[Petition] Have Naoki Yoshida Play Healer and take off the DPS Gloves for a year.

[kaynide]

Sage is just Dosis, DoT and Phlegma. You barely use Toxicon and Pneuma is a heal. WHM has more dps variety than Sage now that Misery fires off once a minute. Healing while you do damage is simply turning on Kardia and forgetting about it.

Sage was advertised as the healer to choose if you want more dps buttons and it turned out to be exactly the same as the others.

It might ultimately be similar in DPS numbers or something, but it's a disservice to say it's "Exactly the same" when you have the mobility of a bard or dancer.



WHM has a stupidly long cast time in Holy, and a time-gate resource in lillies to get the blood-lily,
Sage has both Toxicon via shields (kinda like earning the blood lily), and Phlegma which just auto-recharges.

With the exception of plain Diosis, the entire kit can be done without stopping to cast anything.

With planning, you could expend 2 uses of Phlegma (510 potency, 170 healing) and 4 uses Toxicon (330 potency, 170 healing) in 6 GCDs (15ish seconds base time), as opposed to 3 Holy casts (also 15ish seconds base time at 150 potency each, also gives mobs Stun resistance; that's it).

It's not that these DPS are replacing heals, it's that they're essentially giving me Regen as long as I do DPS without needing to keep a regen spell on, and not requiring me to stand still unless there's some kind of emergency and I actually need to use Diagnosis.