Healer Queues are going to be different?

[Rongway]

That's also why I think I will level WHM first.
I think a lot of people will want to try Sage from the get go so it should be easier to get spots as WHM/AST.

Nobody's going to be using the Raid Finder, so it won't matter. Play Sage if you want to play Sage. The DF will match SGE+SGE or SGE+SCH in all the story trials if it needs to because the Duty Finder doesn't care about regens vs shields.

[Hysterior]

Nobody's going to be using the Raid Finder, so it won't matter. Play Sage if you want to play Sage. The DF will match SGE+SGE or SGE+SCH in all the story trials if it needs to because the Duty Finder doesn't care about regens vs shields.

DF doesn't really matter but PF does.
Pretty sure most parties on PF will ask one of each and I am pretty confident the "Pure" healer will be the slot on demand.

[Rongway]

DF doesn't really matter but PF does.
Pretty sure most parties on PF will ask one of each and I am pretty confident the "Pure" healer will be the slot on demand.

So? Launch Extremes will be easy enough to do with any combination of healers, and Savages won't be added until a month after EW launch, so PF doesn't really matter either. If you want to play sage, play sage.