Some Sage Discussion

[Corbeau]

Care to elaborate? I struggle not only to see how Sage is complex, but how it can be considered more complex than AST or even SCH. I'd agree with you that we can barely talk of complexity and difficulty about FFXIV healing, though.

AST at least has something to juggle on the DPS side, but complexity-wise pretty much every healing kit in XIV has at most one piece of interconnectivity. Heals are almost entirely oGCDs of varying potency that you press in priority order in total isolation from each other. Sage at least has % output buffs to consider. Even it's HoT being tied to offensive GCDs is a step up in interconnectivity - as laughable as that is when compared to Discipline Priest or Mistweaver Monk.

If you instead wanted a rant on how much more interesting WoW healing was though... boy would I be happy to slam a wall of text into the forums. I've done it before. The TLDR still comes down to kit interconnectivity though; there was a metric ton of inter-cooldown synergy in WoW healer kits, and fights were designed appropriately to demand a wide variety of use patterns. Though mana being an actual resource is also a factor driving that diversity.