Sage's Problems in FFXIV EXPLAINED - I Quit Sage Over These...?

I QUIT SAGE!? MY Jedi Gundam healer with actual medical terms as a healer with my favorite lore!? GET OUTTA HERE! SAGE IS MINE! Sage is actually one of my favorite healers even though you haven't seen much play of it. I LOVE the Sage. But it has a few very glaring problems. Let's define those clearly in this video.


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Timestamps:
0:00 Why I haven't been playing Sage
0:25 NO I HAVE NOT QUIT SAGE
0:53 Mouseover Macros For Sage
3:16 Icarus is not good
5:41 Icarus Rework please
6:42 Expedient is not on Sage
7:53 RANGE RANGE RANGE RANGE RANGE
9:41 BARRIER SIZE DOES MATTER
12:06 Sage Barrier Zoe Rework
12:53 Toxikon is just not great
13:33 Toxikon Rework
15:25 Eukrasia feels sticky
16:21 Concluding statements

Have I quit Sage for good? Is Sage just bad? I’ve been asked a bunch of times now on why I haven’t been playing Sage quite as much as Scholar and I’ve decided why not just answer that?

Hey guys it’s your boi Cole and no I have not quit the sage. No I do not think it’s inferior overall but there are some key points of pain that Scholar directly addresses that matters a whole lot to me.

First off I have made a video now talking about world of warcraft’s addons specifically that there are mouseover macros that allow you to volley out a ton of skills. Sage would be a prime massive candidate to benefit from this-- if not the number one candidate alongside Astrologian.

To be clear addons in 14 are against TOS as stated by Yoshi P. So let’s not get too crazy here guys.

But people will argue but mouseover macros are already a thing, and my rebuttal to that is not really. Macros suffer tremendous drawbacks and the number one thing is that they do not queue, yes yes delay whatever but my main gripe is they do not queue which makes it so that in the heat of the moment as I’m casting say Dosis on Sage I can’t Kardia swap instead now I need to manage to cram the mouse command and animation into that block of time. It’s janky, it’s not that great and sadly lead to me abandoning mouse over macros.

Obviously this extends to all skills, and all healers can benefit from it.

This gets into my problems with Icarus.

Anyone else remember Mercy from Overwatch and one of the main problems that still exists to this day is that she is completely dependent on her team mates positioning? Yeah, in FFXIV that feeling strikes a chord with me with Icarus and with extremely precise positioning for many mechanics a team member even delaying their movement to the last second for uptime can mean Icarus is a worthless ability.

And this is, unfortunately yet again, another instance where mouseover macros being snappy and responsive and queuing would pay off tremendously.

And yes don’t get me wrong, mobility abilities feel awesome and I’ve used this to great effect at times. But it’s very significantly difficult to use effectively, most of the time I’ve found myself better off just relying on my own movement such as P3S with the snapshots when I was progging it was a major cause of me taking a damage down for no good reason other than I wanted to keep casting dosis and use Icarus. Obviously that was not amusing people so I eventually just gave up and walked myself.

This skill would honestly be better served if it was reworked to function exactly as it does today, but also allow ground targeting like Ninja’s Shukuchi ability which I’ve used personally to tremendously great effect especially now with the doubletap and not allowing the marker to extend beyond the maximum allowable radius. This would be a fantastic rework to Icarus.

But compare this to expedient now for the next pain point I have. Expedient. Please hear me out before you start to take out the guillotine -- I think that having unique not homogenized aspects of kits is a great thing. I think we currently face a problem where everything is so homogenized that this kind of thing does become a problem.

Expedient even with it’s duration halved is still undeniably one of the most effective tools for progression one can have. I’m not going to explain why 10 seconds of mobility on a controlled 2 minute cooldown timer is effective because frankly that’s insulting everyone’s intelligence. I’m still amazed before Endwalker was launched people dumped on this skill. I said it then and I say it now-- this skill is excellent for progression.

Which is my number one reason you haven’t seen me much on Sage. Yes, expedient. Number one reason above all others.