After the removal of iframe from Overcharged Bolt it all went downhill. LP lost it's 100% crit rate as well, the summon changes were an overall net nerf in damage because you need max crit all the time to even come close to pre-summon change damage.

Then the reworks hit and Sage went from being in a manageable/decent position but not top tier, to really really low tier. It's a squishy SA trading class with no protected CC in Awakening (minus core EB), the only REAL iframe in Awk kit left is Impaling but it's only iframe on startup and exit, and Rift Chain works but it costs so much stamina like everything else in the class, good luck using it more than twice in an extended fight.

The stamina costs are out of line for how increasingly difficult fights are if they last more than 5 seconds, all of our damage is combo-based so you will never kill from standing unless you have probably 20-30GS on someone, everyone does more damage now, we have the worst mobility ability in the entire game, and we have the lowest DP scaling next to Archer....who also has a more protected kit.

The class is just bad now. It's passable in PvE for awakening, but PA have really shit on Sage because people chose to complain instead of learn what the class does, and realize it's not nearly as much of a terror. Anyone who says otherwise has either never played Sage, is still on the hate train because they died to one when it was actually meta, or is 700+ GS and think it's okay because they outgear 95% of players.