First of all, I'm ready for hate on this post. Its a post from a player who's played and enjoyed sage since day 1 on a platform who's vocal majority hates sage. So it's whatever


             It feels as though this community uses the games various feedback system's in a sort of spiteful, petty way in order to make other people feel bad and punish them for playing "X strong class" instead of using it for the purpose of bringing a class in line or to give other classes a helping hand. By this I mean the general thought shared among the majority of posts both here and on reddit isn't "let's help bad classes get better changes and buffs. While gently bringing op classes in line without debilitating them" Instead its "let's get whatever class is deemed strong nerfed as hard as possible so that they're just as bad or worse as x class is currently and people lose their interest in playing the class."

With this being said, I do agree sage needs nerfs. But the nerfs he's planned to receive? No, not only do they drastically change his core gameplay for the 4th or so time since his release, but there are better changes that actually make sense and target what makes the class strong. The crit changes on LP are whatever, but changing his main source of damage avoidance "bolt iframe" into an SA without giving him any other sort of damage mitigation whatsoever is just kinda laughable. Especially with how absurdly squishy even a 400+ dp sage is, and especially when there are other changes that can bring him in line without changing a large part of the classes core mechanics and game play for the 3rd or 4th time since his release. (Also, rip to all ash forest sages if our bolt gets changed to an SA.)


Whether you believe he is the most broken thing on earth or not, surely you can understand how disheartening it is to have the class you fell in love with constantly receive huge gameplay and core mechanic changes constantly. 

Since I might get called out for saying all this yet not giving better ideas for nerfs, ill do that now:

First, we keep the crit damage change on Lightning Prison. The skill was really strong and removing its 100% crit is fine. Pretty okay change.

Second, we make bolt (our Iframe) fully visible the entire time but instead of changing it from an iframe to an SA, it stays an iframe. This way us sages still have a way to avoid damage both (PvP and PvE) to our frail, nimble boned bodies while also giving players fighting against sage a far easier time tracking and catching him.

Lastly, to further address sages huge amount of damage we look at what ACTUALLY gives him the ability to dish out an absurd amount of damage no matter the scenario. This being his insane amount of accuracy that he gets for free in his kit. He currently has so much accuracy, that going any sort of accuracy gear whatsoever (including crystals) is seen as a waste of time, and its better to just go full human damage and ap accessories. So if we were to lessen the amount of accuracy he receives from his skills and buffs, it'd force sages to have to gear according to their match up instead of having a one kit fits all fight scenarios type of thing that he has going on right now. It'd also lessen his overall damage potential by a pretty decent margin in general which would bring him closer in line with other classes. No longer would he be able to one combo every class build in the game without any real specific gear requirements besides AP. 

I could go deeper into more change ideas I have, but honestly I think these three are enough. They both allow sage players to keep the same play style they fell in love with, makes sages more visible which gives players the ability to learn how to catch and fight against him, as well as it addresses his currently pretty insane amount of damage potential.

Is this post biased? Obviously.

But it still needed to be said I guess.


ALSO!!!, PLEASEjust leave poor succession sage players alone. They ain't hurting anybody anymore man (for the most part.....),


let them keep their pve prowess. No need to kick them while they're down just because big brother awakening sage is getting the nerf belt again.