Pet AI/Controls Need Work. Suggestions for Scholar and Summoner.

[Sebyos]

Good ideas, I fully approve these solutions that need to be implemented ASAP !

Honestly the AI is a huge letdown. I leveled a SCH after gearing up my WHM and was really disappointed. Sure you can control Embrace, but unless you put it back on obey every 3 seconds, you have to bare the pain of watching the fairy cast all it's CDs at the wrong time. It was especially painful in turn 2 when I decided to go for SCH and saw the freaking aoe heal and healing CD get cast at the wrong time pretty much constantly.

There's also no explanation as to why it will cast anything but Fey Light on CD...

Overall, you can't play the class to it's full potential. The AI is simply terrible and you can't even take full control of the pet and it's skills. Personally, if I can't play a class to it's full potential, there's no way I'm using it in the hardest content available.

[Argentil]

It seems like they've envisioned SCH to be healers with an AI sidekick that does its own thing most of the time - which seems to conflict with how most healers like to play the game. I think considering this design decision, they will not include pet macros - at the very least they should allow us to tune the AI or toggle abilities. Either way, they better get on it, janky AI is the only thing keeping me from rolling as SCH at this point (I have Ifrit and Garuda's SCH books... no WHM weapons).

[gigi_frana]

Regarding the SCH -> Selene.
The way the 30% speed buffs work, are they working as intended? I mean do they want the pet to give 30% bonus to our bonus speed or to our base speed?

[Maku]

Everything the OP said is awesome and I would welcome all of it. But I really just want them to fix the switching from steady to guard when telling her to do something while she is in steady.

[gigi_frana]

Regarding the SCH -> Selene.
The way the 30% speed buffs work, are they working as intended? I mean do they want the pet to give 30% bonus to our bonus speed or to our base speed?

does anyone know?

[CronoLuminare]

bump because my main is SCH and we really need this badly. its hurtful to have to ALWAYS place the stupid thing, its ticking me off when she blows a 300 second CD with no one near.

[Totemslap]

The pet AI is probably my only complaint about SMN (and maybe that we're a bit overloaded by DoT's, being that we have to cross-class Thunder). Aside from the AI itself being atrocious, the game itself is incredibly restrictive, unnecessarily so, with one's ability to control their pet. Why the hell can't I cast Shining Emerald during another cast, for instance? Why does my pet chase off FATE mobs after a FATE is completed? Why, oh why does carbuncle keep knocking things toward me that I'm trying to kite? Why in god's name is the pet AI in this game so painfully amateurish when there are MMO's nearly, or more than a decade old, which have comparable or better pet AI?

So many questions, so few answers.

Edit: Forgot the biggest question - WHY IN THE HELL DO I HAVE TO SET MY PET TO OBEY ON EVERY. SINGLE. PULL. I'm so sick of it just haphazardly using abilities, no sh!ts given, and screwing my rotation up because I didn't tell it to obey before my first DoT. It's pretty upsetting when my pet extends the duration of ONE DoT. I want pet gambits, ala FFXII, and I want them soon.

[KariArisu]

Glad to see a great amount of positive discussion guys. Keep the thread bumped, and try to get your friends in on this for some likes.

[Drakuaza]

I have no complaints about the suggested ideas, so i am in for them all.

[Sammi]

I support these ideas!