I think i do not need to explain this topic, sage is dead, i’ve tested, a red class gained a spell shop skill, and another weak skill(not about damage at all, but the cast/adnimation/single/non utility) skill.
Fixed imc, we do love sage!! bring him back to the game, as support, crafter(a real one), damage, summoner, just bring him back!!! Sage’s deserve more than that!
Well, you see that there are many Classes that seem to be abandoned.
Oracle, Kabbalist, Hunter, Sage,Dragoon are just a few examples.
Basically the red circled Sage got outperformed by the green circled Enchanter.
Don’t forget: As long as Mr. Kim is a rich man, nothing else matters and changes/improvements for underdogs are basically a waste of time/ressources for them.
Also, remember that IMC now also nerfs Classes, if you’ve got bad luck, you get half buffed and half nerfed like Oracle and Krivis.
Imagine a nerf hits your taxi driver, what good would be the few damage%/utility changes if your utility was gone? You’d be another dead Class sitting in the town selling warps, similar to Pardoners buff shop or Squires repair/enhancement shops.
Kabbalist’s only good skills are circle 1 though. There’s no real point going Kabbalist 2 or 3, except to be a meme and help a friend farm. I say “help” because a Kabbalist doesn’t even have enough combo with its own skills or good enough damage spells to kill on its own. Kabbalist is just there to be a PvP filler-wonder, and except for that, it’s a pretty useless class.
I’m curious to know about Oracle’s “good skills”. It’s just a niche class that doesn’t offer anything worth going the 3 circles when you have classes that have the same kinds of skills in a much better state (Ausrine, Bloodletting…).
Yeah both Classes got degraded to useless PVP Classes. They have too many restrictions, too much CD time on their skills, no real synergy with any of the Classes (except maybe with Zealot but yeah, you wasted 2-3 Ranks just for 1 skill to be useful to another Class).
I honestly don’t understand how they could give Zealot such a huge damage boosting skill at C2 but a troll skill that does literally nothing as the only C3 skill for Kabbalist. Gebura is the worst skill in the entire game, and it’s a freaking Rank 9 skill!
You have to use your Ranks with the highest possible damage output (Taoist 2, Inquisitor2, Zealot2 and Plague Doctor 3) for a debuff that adds flat 100% damage for 3-9 hits every 30 seconds.
Honestly, it’s even better to go Oracle C3 over Kabbalist C3, as Death Sentence at least gives 85-90% additional damage for 10 seconds every 60 seconds due to the Death Sentence changes, and it’s not flat but an actual multiplier that boosts all your skills damage without any hitlimit involved and you have Rank 9 free for Zealot C1.
This is just so freakin sad, 10000000000 times sadder than seeing 1000s of people die on TV every day.
Unfortunately, it’s the only good thing the Sage currently has right now. The new skills in C2 are just disappointing. Talk about Sage being a “Red Class”.