Relatively large concern about new Healer: Sage

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Originally Posted by Videra

Can someone translate this horrific rant to english?

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I think they're saying that White Mages should be saying the other three healers are worse than them, and Scholars should be saying AST and SGE are worse than them, and AST should be saying SGE is worse.

And that WHM is the best job because you can unlock it first.

Edit: Which upon further review is deeply hilarious, since they haven't capped a single healer.

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Originally Posted by Absurdity

Sorry, I can't make sense of that either.

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I think she is ranting on that the only good healer is WHM since you start it from level 1 ?

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Originally Posted by Huntrss

This is How you all are Acting because that is how Healers have been release and playable Level 30 Scholar ,50 Astro ,70 Sage and only Conjuror/White Mage is Level 1
Now you can be mad but this is how things are and has been.

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What do jobs have to do with a player's ability to play a healer role? I don't think you even understand the point of this thread.
Besides, starting at lvl 30 you still mostly get newbie dungeons. On lvl 70 you can jump into some much higher level content like 8-man raids or 50/60/70 roulette and things might get messy.

But yeah, boosts exist. And we already constantly see people that never healed or tanked boost some job and jump into content. Man, I can't even describe how much it hurts when I see a WHM constantly casting Cure III thinking it's a better version of Cure II...

Okay everyone is saying that the people who play Sage will be bad at the Job of Healing since they start at Level 70.
So what you are saying is White Mage players are the Best Healers in Game since there were no breaks between 1 to 30.
Scholar are the Second Best after White Mage.
Astro the 3rd best Healers

Funny how none of you that have level 70 or 80 Healers are looking forward to playing Sage. Demand a 4th Healer, get it and Now it's going to Suck. Last Exp Where is our 4th Healer we Demand there be a 4th Healer. This Exp: it's going to Suck

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Originally Posted by Huntrss

Okay everyone is saying that the people who play Sage will be bad at the Job of Healing since they start at Level 70.

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Nobody is saying that everyone who will be playing Sage will be bad.
The concern is about those people that never played a healer before and simply don't know how to. Healing can be overwhelming when you're not used to it.
And we've already seen a million clear examples of people not knowing what they're doing after boosting a job to 70.

Now that I think about it, it's scary that soon we'll have job boosts to level 80..

I suppose the topic begs the question: if this is a problem... should something be done and if so what?

I don't think this problem merits any action.
What's gonna happen, people who have never played healer before will gear up and head straight into EXes, turning them into trap parties?
So what?
Not only do I not see new healers charging headlong into stiff content if only because healers have their own version of tanxiety.
I don't think there would be some kind of harrowing surge of shitty sages because of this.
There might be bad healers, but I don't think this will contribute to that to any long term or significant degree.

But either way, what would SQEX do? Ask healers to prove that they're capable of performing their job before allowing them into content?
IIRC they've expressed they don't take to this idea. Someone asked Yoshi-P in an interview if they'll ever consider locking access to raids behind clearing it's training dummy, and he said no.

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Originally Posted by Rein_eon_Osborne

Imagine Holminster Switch actually switching into 'Holminster Suffering'

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considering past expansion trends Holminster switch wont be a problem like Dusk vigil and Sea siren

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Originally Posted by Videra

Can someone translate this horrific rant to english?

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Short version.

No one complains that Scholar and Astro didn't start at level 1.

Personally, this is a non-issue. They could start at level 1 or max level, the problem isn't where they start, it's who is controlling them.

White Mage and Astro are pure Healers
Scholar and Sage Are Barriers

Someone could play a Summoner and know how to play a Sage. If you look at it another way The 4th Healer is a pet Job and The caster tells the Shards what to do the 4 shards do all the work.

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Originally Posted by Huntrss

Funny how none of you that have level 70 or 80 Healers are looking forward to playing Sage. Demand a 4th Healer, get it and Now it's going to Suck. Last Exp Where is our 4th Healer we Demand there be a 4th Healer. This Exp: it's going to Suck

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Sorry, right here. Gonna main it.