Sage or Priest whichever gets you comfortable.

Priest is a master of 1/2/3 v 1/2/3 not just in pvp but can also easily keep a small concentrated group alive during PVE. Compared to sages where they have to cast "Ground"[debuff] skills to debuff players and can only cast 1 ground skill at a time, a priest can easily debuff any ailment the opposition may throw. Now the drawback is that 1 debuff 1 spell from the priest meaning multiple debuffs may give you some problems however i have seen priests how have found a way to overcome the single debuff problem[i wont give out the build since they might get mad]. Anyway priests has more instant AOE heals and HOTs [Heal over Time] compared to Sages. Priests do well also with Massive single target nukers such as locks and zerks because they have Celestial Anger. At the same time priests can learn the stun from the Mage job which can really help your 2 v 2 or 3 v 3 fights.


Sages on the other hand is best suited for Huge parties and Raids. Before sages really performed well when Frigid [world boss] was still a little bit hard to kill since most players were not yet that geared. This time around i believe sages would be a very vital character on the up coming new World Boss Lost Mysterion, Mysterion will be spawned on a PVP zone so it would not only be a PVE to kill mysterion it would also mean you have to fight against players who are in the hunt for mysterion. This makes boss hunts a bit more complicated and fun. [Why hunt mysterion? he has a kewl new set that only drops from him k? ]. Also on pvp sages would no longer need to worry about constantly casting a debuff on his ally since he can just pop out a Ground spell and have that guy pass on the circle if need. The drawback on the ground spell is on PVP since opponents would not just stand around waiting to be killed. Sages have less HOTs but more on Massive Healing however most of these spells require casting. But some sages found a way around this.


So all in all they might have small differences but they do the job just the same. I suggest you pick the class that you can handle and makes you feel comfortable.


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Priests are better than sages! I've played BOTH at end game level with epics. My priest did better heals and two group heals are enough, Healing Aura is weak but good enough and Celestial Blessing leaves a nice HoT on everyone. Most people prefer priests healing, cause of attack buffs from buffs and Advanced Rescue, and Celestial Anger. Priests are best at one person healing but their group healing is good enough. Sages are different, overrated, but they're still good not as good as priests! I suggest you try both. See what you like better.

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Eh, I play rarely these days. But my chars are LiXiT, CoolJaZ, and CJaZ. Sage, Zerker, Gaurd, respectively. My beta-testing days have made any client crashes irritating, so I'm laying off until that's fixed, and I'm nearing the end of the schoolyear so I gotta focus on stabilizing my grades and finishing these tests before I even begin to frequent this server again.

btw what's your character name? It's good to might as well start making friends.

Haha thanks, I was just used to Priest being the better healer end game, for the sheer fact most people just pvp, but thanks for the info.

Oh, you wanted reasoning? BLASPHEMY! But seriously, Sages are more adept at keeping groups alive, while Priests are geared more toward keeping a single person alive. More advanced groups would have a Priest for the tank and a Sage for the rest of the group, or if everyone is ep!cpwnage geared then a Sage will do fine. But most groups end up with one healer and Sage is only effective in groups, the group-heal skills do not expand to raids, which is why Priests are more effective in PvP.

Basically:

Priest > Single-target, tank healer

Sage > Multi-target, group healer


In most cases, Sage > Priest.

Anything else you want to know, just ask. Good luck!

well.. that was very informative lol.

Sage all the way.