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Talking for the perspective of a Sage that has done all the savages and ultimates of the previous example:

1- Is not bad per se, just innecesary. The problem is that is highly inneficient, more often than not tank cds can take care of the damage from tankbusters and they do not need that extra shielding making you lose a GCD worth of damage while gaining very little real value out of the heal. For those situations you may want to evaluate if you can handle the damage with oGCDs and see if the tank really needs the heal.

2-I'm gonna bold this because is a common misconception, you want to use haima on any situation when continuous damage is happening. Multi hit tankbusters, bosses auto attacks, mobs packs auto attacks (here is specially good) all those situation where the tank is getting continuous damage is where haima shines since you want to break as many shield layers as possible. Don't think 2m is a long cd, the average dungeon is 15m-16m so that means you can easily get 8-9 uses per dungeon and if you save it for just the tankbusters you are getting at best 3.

This doesn't mean it can only be used when those situations happen, haima can also be used if you need a shield oGCD for someone or as a delayed heal but if you want to maximize the healing you get out of that skill you have to identify where those situations with continuous damage happen and use it there.

3-99% of the time will be on the tank but you can move it around to heal targets that may need healing, this is especially useful in low level dungeons where you dont have many aoe oGCD heals, allowing you to use single target healing to patch some damage on some party members and letting kardia heal the remaining.

4-Diagnosis is shit. The only situations where you should be using it if you have Eukrasian diagnosis is if healing needs to be done but the target already has a shield, when you are low on mp and when the target has doom and you need it to reach 100% hp, in any other situation eukrasian diagnosis is the answer. Even in speed eukrasian diagnosis is better as its 0.5s faster to cast (diagnosis has 1.5s cast time while eukrasian diagnsosis only 1s from eukrasia) but situations where that matter are rare and more often than not mean that your healing plan already failed.

5-Its an emergency button for when you need to GCD spam as you can break the shield, and immediatly cast it again allowing you to not resort to the unaugmented heals, it also helps when doom mechanics happen and you need the hp bar to go up. Other than that is one of the worst buttons of your kit and you will rarely find uses for it if you play well