SE FINALLY ANSWERED THE HEALERS COMMUNITY LONG ANSWERED QUESTION

[AFuzzyMu11in]

I believe Sage is what you're looking for. It combines healing and damage in ONE button. There's even less to worry about!

Sage has a rotation and I'm sure that somehow it will have some raiding optimizing level headache in it.

[Nizzi]

Sage has a rotation and I'm sure that somehow it will have some raiding optimizing level headache in it.

If you were under the assumption that Scholar didn't have a rotation, I've got some bad news for you. Scholar has a rotation too, and it involves using Energy Drain to dump 3 stacks via weaving, using Dissipation to get more, then dumping those stacks with weaving as well. Sage won't have as involved of a DPS rotation as Scholar does. In fact, even in Endwalker, Scholar's opener is probably going to stay the most DPS bursty of the four healers. I'm being genuine when I say what I said; Sage looks like it's the exact healer you've been waiting for.

[AFuzzyMu11in]

If you were under the assumption that Scholar didn't have a rotation, I've got some bad news for you. Scholar has a rotation too, and it involves using Energy Drain to dump 3 stacks via weaving, using Dissipation to get more, then dumping those stacks with weaving as well. Sage won't have as involved of a DPS rotation as Scholar does. In fact, even in Endwalker, Scholar's opener is probably going to stay the most DPS bursty of the four healers. I'm being genuine when I say what I said; Sage looks like it's the exact healer you've been waiting for.

Yeah but the opener is a noob trap since doing that can leave you open to not having aetherflow, you can do it without dissipation dump just with regular aetherflow dump and save dissipation stacks for shit that could go wrong.

[Nizzi]

Yeah but the opener is a noob trap since doing that can leave you open to not having aetherflow, you can do it without dissipation dump just with regular aetherflow dump and save dissipation stacks for shit that could go wrong.

"the opener is a noob trap"
How? If things are going so poorly within the first 60 seconds of a fight that you need to hold Dissipation, that means you've got your fairy, which means you can use Seraph, Fey Blessing, Whispering Dawn, Aetherpact and you've got Recitation for crit Indom/Excog. Why did you not prepull Adlo + Deployment Tactics? You also have a cohealer who can be healing just as much as you can as well, if not more. If you're not concerned about DPS loss too (as you shouldn't be if things are going poorly) you've also got Emergency Tactics and GCD heals, and if you're concerned about DPS loss to that point, why are you playing the one healer that loses DPS for every aetherflow action not used on Energy Drain? There's a reason that SCH is considered a Chain+Soil bot right now, and that'ss because Soil is generally worth the DPS loss; but where are you needing to hold off using Dissipation when Recitation gives you Indom/Excog for free?