FFXIV Endwalker: Level 90 Sage Guide Opener, Rotation, Stat Priority & Playstyle etc [Outdated] 

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I don’t know if you hear this often to the point where it just sounds like I’m saying this just to say it but.. You’re a really good RU-vidr, and this guide has definitely helped me become a better sage and I feel a lot more comfortable playing the class, so thank you very much for this 🤗 ! Keep up the good work!

I've watched a couple sage explanation videos and yours makes the most sense by far. Clear, efficient, and to the point!

This is the first video that I've seen mention stat gearing and it's been something that I've been looking for as a Sage player. This video is loaded with great tips. Like stacking Crit makes the most sense because if you can crit more. You more damage and have a higher chance of getting better and stronger shields when the crit procs. Great video and for those who want a insight on sage or what not. It's worth the watch.

Love your content! I think it’s great that it encompass a lot of information which helps understanding so that I don’t just play it blindly. Looking forward to more!

Your voice is really nice.. makes listening to your guides super easy and you're very informative! Love it, and made getting into sage much more enjoyable!

I know this is kinda old at this point as far as youtube content goes, but this video genuinely helped me get over my healing anxiety and now I have sage at 90 and feel pretty confident in my abilities :3 so thank you so much!

This is the best Sage guide I have watched. Thank you!!!

This guide was really well done. Glad I found this channel.

I love the intro explaining the scope of the video i really really like this

You came out of nowhere and are putting out some of my favorite xiv guide content.

As a caster main (since 2.0 launched), I was ridiculously excited for Sage. The aesthetic etc is just amazing. Astro used to be my go-to healer, but since I've started Sage, there's no looking back. Thank you for this guide. Especially for the melding/stat portion. Keep up the good work :)

What a fantastic and thorough sage guide. Thank you so much!

Thank you very much for this guide, really helps a beginner here!

You can tell you must have helped many people before even making this youtube channel, just exemplary! Also sage not only feels good for tank mains but also going from support range dps to sage feels so much better than other healers Really an appreciable job in my opinion, having lots of fun and adapting very fast!

Helpful, informative, detailed. Super helpful as always. I want to try healer class after maining Tank and Sage is what I've chosen and this video is super helpful for me. Please keep it up. Your channel is doing God's work. butt.. 🤣 that caught me off guard.

Thanks man really insightful and well strutured guide, gj :)

I just started playing Sage a couple weeks ago. I almost never play healer in RPGs but I've fallen in love with it. But I feel myself struggling sometimes to really understand it. Alot of the "numbers and sats" go over my ahdh meat computer. Naturally, I looked up guides but this was the first one I found where you actually took the time to explain how and why every skill works and when to use them. Really appreciate it!

Very well explained, thanks, putting this in my favorites

Only halfway through this video. Great info. Loving Sage! Reminds me of when I first played Astro before they changed the cards. Never boring.

I think I’ve found my main with Sage. I loved leveling WHM to 90, but it felt lacking in damage, and complexity. This brings both of those. I’m enjoying playing around with different rotations that’s will let me totally focus on damage and not have to worry about anyone but the tank. I think that’ll be ossible with Sage.

The tip about applying individual shields to multiple party members when you have a bit of downtime before big AoE to get back the Addersting is something I had not considered doing. I just hit 90 sage yesterday and am getting geared up because one of the healers in my static wants to swap to DPS, and I said I'd take over their heal spot. This will absolutely help with that. Thank you!

I main tank and I love sage. I didn't understand why I told you brought up the cooldowns and it made complete sense

I'd like to make one point that I wish someone had told me before starting, and that is to practice Sage using the Trust system. There is nothing more humiliating than being in a dungeon as a baby sage and everyone is dying around you multiple times. Thank you for this guide and extra tips, it was extremely helpful!

This is awesome bro! Thanks a bunch for this!

