Ummm.. we are all support classes in a team based objective PvP game. That is what most people don't get. Right now DPS rules. There is no role balance. 8 DPS are far more valuable then any other class make up.

Sage healing at 50 can be very frustrating since 1.2. I can keep myself alive if I am at the very top of my game. However, the only person I am healing is myself. The instant you stop kiting or healing yourself you are dead. You can kite and bubble other people and throw out your HoT but this has limited effectivness. Basically any single bad melee can make you ineffective/kill you. On a good team your surviability/usefullness goes way up. That being said why any team would take a Sage healer into rateds (once they are out) is beyond me as keeping the healer alive takes too much away from actually going for the objectives. You are are going to hear a lot of this post is just QQing but its simply the truth of how things are in PvP at 50 for Sage (and sorc) healers. Edit to add: I will say the actual healing number are fine if you can heal, but your low surviability causes you too kite, which in turn takes away your 2 best heals.

Sure. Name it the Purple Heart Medal or Shell Shocked.

I'm guessing the 10-49 bracket? I think most Inqs/Sages get a taste of the 50 bracket and then go re-roll.

They are pretty balanced at higher levels. Lots of damage but are squishy. The leveling process can be rough though no worse then a few other classes. The problem is PvP.

Let's see.. all you have is your DPS and Surviability? Your words. I don't think you need a major nerf but you (and DPS in general) need an adjustment.

Can a maurder not use his big attack when being attacked and not die? Insert any non healing class in the above question. And I agree all healers have it bad. Sages are the worst however in PvP. If you think Rejuv or clense can actually keep some one up in warzone you need to L2P.

Let's see... the 2 people that say Sages are fine say you should kite/use your utility. Hmmm... nice try. Kiting - If we are kiting we are not healing. That's the part you do not understand. Almost every class in the game can basically make us ineffective by simply attacking us. There is no other class or spec that suffers from this. Utility sure we can stay alive by using some of our utility. Almost all of it is on longish cooldowns and basically require us to move, see kiting why this makes us ineffective. In any warzone Sage play has become running around bubbling people when possible unless the opposing team is mentally challenged.

Sage pure heals have no meaningful damage. The problem is if a Seer were to try and damage a melee you are essentialy dead in 3-5 GCDs. If you try to heal yourself you are alive a bit longer against a baddie, essentially no longer against a good melee with thier multiple interupts. You only hope is to run or hope your teamates peel. <--- That's what PvP has come to for Seers.

From a lore perspective Sages would steam roll every other class 99% of the time.

No you are mistaken. You DPS. Healers HPS DPS = HPS Otherwise you have no balance.

The simple answer is yes. It does take a few days to get used too but once you are you will never go back.

DDO. They also had in game voice chat from the start. For such a small subscription base they have done quite well and frankly I was amazed a game this size did not have two of the most useful things in organized game play.

There is a long wall heading north to south that you can see on your map. Hug the EAST side of that wall and it will take you right to the entrance.