So originally I was just always putting Kardia on the tank, but I've found the chip healing of Kardia to not really be enough, so I've begun to start using Kardia as a 'top off' mechanic much the same way that an Astrologian throws around card buffs. Normally I'll have Kardia up on the tank, but say a DPS takes some dmg, instead of stopping my attacks to throw a big heal on them, I'll transfer Kardis to them and continue attacking. After a few attacks, they've been 'topped off' and I'll then transfer the Kardia back to the tank. This also allows me to reserve my Addersgall stacks for bigger heals on the tanks.

Watching as a tank main so I know what's being casted on me and how much I can do tanking wise with the healers kit.

sage is great when everything is predictable. When random people start eating mechanics in alliance raid your healing output is just not enough to pull people through wipefeast. Eos healing the lowest health target turns out to matter a lot in those instances

I wasn't hyped for sage at all, and I'm actually a healer main, but playing it I'm definitely hooked! I do miss two things, a straight forward regen for that one DPS that takes damage on mechanics, and a good single target panic button like essential dignity or benediction. You do get cool combinations later on, but I miss it for synced lower level content

Been loving sage, but I was having some issues keeping my tank alive in dungeons and could NOT tell what I was missing. This ended up really helping! Thank you so much!

I mained SCH as my healer since ARR so i when i got my hands on SGE it felt so comfortable off rip. I still think barrier healers need better heal potencies as to alleviate the panic of a tank dropping below 30% Edit: this WAS 2 days ago, now all my brain is filled with is SGE techs. I was but a learner now i am the gundam

I feel that eukrasian dosis should heal on each tick of the DoT rather than just once. That and more addersting builders and spenders seem necessary.

this video is so useful. Since I was used to scholar who used succor, I thought the group shield was just as useful as the single shield, but I wondered why I rarely ever produced any adderstings. Now I know :)

Pepsis is a recovery tool, and used reactively. You use it to bring peeps back up quickly. Also very useful for 'heal to full' Doom mechanics including DRK's Walking Dead. It's reverse Emergency Tactics, and you want to throw up your shields first, and then use Pepsis. So GCD>>oGCD instead of oGCD>>GCD

Thank you so much for this video. I want have Sage as a main healer class but didn't know how to play it. Read over skills and still not much clicked. I appreciate how straightforward and simple it is to learn thanks to how you explain how/when to use skills. Other videos on this same subject prattled on too much or barely gave info or both.

I did myself a favour and levelled AST for the last months of Shadowbringers to prepare myself for SGE. I learned a lot about healing and I think it helped a lot

Having leveled sage to 90, don't be afraid to use those aoe abilities for back up. Abilities like holos give damage reduction which can make it that much easier to keep a tank alive during a big pull, even if no one else is hurt

I found this video insanely helpful. I appreciate the way you group your explanations as well as include the situational logic in which skills should be used. Really helps decode when you’re drinking from the Sage firehose

This is a really well made showcase of what the sage can do, thank you!

As a PLD main, when I get a sage on a dungeon run, I've been pulling less just to let them get used to it. It's gotten a little scary when I pull a big group and I find my health dropping to less than 1k, good thing Hallowed Ground is there for the clutch.

This will be my first healer and you made it clear and easy to understand so now I feel a little bit more confident to try and learn the role, thanks for the great work

this is by far the best guide I've found

Been playing GNB with my friend on SGE, it's been such a wonderful healer to have around.

When my fav HOTS youtuber becomes my fav FFXIV youtuber. Lookin like Matt Berry from What We Do In The Shadows.

This is one of the best (if not the best) sage guides I've encountered. I love that this job is so technical. Thanks to your guide, I realized that Krasis increases healing received and not healing done. Thank you so much for making this! I'd add that if overhealing can be avoided, Pepsis is almost always worth casting on Eukrasian Prognoses. And Pepsis doesn't care about how much the shield remains when it is used, so Pepsis is really nice when shields are partially eaten by damage, though this situation is quite rare, but does happen. I personally switch my Kardia around fairly frequently, especially in boss fights. It has just a 5-second recast. I would also point out that if the sage is confident that the tank will survive over the next few global recasts and at least two mobs can be hit, then two Dyskrasias are better damage, require less global-recast commitment (Eukrasia isn't affect by spell speed), and cost less MP than a Eukrasian Diagnosis plus Toxikon (though the value of healing someone shouldn't be completely overlooked). I feel it's like SCH's Adloquium in that Eukrasian Diagnosis is one of the least efficient ways to heal a target, and an ability should generally be preferred. For those just starting with a barrier healer, erring on the side of casting too many Eukrasian Diagnoses is likely the way to go, the cast few of them as they get more experience. However, if the sage expects that the next pull will have about twice as many mobs as the current pull, stacking up on Addersting is quite can be a damage increase, though not by much. Also, I've found that Toxikon is often easier to cast as the party moves. And because Toxikon II does just as much damage as Dosis III on single targets, having an Addersting available allows the sage to avoid losing damage from movement. Regardless, there are lots of ways to get the job done.