First class video as always

As a main healer and playing Whm and Ast, I may finally give this job a try

I'm a sprout tank. Got into an instance with a sage that gave me Haima, and I instantly knew I'd pick sage as my healer job. :D This guide helped me alot!

Thanks for this! Also your character is adorable. 😭

Good stuff! As a suggestion, for the next healer video you do, when you go over Esuna, point out that you can Esuna any debuff that has the little white bubble over the top and you *can't* Esuna any debuff without it. I've had healers in the level 89 dungeon tell me that I was the first one to teach them that, so it's definitely the sort of thing I'd want included in a guide like this.

Great info currently lvling sage after mainimg scholler...i discribe sage as a scholar with attitude...

Thank you for making this

Adding a comment for the algorithm. Be seen, I say! Very well put together, thank you.

great guide! I learned quite a bit from watching the video

For dungeons you can also use Krasis to snapshot stronger Regens and Haima barriers. For example Krasis before Physis buffs the Regen from Physis for its entire duration. Then while both are active you can use Kerachole and Haima so that they're both super buffed for their duration. It's a little overkill but most pulls end without me having to do much more haha

awesome guide, instant sub! picked sage up pretty quickly, started doing all kinds of content with it. still confusing when i’m panicking. i do stuff like pressing pepsis before eukrasian barriers :/ but the job came naturally to me, i played discipline priest in wow. it’s pretty much the same concept except kardia (atonement) is a 15 sec buff you put on multiple people and putting it on people before raidwides and then smashing your damaging abilities can be tedious… and the healing from it is not capped, so you’re encouraged to minmax your dps. also you only have like 2-3 flat heals and 4 damaging spells. i could go on and on… sage is easier in this regard, but it’s so much more engaging and nuanced. nevertheless needed some clarity, thank you!!! also i believe the "ch" in "-chole" abilities is pronounced like "k" since it comes from greek (think ch(K)emistry)

Agree with the tank play style. Played Dark during Shb and notice the mitigation and shield cool downs similarities. Only now I spam TBN esque shields on others than on self. Feels a bit like 2nd off tank in raids.

I've just recently got back into FFXIV and it would be a great help while you discuss the rotation and mention the spells there would be a visual help so I would know which spell you're talking about. Still appreciate the guide

I enjoy your vids

I have started playing Final Fantasy 14 Crystal/malbo...Been I'm playing since Oct first time gaming since my little girl is about to get her learners permit..Now I find when working from home I am now able to be greasy! But lvled abunch 50 smn 50 sch 80 bard, 60 Sam, 67 mnk 70 lol the tools and info i got are from your vids love all your stuff keep up the awesome work o7

as a whm main this helped a lot actually. you’d think as a healer main it would be easy to adapt to sage since its a healing class, but whm and sge are entirely different beasts and due to whm relying on insta cast chunk heals, regen stacks, and only occasional dmg output. so juggling sge with the dmg heals and the actual healing was so hard for me because my tank kept melting when i took time to do dmg. now that i know what to do i’m looking forward to getting out of trusts for practicing lol

Not gonna lie I found your channel & u helped me understand sage even tho I play on PS5 please PLEASE make a video for white mage & reaper much love

Fantastic Prof o7

Tbh i double eukrasia diagnosis because when you do, it turns the first shield into a heal and the 2nd becomes a shield. Though i think its less of a shield and more of temporary hp. Temp hp has always been its own seperate thing in games but some people think its a shield when its only an hp for shield, not the character.

i main tank but i have fallen in love with sage. at first i was really unsure about it - it feels really intimidating when my go to healer was whm which is easy to restore HP from damage as opposed to slowing incoming damage so HP isn't lost to begin with. sage is great when you figure it out and is a great healer for tank mains. almost want to switch over to a sage main!

