Quote Originally Posted by Cithaerias_pyropina View Post
Until people realize Scholar will inevitably out dps Sage later on in the expansion due to Chain Stratagem still being a thing and Sage being significantly less mobile than Scholar because Toxicon is locked behind a very strict requirement unlike Ruin 2. Sage will also have Phlegma which is essentially a melee range spell which could clash with certain players playstyles and Icarus having a very long 45 second cooldown with no charges. I personally see Scholar being more popular than Sage after the initial hype wears off due to Scholar, how things have changed, being easier and, more importantly, more mobile.
WHM regularaly got out-dpsed by both SCH and AST while being a deadweight in terms of free healing and was still by far the most popular healer across all tiers and bosses. It only recently saw a decline in participation with Endwalker coming up. There were many times when you saw as many WHMs as ASTs and SCHs combined. And current SGE would feel like a phys ranged compared to current WHM.
SCH still has a conflicting toolkit and in most fights, the displaced healing doesn't offset the horrible and slow pet AI one bit, even with the slight changes to responsiveness.
There will still be plenty of SCH players but I'm pretty sure SGE will end up more popular.
Not better, popular.
Efficiency was never the primary concern of most people when picking a class, ootherwise WHM wouldn't haven been so popular even after years of constantly being behind the other two.
Even if rDPS ends up slightly behind SCH, SCH still has many issues that haven't been adressed with Endwalker and that alone is reason enough for many SCH mains to switch to SGE.