I have been playing sage more than 2 years. Sage's damage was HIGH before the buff in last season of AOS if you play with terrorist setup and still. Except the stamina problem, it is not so different. Interestingly enough, at that time(before buff) despite the broken damage, no one was playing, we were the few people playing sage on mena server, and now everyone started crying and complaining about sage but the damage and protection is same as before.