Haven’t watched you in a while but it’s so awesome to see how well you’ve acclimated to FFXIV!

This guide saved my life as a returning player

Sage feels good when you have tanks who aren’t dumb and don’t act like they’re Superman.

Love the sage, toxikon needs a buff. It either needs to do more damage or become a Ogcd. Feels like a waste of a gcd currently

This video helped tremendously going from Ast to Sge was a huge wall for me as i was playing them the same instead of preventing the damage beforehand thank you

being VERY new to FFXIV but coming from WOW this job feels very much like a Disc Priest , place the hot ( Kardia )on the tank then dps to heal . then just rotating your dots and shields to heal the grp now im sure im missing some things but seems pretty straight forward and not overly complex to play

Right off the bat I would suggest that Kardia is an incredibly important part of the Sage healing kit. It's a continuous stream of passive healing that you get for doing your normal damage output expected of healers in FFXIV. It is about as important to Sages as Regen is to a White Mage or the faerie is to a Scholar.

other use for pepsis : if the shields work like the scholar one, the duration of shields will not be refreshed when casting shields again, so you can use pepsis to remove the shield before applying a new one

Two things I'd like... the dot to heal per tick and (Pan)Haima to have a one minute cooldown. Sage feels great for the most part, right until stuff goes sideways... It can be a real mission to get things back undercontrol. Perhaps I am playing it wrong or just too used to White Mage, but I'm basically GCD locked it seems. Like half the time I'm going Shield -> Toxicon repeat... toss out the Dot, Taurochole, or w/e when needed, but it feels really uphill. When Euk Diag crits its such a vastly more potent shield, and good feels, and without it it just doesn't seem to have the output like White Mage.

Fantastic crash course guide! I appreciate the game giving me new jobs that I don't have to level, but having a mess of 18+ new buttons each with their special interactions is daunting.

I love the sage but I will say, keeping a tank topped off on health is a bit more difficult with this class. Healing in general is just odd on this class. Even so... I love the class & most likely determined to make it my main. Coming from a WHM main.

Brilliant breakdown of the Job. I am super keen to get the expansion just to play this job and your video was clear enough for me to know that it's defs worth the $30

As a tank main this video helps with letting me know what a SGE is casting on me. And as someone who pockets healer this helps me better understand SGE

great video, I hope more people who want to play sages find, see and watch it. I have had more wipes in ally raids and dungeons in these last 2-3 days than in the last 3+ months.

Thanks for guide brotha just picked up sage and this helps

Imma be honest, Sage really makes me appreciate Scholar. I was really hoping this would be my new healer since I like Shields and damage mitigation but dont like pet classes, and I cant really say I've been enjoying it. This job is even less forgiving then Scholar which says alot and I say this as someone who feels as though they've mastered Scholar

As a Gunbreaker main, I often check with my Healer on how much should I pull. But with Sage I often pull less, since the ones I played with so far can't keep my health up on big pulls. But good ol White Mages keep me healthy and do some good chip damage on bosses, I am learning some Dps classes currently but I might try healing since I dropped it during Stormblood. Also no matter what don't feel discouraged if you fail, I still occasionally get hit by a weakness stack once or twice even in dungeons I run plenty of times in roulettes. So keep at it and show off your A+ healing game.

Thanks a lot for this easy to understand guide, let's hope I can keep the tank alive now :)

I am really loving the sage! Thank you for this video

Sage needs potency increases for sure. The 130 potency heal is laughably bad. As a backup healer its fine in raids, but as a main healer, its really bad. And the Eukrasian Diagnosis is Stone Skin all over again. SE got rid of Stone Skin and this needs to go too. Sage needs a 700 potency GCD heal period.

you kinda "just read tooltip" but thats what i needed to make sense of it crazy how brain works, thanks

The silly name of the Sage weapon is "Noulith", basically Nu Gundam funnels. Thanks for the video, helped me sort out how to use the actions properly! :D

thank this was amazing just what i needed

The weapon of the Sage reminded me of Gundam, so since the moment they announced it, I've been calling those Funnels.

