its a bit of both. He even loses stats on level-ups to reflect his age.

I always felt like the Nouliths that are their weapon reminded me visually and functionally of Scalpels.

Why can't medical doctors IRL practice medicine via gratuitous application of LASER BEAMS?

@@MisterZimbabwe some do, actually!

A doctor sage 🤔 I can imagine the RP already 😛 You: you got some debuffs Me: 😨 You: but I can shield it Me: 😃 You: but there will be some additional effects that follow Me: 🤔 You: do you have coverage? Me: 👀 *at tank* The tank: *turns off* 🛡 Me: 😨 You: hp 0...time of death 3:47pm

If you didn't know, chirurgeon shares the same etymological origins as surgeon. Also, when I finally wrap my head around how macros work, I'm gonna make all my revive spell also tell the player, "With your current health coverage, you owe me 35,000 gil out of pocket for this resurrection."

I forget the first I heard about it...maybe Tactics Advance? It feels impressive they have this much material for Sage. And here I amstill hoping for even Warrior/Knight, Monk, Thief and Ninja to round out the original Jobs, since they've only done Black, Red and White Mage so far, then leaped into FF3 and beyond stuff

How are you liking the ninja changes? I haven't tinkered with it for a while

Same, im a big fan of damage healers. Holy Paladin in WoW did this great too.

She and the other Sorceresses/Witches are supposedly the only ones that use real magic in that universe, versus para magic. But the wiki considers her more a Black Mage, but that's pretty broad at times in classification for the "categories"

Yeah, I wouldn't say sage either. And NORMALLY not always, sages are historically or mythologically aligned with good and nature, their abilities are granted to them because they have the yin and yang, perfectly balanced and able to see problems through the eyes of all, even animals. Ultimecia is neither of those things, which is where Edea's power comes from.

@@TShadowStalker There's also the Oracle/Mystic that I think came before Tactics, but that's where I remember it. It's called Onmyouji in the Japanese, but there's also the Shinkan as a "Job" for Banon in FF6, Shinkan a Shinto priest versus a diviner/augur for Onmyouji, which is related to yin and yang. And in later releases of 5, the Oracle is Yougenshi in Japanese, which I think is more directly someone seeing the future (apparently meant to be a bad situation?). And in 15, the Oracle Lunafreya is the Kannagi, a Shinto role that's meant to calm the gods, iirc. That's a whole other video they could do, if they haven't already, since there are more, like the Devout as a Doushi (which I think is meant to be a Daoist priest of sorts)

I second the Monk idea!

Yes. I already looked through your videos for one on monks. Didn't see one so I'd like to make the request

well the endwalker expansion is very focused on having FF14 original stuff instead of refferences (tho those are plrnty as well) so they redesigned the sage job and introduced the reaper, something not really seen in Final Fantasy before

Also a place where everyone was pressured into conformity because it was believed that self-expression in non-academic ways would breed jealousy...

I believe Fusoya also has a legend materia that double casts black or white magic, though he's generally more geared as an offensive white mage, even if some of his earlier gear included rarer holy black magic. Outside of Dr. Mog's Ultra, and maybe his first Awakening, he tends to be an omni-elemental black mage. I think a big part of why there aren't many Sages in FFRK has a lot to do with its format, and the way you can only equip two abilities at a time meaning it's usually best to focus in on which role a character will play in a party. Like, the idea behind a Sage is tat you can switch between either, but in FFRK, you would essentially need someone who can do both at the same time, like the way Bards and many Summoners overlap with healing. I think the closest to what a Sage would need to look like in FFRK is Echo, who feels more like a Dancer with a predominantly healing kit, but all of her heal chases and Sync commands work with black magic just as well as dances, though she probably wouldn't do much damage, though something _like_ that, but more DPS-friendly. I guess that would just be like if you took Eiko or Yuna and made all their summoning stuff black magic instead, though Eiko and Yuna tend to get a lot of flak for having unfocused kits while being the only healers in their respective realms.

@@gorimbaud My gosh! Finally another FFRK player 🤩🤩🤩 and agree with you with FuSoYa, Dr. Mog and others being more focused on black or white magic, as well as some other exceptions that don't use White o Black magic in their arsenal (like Echo and Yuna). I think that it can be possible to pull out a Sage with a Sync that has a command for black magic and another for white magic. Although like you mentioned, the format doesn't follow these type of things and it's more realistic to think that a character would have a White Sync and a Black Sync rather than one that can do both

@@fantomeghostblacksapphire9152 Oh yeah, I comment about FFRK on these videos every now and then. Like, love the Union and their videos, but it's very obvious they don't play FFRK, or maybe did _years_ ago, so any time they comment on it, it tends to be very outdated. Now that you mention it, Exdeath! While most hybrids would have commands that give priority to whatever stat you're geared for, and Exdeath's hero ability works that way, when they gave him holy options he got a Sync with that works with both! One command does black magic dark damage, while the other does white magic holy damage! This would make him a strictly offensive Sage, since he's certainly no healer, but it is, definitionally, a Sage soul break! The only downside is you can't get tricky about it and do white magic dark damage or black magic holy damage, though you could do that with his HA and Awakening, if you really wanted.

@@gorimbaud Oh dear, I completely forgot about Exdeath and that he's a holy user as well! I even got his awakening so far and I got dazzled by his Sync when I discovered it since it was really cool, like, having the option to do both holy and dark damage sounds great 🤩 and yeah, since we cannot have everything in life he's no healer unfortunately... But at least is better than anything~ ★

I love everything in this conversation thread. Keepers unite! Tellah, Fusoya, Dr Mog, Echo and Exdeath represent! I’ve never classified Edea as a Sage, but I will allow the above mention. Funny how much more un-Sage like she is in RK due to her nonexistent MND!

You are correct. The potency of the Kardia heal (the buff applied to a target that heals them when the Sage damages an enemy) is set per skill. They could, in theory, make a spell that does 1 damage but full heals the kardia target. Overall, I love the design of it: it's pretty fun

Teeeechnically, she isn't using black or white magic, she's using a combination of thaumaturgy and conjury. But that's splitting hairs. However, what's funny is, her conjury is being used to fill the gaps in thaumaturgy that would otherwise be filled by black magic. She's definitely wise enough to fill the role, though. Though the way FF14 has decided to define Sage is as "a healer who can DPS really really well, but is more limited at healing"

Instead you get "literally not a Sage, but we'll call it one anyway."

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It's a Sage in the sense that it being able to attack and heal is important to its lore *and* mechanics. Granted, that doesn't distinguish it from White Mage, who explicitly teaches you, as a Conjurer, that you should be using your attack spells (and spends like 30 levels beating it into your head), but the difference is, Sage was developed *specifically* as a healing profession, whereas Conjury was developed in order to be able to commune with the Elementals of the Twelveswood. I would prefer Physician be reserved for a potential "alchemical healer" job later down the line (though I will say that it's looking like that's never going to happen now that they've passed over the concept twice - once in Heavensward, replacing it with Machinist and Astrologian, and once again for Endwalker.)

Calculator's low MP could be an impediment if their _other_ Job is spellcasting.