Why are summoners so neglected?

[Kazrah]

Gotcha. My apologies then, but yes, SMN pets in XIV need to be more responsive.

So that lack of responsiveness is because the AI setup for the egis places their auto-attack as top priority. Basically Garuda-egi makes you look like a loser for a few seconds because it HAS to get off that Wind Blade cast before it feels like doing whatever you told it to do since finishing that auto-cast is higher priority in its ability queue than any other direct command. Same case for SCH fairies, which put an Embrace cast at higher priority over any manually-input commands or move.

Until direct pet commands can instantly cancel a pet's auto-cast, SCH and SMN pets will continue to suffer in terms of responsiveness. However, MCH turrets don't suffer this problem because they don't come with any actual attack commands.

[Stitches1974]

So that lack of responsiveness is because the AI setup for the egis places their auto-attack as top priority. Basically Garuda-egi makes you look like a loser for a few seconds because it HAS to get off that Wind Blade cast before it feels like doing whatever you told it to do since finishing that auto-cast is higher priority in its ability queue than any other direct command. Same case for SCH fairies, which put an Embrace cast at higher priority over any manually-input commands or move.

Until direct pet commands can instantly cancel a pet's auto-cast, SCH and SMN pets will continue to suffer in terms of responsiveness. However, MCH turrets don't suffer this problem because they don't come with any actual attack commands.

That was my line of thought until you see the wind blast go off and you're still mashing the buttons, only to see another wind blast go off, instead of contagion.

[Kazrah]

That was my line of thought until you see the wind blast go off and you're still mashing the buttons, only to see another wind blast go off, instead of contagion.

I wanna say that's most likely input lag, although it could be that it already had another Wind Blast in its ability queue.