How Can I Make my Fairy act like it USED to? :-(

[Camate]

Greetings,

Pet behavior prior to 2.1 that allowed you to give orders to your pet while they were in Sic mode was a bug. We realize that the fix may feel like an inconvenience due to the changing of the way it works, but we appreciate your understanding.

The development team does, however, understand that not being able to switch to Obey when there are no enemies is inconvenient, and they’ve already begun to look into whether or not they can make adjustments to this. While I can’t make any promises, they would like to make adjustments as best as they can.

[Forever_Learning]

Greetings,

Pet behavior prior to 2.1 that allowed you to give orders to your pet while they were in Sic mode was a bug. We realize that the fix may feel like an inconvenience due to the changing of the way it works, but we appreciate your understanding.

The development team does, however, understand that not being able to switch to Obey when there are no enemies is inconvenient, and they’ve already begun to look into whether or not they can make adjustments to this. While I can’t make any promises, they would like to make adjustments as best as they can.

Along those lines, having to ALSO press heel after casting obey is an added annoyance.

I don't understand why pressing obey should simultaneously tell the fairy to remain in that position.

At any rate, glad the team is looking into possible improvements.

Just making obey the default setting when we summon our fairy would be a good start.

[Iecerint]

The development team does, however, understand that not being able to switch to Obey when there are no enemies is inconvenient, and they’ve already begun to look into whether or not they can make adjustments to this. While I can’t make any promises, they would like to make adjustments as best as they can.

Hallelujah :]

[Azell]

Greetings,

Pet behavior prior to 2.1 that allowed you to give orders to your pet while they were in Sic mode was a bug. We realize that the fix may feel like an inconvenience due to the changing of the way it works, but we appreciate your understanding.

The development team does, however, understand that not being able to switch to Obey when there are no enemies is inconvenient, and they’ve already begun to look into whether or not they can make adjustments to this. While I can’t make any promises, they would like to make adjustments as best as they can.

Why is it hard to make Obey work on a friendly target? so sch can control their fairies the same way smn do? -.-

[Arcaloid]

The development team does, however, understand that not being able to switch to Obey when there are no enemies is inconvenient, and they’ve already begun to look into whether or not they can make adjustments to this. While I can’t make any promises, they would like to make adjustments as best as they can.

I can't believe that you are saying this MAY not be fixed. If Yochi.P is too busy to look into this, just let any of the UX/QA manager play SCH a bit, and I'm sure the feedback is not just "inconvenient".

Pet behavior prior to 2.1 ... was a bug

The current behavior looks more like a bug to me.

[LiadansWhisper]

Greetings,

Pet behavior prior to 2.1 that allowed you to give orders to your pet while they were in Sic mode was a bug. We realize that the fix may feel like an inconvenience due to the changing of the way it works, but we appreciate your understanding.

The development team does, however, understand that not being able to switch to Obey when there are no enemies is inconvenient, and they’ve already begun to look into whether or not they can make adjustments to this. While I can’t make any promises, they would like to make adjustments as best as they can.

I noticed today that Eos is not nearly as responsive in Obey as she was prior to the patch. She doesn't start auto casting Embrace until far more health has been lost on a target, which makes it feel like I need to be manually controlling her 100% of the time. It's kind of annoying, tbh.

[Tano]

I noticed today that Eos is not nearly as responsive in Obey as she was prior to the patch. She doesn't start auto casting Embrace until far more health has been lost on a target, which makes it feel like I need to be manually controlling her 100% of the time. It's kind of annoying, tbh.

try to put her in Steady stance after you have issued Obey and Heel. Steady stance is considered like the Healer stance of the Chocobo Companion somehow.

[LiadansWhisper]

try to put her in Steady stance after you have issued Obey and Heel. Steady stance is considered like the Healer stance of the Chocobo Companion somehow.

I wanted to respond to this after I got a chance to test this technique out. It does seem to work. She was much more responsive in her healing when I did Steady --> Obey --> Steady. Thanks for the tip!

Edited to Add: She does still hesitate before casting a new spell, and I noticed that a few times she started casting Embrace and abruptly stopped. I'm not sure if she took damage or not - she didn't appear to take damage at the time, though.

[Tano]

Greetings,

Pet behavior prior to 2.1 that allowed you to give orders to your pet while they were in Sic mode was a bug. We realize that the fix may feel like an inconvenience due to the changing of the way it works, but we appreciate your understanding.

The development team does, however, understand that not being able to switch to Obey when there are no enemies is inconvenient, and they’ve already begun to look into whether or not they can make adjustments to this. While I can’t make any promises, they would like to make adjustments as best as they can.

I'm sure that the fact that the pet stops following you is not working as intended. Heel and Stay are different command that can stack with Obey, Sic, Guard and whatever stance.
The fact that Obey puts the pet in Stay should be completely unwanted (also the pet obeys but doesn't follow? that doesn't even make sense).

Also why Obey has to be used on an enemy?

[Jaber]

Thanks for the info on this, now that I know there will never be any semblance of a functional pet system I can stop checking the lodestone and forums and just be completely done with the game