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So, bit of an odd one for you guys; I'm a new healer in this game, aside from that one MSQ quest where you played as Alphinaud and a little work as Astrologian, I don't really have any experience playing healer jobs in this game.

Recently managed to beat the Shadowbringers MSQ; I saw that there were role questlines available that, once all four were completed, would provide some more lore for the story as a whole; as someone who is enjoying said story - and wanting to get a healer leveled besides - I decided to try my hand with Sage. Aside from being a high starting level, I've also had some very good experiences with Sage players in dungeons, so I'm a bit interesting in trying the job out myself.

My goal is pretty simple; get the job to 80 and complete the role questline. However, I'm not sure where to start; I'm looking up tips online for Sage, trying to get at the absolute minimum the damage and general healing skills figured out, but any tips will be appreciated.

Similarly, leveling from 70-80 on such a different class is a new experience; I was considering unlocking and grinding out the Bozjan Southern Front, but any other tips you guys have for leveling Sage will be appreciated.
SGE is a shield healer so it focuses on proactive healing (the other shield healer is SCH but SCH easily has the highest skill floor of any healer in the game so don’t go near SCH right now)

SGE’s core mechanic is kardia, a healing refund for doing DPS, every skill you have that causes damage (dosis, eukrasian dosis, pneuma, phlegma and toxicon) will proc kardia, the kardia target you select yourself and it’s generally the tank, now let’s do skills roughly in order of how you would use them

1) soteria is an extension of kardia, the next 4 GCD’s you do damage kardia will heal for 70% more than it usually does, this and kardia itself are the core of your tank upkeep

2) GCD heals (diagnosis, prognosis, eukrasian prognosis and eukrasian diagnosis), all healers have a core set of heals that can be used whenever you want but they cost mana and a GCD, for SGE this is the above 4, the eukrasian versions are accessed by pressing eukrasia, an augmenting skill, pressing eukrasia will add shields to your heals, now with the exception of a few very specific circumstances your eukrasian heals are always better than non eukrasian heals