My hopes are, if Sage becomes the "selfish" self buffing Shield Healer, as it's been revealed in the Announcement, that Scholar will see its Support/Utility expanded to have it mirror AST as the Shield Healer Support oriented counterpart. I want more Stratagems, I want more debuffs/buffs to manage during downtime.

I've always liked the idea of SCH having two modes from FFXI, one grimmoire for Enfeebling/Damage, the other for Buffing/Healing. In FFXIV we had the fairies that acted in that way, kinda. Hopefully we go back to our summon being meaningful and being tied to significant abilities now that the final opportunity has come to detach ACN/SMN from SCH.