How To Train Your Faerie: A Comprehensive Guide

[JakzChurchill]

This thread is really helpful, used a lot of these macros for my scholar to get things how i like.

as mentioned by someone else the /macrolock function is great, especially for whispering dawn which i would sometimes cancel the cast on.

I also have res on my second bar (controller) with swiftcast seperate and the /chotbar change 1 at the end, this means it will cast the skill then take me straight back to my healing bar. I do this with a few other skills.

The embrace on top of physick I have been using for a while though and feel it complicates things, with the macro you can target 2 players using hard and soft target healing allowing to heal both simultaniously but i feel it adds too much thought to the process leading to a higher chance of mistakes, to combat this i find that having embrace on its own with the cancel macro works better, as you can still spam it while casting physick.

[giantslayer]

Your "Queue" macros don't seem to work for me. Right now, I have embrace macro'd for easy single target healing, which is fine.

But I want to set up a macro that will cast embrace on the target I want, without interrupting her current heal. Your queue macro isn't doing that for me at all.

Interrupting a cast of Embrace in order to cast Embrace on someone else is impossible. Please take a couple minutes to re-read that section as that may help clarify what this macro is designed to do.

I don't think there is a way to do that other that spamming the embrace button. Macros can't queue in this game.

Correct. Faeries do not have the ability to queue and a macro can't fix that. My "queue" macro is basically a macro to automate the repeated pressing of the button that most players do manually.

That's a shame. I don't want to macro it into my physick, since I like being bale to heal the tank and send my pet to heal somebody who has just taken some damage that's over 80%

You can still do that. I still have an embrace macro without Physick that I had been using long before I discovered the range limitation and decided the Embrace+Physick macro was a good idea. You can also use an Embrace+Physick macro while you are casting something else or moving and while you will be unable to cast Physick, your faerie will still do Embrace.

i find that having embrace on its own with the cancel macro works better, as you can still spam it while casting physick.

If you are saying what it sounds like you are saying, this is a horrible idea. Once your faerie starts casting Embrace, her GCD for Embrace is spent, whether she finishes casting or you interrupt her. Eos will not be able to re-cast Embrace until her full 3-second cooldown has finished, same as if you had let her finish. All you are doing is throwing away a casting of Embrace for nothing.

Worse yet, the moment her cooldown is up, if auto-cast conditions are met, she will immediately start casting on her own. If you are for some reason bound and determined to make her heal someone her AI wouldn't choose naturally, this will not accomplish that.

This is all very easy to confirm by testing your macro outside of battle.


To be honest, the only times I have ever questioned her decision to heal someone and wanted her to heal a different target have been when things have been going REALLY badly, a lot of people are low on HP, and I have to start choosing who to save and who to let die (save the tank, let the DPS die). Those situations are very rare and usually end up in a wipe anyways. The rest of the time, I find the auto-healing to be very helpful. I don't understand why so many people want to eliminate auto casting or manually override her choice for Embrace.

[Cynfael]

I don't understand why so many people want to eliminate auto casting or manually override her choice for Embrace.

The auto-heal feature is helpful much of the time, but it can occasionally be frustrating when you've already thought a couple of steps ahead and find that your fairy decided to do her own thing before you could spam your Embrace hotkey (e.g. a mechanic has caused 2 or more party members to dip below 80%, but the fairy's healing priority turns out to be different than what you had in mind). It's typically not a game-breaking problem, but the desire to circumvent it is understandable since, in most situations, damage to players other than the tank is A) avoidable B) telegraphed and/or C) sporadic.

[Jeckyl_Tesla]

Interrupting a cast of Embrace in order to cast Embrace on someone else is impossible. Please take a couple minutes to re-read that section as that may help clarify what this macro is designed to do.

You can still do that. I still have an embrace macro without Physick that I had been using long before I discovered the range limitation and decided the Embrace+Physick macro was a good idea. You can also use an Embrace+Physick macro while you are casting something else or moving and while you will be unable to cast Physick, your faerie will still do Embrace.

Thanks, that's actually a good idea. Also when I said that the queue macro didn't work, I meant that Eos was completely unresponsive when using that macro. She never cast anything, be it Embrace or Whispering Dawn or Fey Covenant. Might have been my end, but I copied and even hand wrote it myself and nothing helped.

[giantslayer]

Thanks, that's actually a good idea. Also when I said that the queue macro didn't work, I meant that Eos was completely unresponsive when using that macro. She never cast anything, be it Embrace or Whispering Dawn or Fey Covenant. Might have been my end, but I copied and even hand wrote it myself and nothing helped.

Sounds like the cooldown interrupt macro is the one you want, but keep in mind those do not work for Embrace. Interrupt macros are good for her other abilities.

[Jeckyl_Tesla]

Sounds like the cooldown interrupt macro is the one you want.

I have the interrupt macro for my cooldowns, and that works perfectly. The queue macro doesn't seem to do anything for me. As in, it doesn't even cast Embrace when I press it and Eos is doing nothing. Maybe I'm not understanding it's use?

[giantslayer]

I have the interrupt macro for my cooldowns, and that works perfectly. The queue macro doesn't seem to do anything for me. As in, it doesn't even cast Embrace when I press it and Eos is doing nothing. Maybe I'm not understanding it's use?

Sounds like something may be wrong with the macro you are using. Double check it and if you can't find anything wrong, post exactly how the macro is written on your end and an example of usage andwe'll see if we can troubleshoot it.

[giantslayer]

New updates for HEAVENSWARD. I put a note at the beginning of the guide and will eventually get around to updating everything else.

Interrupt macros now work properly on all cool down skills again.

Faerie range and auto-heal range are still wrong.

Selene's speed buffs have been replaced with new skills:
- Fey Caress: sounds like a an area Leeches/Esuna. Have not had a chance to test it.
- Fey Wind: a 3% buff to "attack speed." I tested this and it affects healing as well as attack spells. Presumably, it affects weapon skills as well. For me, it reduced GCD time from 2.44 seconds to 2.37 seconds. That is pretty modest compared to what we used to have, so you can call it a nerf.