Sage

[ty_taurus]

Redraw being changed to guarantee a different card was a change done in heavensward. You also were able to "undraw" cards by using a macro /statusoff "spire drawn" etc. so you could in fact drop cards in hw. All stormblood did was add minor arcana to not fully get rid of the drawn card (and that added rng too).

There werent any charges in stormblood? charges were a shb thing. Shb was the one that wanted to reduce rng the most by making all the cards the same, and the differences for bad draws were so minimal it didnt really matter.

and now endwalker is taking back the rng mitigation from shb such as sleeve draw and the charges on redraw. and is now adding back rng damage with minor arcana and the new seal system. its effectively a step back from having less rng (which is fine imo, i dont play card games to always have the same cards)


but going back to sage...

I actually find sage to be kind of wasted potential. eucrasia only seems to affect three skills total, two of which won't even be worth using much without the eukrasia effect :/ but i wont talk about it more until the NDA is lifted

Well the fact that they have a "Cure" and "Medica" equivalent is something we know both from the live demonstration and also because they're literally the most basic healing move that every healer has (although Scholar actually doesn't have a Medica... Their only AoE GCD is Succor).

I do wish we saw more spells being augmented by Eukrasia from what we saw in the live demonstration. Some examples that come to mind would be your AoE Dyskrasia and possibly Toxikon which could theoretically give it more value. I'd want to see more healing get affected too, but the problem is Diagnosis and Prognosis are the only GCD heals outside of Pneuma unless there are secretly more. It's difficult to come up with alternative GCD heals because they either invalidate other forms of healing (Cure II invalidates Cure I, Cure III largely invalidates Medica, though not entirely), or they're things that Eukrasia is transforming our more basic heals into (Adloquium, Succor).

As you bring, up, there's also the issue of which is better. Currently, Diagnosis and Prognosis are probably never going to get used at all outside of a Sastasha roulette. In a way, those basic heals "need" to be there, though you could probably just have them upgrade to their barrier equivalents at level 30 an no one would probably bat an eye. What kind of heals or support do you add to the GCD that warrant use over DPS at times and that have a distinct value beyond the barriers provided by E. Diagnosis and E. Prognosis?