Maybe actually add an incentive to stay at long range rather than spam cac/eng on cd and squeeze out as much AA damage as you can. They sort of realized this halfway through shb and decided to make Engagement a thing lol.

Manafication could do away with the combo reset to give room for choices during your gauge dump and Embolden either needs to include phys damage or a drastic increase in damage on the first stack, I like the decaying damage component since it adds choice on what order you'll execute your combo, but it's nowhere near significant enough for it to matter, especially considering other classes get to constantly vomit buffs with similar or stronger potency with no drawbacks whatsoever.