How To Train Your Faerie: A Comprehensive Guide

[NarikoStar]

hmm i see but technically its just swaping the whole bar right?
so the macros are placed on fix slots... its not for changing skills on the same bar?
therefore i need 2 bars for SCH and 3 bars for SMN just for switching through them via the summon-macros hmm...

This may be a bit late since your response but I had this same problem, especially when switching to a different fairy mid fight. If you don't mind not seeing the exact micon for your faerie you can always do this (requires you never to switch macros and will still trigger just the same, on your bar it will appear grey'd out but it will still work if clicked.)

/macroicon "Silent Dusk" pet
/petaction "Silent Dusk" <t>
/petaction "Whispering Dawn" <me>

In this case if your using Selene, Silent Dusk will trigger, as long as a target is selected, or if Eos is being used and pressed Whispering Dawn will trigger with or without a target. If your using Eos, the Silent Dusk micon will still be shown on your hotbar but as long as you know my "Xwhatever" key is used for Whispering Dawn when Eos is drawn it will still work effectively.

Same goes for embrace and all the fairies pet abilities. This for me has been a great work around for me especially because I use <mo>'s for embraces, and -ideally- I like hitting the same button (cntrl+1-4) for using my pet abilities it just varies what it does based on the current pet I have out.

While I wouldn't recommend this to someone starting out new- but maybe for those veterans who may have used the /chotbar copy command to switch their pet actions around to different hot bars depending on pet summoned...

You can even go as far as mixing the buffs that share a different shared cooldown.

For example- you want the same macro button for Fey Wind and Whispering Dawn, but normally Fey Wind and Fey Illumination share the same cooldown pet wise- this macro will still work:

/micon "Fey Wind" pet Selene
/petaction "Fey Wind" <me>
/petaction "Whispering Dawn" <me>

!!!BUT!!! you must keep in mind the micon will show the recast for Fey Illumination, since that is the ability shared with Fey Wind, NOT Whispering Dawn.

For this reason I highly recommend coupling the abilities that share the same cooldown (listed below). But in the event there may have been others like myself who played SCH before we had macros or the ability to switch abilities on our hotbar via command and may have done this by hand in earlier 2.0 days, then this method may be beneficial to you~

In the event anyone uses this method and couples their CDs differently meaning switching up the macros different from the shared cooldowns below- it might be a good idea to have /micons of both eos/selenes buffs -somewhere- in your HUD for visual reference of what cooldowns are actually available to you- especially if you are switching your pet in a fight for any reason.

Ex: pet bar alignment - cooldowns shared
Eos <<>> Selene

• Embrace <<>> Embrace
• Whisper Dawn <<>> Silent Dusk
• Fey Covenant <<>> Fey Caress
• Fey Illumination <<>> Fey Wind

**Technically an Embrace should work regardless of the fairy out if you touch it

/macroicon "Embrace" pet Selene
/petaction "Embrace" <mo>
/petaction "Embrace" <t>
/petaction "Embrace" <me>