Attention Scholars: Always place your Fairy!

[Rainsford]

I'm sure every Scholar has noticed how often your Fairy will just sit idly by as you or a party member dies. The solution? Use the Place command. For whatever reason, if the Fairy is placed, she will immediately start casting as soon as someone drops under 80% and will chain-cast Embrace nearly twice as quickly as if she's on Heel.

Go jump into an AK/CM and give it a try. It makes a world of difference.

[Garnatian]

I use Embrace myself most of the time anyway. I prefer having the fairy along side me.

[shadowrell_d-_-b]

is this not common knowledge? seriously if you consider SCH you main class learning to MICRO your fairy is a MUST its a world of difference! any high level SCH that considers themselves good knows this! place, steady, and heel are the most important fairy controls period i don't even use the others.

place if i want my fairy to focus on a specific party member (mainly the tank) however the fairy will still heal any in its range if they drop below 80%

steady if i want to hold CD's for when i tell the fairy to do them ( this is better than obey because the fairy will still cast embrace as opposed to wait for me to tell her to)

heel when i want the fairy to return to my side (self explanatory, fairy in trouble of being hit by boss or you just want her to stay on you, tell her heel)

[Garnatian]

There's no such thing as "Microing" your Fairy.

You get very little control over your Fairy and even things like Steadying it do more Harm than good because you can't use Embrace without it breaking out of Steady so you lose out on overall Healing.

Placing your pet gives you little benefit and even the benefit it provides has its consequences, i.e. it has to move to heal targets away from the Tank. You're better off placing yourself in the middle of the group so the Fairy can hit everything with Embrace and you can hit everything with Succor and just spend the entire fight spamming the Embrace hotkey in-between all of your heals.

[BunnyChain]

There's no such thing as "Microing" your Fairy.

You get very little control over your Fairy and even things like Steadying it do more Harm than good because you can't use Embrace without it breaking out of Steady so you lose out on overall Healing.

This is seriously annoying, using Selene as much as possible, I have to constantly keep an eye on Fey Light to cast Fey Glow as soon as the first one runs out and she goes back to 'Guard' as soon as you cast one of those skills.

[Terius]

This is seriously annoying, using Selene as much as possible, I have to constantly keep an eye on Fey Light to cast Fey Glow as soon as the first one runs out and she goes back to 'Guard' as soon as you cast one of those skills.

Target a mob, select 'obey'. Selene will now only use Embrace, you can activate other skills and she still wont spam anything else. Obey menas both faries will only use healing skills. (So for Eos she will still spam Dawn, so you need her in steady)

[Citizen_Thom]

There's no such thing as "Microing" your Fairy.

You get very little control over your Fairy and even things like Steadying it do more Harm than good because you can't use Embrace without it breaking out of Steady so you lose out on overall Healing.

Placing your pet gives you little benefit and even the benefit it provides has its consequences, i.e. it has to move to heal targets away from the Tank. You're better off placing yourself in the middle of the group so the Fairy can hit everything with Embrace and you can hit everything with Succor and just spend the entire fight spamming the Embrace hotkey in-between all of your heals.

This is my experience so far (Only Haukke's and Brayflow with Scholar skills, sub-30 dungeons don't let me use any of the fun ones (Bane/Adloquim) I've discovered). I had some trouble with Brayflow though, because the tank is always on the move, and everyone else is staying to the edges... and it's a big boss fight arena... but otherwise I've found it's best to try to be half way between the ranged fighters and the melee fighters.

[Rainsford]

You guys are missing what I'm saying. It has nothing to do with distance/location. The Fairy AI behaves differently depending on if it's on Heel or Place. On Heel, it will often times wait 3-4 seconds between casting Embraces. If it's on Place, it will fire off heals non-stop with no delay until everyone is above 80%, and she will typically top people off since she will begin casting a second Embrace before the first one has even hit.

[Vhayne]

You guys are missing what I'm saying. It has nothing to do with distance/location. The Fairy AI behaves differently depending on if it's on Heel or Place. On Heel, it will often times wait 3-4 seconds between casting Embraces. If it's on Place, it will fire off heals non-stop with no delay until everyone is above 80%, and she will typically top people off since she will begin casting a second Embrace before the first one has even hit.

I have noticed this too. Seems by placing her, you completely shut off her movement AI and she becomes noticeably more consistent in casting heals, often chain casting embrace. I actually tend to use her more as a "heal-turret", simply putting her somewhere between the tank and ranged dps and adjusting her placement when needed.

[Vittorino]

You guys are missing what I'm saying. It has nothing to do with distance/location. The Fairy AI behaves differently depending on if it's on Heel or Place. On Heel, it will often times wait 3-4 seconds between casting Embraces. If it's on Place, it will fire off heals non-stop with no delay until everyone is above 80%, and she will typically top people off since she will begin casting a second Embrace before the first one has even hit.

Let them go about how they want to play, when they cannot down certain bosses due to a lack of healing/skill and understanding their role, they will understand they are missing a vital mechanic of their class. Moreover, this separates the good's from the bad's lol.. been known this since day 1 when i became a SCH Aug 28 lolz.