FFXIV: Endwalker Sage 1 to 90 Leveling Skills Guide

[@eastull]

“Can I have a Cure?” “We don’t got cure is Pepsis okay”

[@TheFrantic5]

I didn't want to laugh at this, but I did anyways.

[@jacobybarra907]

Haha Bepisis go brr

[@claretheworm]

Lol best I can do is pepsis

[@VampguyN85]

No pepsis, I want coke.

[@alexl3658]

Do you have diet Pepsis? I'm watching my MP

[@hyperionnova2854]

The Alphinaud shade at the beginning though xD

[@KingRabid]

i scrolled down comments just to see if anybody else caught that 😂 harsh

[@KZorander]

Brooooooo

[@TDKnave]

WoL: How can we avert the End of Days? Alphinaud: Hear me out; form a PMC.

[@Scerttle]

I got second-hand burns from that, ouch.

[@iarmandov2]

All is well in the world!

[@threegamma]

great combo for big pulls: krasis, physis, kerachole, pan/haima. should be able to do it every pull. alternating panhaima and haima, and you have 15seconds of not caring if the tank uses mitigation pretty much. and when it all wears off you still have taurochole + druo + soteria for heals if anything is still alive. very comfy

[@Watch_over_us]

Yeah I thought sage was bad until i lifted this combo from a different video.

[@idealandthereal8090]

And u still have holos and pneuma :) sage is insanely strong

[@CrouchingCrab]

You're the man WeskAlber. Been playing FFXIV for about a year now and your videos have been extremely helpful for learning the game and playing different jobs well.

[@gfrancescolt]

Keep going please... I'm on a leveling marathon and I really need your guides asap! Thanks for your amazing work!

[@TheFrantic5]

Over the past few months, I've grown to love Sage's active playstyle and endless mitigation. .... please don't tell Selene.

[@anabee8310]

She's at the sp, don't worry

[@claretheworm]

selene knows, it's why she left XD just Eos now

[@TheFrantic5]

@@claretheworm D:

[@SubduedRadical]

@@claretheworm she went to the milk store?

[@Gisellelovely]

I just love the way you deliver your lines. The intonation is just undeniably satisfying.

[@WeskAlber]

That's even just my normal speaking voice

[@Veishan]

At last, with WeskAlber's help, I can find out the difference between the 56 same-looking blue buttons!

[@pyrosianheir]

Finally going through and picking up ALL the jobs that I didn't have yet, and the sheer number of buttons dumped on you when you get SGE gave me so much anxiety. While they're no doubt different post DT than they were when you posted this... it still cut through a LOT of that, thank goodness.

[@BionicLatino]

I like the deeper explanations and analysis. This makes me really eager to see the new tank videos.

[@noamto]

"Hey, Rhizomata!" "Nothing, Rhizomata with you?"

[@Hoki_Den]

Now this is a real guide and not one of those where people just read skill description and calls it a guide :D Learning how to play Sage from your guide even helped me to correct some mistakes I did on another healer, thnx a lot!

[@BrettFairchild]

Man, I can't think you enough for your videos. I'm pretty dense and usually guide videos are tough for me, but your videos consistently give me invaluable knowledge, that lets me hop into the game right away

[@Vindex010]

Just wanted to point out a thing that you missed covering Eukrasian Diagnosis: normal shield overwrites applies, but ED (no not that one) doesn't overwrite a Scholar's critted Adlo, or Catalyze. It only overrides the Galvanize part of the shield. So theoretically, one character can have Eukrasian Diagnosis Shield, Differential Diagnosis Shield, and a Scholar's Catalyze Shield all on top of each other, for big ass shields. I think the same applies with Scholar's Galvanize, in that it doesn't remove the Differential Diagnosis Shield from the ED crit.

