Manually using pet abilities?

[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.