Does SGE need potency buffs?

[Archwizard]

Taurochole is SGE's Excog

I do have some objection to this interpretation, since you can Recitation Excog for a fairly beefy oGCD crit heal that can only be activated when the tank is already low (the essence of a panic heal), where Taurochole's main pull and distinction is the 10% mitigation effect that you would rotate in fairly early into the pull (provided that you're not overhealing, or overwriting Kerachole) and is "only 100p" stronger than Druochole to boot. The potencies are similar but the use-cases are very different...

in most cases Toxicon is a slight DPS gain, assuming you cast it prior to a pull / downtime. Yeah in single target fights it's not that great but so is Afflatus misery. I think both need a buff. even if they buff Toxicon to have Phlegma numbers, that'd be a DPS gain in situations where you can prepare it during downtime and feel more rewarding while still being a DPS loss when compared to 2 Dosis casts.

So what I'm getting from is "not for the same reasons, but yes to the conclusion that it should be bumped up"?

So Scholar gets a 840 potency heal with E.tictacs with the potential to crit and Sage gets 750 with the potential that some of that barrier sponges damage before going to get transformed into HP and the potential of erecting a Secondary barrier with crits.

I'm still not fully convinced to the value of Pepsis considering the Addersting loss and the lack of interaction/healing with Differential Diagnosis.
Especially since unlike ET, you can actually see if the barrier had crit before you use it without needing a CD to guarantee it... though I suppose at least with Differential that's an issue of preference at worst, since you'd at least know if there's a barrier left behind...

Either way, I still think it should at least return an Addersting if it consumes a single-target barrier, though.

For all these comparisons i'm actually surprise you didn't mention Krasis, which is a 10% max HP heal weaker than Protraction.

Why would I need to bring up Krasis? I don't want to see the jobs homogenized.
It's also a 10% boost in healing over Protraction, so they're already even in my book.
Though admittedly, if the two jobs had swapped them it would be a different story, since an argument could be made about whether either would work better in the other's kit.