[@WeskAlber]

That's more a fringe case of a fraction of a percent. You need a SCH and a SGE, both need to make the poor decision of using their GCDs (or be low level, or pre-pull), and both crit. While something possible, didn't seem like worth the few seconds to show off in this already super long video. It'll work, but it's such a rare potential thing

[@Vindex010]

@@WeskAlber Yeah it is really fringe lol. Just wanted to point it out since I've experienced it fairly often when on 8-man roulettes as a Sage, and when the Scholar and I both try to preshield the Main Tank before the pull. Since in Scholar's case they have a sure way to proc it I just call that cheating on their part

[@notting2640]

@@WeskAlber it’s fringe but you can bet that it’ll be the new offshoot “meta” for DRS lol, esp for akh morn

[@mariolorenzocuyegkeng5746]

Well done WeskAlber! :D May I suggest something for wall to wall pulls (although it might not be effective but it works for me) :) So when the tank is about to pull: Dyskrasia > Eukrasian Diagnosis (break) > Dyskrasia > Eukrasian Diagnosis (break) > Dyskrasia > Eukrasian Diagnosis (break) > Dyskrasia > Eukrasian Diagnosis > immediately Toxikon > Soteria (the 4th eukrasian diagnosis breaks here) > Toxikon > Toxikon > Toxikon > Dyskrasia spam. The 4 toxicon spam is useful for healing the tank during the early portion of the pull so you and the tank are not overwhelmed. :) Of course you may get a different result hehe. :D Great job as always!

[@isoaodyssey4800]

The King is back!! Please continue to work on these guides and get the whole series updated again, you are the best.

[@NinaSoniq]

Me, who has been playing Sage since early access and became pretty comfortable with it: I need to watch this. Great guide for people getting into Sage. The thing about control and combining different abilities is true but it takes some time getting used to it. But if you get a hang of it, Sage is a lot of fun. And also pretty strong. The way I approach wall to wall pulls in dungeons: Pre-pull Eukrasian Diagnosis. While the tank is still pulling, Eukrasion Dosis on as many enemies as possible. Refresh Eukrasian Diagnosis when the shield breaks to get more Addersting. When the tank stops, I start AoE damage and weave the following abilities in this order: Krasis on tank -> Physis II -> Kerachole -> Haima/Panhaima. The first three can be used with every pull because of their low cooldown. And you can alternate between Haima and Panhaima. With this you get 10% damage reduction, two buffed regens and a buffed shield on the tank. Combined with the heal from Kardia and the tank's own mitigation and self heal this is usually enough to get through the critical phase of pulls. After the DR from Kerachole drops, I use Taurochole to get another 10% DR up on the tank and after that whatever the situation requires. This is basically what Momo does in his "How to Sage in Dungeons" guide. I can really recommend this guide as an additional resource. It helped me a lot when I reached Endwalker dungeons.

[@TheRevanchist6817]

I've been waiting for this. Love sage and thanks for the work. You're Black Mage guide helped me out a bunch through Shadowbringers.

[@liniadedoldia3054]

Almost forgot to watch the video today..thank you so much! You are inspired me both in game and in real life

[@seriodenoyarohi7403]

Thank you for the Guide as always. I think it bear mentioning though that Pneuma should not be used offensively since it only deals as much damage as Dosis III in single target.

[@Qazqi]

Tip to anyone starting the job: DO NOT underestimate kardia's heals. It is a HUGE source of healing over time, even when compared to the rest of your kit over the course of a dungeon. You want to be spamming your damage gcds to make full use of it because it will add up immensely. Do that and it's very likely that kardia will take top spot on your list of healing done by skill, even in a dungeon like Mt. Gulg that can make you use your full kit for 2/3 of the trash. If you haven't been trying too hard to always be casting and keep your uptime close to 100%, now is the time to start working toward that, especially in trash pulls where your aoe offers you completely free movement and weaves.

[@arryn786]

Can you even check statistics like that in game? Not that I don’t use Kardia I’m a new sage and that’s one of the first things the quest taught me. But I’ve never seen like a summary of statistics at the end of an activity or in the menu.

[@Qazqi]

@@arryn786 Technically, yes, via a battle log filter and an abacus. Practically speaking, not in game, no.

[@desubysnusnu]

Kardia & Scholar's Embrace are very underestimated. Especially Kardia. When you can keep attacking it's stronger than most regen that pure healers provide & you dont have to rely on a dumb faerie who keeps healing the dps.

[@roxiane]

I only realised this when I put Kardia on myself in solo unsynced battles and look at that crit heal go !

