Fairy Rate of Healing

[Aphel]

Has anyone noticed that the rate at which Eos/Selene casts Embrace is significantly longer?

The fairies used to cast Embrace back-to-back. Now they only do so every 2 seconds.

[IamDaveDaveson]

If you micro them, they do it faster than anything.

[Seryl199]

I found it to be really noticeable. I used to just leave my fairy placed and have it solo heal on wp bosses while I dps for the whole fight. Now I have to babysit it since it doesn't heal until <%70 and lazily tosses a few embraces every so often. Tacking an embrace macro on my physick is one thing, but having my fairy suddenly fail basic healing is something else entirely

[Biggleworth]

I'm seeing it as well. Thought it was just my lag slowing the fairy down but after two runs it does seem that I need to do more of the healing as well (brayfox)

[Bitte]

Yup, I have noticed the change too. Prior to the patch, as long as there was someone who needed healing, Embrace would be cast back to back without interruption. Now, there is a pause of at least 1-2 seconds before another Embrace is cast. What is the cast time of Embrace? Is it less than 2.5 seconds? Maybe it was a bug before and now the faeries' casts respect the GCD. That's the only thing I can think of.

Oh, the cast time is 2 seconds with a cooldown of 3 seconds, which means there should be no delay before the next cast...so I really don't know.

[Hysterior]

and can't use their skill when under steady... need obey but they she does nothing...

need to start working on macros...

[o3o]

Yup. They ninja nerfed the fairys rate of healing, notixed it when it was struggling to keep our well geared tank alive on a normal wp run.

[Citizen_Thom]

So a phantom nerf? Why do game designers try to be sneaky? Why can't they just be honest about all the changes they're making to the game?

[Seryl199]

The only thing I can think of is putting embrace <t> and macro'ing every skill to be <tt> so that the fairy spams embrace on the tank for every skill or spell I cast. It seems rather contrived, but that's essentially what is now required to get close to 100% from your fairy

[DreamWeaver]

Tis a good change IMHO,
Previously, when I was testing out Scholar pets, I command it to spam Embrace on me and myself only, but if some of my party members took damage, the pet will sometimes heal them, even when I am mashing the embrace hotkey on myself, I assume this is due to the aggressiveness of pet healing.

Now, they change it the pet auto healing will idle for 1 sec+, which means your command will not be overwritten by their aggressiveness now.

So, the above change + pet macros are available now, I see it as a buff.
Unless you're one of those scholars that only place your pet and ignore it for all eternity afterwards, well...time to step up your game!!