Is Sage actually getting a second DoT to manage before Scholar?

I'm officially convinced SE hates SCH because they still have PTSD from when SCH was the superior healer. Of course it's still the best healer on paper, but now it's balanced out by the fact it has the most godawful, clunkiest gameplay loop of all time. I hope selling Sage as the DPS healer was worth euthanizing Miasma, Bane, Shadowflare and Aero 3. At least WHM got budget Requiescat.

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Originally Posted by IllyaPrisma

What part is an oversight?

or was that sarcasm?

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The part where it's a gain on 1

Sage has officially become the "more dps buttons" healer. Low-key wanted this to be the case for 1 regen and 1 shield healer but at least we got one.

If anything I hope they keep dumping old SCH buttons into SGE. Sad that SCH's gameplay identity got gutted just to make room for the new job but at least it's something. With the way changes have been made for SCH (ED removal, pet jank, whatever Seraphism is) I genuinely don't think the team knows what to do with SCH, both in visuals and gameplay. Case in point, energy drain. You just know the devs are only keeping ED because they're afraid of the backlash. It's a defining button for SCH but it still has the same VFX from ARR. The absolute lack of commitment and effort with any changes to this job is impressive.

Ruin 2 and Energy are both visually relics from ARR and it's crazy they refuse to repaint them all while giving them traits that change the damage output one expansion after another. Making Energy Drain upgrade into Bane would be a no brainer but clearly no brain is being applied to Scholar design.

It's already one more thing to manage that I didn't expect so I'll gladly take it.

I really really hope SE doesn't nerf its potency, keep it a gain on 1