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.

[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.

[Espon]

I rather just directly control my fairy instead of let her do her own thing. I'm constantly commanding her to heal someone; even if everyone's at full health, I'll tell her to cast Embrace on the tank as he or she is likely to get hit in the next couple seconds anyways.

[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.

[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.

[AunaYuuki]

Why are people consistently making threads about this? lol.
Regardless I keep my fairy basically between the range DDs/myself/melees if they are on the back of the mob or whatever. Basically she heals the parties little booboos and I heal the tanks big booboos and we go along with our day. Sometimes I get her positioned well enough to help with all the booboos depending what content I am doing.
In AK Fairy does all the healing though because going DD and killing bosses like the wall before the bees spawn or the purple balls on the final boss makes it faster and easier as long as she is placed by the party during fights its okay.

[Rainsford]

Why are people consistently making threads about this? lol.

Because I still see people posting videos of Turn 4 with two Scholars and neither Fairy placed (so the Fairys stand around doing nothing half the time).

If you check your raw HPS after a BC run with your Fairy set on place, you'll blow away WHM's without accounting for Shields. If your Fairys on Heel like a dumby, you're going to struggle to keep up.