Quote Originally Posted by kobe-sabi View Post
if Sage healing is tied to its DPS, so many healers who don't DPS wont understand its KIT. I am All for DPSing as a healer, but i don't see the majority on board. i counted 6 DPS spells from the live letter and 1 DPS spell from the Endwalker trailer, 7 in total. I hope they dont change this but they will, if enough people say healers should heal more than DPS and that they feel uncomfortable with their healing tied to DPS. then they will change it, making the job feel boring and stale.

I am Happy SE is taking a chance with Sage because Damage is mitigations and if the jobs around you receive heals as you DPS then its a plus. I know Sage will be the healer for me because I love shield healing, NOCT AST is my main, SCH was my main till SE Nerfed the damage to the ground and nerfed my spread shields, just to allow my clunky pet to stack its baby shields with me.
I feel this whole "heals tied to dps" is being blown way out of proportion. As far as we know, only one target can receive the heals (Granted, there are still 3-5 skills that we don't know about, but I feel Yoshi would have mentioned if we could turn it into AoE during the live letter). The heal amount is not affected by the damage you deal, it has a set potency of 170...which is actually pretty low. It was healing for 2.5k on a 40k HP Sage. Since tanks will most likely be the target of this, it will heal 2.5k of...estimated 60k HP? 65k?

The "heals tied to dps" will just cover the bosses' auto attacks in raid, which would be the same as the WHM putting regen on the tank or SCH fairy...it's just a different way to do the same thing.
For normal content, I feel it won't matter if you don't even put up a target...there are plenty of WHM that don't use regen in normal content.