[@Wanderingsage7]

How serendipitous. I was wondering if you were doing okay and here you are. Also, nice Alphi reference.

[@elsandont]

happy to say that i’m now comfortable learning things without guides! this did give some insight on some things i should be doing differently but i am glad to have gotten to a point where the way classes are structured make sense to me. thank you for your continued hard work!

[@kalancosta7650]

Thank you for this guide…… it’s helped soo much when playing this job and now sage has become my favorite healer

[@Enrakyotens]

Not playing Sage, but it’s great to see WESKGOD drop another guide video

[@koalasenor535]

Maxed all my tank roles and dps roles only today and just started sage. Always find healer class complicated initially so this will help.

[@soundoftruth64]

thank you so much for this. Ive been messing with sage and your videos have helped me grasp classes in the past, so I'm hoping this does the same for me now. Great work.

[@krise99391]

Oh, thank An A Nidhoggs, i just started leveling Sage a few days ago and i've never been so confused by a job before. Luckily i got through the confusion by embarrassing myself in MSQ roulette once and then going through a few trusts. I've got a much better grasp on it now, but this should help a lot for future levels.

[@LianaSunburster]

I personally found it useful to start at Sastasha and slowly go through the dungeons until I got more knowledge about sage. Hopefully it is going well for you now!

[@WeskAlber]

An a Nidhoggs* Also thank you :3

[@WeskAlber]

@@BunnychanFarabee Well don't ignore it. Being able to attack on the move is a really good thing. Both in trash and bosses. And like I said it is technically a gain in Aoe... Just not enough to dump

[@kjk8193]

every time you update a guide i'm like "thank god i'll finally be able to learn the job properly" lol

[@christheenbyVT]

I just wanted to say, thank you. I've been really struggling with healing with what used to be my primary healing job. (astrologian) but Since picked up Sage and with this guide along with some others, i've vastly improved my performance, I'm still not performing like amazingly but certainly better on Sage than i ever did as an astrologian. and in hindsight, your warning to "not start healing with Sage" was what made me nervous going in to level it since astrologian was not going well for me. and honestly, Sage feels a lot easier than astro is, I feel like i should have recieved that warning about astrologian in retrospect, astrologian feels way worse of a choice for "your first healer" than Sage is. Which is funny because it starts at a lower level and ON PAPER it's not that different from white mage but in practice it's way more difficult than any other healer in my experience so far. Astrologian is certainly more overwhelming than Sage is in terms of OGCD management, how tricky it is to get the most out of Star compared to how "fire and forget" stuff like Pheuma is, but it may just be because astrologians have the "hardest" bread and butter opener of the healers because of Divination and how mission critical perfect weaving is for that job due to cards. It's funny when i look back on my logs where on Sage i generally have a few minor instances on not weaving properly where i went like addersgall heal+cooldown before i went back to dosis spam, where with Astro is was more like 18 instances of incorrect weaving/delayed malefics and 90 percent of them were card management related.

[@stargnh6954]

A tip I want to add about Kardia in trials and raids, a good way to heal a party member back up, if they get hit by an AoE, or after they get raised, give that person Kardia, you can also use Soteria after you give them kardia, if you're low on addersgall or might need them for an upcoming mechanic. Just remember to give the tank kardia again after you've healed your party member.

[@obklutzy]

So far, I already feel better prepared for sage because of this guide. I'll definitely be rewatching to reinforce it but thank you so much for this guide that somehow is teaching me my nemesis of a class

[@Chamstar]

Yes, was just looking for something like this! Going to watch this to learn what my co-healer sage can do in savage ^^

[@Vayshen]

I like the quick summary you've started doing for these guides. The next time I consider a job I can consult it if it appeals to me, gameplay wise. Hope you add these to the new guides for old jobs.

[@annoula]

thank you so much for uploading these. you have no idea how helpful these are

[@joshniehaus2941]

Some really good insights in this video. Thanks so much!