I had no idea using Zoe made shields stronger. Thanks for the video

V neat guide! One thing I will say re: gearing is that Det is defo the primo stat over D.hit rn damage/output wise for a variety of reasons, but I've always found that the 'Det boosts healing though' argument...is kinda a placebo at best? I recall the math being done about it for healers in Shadowbringers before the numbers and Det change, so this may be more drastic now, but back then the difference was like...1% more damage for more D.hit melds and 3-4% more healing-ish. Which sounds decisively in favour of the latter...until you sit down and actually think about 'wait, how many times would +3-4% healing have actually changed the amount of heals I do'. I think a lot of people making the mistake of comparing defensive numbers like HP directly with offensive numbers like DPS and treating them both exactly the same, but the difference is more DPS is literally always a good thing, whereas you can and should have Enough HP/mit/etc. And SE/CBU3 are never going to design (modern at least) fights where those kinda small heal power increments are actually going to matter outside of hail mary damage RNG luck in situations where, lets be honest, you should've been pressing more mit/healing in the first place. It's like Tenacity for tanks; basically no-one has ever actually actively noticed a tank being more durable bc of going Tenacity simply bc those kinds of slim constant margins aren't really what this game is about outside of big dungeon pulls at most, which stuff like melding is always overkill for anyway.

When EW came i did start with Sage and now is my main Healer (before was SCH) i do Everything with Sage inluding the new Savage and the way i use my materias on Sage is Critical Hit first then Determination and it runs perfectly smoothly for me! d=(^_^)z LOVING this job 1,000%!! 💙 (Nice Guide btw! 😉👍🏻)

Sage is my favorite class by far, but when I talk to any baby sages, I reinforce the idea that crit is our first stat priority. Because of the way barriers work with crit, when you crit a shield, it applies a secondary shield. And this is huge because when using pepsis, it only consumes one of the barriers. I found this to be a super helpful tech trick to maximize your pepsis without sacrificing your shields. I use pepsis a lot because it is such a small cooldown and no MP cost. I would also warn new sages who are looking to raid to keep note of how sages work with other healers. Sages have a difficult time raiding with other sages or scholars due to the fact our barriers don't stack. Sage barriers stack with paladin barriers, but not other sages or scholars. Barriers become overwritten by whoever is the recent cast, so layering barriers is just a waste of MP. If you have to heal with another sage or scholar, try and coordinate cooldowns or establish a barrier and a raw healer.

zoe mam- zokes aside i really loved playing sage so far, thanks for the guide!

great guide! and I'm just over here wondering where you got that outfit from lmao

I've been playing sage a lot with the new expansion and was wondering if when running dungeons it's worth using eukarasion diagnosis on your tank while he's pulling the mobs each time it breaks to get the max 3 stacks of addersting. You can use it in between your aoes while you run with him. Not sure if it's more damage though but it's something I've been trying out.

Hi, nice guide! I think pneuma does 60% damage to enemies past the first, not 50% however.

Awesome, I’ve been avoiding dungeons cause I don’t feel confident healing wall 2 wall pulls. It Looks like I’m already doing most of this when I heal alliance raids and trials. I just gotta suck it up and throw myself out there for 4 man content.

On my main character the Sage is my main healer class if I had to say it had any kind of drawback it would be that because it’s a shield healer it’s healing potency isn’t as strong as some of the other classes so there are times in a fight we’re in order to keep everybody alive You have to forgo all forms of DPS and spam healing abilities to keep everybody alive as long as you’re quick on your feet and you know what you’re doing it is possible to do that.

As a beginner to FFXIV AND first character WHM main from level 1, trying sage was terribly difficult for me. I am so used to 'fixing' damage instead of 'preparing' for it. I hope this guide helps. My only fear with sage is that I need previous knowledge of dungeon and boss mechanics in order to be efficient. Well.... that. And every single button does something totally different from what I'm used to xD. I'm gonna give it a watch tho.

would love a sage dungen healing guide, with like a healing plan for trash pulls and boss fights in levling dungens as well as in endgame dungens. ( preferebly pictures so show ur healing plan )

What is the weapons you use on the intro? They look super cool

._. I'm happy to find a FF14 youtuber that doesn't talk at the speed of light.

