How Can I Make my Fairy act like it USED to? :-(

[LiadansWhisper]

Greetings,

Pet behavior prior to 2.1 that allowed you to give orders to your pet while they were in Sic mode was a bug. We realize that the fix may feel like an inconvenience due to the changing of the way it works, but we appreciate your understanding.

The development team does, however, understand that not being able to switch to Obey when there are no enemies is inconvenient, and they’ve already begun to look into whether or not they can make adjustments to this. While I can’t make any promises, they would like to make adjustments as best as they can.

I noticed today that Eos is not nearly as responsive in Obey as she was prior to the patch. She doesn't start auto casting Embrace until far more health has been lost on a target, which makes it feel like I need to be manually controlling her 100% of the time. It's kind of annoying, tbh.

[Tano]

Greetings,

Pet behavior prior to 2.1 that allowed you to give orders to your pet while they were in Sic mode was a bug. We realize that the fix may feel like an inconvenience due to the changing of the way it works, but we appreciate your understanding.

The development team does, however, understand that not being able to switch to Obey when there are no enemies is inconvenient, and they’ve already begun to look into whether or not they can make adjustments to this. While I can’t make any promises, they would like to make adjustments as best as they can.

I'm sure that the fact that the pet stops following you is not working as intended. Heel and Stay are different command that can stack with Obey, Sic, Guard and whatever stance.
The fact that Obey puts the pet in Stay should be completely unwanted (also the pet obeys but doesn't follow? that doesn't even make sense).

Also why Obey has to be used on an enemy?

[Tano]

I noticed today that Eos is not nearly as responsive in Obey as she was prior to the patch. She doesn't start auto casting Embrace until far more health has been lost on a target, which makes it feel like I need to be manually controlling her 100% of the time. It's kind of annoying, tbh.

try to put her in Steady stance after you have issued Obey and Heel. Steady stance is considered like the Healer stance of the Chocobo Companion somehow.

[Mikejconnor]

pets should work like they do in world of warcraft. right click to set their skills to automatic and left click to force her to do what i want !!!

i wish so much that they would follow wows example for pets, it was an amazing system.

[Paramir]

Because I want to have her out to force her to heal who i want not to auto heal who she feels like. Healing the lowest HP party member is not always the best thing to do and having her doing her own thing can be pretty annoying in a clutch moment.

If you put the fairy in a controllable stance then if you're not directing her to heal anyone she'll heal the person farthest from full hp that's under 70% hp. I don't see the problem with this when you can cast cures yourself that are more powerful on anyone you want to while she heals people you haven't gotten around to curing yet. The only time I see this being a problem is if you have your physic and embrace macroed together which I feel is a waste and prone to over curing.

[nocks]

I'm totally guessing here, but the dev team is pretty subtle with their changes. Unless there are some bugs I'm unaware of, I think they've tried to design things so that, in 2.1, you're worse off if you rely on the Faery to control itself, and better off if you manually control it. If you really have no interest in manually controlling it, just macro the embrace along with your Physick and Adlo, and you'll get some pretty good use out of her. Or just set her to Sic and ignore her. I personally think it is better to have Embrace hotkeyed somewhere that's easy to press (I use "q" for embrace and E/Alt+E for Phys/Adlo.)

They've also made you want to manually control Eos, but set Selene to auto-pilot so she'll keep the buff rotation going. This means Selene is going to be the worse healer unless you take full control, which kinda fits with how I see the faeries (Eos is heals, Selene is buffs.) I don't mind this; when I have Selene out, I don't usually need to do as much healing (trash mobs) and then I switch to Eos for boss fights.

[Forever_Learning]

I changed the original post. was rushing and not really paying attention.

I still can't get the sacred soil + fey covenant macro to work; that was is the one I REALLY like.

[Tupsi]

I don't get why we have all this behavior crap. Why not have Active and Passive mode while allowing us to individually toggle which spells we want to use manually or leave to the AI discretion?

That'd be like FFXI and we can't have that now can we?

[Jaber]

Thanks for the info on this, now that I know there will never be any semblance of a functional pet system I can stop checking the lodestone and forums and just be completely done with the game

[DenzelTaru]

either full rotate your faery or just learn not to manual embrace.. don't like.. i never had to worry about rotations before on eos, i got along just fine without it.. and on selene it was just a case of activating dps buff when mage one drops.. manual healing was a big thing to have ninja'd without telling us in the patch notes.

i am still able to solo heal titan so i am not fully gimped but its a change i really dont like.. i still maintain that leaving them on auto is the way to go