[@captainjustin]

Awesome tips on Addersgall usage and combining abilities. Thanks Wesk

[@NikolaiHildenyar]

Thank you so, so much for uploading this. These guides make FF14 fun. You're a national treasure

[@AirisuSG]

I am so glad u explained sage in "scholar language" It helped a lot as my main is SCH! :)

[@WhackedMaki2]

Great video! One thing I wish it had though, was heal rotations how you do DPS openings. You mention a few times the order you use the skills in to optimize them, and I think it would be amazing if you had a graphic like you do for the DPS. I struggle to keep the names of the skills straight with Sage since they all sound so alike, and a picture graphic would really help me visualize it better.

[@LamentaFortuna]

This is a great guide, but for combos of spells, FFXIV Momo's sage video goes over how he personally stacks up CDs and combos them together at what point in the pull if you're looking for that kind of input.

[@WeskAlber]

Ordering heal CDs can depend on encounter, specific tank you get, and other factors. This is more a personal and comfort thing.

[@LianaSunburster]

I've almost got sage to 90 now, which is surprising as at first it just didn't click with me, and I went back to scholar. After I'd finished the MSQ I decided to give it another shot, and it has quickly become my main now.

[@jgee6243]

LOVE the point "Be sure to heal your team member AFTER they are raised..." THIS is something healers need to learn like yesterday! I can't even count the many times a healer will waste an insta raise and then walk away, only for the newly raised ally to die again due to a party wide AOE or just from normal damage. I don't know how this lazy practice got started but should be addressed community wide. Thanks for mentioning! Great video btw!

[@slashermas]

“Please know how to heal before playing Sage” Me sitting here as a new healer main only leveling Sage for the gundam memes I can make: *sweating intensifies*

[@elsandont]

i would like to add, looking forward to the DRK video! that’s the tank i’m having the most trouble with this expac

[@StriderHoang]

I like to rotate healing augmentations like Krasis and Physis II on different strategems, particularly I always make sure Haima and Panhaima during pulls are augmented by Krasis or Physis II's increased healing received buffs.

[@cheatermccheat6378]

I thought those buffs only applied to GCD's?

[@Nyansyn]

This class hurts my head... So thank you for this!

[@alexgodoy7322]

Been watching ever since I started in Shadowbringers. Ever since Endwalker released I was hoping you did a video on sage!

[@QARepair]

Subscribed. Top man ! After watching this not sure I can manage lol, only two weeks in this game and struggling, I love this game from 20 years ago when I played ffvii but I think I'm too old, yours Young's have better memory , faster reaction and other skills

[@azumaninjay]

Wow this was a big help. Thanks for the breakdown.

[@koaga224]

I don’t even play sage. *proceeds to watch video*

[@ErinKlassen]

Thank you very much. This has been extremely helpful.

[@reflexdogtraining1337]

Amazing content as always bud

[@kfk4441]

Great guide.... But I'm so used to the "it will make sense at 80" that now i kinda feel i miss that

[@WeskAlber]

I do say it'll make sense at 90!

[@alexiosblake9804]

@@WeskAlber that's not the same.

[@jencendiary]

It offended me, as a previous omni-80, to not have SGE to at least that level. This might keep me leveling it to cap. Haha! Thank you!

[@MurderOfAKiller]

then the two jobs in 7.0 will do the same! since stormblood the new jobs start 10 levels below the old level cap lol edit: bew => new

[@brandonstansberry3111]

These videos are so good! I'm new to BLM and need a video like this for the class! Keep up the good work!

[@LinksterGames]

Great guides as always :D

[@travisperry76]

But don't get me wrong , he has helps me so much in the past ! Good job and keep up the good work !

[@malguskerensky]

Thank you for all the amazing guides! It is probably a lot of work, but do you plan to update your other class guides with EndWalker information?

[@WeskAlber]

I don't have any class guides. I will be giving all 19 jobs a guide

[@Porako]

I am a huge fan of your long form tutorial

[@zerostarhx]

Thank you so much WeskAlber

[@KidDynamite22]

Haven't really looked at the animations much but Holy sh*t Pneuma is basically a healing kamehameha :o

[@Era2Sunrise]

Man these guides are nuts

[@RishiLux]

This video was a huge help. Might have to sideline my WHM.

[@TheSpectralFX]

very good guide, thank you for this information.

[@iasonastzene9151]

"pls know how to heal before playing sage" me who hasn't played a healer before in any game but likes lasers :)

[@WilburTheGnome]

Great work as per usual. Now we need to start a petition to rename Emergency Tatics to Cokes to rival Pepsis.

