Sage with bad tanks

[RinaB]

I watched the vid...that's what I was afraid of...I just wish I didn't have to burn AoEs to keep a tank up... and before the "sage may not be for you" comment, I guess I'm being too conservative with my CDs and not popping them because of the CD times....I just wish sage had more single target options instead of aoes...I get it now but it seems like a waste.

[AmiableApkallu]

I watched the vid...that's what I was afraid of...I just wish I didn't have to burn AoEs to keep a tank up... and before the "sage may not be for you" comment, I guess I'm being too conservative with my CDs and not popping them because of the CD times....I just wish sage had more single target options instead of aoes...I get it now but it seems like a waste.

If a cooldown has a recast of X seconds, and you didn't push it for X seconds, then there's a good chance you simply let it go to waste. (I'm going to leave aside optimized runs where you know exactly how long the encounter will be and can thus plan your cooldowns more precisely.)

The typical Duty Finder dungeon trash pulls will take >= 2min, and the typical Duty Finder boss hits the tank and party with a wet noodle. So, use your cooldowns, whether they be single target or AoE. It'll be fine.

[Azurarok]

Kerachole should be your first line of defense given it's your mitigation tool with the shortest CD at 30s. The regen on it's surprisingly strong too.

Most dungeon bosses don't hit hard enough to really force you to use the longer cooldowns that much, while it's usually the trash pulls that tend to get spicy, so don't hesitate to use them if you feel the need to. I've had a fair share of tanks that's made me use Temperance with WHM or Seraph with SCH, while many of AST's main healing tools are all aoe too, so it's not a mindset limited to SGE either.

Also Tower of Zot has some especially nasty pulls for some reason and it's fairly common to have to fall back to GCD heals for the last 2-3 wall-to-walls, if that's what got you worried.