Just remove healers.

[Silverbane]

... Your "meaningful contribution" is spamming the same button a bazillion times and trying not to die from boredom. A DPS player is always reasonably engaged, regardless of the content. ... Are you really going to argue Eukrasian Dosis III every 30 seconds and two charges of Phlegma make up an engaging DPS kit? If so... that's utterly laughable.

Wow, it's like you don't even realize that Dyskrasia and Dyskrasia II (which are DPS gains over everything but Phlegma when you can hit two or more targets) even exist ... just like that idiot Sage I saw spamming Dosis into a pack of trash mobs, when he could have been putting the DPS to shame spamming Dyskrasia instead.

BTW, I looked up every character with Semirhage's character name in the Lodestone, and there's eight or so, none of whom have even one level of Sage. Not that having a few levels of Sage would guarantee good knowledge of the kit, but the fact that he or she appears to have none at all does make their pronouncements about Sage a bit less credible, don't you think?

How about you? Do you run Sage much? Do you burn down groups of trash mobs (and ads, sometimes) using Dyskrasia when you do? If not, why not? Afraid to stand in the thick of it? If so, don't worry, a fundamental unreality of FFXIV is that if the tank does his job, you can stick a flaming poker up a mobs butt while laughing in their face (if you're flexible enough LOL) and they'll still ignore you in favor of the tank. Most mobs don't care who's killing them, they just hate tanks!

[N.B. There is one thing I dislike about Sage: the names of the spells.]