How are Faeries right now?

[Ninix]

You probably remember 2.0 fairies, where you could manually place them in a specific spot and they would spam the shit out of Embrace like some kind of crazy healing autoturret or something. This was actually a bug, and when I look at old videos of my early Coil fights I can see exactly why. When placed, Eos would start casting her next Embrace almost immediately after the first one finished. The problem with this is that the cast time on Embrace is 2 seconds, and the Recast time is 3 seconds, so while Placed she was actually clipping her Recast timer by almost a full second which is why it seemed so insanely good.

In 2.1 they fixed that bug, but they seem to have gone a little too hard in the other direction and now she seems not to auto-cast Embrace until about a half second after the Recast timer completes, essentially giving her a 3.5 second Recast on Embrace instead of the (effectively) 2 second one she had in 2.0.

As a trade-off, manual pet control has been greatly improved, and we can also control pet actions in macros. So you can put her on Obey and she won't blow all of her cooldowns anymore and you have full control over everything (though she will still occasionally auto-cast Embrace if you're not giving her orders).

I do miss the crazy roided-up Eos from 2.0 but I would miss having the macros so much more.