Felt somewhat confident in my ability as a sage, I decided to do some leveling roulettes and got a Stormblood dungeon. We didn't get really far cos I completely flopped, felt really bad but the players were really supportive. If the team I played with in the Azim Steppe dungeon sees this, ily! After that experience, I watched this guide and have been practicing since, Tried a Heavensward dungeon which went really well! Thank you so much for the guide!! (Addition) I wasn't exactly sure what it was, but my heals and abilities just didn't feel like they were doing much, I'm unsure if my IL was too low. Would you perhaps know why? **Sorry to bother** Thank you a bunch for the warrior guide as well! I'm seeking to improve recently finishing Endwalkee and feel as though I'm on the right path! Thank you so much for making these aspects of the game understandable!!

Also you can use rescue > Icarus and drag someone all the way with you :D

Is there an optimal GCD to hit via spell speed with sage? Ie. pld shooting for 2.4 gcd with skill speed. Thank you and great content!

I love how you’re pronouncing the sage abilities and spells differently every time you say them 😂 Great guide.

So ive been doing a bit of sage hear and there..... does anyone else find that using a layout like other healers feels off on it? Like i feel like if i were to lay it out like my dps hotbars

actually Pepsis is a pretty darn good skill.. if you time it right you'll mitigate dmg with the barrier and get the heals with pepsis so more dmg mitigated

I went from a BLM main to Sage main lol, definitely having fun with it

How are your keybinds setup? Using a mouse, moving and hitting 7 on they keyboard seems impossible without worrying about straining my wrists

I'm a sage main, and healing a warrior on sage is a non issue in dungeons. In fact, I usually just need to do physis and kerachole each pull, and keep them up with AOE damage, I normally never have to directly heal them unless kerachole and Holos are on cooldown, so I'll use taurochole for the damage reduction. Paladin needs a bit more attention, as does gunbreaker. When we get to dark knight, I find myself going through cooldowns as they come up, it's kind of crazy. As I've come across dark knights in better gear, it's gotten better, but damn, they're squishy tanks, and I hope they get some love.

While Sage is powerful, it just lacks party utility. There's also something to be said about the fairy over Kardion as well. The fairy can be placed anywhere you like, providing its AA heal and AOE healing coverage beyond even the Scholar's reach, effectively allowing a single Scholar to cover significantly more area than any other healer in the game. Then you have the fact that the fairy always works, regardless of if you are DPSing or healing. Where as Kardion only heals while you're DPSing, meaning a significant portion of the Sage's healing is lost any time you have to cast a GCD heal, as rare as that may be. The speed buff and DPS buff of Scholar is just icing on the cake.

Watching this and the "Butt" made me sub

Excelent content, mind doing somelike along this line but for red mage? :)

Haima is an amazing skill but I think a single tank buster will only break one stack of haimation and effectively only prevent that much damage. A shield move will probably prevent more damage when it comes to a tank buster?

I spam Pepsis when needed in big fights or large pulls.

I use e. Diagnosis on 4 allies, then Krasis -> physis II -> kerachole for pulls. And add haima/panhaima/zoe+pneuma/holos+soteria whenever needed. That way any party member can pull and generate toxikon stacks, which can be spent on aoe. Doing this prepull can also give stacks before a boss' raidwide when timed properly.

What's a raid buff?

my epithet is barrier! it allows me to create barriers!

It's worth noting that toxicon II is worth using in aoe. This is because it has the same damage as dosis III and then only 5 potency less than dyskrasia II on all other enemies, meaning its a dps gain over dyskrasia II up to a whopping 26 enemies, which will never happen anyway. Edit: Come to think if it, that makes it more powerful than pneuma in aoe as that does 60% less on other enemies

I usually save Zoe to combine with Pneuma to get a 900 potency aoe heal for when you need those big heals ^^

in my years playing ff14 , PLD & SCH only 😅

how are your eyes diffrent colors?

