I recently realized that with the increase to her ult cost, sage's entire kit has now been nerfed at least once. This poses an interesting thought experiment: if we brought her back to her full closed beta glory in the current meta, how strong would she be? would she dominate the meta again as she did in beta?

In case everyone forgot, I'll compare her closed beta kit to her current one below: (if I make a mistake please correct me)

Wall (beta): 1000 HP upon deployment; can be placed up to 20m away, HP decays over 40s, $300

wall: 400 HP on deployment, increases to 800 HP after 3 seconds; wall does not decay HP, lasts 40 seconds; can be placed up to 10m away; $400

slow (beta): covers 30% more area than it does today, lasts 9 seconds, slows for 66%, $100

slow: lasts 7 seconds, slows for 50%, $200

heal (beta): heals for 100 over 5 seconds, recharges every 35 seconds

heal: Heals for 60 over 5 seconds for allies, 10 seconds for self; recharges every 45 seconds

Res: 7 ult points (beta) 8 (current)