Post-Split, Caduceus keeps killing my pet :(

[Forever_Learning]

Am I correct that it's because I am placing her too close to the tank?

[Garnatian]

No reason to place the pet either way. There's very little movement in the fight.

[Forever_Learning]

No reason to place the pet either way. There's very little movement in the fight.

Here's been my experience, which has been limited to pug groups.

Beginning of fight, I make sure not to trigger any slimes and it's a fairly easy affair.

Then the split happens, and I often find myself having to move out of the tank's way while they position the two snakes.

Often, it's one tank at one end, and another tank at the other end, and I'll place eos beside the tank assigned to me.

I place for a few reasons:

1) Been told Eos heals much better when placed

2) Keeps me away from the boss and the chance of getting attacked by the boss. I fear that my pet though is still too close, taking aoe damage, and getting killed for that reason.

[NeonC]

You have to place Eos in the little sliver of flank that does not get tail swiped or hood swinged. Or just move her further.

[Krisstina]

Ignore #2~
u should place ur pet away from u because Acid Spit does damage to anything within the radius on impact~But u should also know that only the impact does damage to pet. It's safe to let it stay in there~
SCH should place the pet in the middle of ur duty zone. Means let the AI auto healing respond area cover most of the activity zone of ur group, so DD get heal from pet when they lure Slimes.

[Garnatian]

1) Been told Eos heals much better when placed

2) Keeps me away from the boss and the chance of getting attacked by the boss. I fear that my pet though is still too close, taking aoe damage, and getting killed for that reason.

1) Only relevant if you're not manually healing with your pet, which you should be 24/7 and when I say 24/7 I mean you should literally be mashing that Embrace key through the entire fight.

2) You don't have to stand any where near the boss.

There is no reason to place your pet outside fights with extreme movement.

[Krisstina]

1) Only relevant if you're not manually healing with your pet, which you should be 24/7 and when I say 24/7 I mean you should literally be mashing that Embrace key through the entire fight.

2) You don't have to stand any where near the boss.

There is no reason to place your pet outside fights with extreme movement.

This isnt a regular fight, he is asking BC turn 1 final, where healer usually been targeted by acid split. That attack does 1/3-1/4 HP damage to pet on impact. Which have potential to kill pet because BOSS does it often.

[Estellios]

Your fairy isn't simply taking hate is she? We had to get a friend of mine to make sure his fairy was completely disabled when anticipating the split so she wouldn't pull immediate hate and the offtank could get a skill or two off.

[FinagleABagel]

1) Don't place your fairy vs. Caduceus - there's really no purpose to it.
2) Make sure your raid is properly positioning Caduceus pre-split. We find that it's far more difficult to simply engage and stand where Caduceus spawns. Take advantage of the area available to you.
3) Never stand behind Caduceus for any reason.
4) Don't spawn slimes (as a healer).

[Forever_Learning]

Your fairy isn't simply taking hate is she? We had to get a friend of mine to make sure his fairy was completely disabled when anticipating the split so she wouldn't pull immediate hate and the offtank could get a skill or two off.

I suspected that was the reason when I first posted. Let me provide a more detailed scenario that will perhaps help.

-assume phase 1 went fine
-assume the split went fine

Now I am healing my assigned tank (a warrior) and place EOS beside the tank. After a few seconds, I notice EOS is dead. I re-summon, place gain, and see EOS is dead again. I repeated this 2 more times (no joke).

It made me suspect that it was boss-related and related to positioning, as this person remarked

You have to place Eos in the little sliver of flank that does not get tail swiped or hood swinged. Or just move her further.

I think EOS was getting constantly hit by those.