SAGE IS BAD!? The WORST HEALER in FFXIV? [FFIXV 6.2]

Sage is being absolutely slammed across social media as being the worst healer and picking it is a bad decision. To me, who intentionally has picked Sage over Scholar and has mained Scholar for almost a DECADE playing Final Fantasy XIV... this is preposterous and is WELL deserving of this video.

Sage brings a lot and let NO ONE tell you otherwise! So ridiculous!

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Timestamps:
0:00 Sage is HORRIBLE right now apparently
1:26 Scholar's massive perk over Sage
2:06 What makes Sage GREAT!
2:30 Holos is MASSIVE now
3:46 Mobility
4:22 Panhaima and Haima split
5:47 Kardia and control
6:30 EXTREME single target damage management
8:13 Constant mitigation of damage
9:10 Sage should NEVER be taking damage raw
9:36 Pneuma burst is better than Fey Blessing
10:22 Zoe and cheating out extra charges
11:45 Sage Barrier Variations
13:03 Phlegma is powerful and fun
13:39 MOBILITY MOBILITY MOBILITY
14:57 Sage is actually great so have fun GG

Sage is undeniably being slammed into the ground right now on social media and raiding circles and when you pull up the objective factual data of savage raid clears it actually puts it into perspective that Scholar literally has 4 times the number of clears as Sage. That’s not an exaggeration and that’s a massive gap.


You don’t see this gap between astrologian and white mage.

So now case closed show’s over Sage is bad why did the developers even add a brand new healer instead of adding two DPS this expansion aside from my lasting pain over the loss of nocturnal astrologian.

I’m going to actually snap that train of thought in half, by saying I have chosen actively chosen to prog on Sage over Scholar this tier and I make no apologies for it as I’m about to say in this video.

So Cole’s lost it, between the death of my grandmother, job changes and I mean real life jobs, and other massive life events I’ve snapped.

But not really, while Scholar I can rant and rave on for literally hours-- don’t tempt me I wrote a like 100 page document on my website evyx.gg that’s been out there since well before Endwalker-- Sage is great.

I’m going to simplify this way more than I want to for the sake of time, Scholar has one key element that makes it brutally valuable in progression raiding especially when people are learning mechanics-- expedient. Ya know the move fast for 10 seconds move that people mocked and dunked on that I told you all was actually great and I got dumped on for months until-- to not my surprise expedient is beyond fantastic in prog.

Now there are a ton of differences between Sage and Scholar better suited for another video I’ll do but I want to highlight and focus specifically on what Sage brings here and why I made the choice.

First up is the one actual fault of expedient, it’s movement speed boost is so good it’s mitigation potential is often thrown into the dumpster, absolutely wasted. Where on Sage when I use holos no one says wow you really used that for raw mitigation you’re terrible and I question your skill as a healer. But also it’s a mind blowingly powerful instantaneous no thanks to burst damage with no cast time I’ve used to actually quickly pivot in fights like PF barbariccia extreme. But I’ve also used it to further cushion out the tank busters in P5S. Holos, especially with the added barrier is just undeniably powerful.

The second thing is I adore having a mobility ability on a healer, yes one can very much argue you don’t need a mobility ability on a healer and often times I choose to not use it, but to me it’s like having air conditioning in a car. Sure I can technically be fine without AC but I like having it there when I need it.

Third up is massive and by massive I mean truly huge. Panhaima can be argued to be the exact same as Scholar’s consolation that they can use when they pop Seraph. But the problem is Seraph is a single cooldown and Seraph is tied to Seraph throwing out Seraphic veil. An ability that can be argued to be Sage’s completely separate independent cooldown ability Haima. Haima and Panhaima can be leveraged at different times and that is extremely powerful. In fact in dungeon runs I intentionally use the area of effect panhaima to mitigate the single tank being hit because that barrier set is so powerful even in a single target scenario.

I will always value the ability to pick and choose.

Fourth up is I love Kardia.