Getting Into Sage & Need Advice

[Supersnow845]

I really like your post because it reflects my experience and decision making while healing with a Sage. People keep telling me that the job is just as easy or easier than white mage. But, it sure doesn't seem that way.

Frankly, Sage feels like a hyperactive scholar, without a fairy, with weaker shields. Is it supposed to be so busy?

My tanks died a couple times yesterday and I don't think that would have happened if I had been on white mage. But, that's part of the learning process, isn't it?



Palace of the Dead is an interesting option because I been wanting to reach floor 200 for a long time. Does Sage do enough damage to solo PoTD?

The best way I can describe it is that WHM feels different from the other 3 in that WHM focuses very strongly on brute forcing your healing with strong heals that hit in one shot and shoot the Health of the tank back up while the other 3 take a “stem the flow” approach

SGE rewards you stacking regens onto the tanks over time rather than doing big hits, so instead of you casting cure 2/afflatus solace and watching the tank go from 30%->70% you instead have 3 regens ticking on them so their HPS is either not dropping at all or is only dropping very slowly

If your comparison is WHM then yeah try not to imagine that kinda big on hit healing because that’s really not what SGE does, in general it shouldn’t be terribly high APM, SCH is the more complex of the 2 shield healers so if you are feeling SGE is more complex you might not have gotten a proper hold of the skills yet

[Kacho_Nacho]

*snippity snip* you might not have gotten a proper hold of the skills yet

Ain't that the truth?