Attention Scholars: Always place your Fairy!

[Rainsford]

Ah, the parse whores are among us. Gotta have that bigger number or you're just not good, right?

If by parse whore you mean "seeing how effective a job your doing so you can adjust and improve" than yes. If you're doing Turn 4 and a tank keeps getting killed by the double Dreads, seeing one healer doing 1/4 the other healer indicates that something needs to be adjusted.

The point of the thread is to point out that most SCH's are losing out on a significant portion of their healing by doing things like juggling Steady or keeping their pet on heal. But, thank you for your constructive words.

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If you target a mob and hit Obey, she will not cast anything but her healing skills unless she is resummoned, you zone or you press Sic. If that's not working for you, then you're not targeting a mob when you press it.

And you can still have her manually cast when placed. The difference, of course, is that the AI will auto-heal and react quicker than you could.

Let's say you're doing Turn 1 and the snake has split, and you have one healer per tank. Placing Selene in between the two will let her cast reaction heals as soon as someone drops below 80%, and she will spam it until they top off with significantly less delay than if she was Heeled. You can still be pre-casting Embrace on a tank to top them off, but you want to be able to throw down Sacred Soil, move around/etc with her keeping her full reaction speeds, and having her on Heel or toggling Steady causes you to lose this.

Finally, again, use Selene. There's no content that Eos's weak HoT or long duration Heal buff is useful for. If you're having any trouble healing stuff as a Scholar, than your issue is how your managing your fairy (and, if you're toggling Steady while keeping her on Heel, I've already diagnosed the problem).