Some Sage Discussion

[Morzy]

Kardia - The healing potency of Kardia effects is far too low, I feel. And this iconic
ability

I disagree. While in lower level dungeons you will see that Kardia more or less mimics the SCH pet fairy in terms of healing.

It is even better than Embrace since we can choose who gets Kardia. SCH could at one time force their fairy to heal a specific person, but this function no longer exists.

Healing over time Kardia does not make sense either because you could constantly refresh the regen dot while spamming DPS abilities, and regen abilities like dots are not meant to be needlessly overwritten and is a total DPS/HPS loss.

it would be nice to have a more involved dps rotation

I think Sage DPS is very involved.


Consider this.

At level 70, you can spam the single target shield on multiple people in a party and gain one of the DPS triggers to throw off a Toxikon. This means that if you can strategize enough by shielding specific people BEFORE they take damage you not only protect them but gain a DPS boost by doing so. This is LOADS better than SCH 'Broil spam'



I love Sage. It is far more involved than SCH and reminds me of the 2.x/3.x days of shield healing. I generally design healer hotbars the same as other healing bars, but Sage is designed more as a DPS which is exciting.