Quote Originally Posted by SokoSplat View Post
@T0rin:
That's weird you mention all good SMN use obey rather than a combo of both, everyone (and it's been a lot of people ) I've spoken with says they either use a hybrid of sic/obey or leave it on Sic.
When You factor the other skills excessive delays and recasts, the potency becomes nil in comparison to its base ability and has less than 3.2 potency/sec for both shockwave and aerial slash.
Could you provide what macros or if you just bind hotkeys and do you button once or button mash to fire a skill off for pets? I'd really like to know how you get around button mashing, since it ends up eating a substantial amount of DPS for me in my rotation (waiting on either a pet skill in obey or smashing buttons takes on avg 3 rune IIs per fight).
Any details you could provide in how every other summoner does it would be extremely appreciated.
You must have talked to a lot of bad SMN then, because Sic is simply a flat out DPS loss compared to Obey, and you lose control over the single most important pet ability you have: Contagion.

I don't use macros. I keep Garuda on Obey, and if I need Aerial Slash, I queue it up. If I need contagion, and I need it right now, I put her on Steady right after a Wind Slash, before my Bio goes out, and I get Contagion immediately. There isn't any 'button smashing', you only have to cater to Contagion once every minute, and even then, unless you need to Bane right afterwards, you don't have to even bother with Steady prior to Contagion either, since it doesn't matter otherwise. There are no AoE situations in the game where Aerial Slash cannot wait on a GCD.

Sic is a flat out DPS loss, and you will get into many many many situations where Garuda does really stupid stuff with Contagion, like casting it on something that has 0 DoTs. Sometimes you even want to wait to use Contagion, because RS might be up imminently, and you need to re-DoT with RS/int pot, prior to using the Contagion. Using Aerial Slash and Shockwave when you simply don't need the AoE or knockback, will occur additional DPS losses. Wind Slash is the best DPS Garuda can do, and Obey guarantees she does nothing but Wind Slash. Sic is simply a bad idea, there is never a single situation you would ever want to use it.