Sage quick mechanics overview

[inhaledcorn]

The most important thing you are forgetting is the duration of the shields, TBN is 7s duration while diagnosis is 30s. Not only that but TBN still have a cd. With a 30s duration with no cd, you don't need "well timed shields" at all, just keep shielding the mt for free sustain with no dps loss, 1 auto is enough to break a shield. That sustain would make tb/autos irrelevant. Also, free movement 100% of the time would make healers optimization boring. No risk vs reward, another healer depth removed, it would get old super fast. In the case of DRK the window is tight enough that is a risk of potency loss by using TBN but also the shield itself is huge, way harder to break than adlo/diagnosis. With dps neutral toxicon, we get TBN for babies with no risk + free movement + free sustain all for the price of nothing.

You realize it's basically impossible to 100% sustain shields due to the mp cost? You learn that pretty quickly on SCH, and that's going to be true on SGE.

[Sighearth]

You realize it's basically impossible to 100% sustain shields due to the mp cost? You learn that pretty quickly on SCH, and that's going to be true on SGE.

Yea realistically you won't have 100% uptime shields ofc. But you only need 3 at the time, as toxicon 2 have 0 mana cost, your shields would cost 1000 - 400 (dosis cost) so to spam shields you would be down 200 mana for every shield.