Getting Into Sage & Need Advice

[rawker]

2. How Eukrasia and Toxikon work.

I have to emphasize on this. You literally don't need to cap on Addersting stacks (resource used to cast Toxikon whenever your Eukrasian Diagnosis breaks.. think TBN). Treat it like Ruin II from SCH. You only use it when you're out of place and you need to move out for a mechanic and still want to ABC. While it is good to have it at 3, it is not mandatory. If you know a tank will receive a tankbuster and you know that your Euk Diagnosis will break and is a bit low on sting stacks, don't hesitate to sacrifice a GCD to gain that stack.

Just keep in mind that you have Phlegma in your toolkit. If you are not that familiar with the content, maintain 1 stack for mobility purposes. It also applies to Toxikon, btw.

[Rongway]

If you know a tank will receive a tankbuster and you know that your Euk Diagnosis will break and is a bit low on sting stacks, don't hesitate to sacrifice a GCD to gain that stack.

Sage has so much mobility just from instant and slide casts that you don't need to waste GCDs just for an Addersting and you don't need to spend GCDs on healing a tank. Sage has so much oGCD healing it's ridiculous.

Addersting/Toxicon starts at 3 stacks whenever you restart a duty. Those three stacks are more than enough to get you through anything. They're not worth replenishing during uptime because Toxicon does, at best, the same damage as Dosis.

If there's downtime (running to a boss room; during a boss jump) you can shield three people so that the next raidwide AoE breaks all three shields and replenishes your stacks. In a light party the three people should be you and the two DDs because the tank won't need the extra healing anyway. If you're in a full party and your cohealer is a scholar, the three people should be you and the two tanks because the scholar will probably be Deploying a crit shield and the people who will miss that extra shield the least will be the tanks and you.