Sage is the first healing class that looks interesting to me. It is insanely intimidating and I am not sure if this is for healers in general or just that Sage is more difficult. I started in lower level dungeons doing squadron command missions. Then I got through the first Sage quest, which took me a while to adapt and get down. It is starting to feel better, but I think I need to get a group together for PotD to get it down at a more reasonable rate.

Pepsis feels like it functions similar to scholar's emergency tactics, kind of a oh crap i gotta heal hardcore ability

I really think that for the SGE abilities they just made up some vaguely medical sounding word-like things.

Ty nervous about going into healer classes but leaning myself in practicing in early dungeons and going up.

Prognosis and Diagnosis (respectively alone without Eukrasia or Zoe) is useless. Best way to emergency heal (if you don’t have Addersgal) is by: • Soteria then Eukrasian Diagnosis. After casting that you should have an Addersgall (should be getting an Addersgall every 20s) or: • Panhaima, Eukrasian Prog, Zoe, Pepsis. *(Pneuma over Pepsis if you’re 90)*

From disc priest to sage guides Pog

Sage is pretty cool, and just a better SCH IMO. I never really liked SCH but having a fun time with Sage so far. One thing that sucks is that Sage is pretty different from other Healers, and playing with a controller is a bit different because I can't just copy my bars from AST/WHM and have them set up the same way. I'm going to take your advice at the end and make Eukrasia my primary button instead of what is usually my DPS spam. It's funny because I've considered Sage as a DPS/Healer but my hotbar will be set-up in an opposite way from AST/WHM. That probably only makes sense to me, but it's what I've noticed. Also, in my brief time with Sage it seems like (like some of the other commenters have mentioned) that it's a bit tough when AoEs hit, you have to really plan ahead for those. When things go bad, there seems to be less mitigation; you're not limited by mana but Addersgall which I guess is kinda like Scholar, but perhaps it will just take time to learn.

I’m a PLD Tank and even though I been playing months, I still consider myself a freshman at FF14. I had16 years of WoW as PLD tank too. I watch this not to play a Sage but to have some understanding of my healer capability. Honestly no idea what most healers do or how they keep me alive. I’ve yet to dungeon with a Sage also. However, I don’t ever check on my healer, unless for some reason I’m doing floor inspections. But learning what some healer spells are and AoE heals helps to know where the ER Clinic is on the field like the Blue Dome. Often the party healer is set to my Focus, sometimes Melee for focus defensive cast to target. However a Sage also trickle healing me, well that should have no issue quickly triggering my Devine Veil when I cast it to set up a party shield for AoE damage. Sometimes I see boss casting something seemingly AoE and I cast Devine Veil before boss cast is off and trigger it myself just to make sure. That can be a bad habit to seemingly waste a utility for party protection while maybe needing to cast a self defensive. Still, knowing how my healers function is in my best interest as a Tank in being more effective as well synergy.

This helped me out so much THANK YOU! ❤❤

on the part where Zoe is described, it is worth noting that Eurkrasia is also a Spell so, if you use Zoe then Eukrasia...it will use your Zoe buff. You will need to use Eukrasia first, then case Zoe, then use the buff for a heal spell

I was thinking that sage heals were a bit low. Been tanking recently and had no idea what sages did. Turns out they been shielding lol

I used this video as my Praetorium video while healing for the first time on Sage. ^^

All the creativity for this class went to the names I guess

Thanks for the guide.

I really wish they’d done more to make kardia a core element of the kit. Right now it’s a set and forget source of incremental healing. Pretty disappointing compared to how sophisticated a damage to heal kit could be.

Is sage good for a first time healer? Is healing viable on console with controller and crossbars in general? BTW, I was thinking I'd get 7 days free bc of the expansion login issues, and I don't. But I don't care about that. Is there an official social media that yoshi-p sees. I can't believe he was moved to tears over the end walker delays, and I just want to tell him thank you personally as someone who's played, albeit on and off, since 1.0 released. We understand yoshi, it's OK, we get that launches can be rough, and we love you. Thank you for what you've contributed to the FF community 🙏🏿 ❤️

Sage is great but one specific instance i consistently fail in is the big pull right before the first boss of Holminster Switch. I regularly wipe the group there. There have definitely been occasions where the tank has failed to use their invuln, but i feel like i should be able to handle it regardless of that. I start with physys and kerachole and haima, and then zoe taurochole, then go back to kerachole after that but even then i still can not keep up with that much damage. I have done a lot of searching and even though that pull is notorious for being extremely difficult i have not found any forums about it or guides on youtube talking about it. Surely i can't be the only sage that struggles with this.

