I... need some tips for Sage.

[ty_taurus]

As someone with a lot of experience having played all healers at times and played through Sage for the first raid tier to refresh my experience with healers and get a taste of what Sage has to offer. Here are my tips.

SGE requires that you know how to use OGCD healing effectively. Every cast of Dosis gives you 1 second to cast an OGCD heal and should be the near-exclusive way you should be healing. SGE's GCD healing is almost worthless in nearly every aspect of content outside of between fights or during phase changes in boss fights. I recommend you go to a practice dummy and practice weaving in OGCD healing tools while spamming Dosis. Additionally, you should get familiar with using Eukrasia for E. Dosis' Damage over time, and maintain your Phlegma casts. Phlegma will also allow you to use 2 OGCD heals before your next cast, so you can also try and use a cast if you want to double up on something.

Let's talk about Addersgall... Any action that ends in -chole will consume 1 Addersgall. You generate 1 Addersgall every 20 seconds, which will give you a lot of uses of these actions. You should be using these tools liberally as these are your real bread-and-butter healing tools. In the instance battle, Taurochole will not only heal Lalah, but also reduce her incoming damage. You will need to use E. Diagnosis on her for the instance when you see the large red tankbuster indicator over her. I think the instance wants you to use it this way, but you won't ordinarily need to do that for actual tankbusters on players. Druochole can also be used as needed if you feel her HP is dropping too fast.

Soteria, the other green action icon in contrast to Kardia, will increase the amount you'll heal Lalah for when casting offensive spells for 4 casts and is fairly strong.

Haima, the purple cube icon, will apply 5 stacks of a barrier on her that will gradually lower the damage she's taking.

Physis II is an AoE regen that will also increase the amount of HP you'll restore to Lalah's HP.

Lastly if things are looking dire, Zoe will increase the potency of your next heal by 50%. Using this on E. Diagnosis can be a great last ditch effort to keep her in a safe range.

All of these are OGCD actions that you can use in that 1 second between attacking an enemy and beginning your next GCD spell. If you practice this and get better at it, you'll find that SGE is much easier than most people think it is. In fact, I personally feel like it's the easiest healer all around as its large library of mitigation tools helps prevent a lot of damage. WHM may be technically easier, but I don't feel that its healing tools are as effective. SGE just has so many effective OGCD heals that getting comfortable with using the Dosis weave window gives you such power and control over not only healing but also mitigating damage so that you need to deal less damage, and that's the key also. You have a lot of ways of reducing incoming damage so that you don't need to heal as much anyway.


If you want to level, you can also level quickly just queueing for dungeons, as healers don't have wait times during normal hours, but Bozja is a great way to level as well, yes. The Southern Front is more efficient for this than Zadnor. Though do your daily Frontlines Roulette as well for each day you're leveling as that gives you about half a level's worth of XP.