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Damn this job feels strong as hell

It looked like a lot of fun, but I've heard a lot of rumblings from Savage players that its lack of good burst heal options severely limits it's potential in endgame.

It's definitely nice. Especially happy I swapped to Sage this expansion since they made the broil IV sound effect sound so damn annoying. D;

s0nicfan posted...

It looked like a lot of fun, but I've heard a lot of rumblings from Savage players that its lack of good burst heal options severely limits it's potential in endgame.

if you're not taking tons of unnecessary damage its fine. Just did a trial and there was nothing I couldn't recover from on my own, even with the other healer dead at level 84

Want to check it out, but I've never played a Healer and I figure my first one shouldn't be the one that starts at Lv70 lol

It looks cool

it struggles a little bit in dungeons if you big pull

s0nicfan posted...

It looked like a lot of fun, but I've heard a lot of rumblings from Savage players that its lack of good burst heal options severely limits it's potential in endgame.

SGE+SCH is probably the best healer duo

AST is a strong contender for top 2 spot with WHM being lol

Akagami_Shanks posted...

it struggles a little bit in dungeons if you big pull

what, sge has oGCDs out the ass for big pulling

OudeGeuze posted...

what, sge has oGCDs out the ass for big pulling

And once you use those its done. Also fails hard if a run starts going sideways

I think if you carved up Scholar and Sage and put them together you could have one solid healing job class. Both are a bit lacking in different, often weird ways.

DEKMStephens posted...

I think if you carved up Scholar and Sage and put them together you could have one solid healing job class. Both are a bit lacking in different, often weird ways.

well SCH IS supposed to be the ultimate barrier healer and people seem to think its in a good spot. Sage is like "barriers sometimes"

Akagami_Shanks posted...

And once you use those its done. Also fails hard if a run starts going sideways

You simply do not run out of oGCDs if you're cycling through them correctly. I can agree that SGE is the worst job for fixing mistakes, but your statement about SGE being incapable of handling large pulls is completely false.

Yamata_Demon posted...

You simply do not run out of oGCDs if you're cycling through them correctly. I can agree that SGE is the worst job for fixing mistakes, but your statement about SGE being incapable of handling large pulls is completely false.

I didn't say it was incapable, i said it's not as good.

I felt Sage was weak in dungeons too when I was leveling it up. Then all the pieces clicked together and now I can smoothly run it in Expert roulettes. You really don't run out of oGCDs as long as the DPS is decent and the tank is wall-to-walling pulls. Only problem is "oh shit" situations, but Sage is good at preventing those in the first place.

I also love how I can lazy heal a DPS who eats stupid by weaving Kardia onto them and continuing to spam Dosis/Dyskresia .

DEKMStephens posted...

I think if you carved up Scholar and Sage and put them together you could have one solid healing job class. Both are a bit lacking in different, often weird ways.

What's SCH lacking?

Not so much lacking but conflicting.

Scholars level 60, 70 and 80 abilities have to be used mutually exclusively. Additionally fairy seems pretty pointless since shb changes. In this case I think sch but with kardia instead of fairy, and maybe that one extra aoe move would be pretty slick.