Thread: 6.0 Healer Feedback Thread

Originally Posted by Deceptus

SCH is fully capable of healing almost anything.

That being said, with Fey Blessing removing the Fairy Gauge cost, the ONLY spender is Fey Union, so what's the point of the fairy gauge anymore?

The gauge itself takes way too long to fill.

Fey Union, you said it yourself.

The gauge fills at a reasonable pace and it's a non-issue really, as there is no skill you unlocks/gets stronger at 100 fairy gauge anyway.

I have the feeling that with endwalker we have more healing to do.

Of course I'm not talking about normal pulls, but with big pulls (getting all you can pull at once) and in some bosses I have the feeling that I have to heal quite a lot more than before...
Oh ,well, and not with warriors. They just heal themselves.

It might be me not using the Sage well, of course, haha.

Originally Posted by Elvin

I have the feeling that with endwalker we have more healing to do.

Of course I'm not talking about normal pulls, but with big pulls (getting all you can pull at once) and in some bosses I have the feeling that I have to heal quite a lot more than before...
Oh ,well, and not with warriors. They just heal themselves.

It might be me not using the Sage well, of course, haha.

Yeah I've been feeling it but at the moment it could still be the latter point, not playing SGE to its full capacity. I helped a friend through Holminster Switch yesterday and another friend who was tanking (and pulling wall-to-wall) said "oh, you playing how low can you go?" and I said "not intentionally" and we did wipe on a pull I normally can handle just fine.

I am hoping that's a sign of healing being better balanced to make us work harder or if that's how SGE is balanced. I can no doubt test this and do the same dungeon again as AST, but with the server queues, I am trying to spend as much time as I can working on MSQ and getting better with SGE. Maybe somebody else has insight there or I can wait and see.

Originally Posted by Saefinn

Yeah I've been feeling it but at the moment it could still be the latter point, not playing SGE to its full capacity. I helped a friend through Holminster Switch yesterday and another friend who was tanking (and pulling wall-to-wall) said "oh, you playing how low can you go?" and I said "not intentionally" and we did wipe on a pull I normally can handle just fine.

I am hoping that's a sign of healing being better balanced to make us work harder or if that's how SGE is balanced. I can no doubt test this and do the same dungeon again as AST, but with the server queues, I am trying to spend as much time as I can working on MSQ and getting better with SGE. Maybe somebody else has insight there or I can wait and see.

I've leveled my Sage through dungeon spam to 80 and I can say for the ShB leveling dungeons that healing wall to walls was never easier.
I can instantly reshield the tank on the run between packs once every mob has a dot and get Toxikon as a bonus, so the tank starts with full life once everything is nicely stacked and ready to get lasered. I usually start a pull with 3 Addersgall because I don't need them on the run when I have EDiagnosis and Pepsis and aoeing with a pointblank around me when all the mobs run at different speed is a coinflip anyway. Eukrasia once the aoe madness starts in case I do need a quick shield.
Haima is insanely strong for single target heal, I usually let the tank drop a bit (so Kardia doesn't overheal), use Haima and Kerachole for the mitigation before it gets the trait. Haima usually lasts the full 15s.
Physis II next and Taurchole next to snapshot the 10% additional heal from Autophysis. Soteria if necessary, otherwise I often use it late into the pull when I want to let Addersgall recharge for the next pull. I think I only had one tank that required an EDiagnosis at the end of the megapull in Qitana because I ran out of resources.
Addersgall on demand from Don Mheg onwards, Holos from Qitana onwards. Especially Holos is a nice addition because mitigation stacks with Kerachole/ Taurochole for really spicy pulls or in case I ran out of Addersgall.

And for EW dungeons, Sage has Panhaima on top of Haima for big pulls. 100 potency less per shield but still extremely powerful.

The core issue I have with Sage right now is Addersgall overcapping.
It feels frustrating to have nothing to spend them on, especially when your mana managment is tied to it.
I think a spender or something must be added (or a way to convert addersgall into addersting when no healing is needeed).

Slap any cooldown on it so that is doesn't become the next energy drain, but it needs to be adressed.

From a purely personal experience, and when pitted against heavensward scholar dps (my one big reference), I feel like sage is a good step forward. The feeling of 1 button spam is less present despite being still there : Eukrasia feels good to use, and Phlegma is a strong 45s dps skill, and slotting it in during burst windows adds a (very) small layer of complexity, which I like.

I love shields in essence as they are preventive and tactical and with the fast charging addersgall you often find yourself using the oGCDs even with moderate damage. The job definitely feels busier than scholar because of its construction.