Manually using pet abilities?

[Mhaeric]

I wanted to start another thread but I'll ask here instead.

Is there a way to get:
/micon "Embrace"
/pac "Embrace" <mo> or <t> or <tt>
but with selene?

I tried adding pet "Selene" but that doesn't work

This is a known bug on the PS3. Something to do with Eos' Embrace and Selene's Embrace being different skills with the same name, and the PS3 always trying to use Eos' version when macro'd. There is currently no work-around.

[AmyNeudaiz]

I see what you're saying, and yes it is important to micro manage your pet, but I hear some Scholars use steady to have 100% control and I find that to be a waste and bad advice. That's all I'm saying. By all means macro embrace to your heals, just don't prevent her from doing her thing, IMO.

[AldoVonAlexandros]

Honestly, and I've said this before in another thread, the quick reaction time of your pets healing (not abilities though) is more of a boon than a liability. Let your pet heal for herself and just do her abilities.

Yeah, waste your pet abilities in times where u don't need'em, macro the abilities to your skills, its simple, just read what does iy do each ability and try to.combine it to your skills

[AmyNeudaiz]

Let me clarify, let her do the heals but you actively do her abilities for her. I worded that terribly

[Zaft]

Let me clarify, let her do the heals but you actively do her abilities for her. I worded that terribly

Same situation. If she's using Embrace on her own, it's only going to come once every like 10 seconds. It can be fired off three times in that time if you manually override her.

[horaiyo]

So do most people put selene in obey, macro embrace (or cast it yourself, whichever), and manually fire her buffs like before? I think my group is about to push me into sch to replace our old one who quit, and I've been wondering what the general consensus is on selene.

[Mhaeric]

So do most people put selene in obey, macro embrace (or cast it yourself, whichever), and manually fire her buffs like before? I think my group is about to push me into sch to replace our old one who quit, and I've been wondering what the general consensus is on selene.

Selene: I almost always keep her in Sic. She uses her extra abilities intelligently enough and if I need the extra healing focus from a macro'd Embrace, then I can just switch to Obey or call Eos. Selene is my go-to fairy for most situations when I don't expect to need a lot of AoE healing (or just want to be lazy. :P)

Eos: I always keep her in Obey. She does not use her extra abilities intelligently at all, so they need to be manually triggered. Rouse and Whispering Dawn have the same cool-down timer, so they're always up together. Fey Illumination has exactly double the cool-down timer, so it's always up every other Roused Whipsering Dawn for an additional 20% bonus. I either use Fey Covenant whenever the cool-down is up if magic damage in the fight is not intense or relatively constant, or I save it for when I know there's going to be a big AoE magic spike. Eos is my go-to fairy for when I know I'm going to need more healing, especially AoE.

[Tandy]

I tend to use Selene when I am not worried about the fairy healing, and I let her have her way....since now she rotates the buffs like magic I of course only use her though when I dont need or want Eos for healing. If I feel like I must have her buffs and her healing both, I will micro her just like before the update and rotate the buffs myself (even though I always hate doing that).

With Eos, I always, and I mean always keep her under control. I have a Logitech G13 I use for all my keybinding, and I have Embrace right along side the rest of my heals. Coupled with mouseover macros for my stuff I can split healing when needed, or fire off her heal when needed on my target. If you dont use Rouse with WD, you should. It makes it much easier to deal with getting a group back up fast.

A good or bad scholar is super easy to spot imo. If a fight starts with Eos blowing every cooldown off the bat....its usually a bad scholar. I know that might upset some people who refuse to micro manage her, but it really boils down to the fact if you use her correctly your a way more powerful healer than if you let her run wild. Yes she will cast her heals on people when they get low, but she wont top anyone off, and lets face it... if someone is just a little bit hurt the fairy heal is perfect to top them off with, and its free!

[horaiyo]

I only ask because I pretty much exclusively use selene now, and having to manually fire the skill buffs would conflict with macro’ing embrace to physick/whatever else (if I understand it right anyway). I’m just curious how other sch handle selene, since frankly it doesn’t seem to really hinder me much to just leave her on sic.

[shadowrell_d-_-b]

this will make your life much easier as a SCH! (your welcome in advance)

/Micon "Obey" pet "Eos"
/tenemy
/pac "Obey" <t>
/wait
/pac "heel" <me>

this is my one stop press to set my fairy (EOS and Selene) to obey and heel without even moving or targeting an enemy manually!
simply summon and tap this macro and your fairy will be at your command and follow you where ever you may go!