It feels totally different then whm my main right now. I came back to the game after 6 months and am super rusty leveling a few classes. I don't fully understand the abilities yet with sage and gunbreaker especially.

The healing from Kardion isn't really big enough to be able to say "You'd rather be doing damage and relying on Kardion." That won't fly in normal fights and doesn't really even keep up with auto attacks from enemy mobs. You're right that you should try to use oGCD heals as much as possible, though. Keep Eukrasian Diagnosis up as MUCH as possible, because when that shield is fully absorbed you gain Addersting.

Insta sub purely bc of that accent. I can spy a fellow dubliner anywhere! Really helpful guide too good sir

I can't wait to try progression healing with my Sage.

I have a "Diagnosis" everytime i try to play this game with a controller(im on ps5), against PC clickers that target anything as fast as Usain Bolt runs against i guy stuck in a wheelchair.

The main problem with healers is when a tank pulls a lot of the time they won't use any of their cds. In turn they blame it on the healer when they can do nothing but try to keep them alive. I used to hate healing until I played sage. Out of all the dungeons and trials I have had only 2 complaints and those were the ones that doesn't use cds. I main all tanks and I'm constantly using cds on w2w pulls. Healer is just a class where you have to be ready for negative feedback even if you are playing the job well.

good video bro! my whole party died thought I understood everything but I clearly didn't lol

As a schollar main, after trying out Sage in a couple dungeons. I think I'll stay Schollar

Going to look at my bar set up and git it a try

PSA: Toxicon 1 deals less single target damage than Dosis 2. Against single enemies only use Toxicon 1 if you need to keep DPS up during movement. Toxicon 2 however deals more damage than Dosis 3, so if you are about to overcap on Addersting stacks try to use some up if you can afford to. Edit: Toxicon 2 deals identical damage to Dosis 3. I was thinking of Dosis 2

You should never want to cast Diagnosis single target heal, because its weak for a GCD and you miss out on the Addersting proc when the shield is absorbed, and that Addersting is how you become DPS neutral when healing with GCD. Thus, you could safely cast Eukrasian Diagnosis GCD heal without losing dmg potential.

As an ilvl 630 healer main who has all four healers @ lvl 90....I don't know how tf y'all play Sage and like it. :/ Its healing abilities are subpar, its shielding abilities shield for far less than Scholar, it has little raid utility, and it has far less margin for error. But perhaps that's what y'all like about it? I can tell you right now that AST's and SCH's healing and shielding are so powerful that it may make them feel slow and boring to play. You don't necessarily need to be constantly mashing healing or mitigation buttons, which means you can focus on dpsing. SGE on the other hand practically requires rapid non-stop button pressing and dpsing just to keep your party members up and bearly alive. But that doesn't mean that that it's balanced or "good." It just means you're having to do significantly more work just to break even compared to the other healers. Sage is THE reactive healer. All of it's abilities are geared toward quick on-the-fly decision-making. Also, ironically, the less shielding and healing you have to do means the more time you can spend dpsing. Unfortunately, Sage spends more time healing and shielding than dpsing than the other healers. Sure, almost all of Sage's abilities are instant cast, but that also doesn't make it a good thing. If you like that sort of thing, then more power to you. If Sage is your aesthetic, then right on! Play and do what you love. But Sage is absolutely not for me. I consider it the worst of the healers presently. My ranking would be: AST > SCH > WHM > SGE.

Slight bit of clarification on what you said about the shielding spells. AoE gives a 320% shield based off a 100 potency heal while the ST gives a 180% shield based off a 300 potency heal. Say you do one-to-one heal to potency. AoE heals for 100 points and gives a 320 point shield to everyone. ST heals for 300 and gives a 540 point shield to one. Not to say the AoE isn't efficient, but like all spells, the ST versions are individually better. Also you get an Addersting when the shield /breaks/ by damage, not if it just times out. A minor point that you covered in the dungeon footage but not in the review. I am enjoying Sage a lot, very similar to Scholar which I've generally mained until now. A bit less involved on the mobs then SCH was with more healing options for the party. Though I have noted a much greater tendency to get agro off tanks even through their stance.