[@reginaldswann7445]

Such a great guide!

[@gamerxXx2377]

Thanks. Love your work

[@Salrous]

I like your videos, please keep up the good work

[@andy4an]

i had to level sage to 90 without you wesk! That makes it the first job I did without your help, and dang that was a bit scary, lol. but still, i'm sure it's a ton of work to make these, and this is stilll pretty fast.

[@oklimbo]

This came at the perfect time

[@AaronWGaming]

Usually If I know a Party wide is coming up I put up kero, double cast (Single if the party still has shields) E Prog on the Party one pre attack then one after attack to restore the party followed by a Ixiochole if Needed

[@AaronWGaming]

if I have Haima or Panhaima I already have it cast before going into the Kerochole, Single Cast E Prognosis/Diagonosis, Pepsis, Then Return to Combat

[@slimfastsubaru2043]

Pepsis is weird. Most heals or Shields have a travel time, but sages don't. So you can pop pepsis as a raidwide goes off itl hit the Shield, break it, but still give you the pepsis heal.

[@akirachisaka9997]

Small note, pretty sure Haima and Panhaima are both 6 stacks of shield. 1 shield is applied on use, then 5 extra stacks of backup shields that can be applied. Not sure if the heal at the end consumes the shield you currently have, or only the backup stacks. Edit: oh yeah you mentioned this cool

[@WeskAlber]

Only the backup get spent. That's why it's Haima and Haimatinon. Haima is the shield. Haimatinon is the stacks. For 1800/1200 potency respectively

[@LeBlonQ]

I love your guides

[@anj6174]

picking up SGE as my first ever healer in EW was not a very pro gamer move so i'll stick to watching this in the meantime and get used to basics before picking SGE back up seriously, thank you as always for your hard work! o7

[@VampguyN85]

I got to 90 mostly from level roll and msq roll. And level roll put me everywhere from 15-44. So level 70 unlocl to 90 I spent 95% of my time being level 50 or lower. So I have no clue how to play it past 50 lol. And it was brutally difficult to keep the tank alive in Aurumn Vale and Dhezmel. Oh and for the record I mained whm to 90 and am super comfortable on it. Sge was super hard for me in the beginning and at specific level areas. It wasn't until I started doing moogle tomes from msq rolls that I started to enjoy the class.

[@andy4an]

oh dang, i had no idea that it was kardia that was creating enmity before the tank could collect them. I was at a complete loss as to what I had done wrong.

[@ryanhebert5033]

Wesk, awesome video, as always. Thank you! Can anyone tell me what the name of the song is at 28:00?

[@WeskAlber]

All the songs are in the intro and outro but iirc was The Mushroomery

[@nip3004]

Main use i get out of haima in boss fights is when the rest of the party is messing up and i need to focus on stabilizing them. Gives me 15s of breathing room by putting it on the tank

[@nobody52414]

25:00 no you didn't, mess up? no you didn't. Too far away? No you weren't. Everytime i watch this video from a ffxiv break i die inside looooooooooooool

[@rndm2655]

Looked and asked around in the Balance; apparently Krasis and other healing action potency buffs work on Kardion which is kinda nuts.

[@WeskAlber]

Really. I didn't do much testing with it because it seemed not to.

[@ArceusShaymin]

​@@WeskAlber It is only a 20% increase so it's harder to notice on the relatively smaller heals Kardion does (especially when the range of healing randomness is close to the same). "Actions" will typically refer to *all* things within a given category unless otherwise specified (or unless spaghetti code). Kinda similar to WAR's Thrill!

[@WeskAlber]

@@ArceusShaymin the wording of the ability (bad wording) also made me believe it. But good correction either way

[@XenosInfinity]

Huh. Y'know, I've leveled Sage to 90 and been using it regularly in dungeons with friends, and I hadn't noticed at any point that Eukrasian Prognosis doesn't apply Differential on crits. I was just expecting it to work and figured I'd been really unlucky with crits.

[@pumpkingamebox]

Use Toxicon while moving, unless you’re slide casting. Then it matters little.

