Which healer to use until Endwalker and Sage?

[Renryuu]

Hello, so with the coming of Endwalker and Yoshi P mentioning it being a full circle sort of thing, I've been thinking of going back to the role I mostly played as back during 2.0, a healer. I plan on being Sage, but I was wondering what healer job would be good to play as in the meantime to both get back into the healer groove as well as get myself ready and prepped for when Sage comes out. I would appreciate advice on what healer to play until Sage.

[Iscah]

Scholar is probably a good pick since it is also a shield-based healer. And if you don't have any casters levelled yet, that gives you two jobs for the effort of one.

[Deceptus]

Scholar is probably a good pick since it is also a shield-based healer. And if you don't have any casters levelled yet, that gives you two jobs for the effort of one.

This is my go to strategy each expansion. SMN to do overworld stuff quick, switch to SCH when I need to do a dungeon / trial.

I think SCH is more challenging than AST under specific conditions - in general- if you die, SCH absolutely SUCKS. I'll let you find out why, really it's the healer that suffers the worst penalties.

Completely disagree here. It depends if Aetherflow is up or not. If it is, Lucid > Atherflow and dump 3 Energy drains give you a LOT of MP back very quickly.

[IDontPetLalas]

This is my go to strategy each expansion. SMN to do overworld stuff quick, switch to SCH when I need to do a dungeon / trial.



Completely disagree here. It depends if Aetherflow is up or not. If it is, Lucid > Atherflow and dump 3 Energy drains give you a LOT of MP back very quickly.

MP is the least of your issues if you die as a SCH. For one thing- hey - where did my fairy go?

[Averax]

Scholar is probably a good pick since it is also a shield-based healer. And if you don't have any casters levelled yet, that gives you two jobs for the effort of one.

Nocturnal AST instead. Enjoy it while it lasts!

[Renryuu]

I do have all the casters at 80 and I have Sch at 80 with Whm at 77 and Ast at 70.

[Radacci]

I do have all the casters at 80 and I have Sch at 80 with Whm at 77 and Ast at 70.

Why are you asking which to play, when you already have SCH at 80? pretty sure you know how they play.
I'm guessing that's what you liked most since it's ahead of the others.

[Tyssyn]

Why not level WHM and AST, since you don't have much left til 80 for either, play around with both a little, plenty of time til November.

[Seraphor]

I would say maybe AST using Nocturnal Sect. As that's what is being reworked to make room for Sage, that's probably going to be closest of the three healers to what Sage will play like. And instead of using cards to power up your allies, you'll be using abilities to augment your own spells.

[Saefinn]

Bonus on AST, when your downtime on healer is high, it's the least boring because cards.

It has more of a juggle than the other two. WHM and SCH are simpler for sure.

But for Sage prep, yeah SCH or Noct AST.