I feel like I'm on the opposite side of the fence for a lot of people regarding sage.

Frankly speaking, most of its kit is reasonably strong, and there's a surprisingly little anti-synergy with SCH. Sure, our shields overwrite, but if you're together with a SCH, just don't use them. SGE mostly relies on damage reduction and regen in the first place.

While we won't know for sure until savage drops, I think SGE's only real weaknesses is on the single target heals, pepsis being crap, Icarus and Rhizomata needing a second charge, the anti-synergy regarding addersting generation and usage, and soteria's weirdly long CD.

Overall, I've found use for pretty much every skill SGE has, and had no real trouble doing either EX trials.

SGE feels a bit weak, but I don't think it play weak at all.