[@cicisstormshelter1076]

Another great guide. I am going to definitely Sage on Kess, my alt. She is two levels away from Level 70 Summoner and not even finished with the main story in Heavensward. (I'm at the point we enter the Hinterlands.)

[@photomatt11]

First let me say I always enjoy your videos. I started leveling sage yesterday. I’ve mostly been doing duty support because I get anxiety. But the few times I’ve done roulettes, the tank just melts on their first pull. I’m throwing so many things at them and their health just disappears. I’m a tank main and I just don’t get it.

[@WeskAlber]

Grab someone you trust to tank. Someone you know who actually knows how to use CDs. Without like, seeing it, for all I know the tanks didn't use CDs at all. I did find Sage hard to get into, but once I did it became my favorite.

[@Castersvarog]

An addendum for shields, sages shields _always_ overwrite Scholar shields, even if the sages shield is weaker than the scholars.

[@WeskAlber]

That would be a bug. AST and SCH didn't do that

[@jencendiary]

@@WeskAlber It's because there's a buff on break (adder sting) for SGE.

[@WeskAlber]

Really? Is that for sure the reasoning?

[@jencendiary]

@@WeskAlber I think so? It would be my best guess, and is basically the best guess of the healer in my static.

[@Theguyoverthere603]

That’s some powerful T-posing energy in the thumbnail

[@IKMcGwee]

Love the Alph ribbing. He's my idiot son, but i do so love an "and he called it the Crystal Braves" joke .

[@calvinwilson3617]

As a console player i put sprint/mount on R3 instead of hotbar, great video though!

[@raarasunai4896]

The weird part is Sage was my first ever healer, and now I’m struggling to learn Pure healers over Shield healers

[@SilverNightbane]

OK, good to know I haven't been doing things completely wrong... Also, at least now I know how the skills are pronounced.

[@WeightedFedora]

Leaving Kardia on the tank is often a waste. If they're at full HP and a DPS isn't, you can swap it over and top them off. It costs nothing but an oGCD slot and 5 second cooldown.

[@WeskAlber]

Can also throw a Druochole. You're probably not using those either

[@WeightedFedora]

@@WeskAlber Yeah but that doesn't passive aggressively say "Dont' stand in the bad again"

[@witch_bird_jmh]

Out of curiosity, would sage get the healer specific minor msq variations in stormblood or would the fact it came out two expansions later cause issues

[@ff7522]

Awesome thanks. My suggestion for the next one is Summoner. Big changes

[@WeskAlber]

Been announced for a long time and the video is 95% done

[@user-kl3us9bw3u]

How does the healing action increase from Physis II interact with other HoTs? Does it affect the entire duration of the HoT even after the healing action boost expires? Say, using Physis II to boost the HoT of enhanced Kerachole?

[@WeskAlber]

Everything snapshots in this game. If a DoT/HoT is placed under a buff, it gets the buff.

[@keiyangoshin3650]

Thank you so much for this guide! I must admit I’ve been having trouble getting interested in this job, despite being a main healer. A true DPS healer? Hmmm.... I’ll certainly be viewing this video several times. Now for the really important question. What is that ‘vampire’ style glamour you’re using? 😋 Thank you. Stay safe. ❤️

[@WeskAlber]

Check the beginning of video for glam, or credits

[@keiyangoshin3650]

@@WeskAlber - LoL duh! 😂 Saw it, thank you!

[@Tonytaru]

Your job videos are easily some of the best content for new players. Ive watched most if not all of them multiple times. That being said, this video has me utterly confused. Im trying to make my sage play more efficient so i dont constantly feel like im on the backfoot barely keeping the tank alive in dungeons (sage is the only healer i feel like this on). But it seems like every single spell sage has you say “you will rarely if ever use this spell” which leaves me wondering. What am i SUPPOSED to be using then? Especially pre Krasis?

[@WeskAlber]

I'm not sure what you mean. The word "rarely" appears a single time in the entire transcript. And that's about Diagnosis since it's the Physick of Sage.

[@strassboom2612]

What dungeon was as 32:09?

[@canadiancanucklehead8310]

To be fair, if sprouts didn’t do dps while healing, this class basically tells you “DPS AND HEAL YOU DONGUS!!”