How To Train Your Faerie: A Comprehensive Guide

[giantslayer]

Could you please submit a new bug report that adheres to the bug format? The team is interested to hear more information and the additional information in the bug format will help them a lot.

Thank you for looking into this. I have resubmitted the bug report with detailed testing steps as well as all the various model numbers I was too lazy to look up originally. Let me know if anything more is needed.

Also, in conducting my testing for this second report, I have discovered the base range of Embrace is only 25y instead of 30 and that the auto-casting is 20-21y. In my original test, I had assumed Embrace had a range of 30y and that only the auto-casting range was off.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...57#post2795357

[Vena_Sera]

Bumped. Don't want this falling into the blackhole that is lost threads.

[Aurelinaus]

I can confirm the fairy's max reach is 20 yalms, won't heal beyond that range. I always thought this was normal because it has been that way since I started playing, next time I'll pay closer attention to listed ranges.

I used markers for ranges; at 30y, max heal; 25y, max dps spell; and another at point fairy reacts to missing hp which appears to be 20y

[giantslayer]

I can confirm the fairy's max reach is 20 yalms, won't heal beyond that range. I always thought this was normal because it has been that way since I started playing, next time I'll pay closer attention to listed ranges.

I used markers for ranges; at 30y, max heal; 25y, max dps spell; and another at point fairy reacts to missing hp which appears to be 20y

Thank you for taking the time to test and confirm this. If you have a minute, please follow the link I posted a few posts up and add your observations to the bug thread.

[Mahri]

Just putting in a word of thanks for this thread, which I seem to have stumbled upon before I even went looking up this info!

I'm semi-new to healing in games like these. Thus far I can see that it's easy enough to just play whack-a-mole with health bars and debuff cleansing, but proper Faerie management is a finer art indeed.

[Bigcat9715]

Would it be broke if Sch's third pet had a rez? Maybe have the Fey rez have a 3 min cooldown.

[Cynfael]

Would it be broke if Sch's third pet had a rez? Maybe have the Fey rez have a 3 min cooldown.

Meh, do not want. I'd rather a skill that would be useful even if no one messed up. Extra rez skills don't sound fun or necessary.

[Bigcat9715]

Meh, do not want. I'd rather a skill that would be useful even if no one messed up. Extra rez skills don't sound fun or necessary.

But it's a mana free rez. Plus if you need to take the lead on heals while your pet is casting rez, because the other healer was killed and you just used swiftcast it can be a real life saver.

[Cynfael]

But it's a mana free rez. Plus if you need to take the lead on heals while your pet is casting rez, because the other healer was killed and you just used swiftcast it can be a real life saver.

You have a point, I just don't want another skill that relies on people screwing up terribly in order to be useful.

In content where deaths are easily recoverable, I either don't have difficulty dishing out rezzes or don't actually need the dead people back up anytime soon; in content where death is punished very harshly, a wipe is often imminent if more than one person is dead at a time (or at all, depending on who died and during which phase). The pet being able to rez is redundant in the first case and probably irrelevant in the second (because everyone is about to die due to stacks given the boss or other mechanic failed by dead people).

[Spoekes]

You have a point, I just don't want another skill that relies on people screwing up terribly in order to be useful.

In content where deaths are easily recoverable, I either don't have difficulty dishing out rezzes or don't actually need the dead people back up anytime soon; in content where death is punished very harshly, a wipe is often imminent if more than one person is dead at a time (or at all, depending on who died and during which phase). The pet being able to rez is redundant in the first case and probably irrelevant in the second (because everyone is about to die due to stacks given the boss or other mechanic failed by dead people).

exactly this, and it would be a very boring addition to the fairies inventory.