I would add zoe krassis eukrasian diagnosis pre pull to opener

I would add Rhizomata shouldn’t be held. It’s important you have as many addersgall throughout an encounter as possible. Even if you’re overhealing with Taurochole you’re gaining 700MP which is not to be sniffed at with low piety builds or issues with people dying in dungeons

Playing SGE makes me feel like an ER doctor (even if it's nowhere close to the actual experience). It's fun weaving in oGCD's between Eukrasia before popping off a shield. The job reminds me of what I loved about SCH in ARR/HW and it's nice having a damage focused healer again. I have been personally going for a crit+spell speed build, being able to shave off some of the cast time for Dosis has been really great for getting in more Kardia procs over time and during movement when you're out of Toxicon or Phlegma, it gives you a little more wiggle room which I feel better about having.

Is there a reason you would use an intelligence pot and not a mind pot?

I've found it useful to preshield myself and Icarus ahead of the tank to generate an extra addersting stack in dungeons. Note that you may make some inexperienced tanks uncomfortable by doing this, but otherwise it is a nice little DPS gain.

I get why you want determination for both heals and dmg, but in that case why are you recommending an intelligence pot when a mind pot would buff both heals and dmg?

Can I out myself? I misread Krasis’s tooltip and thought it was an AOE increase. I’ve been casting it on myself since I started this job. Whoops. The funniest part? We’ve been progging hard content without problem. Guess I just got a new skill to test out.

I remember getting flamed for playing more or less exactly the way you do, because i'm a noob for relying on Kardia lmao.

I don't know why, but I have been running lvl 70-74 dungeons today (just picked up sage) my gear is lvl 70 (crafted) my tanks keep dying on me, I'm a long term WHM main but have also played PLD and wanted to give Sage a go. Maybe I'm wrong but I use Eukrasian Diagnosis before pulls, then add Kerachole + Physis II, then when the first Diagnosis shield breaks I reapply to get on the stacks while doing Toxicon + Dyskrasia for the most part. I end up finding tanks who can manage and tanks who can't mostly those that can't handle wall pulls. They start running around to avoid damage, but the heals are not good enough to output the damage applied to them, I have tried reapplying Eukrasian Diagnosis, using Druochole, Soteria to increase the healing from my damage and even Zoe + Diagnosis but still the damage is still greater than what the shields + heals can do. Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong? granted sin eaters do a heck ton of damage and it's a struggle even as a white mage, but as far as I have researched it seems I'm doing it right. A friend kept telling me the dps were not great and that the tanks weren't using cooldowns (only bolide/living dead in those oh shit moments). So I'm confused if it's me, the dps or the tank, I mean if the tanks keep dying on me as sage but 99% of the time never have deaths as whm, it might be me. I also have a question, what do you do in the situation where there's a wall pull and you have a dark knight that uses living dead. As a sage you can't simply put them up 100% with that damage coming in, there's not enough time i think.

Ugh, I really can't decide to focus my efforts into my sage or scholar primarily.

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, primarily being instant-cast. 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. 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.

Someone should do a PSA on the forums and inform Sage players that they have to actually do more than just kardia and then Dosis shit for an hour

Sage main: crap I missed that Euk Prognosis before the group wide...who wants some Pepsis? 😜

Gonna go get me a scotch and pepsis while I watch this and learn to heal sage.

As a console player I find heading impossible to target people any advise?

I have a weird question for ya. how come your Dyskrasia is blue and mine is red? Im lvl 90

me: huh maybe ill try this my controller: sweating profusely

In the video you said pop and intelligence pot during opener, it should be a mind pot. Intelligence pots don’t work on healers.

I dont understand why the players meld D.HIT on healers. Meld DET, it is a flat increase to damage and healing vs a CHANCE to do some extra damage on a single hit. Madness

*stares at the bars in pure confusion as to what kind of setup it is*