Thread: SMN 4.1 patch notes

Originally Posted by Senliten

Everything but Pet AI was addressed. Hopefully the full notes make some mention of it, because Bahamut has shown that there is an issue with the Pet AI more than it has already been spoken on about since 2.0.

Why can't it just be like temporary bard turret, let me just <t> place it for god sakes and get rid of the absurd ogcd attacking. It's a summon, the pets are summons, treat it like a legit pet with an auto attack that does not need to follow up with what I do except for Ahk Mourn triggering and i'll be happy.

This is actually an interesting idea. I die a little inside every time I have up bahamut and I get an AoE marker over me. I wonder if I can just eat the AoE or if I have to move, I'm sure healers probably hate me. Though SE may feel it's on us to deal with the AI and timing, but it's a pain. More mobility is always a good thing in the way that this game works.

Sicfrit still the SMN pet of choice here? I'm finally picking the class back up again after a bunch of key annoyances were addressed with 4.1 (notably boring level 1 ruin spam, hardcast Ruin IV procs ruining my life in Bahamut phase and mana probs). I ran some parses on my FC's striking dummy trying Eirene Snow's rotation with optimal Contagion usage and Ifrit just on Sic, and was surprised to see that not only was Ifrit a lot easier to use (didn't have to time anything to line up with Contagion), I did about 200 more DPS too. User error might be a factor, since as I said, I think Contagion is a little fussy, which is why I figured I'd ask the input of the SMN mains here. Are you having better luck with Ifrit or Garuda? Has anyone actually worked pet swapping into a workable rotation yet, or are people still playing around with it?