Attention Scholars: Always place your Fairy!

[COSMIC_RENEGADE]

When it comes to placing her in battle, its situational. That has been my experience. A SCH needs their fairy to be optimized; remember the storyline? Not gonna do a spoiler here. To all up and coming SCH's learn placement of her now so that the learning curve does not become steep later... a post back in this thread mentioned it.

Let me clarify this before its misconstrued...know when its appropriate to place her or not to place her. It all depends on the flow of the fight and what the boss does. Ofc knowing the fight will help.

[Citizen_Thom]

For what it's worth, I mostly use Selene. But I've found that Eos is useful on Titan, only because it frees you up to keep more DoT's up while staying on the move. There was enough time before Tumults to single heal everyone in between, but Landslide (and lag, I hope SE fixes the lag) would inevitably catch me mid animation at some point during the single heals, and then lag hit me even though I was a mile away by the time Landslide actually animated when I was using Selene.

With Eos, I would cast Adloquim from time to time, but was able to spend more time applying and maintaining DoTs than I was with Selene. I know that seems counter-intuitive with Selene's Spell Speed/Skill Speed Up... but that's the way it seemed to workout.

[Tinker]

Placement is a highly situational thing. Personally, I prefer to have her follow me and micromanage every single spell cast from her - I can easily heal multiple targets that I WANT to heal at the same time. I also1 find that if I place her and just let her do her thing, my job becomes twice as difficult.

So I either place her in a safe spot and micromanage her, or have her follow me and micromanage her, or in some fights I even do both!

The trick to being a decent scholar? Micromanage your pet. Honestly, if you don't want to properly manage a pet just roll a WHM.

[Maku]

Placement is a highly situational thing. Personally, I prefer to have her follow me and micromanage every single spell cast from her - I can easily heal multiple targets that I WANT to heal at the same time. I also1 find that if I place her and just let her do her thing, my job becomes twice as difficult.

So I either place her in a safe spot and micromanage her, or have her follow me and micromanage her, or in some fights I even do both!

The trick to being a decent scholar? Micromanage your pet. Honestly, if you don't want to properly manage a pet just roll a WHM.

I place a lot because I find on literally everything other than Titan. (Have not done coil yet) My job becomes easier with her on place. That being said, once they make it so forcing a cure doesn't throw her into Guard making us have to click steady EVERY FREAKN TIME, I will also probably never place her again.

[Cailen]

I place depending on how I feel.. If I'm bored I will place to make it more fun and really active manage but If I'm lazy I just let it follow and do whatever.

I mostly use Selene cause i like the group buffs and it's easier to manage then Eos, trying to control the rouse+increase healing buff+ aoe heal after each titan jump is annoying.. really wish they would just allow us to either a) right click and enable auto-cast on skills or b) if not on autocast, let us choose when to cast

It would solve all the issues and SCH's can become even better healers without having to press a skill, then guard, then press a skill, then guard. In the past couple of Ak's though I had to stop using Selene after Demon wall because I forget she likes to run off and silence the succubus... pulling all the mobs and bringing them to group if not on Guard!

[krodin]

i have not found a reason to micromanage my pet she seems to be doing just fine doing it herself i place and then heal whatever i feel like.... what i do is place her near tank or near a side of dps she heals fine keeps up her abilities and heals the tank hell place her in ifrit she heals like a boss

[FinagleABagel]

Coming back to this once again....I have plenty of healing throughput with my fairy on follow and manual Embrace. Turn 4 scholar.

Much like the Relic+AF2 vs. Relic+1 argument - it doesn't matter. There's no content in the game where minor slivers of efficiency will do anything.