Yoshi-P: "If you want more engaging content, go play Ultimate"

[Deceptus]

Get to level 80+ content and you won't have to worry about healing, because you're not needed.

As always, leveling dungeons are far more dangerous than "Expert" dungeons mostly because your kit is incomplete and you're not above the ilvl for them.

[MisterNublet]

Love it that non-healers really be trying to argue about how much responsibility rests on the shoulders of the healers in content that can be run without healers. If the game was actually that demanding of the healers, we probably wouldn't even be having this conversation.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

SGE is the closest we'll probably get to slightly more complex healer and I'm willing to bet, without a shadow of a doubt, that it will lose some complexity in 7.0.

What

You either don't main/play a SGE at all, or you don't bother reading their tooltip (which I understand, it's a copy pasted SCH 90% after all). It's just a SCH with WHM's level of braindeadness and AST's lossless toolkits. They too succumb into mind numbing 1 button spam ad nauseam just like their healers siblings, and even moreso because they lose the most value by not casting their nuke.

It's not anymore complex than their siblings, at all.

[HyoMinPark]

SGE is the closest we'll probably get to slightly more complex healer and I'm willing to bet, without a shadow of a doubt, that it will lose some complexity in 7.0.

Like others, and as a SGE main myself, I respectfully disagree. SGE is just about as braindead as WHM in that I spend 80% of my time spamming Dosis III and not really thinking about much else. The only bit of thought I need to put into playing SGE is mitigation planning, which is inconsequential is most content. In my static, my cohealer enjoys making mitigation spreadsheets, and we discuss any moves necessary. But it certainly doesn’t take any amount of real thinking.

The only complex healer that exists right now is AST, and that’s only if you dive into card optimization. If you just play your cards on cooldown however you want and don’t try to optimize them, AST is pretty simple. Just like the other three.

[technole]

As someone who's done every healer, and swaps for savage tiers. I'd say Sage is the "easiest" because the toolkit is almost perfect out of the box and doesn't require additional steps like placement, which adds to the simplicity. You have to place Sacred Soil but you don't for Sage, it's based on where you are it applies, and so the likelihood someone won't get mitigation is much less. Granted if you sit on stacks and don't use them properly, it's going to feel more work because you aren't using the resources it provides over time. A real 'just press buttons' job.

Like there isn't a single change Sage needs, doesn't struggle anywhere. If anything the game needs to keep up with Sage. Pneuma is revolutionary in that it's a huge HoT tick and not a straight heal, so the game can take a few seconds longer to update the party list UI because it's a tick.

[Mimilu]

*Looks at Havenchild's FFLogs and sees they have a purple parse for SCH*
Are we by the docks? Because something smells fishy. XD

[Grann-Goro]

Dear healers,

Let's go on strike until they give our job back ! ^^
Let's play another role until then.

[KizuyaKatogami]

As someone who's done every healer, and swaps for savage tiers. I'd say Sage is the "easiest" because the toolkit is almost perfect out of the box and doesn't require additional steps like placement, which adds to the simplicity. You have to place Sacred Soil but you don't for Sage, it's based on where you are it applies, and so the likelihood someone won't get mitigation is much less. Granted if you sit on stacks and don't use them properly, it's going to feel more work because you aren't using the resources it provides over time. A real 'just press buttons' job.

Like there isn't a single change Sage needs, doesn't struggle anywhere. If anything the game needs to keep up with Sage. Pneuma is revolutionary in that it's a huge HoT tick and not a straight heal, so the game can take a few seconds longer to update the party list UI because it's a tick.

I wouldn’t say i there aren’t any changes sage needs. I’d enjoy it if toxikon got a change to where it was usable in more cases than just downtime and prepull.

[Sunhwapark]

Let's on go strike until they give our job back ! ^^
Let's play another role until then.

I have no desire for another role so I must prepare my keyboard for another expansion of Glareificoilosis.
Plus the wait would be too long anyway, let's not forget how long it took for us to get a 4th healer in the roster.

[Fukuro]

What

You either don't main/play a SGE at all, or you don't bother reading their tooltip (which I understand, it's a copy pasted SCH 90% after all). It's just a SCH with WHM's level of braindeadness and AST's lossless toolkits. They too succumb into mind numbing 1 button spam ad nauseam just like their healers siblings, and even moreso because they lose the most value by not casting their nuke.

It's not anymore complex than their siblings, at all.

The funny part is when SE marketed Sage as the „DPS“-Healer. which got everyone excited! I wasn‘t expecting too much, but I still was disappointed.