First a small back story. I took a few months off from this game until the beginning of last month at which point I switched to a new server since I had a friend who was playing now so I'm basically levelling from the beginning (didn't want to pay $18 to transfer a character). I stopped playing mid December which was around when 2.1 came out and I'd play mainly as a SCH and I remember the pet mechanics changing a bit.

I promised myself I'd go DPS this time around so I'm trying to get my ACN to SMN and I was wondering how good the pet mechanics are for SMN's as opposed to SCH's. As a SCH I remember I'd keep my pets on Obey, allow Eos (or Selene) to use Embrace and what not on their own and micromanage their cooldowns. As a SMN would I need to do the same thing (Obey and micromanage cooldowns) or is Sic the commonly used mode for Egis right now?