Some Sage Discussion

[nelothi]

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.

Kardia is a noticeable thing in dungeons to some extent, yes.
Kardia is not noticable in trials right now, we will have to see how the raids turn out.
As it stands, I just feel like sages could have a better job identity than "Scholar with a different weapon and no crit buff". It just really feels to me that square struggles to make Jobs sufficiently different in terms of play style.

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.

I didnt say anything about turning kardia into a HoT.
My idea was to take the hot off of Enhanced Kerachole and instead make it apply kardia to all party members for 15 seconds. this would effectively be a HoT, but requires player interaction. I do realize how overpowered this would be, they would have to make this do less healing than the normal kardia effects. i just think it would be more engaging.

I think Sage DPS is very involved.

- DPS for every healer is important and uninvolved. this isnt just a sage thing, and i understand that some players might be okay with this, but i find it... lacking. this is just my opinion.

as it is right now, you spam Dosis, and use Phlegma so it doesnt cap. that is it.
it is a DPS loss to ever fish for addersting stacks.

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'

this isnt how healing in FF works.. at all.
Everything youre saying here leads to a huge dps loss.
Toxicon is not a potency increase
Dosis does not have a cast time longer than the GCD
Eukrasian Diagnosis costs more mana than dosis.

unless your fighting multiple enemies, toxicon is never a gain unless youre shielding when you otherwise couldnt have been doing damage for that GCD.

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.

its only 3 buttons. 1 of which you almost never use.