Scholars- Place your faeries

[Nailkita]

I place the fairy sometimes, but it is not really needed. It is too much of a hassle to manually use the buffs too. I am always manually casting embrace with my heals for bigger tank heals or to heal two people at once. Timing of the spell speed buff is not worth losing the extra on demand healing the fairy provides.

If managing the fairy is too much of a hassle why are you playing a scholar? That's like half the point of scholar (other half being sexy mitigation healing)

[Elenamirr]

If managing the fairy is too much of a hassle why are you playing a scholar? That's like half the point of scholar (other half being sexy mitigation healing)

Are you saying it is not a hassle to hit steady after every embrace so you can manually cast the buffs? If we could macro pet abilities I would do it, but it is just not worth it.

[SlopOrion]

Good advice but you really should be telling people to use Selene

That's right, unless you are fighting a boss that requires multiple silences or you have another Scholar in the party, Selene is the way to go (at least has been up to Garuda HM, haven't fought anything past that).

You can actually let her auto-cast too: she will cast her silence for anything she can interrupt, and will cast her spell-speed buff on CD, you can hard cast her skill-speed buff when the duration of the spell-speed buff wears off.

She requires a little more dancing around to be used effectively, but you'll notice the significant change in DPS. I haven't found anything 4-man that has required me to have the extra AOE healing (except afk healing lower level dungeons). And if you are in an 8-man the WHM can keep the AoE heals up (and Succor before the big attacks helps too). And, if you have another Scholar, one of you should be running Eos and one Selene.

[Nailkita]

Are you saying it is not a hassle to hit steady after every embrace so you can manually cast the buffs? If we could macro pet abilities I would do it, but it is just not worth it.

Yes the fairy needs some fixing and macros would make things easier, I do find it annoying to hit steady after I hit a whispering dawn or a buff. But overall the reason I have scholar is to micro manage a pet.

[Kismet]

@Tolmos, Thanks for the info! I'm in the process of leveling my Scholar and I am trying to keep ahead of the game, in preparation for end game content, by reading as much as I can about the faeries and their control. Do you have any Coil experience? If so, do you use the information in your first post to heal all coil fights? It seems to me that manually controlling Eos' buffs would be the best use of rotating cooldowns. I was just curious if placing them near the tank as you suggest is enough to heal coil.

[Nailkita]

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I'll have to try this in future fights, I wish you could turn off abilities you don't want to use though, because on Chimera and other similar fights I don't want to risk building resistances silencing the wrong thing.

[Elenamirr]

Yes the fairy needs some fixing and macros would make things easier, I do find it annoying to hit steady after I hit a whispering dawn or a buff. But overall the reason I have scholar is to micro manage a pet.

Yeah I get that, I am micro managing the pet though just not the way you are. I am pretty much spamming embrace all the time.

[Vyserion]

Honestly, when running pugs, I use Eos because people are stupid and stand in fires or targeting circles more frequently than is reasonable, and the bonus to defense and frequent aoe healing is nice. That said, I probably let her auto-cast more often than I should, and need to hotkey "Steady" so I can time her AoE heal better.

I still hope that someday they let us activate pet abilities while in the middle of our own casts.

[Xikaz]

Selene's usefulness seems questionable to me, I haven't tested with melee abilities, but I know the spell speed buff only knocked 0.09 seconds off my casting times on a spell with 1.98 cast time. That's less than 1/10th of a second.

That's so miniscule any amount of lag or input delay would render it useless. Surely the extra HPS output of Eos would allow me to dps more myself and provide more of a difference. I could really only see that making a difference in extremely lengthy fights, in which case you'd probably want Eos out for safety any way.

I'd love to be proven wrong and given a reason to use Selene more often though.