Attention Scholars: Always place your Fairy!

[FinagleABagel]

Ignore the OP, she's wrong.

With the change that allows independent activation of skills between the player and the pet, there's zero reason to place your fairy ever again.

Put Embrace on the hotbar and control her. Yes, this means you lose precise timing on the other skills - but whatever. It's far easier to micro Embrace than to constantly flip your fairy stance while placing and moving her to avoid unnecessary AoE damage. Yeah, this means you are going to have hit two buttons at once - or in rapid succession...but I'm sure everyone is an experienced healer and doesn't balk at that.

With the change, there's no question that longterm throughput on a single target is now higher on the Scholar. Game is much easier now that you can heal multiple people without having to wait for a cast bar.

Until I'm given the option to manually define heal priority and % HP loss for activation I will not rely on any sort of AI. I can do it better myself.