Do I have to control Eos?

[Kaze3434]

No not really. But it would be best you made some macros that tie in both your pet abilities and yours. The most I do is placing. I have never used eos/selene's abilities manually and my parties live. I guess this depends on your play style.

funny thing about macros and sic. they wont work.

OT, to be an effective sch at late dungeons/end game, its best to keep your pet on obey, and use WD or the healing buff when you know something is coming. otherwise, like Felis said, Eos will blow those CD for no reason, and then when you need them, you dont have them.

[FelisC]

I main SCH. What I do is put Eos on Obey, and I have her three non-embrace abilities as commands on my hotbar. I treat them like my own cooldowns, because WD is the only effective AOE heal we have, and Fey Illumination is a great general heal buff. Fey Covenant has limited applications. But if you let Eos cast them on her own, she'll be doing AOE heals for no reason at random times.

One of those questions even a child should be able to answer. The "obey" command for pets exists for a reason, you know. If it was perfectly fine to just put them on sic they might as well've left Obey out entirely.

Funny thing is how terribly the command worked on launch (and even into 2.1)

[NargaHuntress]

funny thing about macros and sic. they wont work.

Im pretty sure thats why we have "obey".

[Charisma]

One of those questions even a child should be able to answer. The "obey" command for pets exists for a reason, you know. If it was perfectly fine to just put them on sic they might as well've left Obey out entirely.

It exists for a reason yes, but not because its necessary to use it. the reason is FREEDOM.

You dont really need to, but if you want to be more useful, incase of failure which others or you cause, you should.

[Sapphic]

When there's no AE damage, or notable AE damage. I prefer to use Selene over Eos. Still has embrace, plus Selenes buffs to help everyone with the Skill speed/spell speed buff used at the appropriate time. Can only use them at the appropriate time when you have on obey

Also Eos's AE heal, has an annoying habit of using it at the worst times XD aka, when tank does a large pull ^_^

[lololink]

Before lvl 50 you don't really have to use it, it also depends on fights, before going to BCoB and EX primals you shouldn't have to worry about Eos.

[Kaze3434]

Im pretty sure thats why we have "obey".

please, reread what you said. in your example you said you never used Eos/Selene buffs manually. meaning use of sic was used. had you included obey, and then use of macros, nothing would have been said.

[NargaHuntress]

please, reread what you said. in your example you said you never used Eos/Selene buffs manually. meaning use of sic was used. had you included obey, and then use of macros, nothing would have been said.

This does not mean other people (mosty FC mates) havent shared their great insight on how to controll the pets with me. I just thought to put ur pet on "obey" to use any macro you make for them would be obvious. Sorry if I wasent clear on that.

[Dels]

I will probably do something similar to this.

TC - "Hey guys, should I put Eos on obey?"
Others:
"Yes"
"Yes you should"
"Yes definitely"
"Yes, you have to"
"Nah I don't bother"

TC- "Okay then I won't use obey, thanks everyone!"

lol

The guy who said he doesn't use obey is a bad scholar. If you want to be bad, you can listen to him. Or you can listen to the other dozen people who all told you to use obey. Why even make this thread if you're going to ignore the overwhelming consensus?

[Nakiamiie]

I've recently tried Scholar and since I'm used to WHM, I found that it was much more effective to combine WHM play style and little pet management (mostly placement).
She does use her abilities as soon as the cooldown is off, but there isn't much wasted time to reactivate them.
Just let her do the lesser healing and focus on the big abilities.

I usually don't bother with any management during high mobility fights though.