Playing SCH is so awkward and bad

[Shalan]

Have they fixed that issue where if you're multitasking while ordering the fairy to cast something it would sometimes put the ability on CD without actually casting it?
Because that was a lot of fun. Sometimes it feels like they didn't really do much playtesting with the faerie lol

[Mhaeric]

Have they fixed that issue where if you're multitasking while ordering the fairy to cast something it would sometimes put the ability on CD without actually casting it?

I've never seen this issue, although I've seen people talk about it.

When Fey Illumination is up I almost always use it and Whispering Dawn back to back between GCDs and both effects go off in sequence over the next couple of seconds. The only weirdness I find with this is that if you use a third fairy ability. If she's already casting a spell she gets a buff which acts as a queue for the second ability. The name of the buff is Summon Order and has numbered versions depending on what is being queue'd. E.g. if Fey Blessing is queued then it is Summon Order IV. This works as expected with only 2 fairy abilities in play, but if you try to use a third ability then the order she uses them is unexpected. While she has the Summon Order buff still active that third ability gets used before the queued ability which finally goes off just fine afterwards. E.g If I click FI then FB then WD in that order, she will cast FI, queue FB in Summon Order IV, use WD, and then use her queue'd FB.

[19:57]You use Fey Illumination.
[19:57]You use Fey Blessing.
[19:57]Eos gains the effect of Summon Order IV.
[19:57]Eos uses Fey Illumination.
[19:57]  You gain the effect of Fey Illumination.
[19:57]You use Whispering Dawn.
[19:57]You use Aetherflow.
[19:57]  You recover 1000 MP.
[19:57]Eos uses Whispering Dawn.
[19:57]  You gain the effect of Whispering Dawn.
[19:57]Eos loses the effect of Summon Order IV.
[19:57]Eos uses Fey Blessing.
[19:57]  You recover 7747 HP.

This example is using FI, WD and FB in that order. She casts FI immediately, queue's WD in Summon Order, uses Fey Blessing immediately when her GCD is up then uses her Summon Order stored WD.

[19:45]You use Fey Illumination.
[19:45]You use Whispering Dawn.
[19:45]Eos gains the effect of Summon Order.
[19:45]Eos uses Fey Illumination.
[19:45]  You gain the effect of Fey Illumination.
[19:45]You use Fey Blessing.
[19:45]Eos uses Fey Blessing.
[19:45]  You recover 7673 HP.
[19:45]Eos loses the effect of Summon Order.
[19:45]Eos uses Whispering Dawn.
[19:45]  You gain the effect of Whispering Dawn.

Here's a test with FI, FB, FU and WD used in that order. And again all 4 get used but in the unexpected order FI, FU, FB, WD. FB and WD were both queued in this case and used after FU took effect in the order they were queued. But all of the effects got applied.

[19:59]You use Fey Illumination.
[19:59]You use Fey Blessing.
[19:59]Eos gains the effect of Summon Order IV.
[19:59]Eos uses Fey Illumination.
[19:59]  You gain the effect of Fey Illumination.
[19:59]You use Aetherpact.
[19:59]You use Whispering Dawn.
[19:59]Eos gains the effect of Summon Order.
[19:59]Eos uses Fey Union.
[19:59]  You gain the effect of Fey Union.
[19:59]  Eos gains the effect of Fey Union.
[19:59]You lose the effect of Fey Union.
[19:59]Eos loses the effect of Fey Union.
[19:59]Eos loses the effect of Summon Order IV.
[19:59]Eos uses Fey Blessing.
[19:59]  You recover 7605 HP.
[19:59]Eos loses the effect of Summon Order.
[19:59]Eos uses Whispering Dawn.
[19:59]  You gain the effect of Whispering Dawn.

I'm never able to get it so that a fairy ability is put on cooldown but the effect is not applied. I even just spent the last 30 minutes outside my FC house trying all sorts of combinations and cannot get anything like that to happen. This matches my practical experience in dungeons, but it's possible I've missed seeing a missed application here or there if not really paying attention or the fight is frantic. What are people doing that is causing this?

[YojimboM]

I've never seen this issue, although I've seen people talk about it.

It mostly happens when the fairy needs to move around to keep up with you or get to you and then the casts get backed up in its queue logic. Sometimes it'll move and then toss in an Embrace that it wanted to use before you started moving, and just never use whatever you told it to. Other times it'll stop immediately and use the commanded skill. Moving around and commanding pets has always been awful in this game, and it's even worse with the Fairies because they automatically attempt to cast Embrace.