How To Train Your Faerie: A Comprehensive Guide

[giantslayer]

Just curious, in which fights would you prefer to have Eos (or any fairy) on Heel?

1. Fights with frequent knock back.
2. One specific part of T5. After divebombs, my group runs from that ditch to almost the other end of the battlefield for the snakes.

It is a small percentage of fights. Most it just doesn't make a lot of difference either way.

As far as use of macros goes, I use few or no macros for most classes. I'm usually looking to do one of three things with a macro:
1. Save hotbar space.
2. Improve efficiency with no or negligible trade offs (such as having rouse in my whispering dawn macro).
3. Fix things to operate the way I feel they should.

Most of my scholar macros fall under #3. Faeries don't queue your commands, which necessitates macros to ensure consistent execution of cooldown abilities. Faerie also waits until 80% to start healing the tank, which isn't as fast as I want. In order to manually command the faerie to start casting while the tank is above 80%, you have to have the tank targeted. If you want to DPS while the faerie heals, you have to target an enemy, which basically means a scholar has to have two separate targets at once, which is impossible. Then there is the whole thing where targeting an enemy triggers a self heal, which applies for faeries as well. Other classes don't need to have a healing target and an attack target simultaneously. These are all problems unique to the scholar class.

Then there is the issue of auto heal range only being 25y, so if you are healing someone towards your max range, your faerie will just stand there and watch you. That is the only reason I use heal+embrace macros. It could be useful as a space saver to avoid a dedicated embrace command or macro, which I might end up needing after the expansion.