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    Seravi Edalborez
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    Gladiator Lv 90

    SE: Considerations for adjusting Eos's Obey behavior

    Currently, all summons (Selene, Emerald/Topaz Carbuncle, Titan-Egi, Ifrit-Egi, and Garuda-Egi) are set to only use their 3 second cooldown "attack" when under Obey "attack mode", allowing the master to order their other commands as they see fit.

    However, when the fairy Eos is on Obey mode, she still uses the 60 second cooldown "Whispering Dawn", which casts an AoE regen on party members. This is problematic in trying to use her as precise as possible, for a couple of reasons:

    1) Having Eos in "Steady" mode makes it so she will only use Embrace (the best workaround at the moment, in my opinion), but if any command is ordered (such as manually ordering Embrace) she will return to "Guard" mode and start using cooldowns again (all of them on Sic, still Whispering Dawn on Obey). So the master must choose between being able to manually order Embrace or having control over Whispering Dawn. You can try to do both but...

    2) Whispering Dawn has a cast time. This is problematic because when an order is given to the pet (such as Steady, Place, Heel, Sic, Obey, or another spell) it will cancel the current cast and not refund the cooldown. So it is possible to "interrupt" Whispering Dawn and waste it entirely if the master's control is not precise enough.

    I am aware of the contents of this post:
    Quote Originally Posted by Hvinire View Post
    In patch 2.1 we will be making a few adjustments to pet hotbars and abilities, starting with being able to hide the pet hotbar for mouse and keyboard users and addressing the use of pet actions for macros.
    We're looking into various adjustments, but did want to clarify that we have no plans to implement a gambit style system for pets.
    ...but would just like to make sure this concern is taken into account if it is not already.

    Thank you for your time and consideration. I don't wish to be presumptuous but I and several Scholars I know would be very happy to see this adjustment come to fruition.

    EDIT: Others have mentioned a desire for a "simple" on/off system for each ability, such as

    On - Embrace
    Off - Whispering Dawn
    On - Fey Covenant
    Off - Fey Illumintation

    So in this setup, Eos would only use Embrace and Covenant automatically. I recognize this would probably be harder to implement, but it would be nice to see!
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    Last edited by SeraviEdalborez; 11-11-2013 at 04:59 AM.

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