neither did pressing the button right before cooldown ended.

From my testing, the only value I see in macros for embrace is that you can have her use it when no one is below 80%, instead of twiddling her thumbs. That and healing people outside your party (like in fates).

I also tested the percentage she heals at by positioning her at the bottom of a cliff, jumping off, and noting my health and whether she healed.
80.5% no
77.4% yes
Props on getting the percentage right, Seravi. I think I've seen 70% thrown around more often.