Liked & Subbed! Thank for This! Great vid, keep up the great work! ;)

Love sage I feel it kinda putters out of resources unlike the other healers, and at some point you just end up using the bad cure while you wait.

This strangely reminds me of Heroes of the Storm Kael'thas, Eukrasia is like Verdant Sphere.

Great guide!

I tagged randomly for a trial and ended up facing Ruby as a Sage. My co-heal said "Sorry BRB" but never came back. I solo healed the team as a Sage 🤣 and it went pretty well

It may because you don't have all the skills but ZOE should be used on pneuma for a 900 potency heal. Pneuma is your lvl90 ability. I just hit 90 on SAGE yesterday

Thank you for explaining slowly and more indepth that an idiot like me can understand.... this class was starting to make me hate it coz a. the names were confusing me ,B, i couldnt make head nore tail of them , C, having to press eukrasia b4 any spells to make the spells proc was cheesing me off.. and i wanted to delete the class... now i know there are a lot of videos on line on how to play this class but either i cant understand the peoples accents, or they talk way to fast, and show what they are doing way to fast and i couldnot keep up... so thank you

Not enough people are playing SGE and keeping shields up. SGE excels at preventing or mitigating damage, not huge direct heals. If you want big direct heals, play WHM. A good SGE is my favorite dungeon tank, but a bad SGE can make tanking really rough.

That would be me lol. Trying to heal and in 5 secs…..ALL DEAD. I’m going to try this sage as I just unlocked it. I’ve always played ranged dps.

Sage has honestly been a blast to figure out. It is pretty mana efficient (only time i ran out was when i stopped paying attention XD). I need to be better at spending my Addersgal when its full, so just pop a random one whenever. Kardia, depending on party and situation, I've decided to put on the other Healer as priority, so just in case, they are always getting healed in emergency, and can focus on healing others for the most part. When it comes to AOE moments, I've sorta had this priority I've been practicing. Tried to do it so I'm not overusing or underusing Adder in case of emergency, and some ablities will be available if needed: 1. E. Prog & Kerachole > AOE hits > E.Prog & Pepsis 2. E.Prog > AOE hits > E. Prog & Ixochole 3. The Oh sh*t (80 below): E.Prog & Kerachole > AOE hits > ZoE & Physis 2 > E.Prog & Ixochole & Helios > Pepsis (if needed for top off)

never healed before so hopefully this doesnt end badly😭

I mained DRK and changed to Reaper.. I have NEVER touched healing in an mmo.. that's alot of responsibility XD.. this makes me want to try sage tho... I should use an OG healer to learn then try sage when I'm comfortable.

My lvl 70 sage created a shield that was way over 100% of my hp. The entire bar was shielded and stars started appearing next to the shield bar >___

Im trash at healing but my sage feels better than my whitemage. Maybe because its so many OGCDs so it can adjust more on the fly. If i mess up and use the wrong thing its not a complete disaster

I created a macro for single target shield and aoe shield as well as the dot instead of hitting 2 actions all the time. i tested it out and it seems to work pretty good.

Oh, Man, GREAT video and very helpful :) I'm loving the Sage. I have a lvl 80 WHM as well, but this just feels more powerful, more in your face,.... dare I say, "Vengeful" for all those you loved and couldn't save? It's the "Oh, hell no-- I'm not taking your shit anymore!" job for healing. LOL! I love it has an aggressive, smooth and fast playstyle. I told a friend that WHM plays like a Healer with some DPS abilities, but Sage feels like a DPS with a ton of Healing abilities-- directly and indirectly.

Thank you for the guide \o/

wait a second... didn't you teach me how to play heroes of teh storm

I been playing sage since the 3rd I am a super casual player so in the 3rd zone lvl 84

I hadn't considered how in some ways it's reversed from Scholar. The Shields are instant, but the Heals are cast?

Must be nice to be able to log in to the servers :/

I haven't played this in a few years. Isn't this the class that had the fairy heal pet? It was very cool. But I'm confused why all these new videos don't show the fairy heal pet anymore?

i'm sure there's a lot of great info in this video but i couldn't pay attention to any of it because your addersgall gauge is slightly too far left and not lined up with your mp gauge

Just an off topic question: but how does one make your hotbar accept alpha keys? I've searched and searched, but haven't found a way to do any hotbars without relying on numerals. I'm obviousl missing something, so any help from anybody would be greatly appreciated.

Phlegma sounds way too close to smegma 😭. Great guide my guy!

So how to I optimize my hot bar on keyboard mouse? Like I have 3 hot bars standard showing right now