I've only played SGE so far. I figured I'd spend my first day seeing how far I could level and see if I like it and I got it to level 80.

I can only give first impressions so far, because it's still the honeymoon period and it's too early to rate it in relation to what my pre-6.0 concerns have been.

I like how SGE heals and I have enjoyed the experience thus far.
Positives I note:
- I feel encouraged to actually shield heal. Compared to 5.0 SCH where you could heal more efficiently with your oGCD's. So far, my oGCD's haven't felt like enough and I can use my shields to help
- Being able to "detonate" shields is a good idea, Pepsis is better than Emergency Tactics because of this. Emergency Tactics + Succor mean your co-healer might have topped off the party members by the time you've finished the maneuver and it feels wasted.
- I like the Eukrasia mechanic, I like being able to augment abilities, it's something I liked about FFXI SCH and something I liked about old Dark Knight (and miss).
- How Eukrasia Prognosis/Diagnosis works is great for mobility and incentives me to use it over a non-Eukrasia one
- I like how Toxicon is built, it's another shield incentive, and it doesn't feel wasted.
- I like there's multiple DPS abilities, the AoE game is pretty good and has made trash pulls more engaging than SCH's Art of War spam.
- I've felt busier so far.

A few things I would improve on so far:
- The AoE's don't feel like they flow well into each other. I feel like Toxicon might work better as an oGCD.
- Maybe increase the AoE range of some DPS abilities...it's less of a problem in dungeons, but I guess this is a product of me doing FATEs and Bozja/Zadnor to level it.
- There still Dosis spamming

Where I still have concerns:
- How it will handle it feel when the honeymoon period is over and how healer downtime feels, how big it is a SGE and how make SGE managed to break it up. This is a "time will tell" thing, because this is dependent on the stat squish and getting it into content and getting over the period of "ooh shiny shiny" and getting better at playing the job.


Regardless, I definitely like it as a healer, so they are positive first impressions. I'll no doubt come back when I've had more than a day with it.