Hmm, sage feels a bit redundant as just another healer with scholar already existing. Feels like someone wanted some of the scholar visual style, the underused shield style of astrologians while also getting some of the red mage light show with a sprinkle of magitech wings for maximum Mercy feeling
. Edit Looking at the trailer again some of the presentation is actually closer to some mechanist stuff. Either way, my first impression was that I didn't even have a clue what the class is supposed to be.
I prefer sages being the pinnacle of magic in my (j)RPGs tbh, in FF terms: Having mastered black and white magic. I wonder what melee class they have in store, I'm a bit surprised they apparently didn't even feel confident enough to put it in the trailer. Also not sure what archetype they currently lack, even looking at FF classes. Beastmaster(urgh)? Fencer? Mystic Knight (that would mostly be a red mage..)? Rune Knight? .. Freelancer, lol? Seeing how they took Sage into a completely different direction it can probably be anything.
I also have to say this is the first FFXIV trailer in a long time that didn't really do much for me. Maybe because the focus was on Paladin and then not even going all out in some way to show it off, maybe it was because the twins rank the lowest for me among the scions. Beats me. Either way, not really that hyped. The sound of a squish and losing legacy capability is also not doing much to entice me.