SMN > Pet handling question

I have been working on a11s and the situation is as follows: I reach the Lapis phase of the fight and Garuda does not stop attacking the boss. I click OBEY while I attack the orbs and the Egi just keeps wasting DPS on Cruise Chaser who's invulnerable at this point during the fight.

How do veteran Summoners deal with this part of the fight to force Garuda to attack the orbs/balls?

Thank you!

change it to passive he ll comes to you then switch to attack the lapiz you'r targeting (i recomand to put both pet's state in your battlemode)

Aerish,

Are you talking about "Guard" or "Steady"?

Thank you

http://i.imgur.com/5JwhXcC.jpg?1

This is my batllemode on smn, as you can see, i use only 2 orders, passiv (no attck, and following) and obbey ( Auto attcks only, so i can manage others eggi's spells by myself)

That's what I figured.

I will give it a go today because that's a lot of DPS I'm losing there and could not figure out how to resolve it even though I manually handle all of Garuda's actions.

Thanks again!

Hmm that is odd, you should just be able to hit Obey and it will ago attack the target.

Maybe try making a macro /pac "Obey" <t> or use Heel to make her drop target, she should then start attacking whatever you are.

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Originally Posted by Griffey

Hmm that is odd, you should just be able to hit Obey and it will ago attack the target.

Maybe try making a macro /pac "Obey" <t> or use Heel to make her drop target, she should then start attacking whatever you are.

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I am not very familiar with macros in general.

/pac "Obey" <t>

Would that string force Garuda to attack the target I am focusing on?

Thank you!

So I used the string you suggested and put it as a macro, have tried with a dummy and seems to work. Will go into A11 normal to see if it works during the lapis/shield phase.

I also found this other macro somewhere online, seems useful as well:

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/micon "Shockwave" pet Garuda-Egi
/pac "Shockwave" <t>
/pac "Aerial Slash" <t>

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You don't need a macro to make a pet switch targets. Simply target something and use the standard "obey" action.

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Originally Posted by Ragology

You don't need a macro to make a pet switch targets. Simply target something and use the standard "obey" action.

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Yes, we know, I suggested a macro if he was having trouble. Thanks for reading things the whole way through.

In regards to other macros, I found putting aerial slash on the same button as painflare has a nice double aoe synergy. Useful on things like EDDs pauldron or the adds in a9s.

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Originally Posted by Griffey

Yes, we know, I suggested a macro if he was having trouble. Thanks for reading things the whole way through.

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Ahh my mistake. I'm not very bright.

there is no point in a single lined macro for Obey

Just put Obey itself on your hotbar

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Originally Posted by randysquirrel

there is no point in a single lined macro for Obey

Just put Obey itself on your hotbar

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Did you even read my first post? I clearly stated that that does not work. I tried and did not work.

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Originally Posted by Griffey

Hmm that is odd, you should just be able to hit Obey and it will ago attack the target.

Maybe try making a macro /pac "Obey" <t> or use Heel to make her drop target, she should then start attacking whatever you are.

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This is what ended up working for me the best. Went into a11s with a PUG and BAM! My dps doubled when compared to other runs.

Thank you very much!

No worries, always ready to help a fellow smooner. best of luck to you!

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Originally Posted by AristocraticCorgi

Did you even read my first post? I clearly stated that that does not work. I tried and did not work.

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Odd then, never had any issues doing exactly this. It's easier if you just skip that phase entirely tho

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Originally Posted by randysquirrel

Odd then, never had any issues doing exactly this. It's easier if you just skip that phase entirely tho

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I've never encountered this issue either. Obey always works fine in its own for me.

You're doing something wrong, sorry to say. Switch targets and click Obey again, your summon always switches immediately to that target. I do this all the time in dungeons to focus on a certain mob, or on an add if the boss is invulnerable or there are more important things to burn down. The only Macros I have on SMN is a Swiftcast-Rez with announcement in party chat, and the same thing for E4E and Virus, minus the Swiftcast obviously. Only to prevent pointless doubling up though. I find Macros to be infinitely more of a hassle, or even getting in my way and hurting my overall DPS, rather than helpful. There would probably be a higher amount of better players if some didn't seem quite so dependent on macro-ing so much.

Hope for the best, don't see many main SMN's out there so it's nice to see them around. =)

well i used a pet-target macro as well back in the days - i used bio & wind blade.

bio cause it's insta cast and its part of your rotation - forces ruda to keep up with your current target every once in a while.
and even if you have to change a target manually out of the rotation its good to go cause the instant bio.

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Originally Posted by Obsidia

I find Macros to be infinitely more of a hassle, or even getting in my way and hurting my overall DPS, rather than helpful. There would probably be a higher amount of better players if some didn't seem quite so dependent on macro-ing so much.

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i actually agree with most of your comments - but there are macros which can be useful if you don't overdo it. f.e i really fall in love with the <t> tag in combination with area-attacks like flamming arrow on Brd or Shadowflare on SMN - the tag-update for aoes can really save important seconds. on the other hand (even i main Healer & SMN) i really really hate 90% of chat-macros... doesn't matter if res, e4e, virus and most of all i REALLY hate WARs macro if they go on rampage... "Heya using super sayajin power pls clean in blabla".... "prepare to clean in 5," "4" "3" "2" "1" "oh noes enemy is over 9000 HELP!!!!111".... gosh just fo x__X

but yeah to much macros are just waste of potential :o