Quote Originally Posted by GrimGale View Post
Reading tooltips I feel like SE are terrified to give anything to healers that might be a gain over their particular nuke spells.

Energy Drain had has its potencies continuously nerfed, it was removed the re-added and nerfed again.

Lord of Crowns was changed to a buff from a 50% chance of oGCD Damage ability with 30s CD, then back to a 50% chance of an oGCD AoE damage ability with a 60s CD.

Afflatus Misery is a DPS loss unless it's used for movement in which case it's neutral for a single target and barely a gain on AoE conditions.

Toxikon II is a DPS loss unless it's used for movement, like a mini Afflatus Misery.

You'd think Sage would break out of this, that a Job that has been pointed out by Yoshi-P as the answer for Healer Veterans that want a more involved healing Downtime would not be a mindless one button spam where the basic nuke is almost always a better option, barring Phlegma III which is your 2 charges Assize, that is to be used on CD. The Kardia effects do nothing but reinforce this one button nuke spam by attaching a sustain heal to it. Now you have even more of a reason to one-button spam.

Sage is as bare as the other healers. I'd argue it's even less interesting than Scholar in it's resource decision making, and SCH is essentially a Broilmage.
Same number of DPS buttons, copy pasted mechanics from WHM and skills from SCH.

It does look cool though and a handful of abilities are very unique mechanically, which is great.

But other than that, I doubt it's going to be the "high skill, technical healer" the devs and the sylphies hope it will act as the veteran healer containment job.
Here we go again. SMH. I can already see it now. 2 more years of vet healers flooding the forums about how healers only have 1 dps nuke and how the devs don’t care to understand healers blah blah. Heard it all before.

I’m not saying your thoughts aren’t well placed but Yoshi P has now tripled down on how he wants healers to play. Can people just seriously get over it now? They obviously not bending over like they did for male viera.