[RANT] Dearest Sage Mains

[Rongway]

Toxicon does not make up for the damage lost to shielding.

You do not need Addersting.

Toxicon is a mobile GCD and I'm definitely going to shield at least three people every downtime so I can get those stacks back when it doesn't cost me any Dosies.

You do not need to waste your SCH's more powerful shields to build up Adderstings.

Outside of Savage content, those more powerful shields won't matter. It won't cost us any extra heals to make up for me overwriting three of their shields, especially if those three shields were on the two tanks and me, which, again, I'm doing during downtime, and we've probably got between four and six party mitigations up if everyone's making good use of their jobs' actions.

In my most sincerest and friendliest reminder, keep your shields off our tank.

The tanks are the best targets for sage shields if you've deployed a crit Galvanize because they're the people who will most certainly not miss that extra eHp at all.

[Shurrikhan]

Toxicon does not make up for the damage lost to shielding.

Toxicon is a mobile GCD and I'm definitely going to shield at least three people every downtime so I can get those stacks back when it doesn't cost me any Dosies.

In those cases, there would be no damage lost in the first place, because there was nothing to attack anyways.

IceBlue was making the claim, though, that SGE needs Addersting even to function such that replacing a Deployed Adlo with his EukProg would just be an unavoidable circumstance...

Outside of Savage content, those more powerful shields won't matter.

Even if the difference between your weaker shield and the more powerful shield it replaced isn't going to make a difference to survival, that still leaves the waste of the entire other shield, all so you can, what, get back a portion of the GCD cost for having applied the shield that reduced your allies' shielding?

[Rongway]

Even if the difference between your weaker shield and the more powerful shield it replaced isn't going to make a difference to survival, that still leaves the waste of the entire other shield, all so you can, what, get back a portion of the GCD cost for having applied the shield that reduced your allies' shielding?

Again, downtime. Downtime GCDs spent on shields do not matter.