I took a several month hiatus from the game, and recently found myself wanting to come back. There are many reasons this game stood out to me, but the biggest reason was the Scholar.

The first thing I noticed was that I could no longer cast Embrace while in "sic" mode. This was a painful thing to note. :-\ The second thing, which has given me trepidation about entering a dungeon until I know for sure, was that many forum posts mentioned that Faeries had become broken in sic mode, waiting an upwards of 1-1.5 seconds PAST Embrace's cast timer to recast the spell.

If the latter is true, that's really disheartening. The biggest draw for me was this class and its pet, and it would be extremely disappointing to hear that the faerie has been reduced to just another dumb MMO pet that has to be micromanaged 100%, instead of the 50% or so from release.

So what's the current status of the Faerie in the game? Did they fix the 1-1.5 second lag between embraces, or is that intentional?