How To Train Your Faerie: A Comprehensive Guide

[giantslayer]

I am really shocked this was moved to the accepted bugs section. I also tested this and the range is actually shorter than you think. Stoneskin is a 25y spell so we placed a party member at max range of stoneskin to confirm distance. Had them switch from WHM to warrior and the fairy would not heal him. Had him switch back to whm and stand at max range for medica 2, which is a 20y spell and the fairy began casting embrace when he switched to warrior.

As it stands, I often use this to place my fairy out of range of one tank to prioritize heals on the other. I'm not sure how retooling the spell will affect current game play.

It doesn't take much to get to "accepted bugs." At the time I tested it and thought I had a 25y range. When I retested after patch, I came up with 20, using my rudimentary approach of throwing down shadow flares with their 10y diameter. Either way, it is less than 30.

[minahsaranghae]

We've received a few reports regarding scholar fairies behavior since Patch 2.5 in the bug report section and the development team is currently looking into them.

While you're at it. Could you ask the dev team why is it so hard to program a stance for the fairy that tells it to not do anything unless told to?

[Rennius]

While you're at it. Could you ask the dev team why is it so hard to program a stance for the fairy that tells it to not do anything unless told to?

Might be due to the same reason others can't see when we have Obey/Sic on the fairy; the dev team doesn't want people being discriminated for using either stance. Although your idea is great, if it was implemented and our fairy was to auto heal when it shouldn't (auto heal the MT during a large pull on a speed run), then other party members would be aware as to which stance we have chosen. Subsequently, that could lead to unnecessary bickering and disagreements in personal play styles, which is my only guess as to why this hasn't been implemented.

[Risvertasashi]

Might be due to the same reason others can't see when we have Obey/Sic on the fairy; the dev team doesn't want people being discriminated for using either stance. Although your idea is great, if it was implemented and our fairy was to auto heal when it shouldn't (auto heal the MT during a large pull on a speed run), then other party members would be aware as to which stance we have chosen. Subsequently, that could lead to unnecessary bickering and disagreements in personal play styles, which is my only guess as to why this hasn't been implemented.

Not that I entirely disagree, but it's pretty obvious already if Eos is on sic and blowing all her cooldowns on, well, on CD. I'd still support a third stance or whatever to let us have complete control; no more info would be given away than already is.

[Grekumah]

The development team is currently looking into an issue where the fairies continue to use Embrace, regardless of manually cancelling the action.

I submitted a bug report for auto-casting of embrace only triggering within 20 or 25 yalms instead of 30. I would greatly appreciate if that was looked into along with the new ones.

Could you please submit a new bug report that adheres to the bug format? The team is interested to hear more information and the additional information in the bug format will help them a lot.

(Here is a link to the bug reporting format.)

We'll let you know when we learn more.

[KariArisu]

The development team is currently looking into an issue where the fairies continue to use Embrace, regardless of manually cancelling the action.



Could you please submit a new bug report that adheres to the bug format? The team is interested to hear more information and the additional information in the bug format will help them a lot.

(Here is a link to the bug reporting format.)

We'll let you know when we learn more.

Is the team so helpless they can't test it? It's really easy and has existed forever.

[Hulan]

Is the team so helpless they can't test it? It's really easy and has existed forever.

One would hope not, but that's not really the issue here, random posts on a public forum make for horrible documentation. In a development project this large, proper documentation is the difference between something getting noticed and done in 10 minutes and something getting lost in the shuffle and never getting done.

[giantslayer]

One would hope not, but that's not really the issue here, random posts on a public forum make for horrible documentation. In a development project this large, proper documentation is the difference between something getting noticed and done in 10 minutes and something getting lost in the shuffle and never getting done.

Not sure if the reason for resubmitting is to document steps taken to test more thoroughly or to gather all the random ISP info and serial numbers I was hoping wouldn't be necessary. When I resubmit, I'll try to be more thorough on both fronts.

[KariArisu]

One would hope not, but that's not really the issue here, random posts on a public forum make for horrible documentation. In a development project this large, proper documentation is the difference between something getting noticed and done in 10 minutes and something getting lost in the shuffle and never getting done.

The bug has been submitted many times though. Many with over-the-top amounts of information.

[giantslayer]

I have made a big discovery. Since I am rewriting my bug report, I went back to test (so I could document the test). I did it a little differently and wanted to settle the discrepancy of previous test results between 20 and 25.

In my original test, I had measured the difference between casting range and auto casting range at 5y, subtracted from 30, and come up with 25. Turns out the problem was that I assumed the 30y regular casting range was correct.

Embrace only has a range of 25y, and auto-casting happens within 20-21y. I will post my test methods later, but I consider these results to be very conclusive. For a quick test of the 25y range, try placing your faerie, targeting her, and walking to about max range for physick. Now command her to heal you. She has to move to cast on you.