As someone who has played a sage since launch I have to agree with this thread. Sage DPS was viable post 1.2 when you were able to nuke with tidal wave but after 1.2 having to be full balance/dot spec in order to be valuable in a warzone was extremely annoying to those who wanted to play the nuke class. I have been playing ranked warzones with my guildies with over +1200 expertise and full war hero gear that has been min/maxed for power and willpower I find being a sage extremely depressing. Now I know some of you will ask why don't you kite? Why can't you use your cc's or slows to get away? Why don't you use your whirlwind to gain some distance? The answer to all of this is: I DO ALL THE TIME (if you need further proof of my sage abilities look at my movie I made prior to 1.2) It does not matter if I use these abilities, with ranked warzones I am the first person to be focus fired. I can deal with one full war hero maurader on my butt but if I get another focused on me I go down faster than a fat 12 year old kid eating an ice cream cone on a summer's day. The developers need to bring back what sage truly was. A glass cannon nuclear DPS class that has devastating DPS but at the cost of being killed easier than other classes. The developers need to bring back what sage was prior to 1.2 where we could spec in the telekinetics tree and not feel like we have to play full balance in order to DPS. Full balance spec is not good for ranked warzones and my guild won't even let me do ranked warzones with them now. I personally don't even want to do them since I know sage dps is doing nothing but hurting the rest of the team's success of winning. Compared to Powertech,marauder,vanguard or sentinel sage dps and burst is VERY FAR BEHIND Sage really needed no nerf prior to 1.2 and i'm extremely upset at the current situation. I have been forced to re-roll a guardian to have any chance of being valuable for the ranked warzones. This is coming from someone who has put in 39 actual in game days into my character. That is around 936 in game hours and trust me people i'm beyond pissed off at how these developers could have right royally screwed this class up so bad for us.

Of course my ranked team is on teamspeak for voice communication. In regards to the CC that's a given. Focus fire is key for ranked warzones but even with us focusing on the powertech there are always 1-2 operatives free cast healing while running and mobile. I don't think you can contradict me with the current OP flavour of the month for war zones has solemnly consists of 2-3 powertechs 2 operative healers and 2 mauraders with a hybrid possible sorcerer. As regards to my 1300 expertise. I have min maxed all my gear for top dps and all my war hero gear is fully augmented. If you need proof of my individual play I suggest you click on my signature video before 1.2 when Sage was actually valuable and useful for DPS before the devs completely dropped the ball by nerfing sages for no legitimate reason.

My team did mark the healers and dps right away and also did focus fire. I'm in full war hero gear 1300 expertise and was consistently getting 6k hit by a pyrotrech. All they do is put the shield on and use their flame on any target. You can't even burn them down. Operatives have the advance ability to run and heal powertechs while in addition popping their shields to whoever is focus fired. All I see every ranked warzone team doing is running with 2-3 Powertechs at a time with operative heals and 2 marauders with off sage healing is the best composition right now in warzones which is virtually unstoppable. How can you not tell me Powertech is not OP right now? Hopefully the devs can see this, though most of them are blind as bats

Powertechs are grossly over powered. It's so annoying to be playing ranked warzones with the other team stacking power techs. This is honestly ruining the game.

Not at all, I just know everyone is feeling this way that maurders are ridiculously oped and it seems you all are playing this class because you damn well know how over powered it is.

Bioware, you truly have royally FU**** how you balance PVP classes. The maurder buff was completely unnecessary and beyond mind boggling. You nerf the crap out of sage/sorcerer and now the max dps a sorcerer can do in a warzone is probably around 300k, while I see everyone and their gay lover rolling mauraders doing AT LEAST dps up to +500k. What is running through these developers minds?!?! I can't even begin to understand the logic behind this? Is it because all the devs play mauraders that you find it necessary to give them a buff for absolutely no logical reason. THE CLASS WAS BALANCED PRE 1.2 WHY DID YOU ENHANCE IT FURTHER? Now everyone and their fricken dog are re rolloing to play marauders or sentinels because it is the best OVER POWERED dps class in warzones. You really crapped the bed on this one bio-ware. You say you balance all classes yet NERF THE CRAP out of one class and add a huge buff to another class that did not even need it. *Golf clap* there are so many people pissed off with the let down of 1.2 my server is dieing thanks to your incompetent logic of trying to balance classes while you right royally made the game even worse for balancing all classes fairly.

Just logged on for 1.2 today and noticed if I want full my creeping terror/severe force ability I have to put two points into devour... Anyone else have to do this as well as devour is pretty useless in my opinion What's everyone's specs for 1.2 dps wise?

your an absolute joke bioware. Seriously u have had over 5 months to figure ranked warzones out

Thanks guys, My spec is the hybrid spec right now before 1.2 nerf... Pretty choked I won't have aoe instant on wave but going to go full balance for 1.2 What about you guys? If you want me to post my spec I can take a screenshot of it and post it if you guys want? Feel free to ask anymore questions regarding the way I play my sage as well I would love to answer them for you guys. Cheers, -Talron

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This game game out like 10-15 years ago but was my first mmorpg when I was 12-13 years old. I remember the open world pvp and huge guilds battling for important dungeon access points. It was awesome, when you killed someone you looted valuable items off them that was precious to them like a bad a@@ sword, bow or amazing armor gear. This made killing people extremely worthwhile and beneficial. There were guilds that were truly evil that came into peaceful guild cities and ravaged the town killing anyone and everyone in their path. They were basically barbian guilds that destroyed the innocent players. This made for a truly amazing pvp game that had good guilds protecting civilians and pure evil guilds that killed anything on sight. Did anyone else play this amazing game or am I one of the few who only played this and remembers how awesome the epic battles and how much fun pvp was for it's time?

Thanks Rockstar! Glad you guys enjoyed it. Your true about the haters on these forums though very childish and disrespectful. Like I always say though don't hate the player, hate the game.

Are you kidding me? There are not 2-3 buttons that I'M ONLY pressing in this game. I use in my utility telekinetic throw,project, force in balance mind crush, weaken mind,restoration,force slow,force speed,force armor,rejuvenation, force lift when presence of mind is propped I do you telekinetic throw because of the instant cast. Force slow is needed when melee is on top of me pummeling as well. I honestly use around 7-9 abilities on a regular basis to keep my sage alive it's only 3-4 of these that are DPS that I rotate in use for my sage. This is just like any class that rotates between 3-4 DPS attacks You are beyond a joke if you think i'm button mashing 2-3 attacks. Maybe because I do the others so effortless your eyes cannot react fast enough in time? You cannot be calling sage the easiest button mashing class to play Stop trying to undermine my class and think it takes no skill to play. I have played Guardian and Sentinel stated above and yes they are different but no class is easier than the other.

I agree with EVERYTHING stated above, nice post. Thank you to the people who actually posted contributing discussions and intellectual facts regarding sage.