Latest Official Developer Statements About Healer DPS?

[IDontPetLalas]

That quote from 2021 should be taken with a humongous grain of salt. I would find it interesting to know how really "unique" Sage feels to an experienced healer ? I would say that while it has some nice animations, it's not really really so distinct from the other healers.

While I wouldn't disagree from his comment that someone who heals a party at high end/difficult content can field a sense of achievement, there are enough remarks in that interview that reinforce that it years past the time that he should be employing a dedicated healer designer - not to mention not getting ridding of their tester/QA when they get "too good" at healing.

[Jeeqbit]

That quote from 2021 should be taken with a humongous grain of salt. I would find it interesting to know how really "unique" Sage feels to an experienced healer ?

Unique hah. It is a copy and paste of Scholar. I literally got my Scholar hotbar, copied it over and replaced it with Sage's version of the same actions.

What is unique about it is the gap closer, buffing heal potency instead of applying the Aetherpact regen because you already have a person as your target and being able to choose who gets your auto-heals instead of it being a priority system. Using your gauge on heals doesn't take away from DPS like it does on Scholar.

[MsMisato]

Having to use The Keeper's Hymn to switch your INT to MND if want to play SCH from SMN is what I think of with there mindset. I wasn't there for XI but from what I've played of it in the recent years my experience with WHM in XI spends most of it's time focusing more on management of HP, resting, and cleansing with the occasional Dia also if u didn't have a RDM you'd Paralyze...

FFXI healers contributed to DPS in the form of magic bursts which is dependent on how the skill chain was closed if you recall. What i liked about XI your whole playstyle can change based of your sub job. I think what seperates FFXI was the armor did not scale super crazy like it does in XIV and tanks really didn't have a solid form self sustain like they do in FFXIV.

That quote from 2021 should be taken with a humongous grain of salt. I would find it interesting to know how really "unique" Sage feels to an experienced healer ? I would say that while it has some nice animations, it's not really really so distinct from the other healers.

While I wouldn't disagree from his comment that someone who heals a party at high end/difficult content can field a sense of achievement, there are enough remarks in that interview that reinforce that it years past the time that he should be employing a dedicated healer designer - not to mention not getting ridding of their tester/QA when they get "too good" at healing.

didn't Yoshi say before sage was released that WHM was a dedicated healer sadly its somewhat true. But sage itself took a lot from the other two classes. Scholar was a buff/shield healer and astro was the same and that's why I think they kind of almost corner themselves on what to do with healers over all it feels like.