Relatively large concern about new Healer: Sage

[AnotherPerson]

They specifically said Sage would be self-buffing in the announcement.

I wouldn't be surprised if we got some form of Cleric Stance just for Sage. Something like "Increases magic damage dealt by 10% while reducing healing done by 30%. Effect ends upon reuse. Recast time: 6s". The loss of Cleric Stance has been one of the largest laments of healer mains for years and the devs know this.

Hard pass on Cleric Stance. If it's something about augmentation, I rather they made the Nouliths more interesting by making them work in parallel. Nuoliths come in sets of 4, so why not just let each Nuolith be able to work individually - aka you can use one to heal, one to barrier, and use one to dps. However, using more for the same task will augment the strength of the attack or the heal (such as using 2 will make the effect of the spell 1.5x stronger and using 4 will make it 2x stronger - diminishing gains). You can also set them to do something like ressing, but unlike other jobs you don't have the ability to swiftcast ress, instead you can instant cast a ress command, but one Nuolith will be casting for 8 seconds to ress. You can use multiple Nuoliths to speed up this cast timer up to a maximum of 4 seconds. Doing this will make the gameplay fairly interesting in terms of variation and control imo. After all, while you do lose the ability to pick people up instantly, you do have the ability to pick up multiple people at the same time (albeit doing so will probably empty out your MP very fast), so it'll bring some MP management focus to the job.

[EaMett]

Hard pass on Cleric Stance. If it's something about augmentation, I rather they made the Nouliths more interesting by making them work in parallel. Nuoliths come in sets of 4, so why not just let each Nuolith be able to work individually - aka you can use one to heal, one to barrier, and use one to dps. However, using more for the same task will augment the strength of the attack or the heal (such as using 2 will make the effect of the spell 1.5x stronger and using 4 will make it 2x stronger - diminishing gains). You can also set them to do something like ressing, but unlike other jobs you don't have the ability to swiftcast ress, instead you can instant cast a ress command, but one Nuolith will be casting for 8 seconds to ress. You can use multiple Nuoliths to speed up this cast timer up to a maximum of 4 seconds. Doing this will make the gameplay fairly interesting in terms of variation and control imo. After all, while you do lose the ability to pick people up instantly, you do have the ability to pick up multiple people at the same time (albeit doing so will probably empty out your MP very fast), so it'll bring some MP management focus to the job.

This would be great but I doubt we'll get anything close to it lol.