Jobs Moving Forward

[Rae88]

You can already do damage while healing someone with a macro like this.

/action "Stone" <t>
/action "Stone" <tt>

You can do the reverse and heal someone while a boss is your target and a player is your focus target.

/action "Cure" <t>
/action "Cure" <f>
/action "Cure" <0>

You could also make these do the last target with <lt> or you can make it heal the main tank with <tt>.

It seems pointless for this to be presented as a unique feature of Sage.

No. Not damage while healing someone, "attack an enemy while healing a designated target simultaneously". This raises the possibility that, because these things happen simultaneously, that sage heals marked players through doing damage to an enemy. Which is how Discipline Priest heals in WoW.

And if that's the case Sage is automatically an incredible breath of fresh air in what has been a stale healing environment for years.

I'm straight up hoping Yoshi-P lifted Discipline Priest from WoW and plonked it right into FFXIV.