I thought one of the selling points of sage was that it could Augment its abilities..

[Seraphor]

What exactly did you expect 'augment it's abilities' to mean?

It has a button, that upgrades other skills.

Sage still has the best system for consolidating all of it's GCD skills to just four buttons, and has the GCD skills most worth using, and has a set of GCD abilities that feel different to use compared to other healers. Which makes it not feel like a cookie cutter WHM clone, and is a win in my book.

Could Eukrasia have gone a little further? Sure.
It would be cool if it could be used to upgrade Eukrasian Toxikon, which would increase it's damage but make it a 1.5s cast with no recast, effectively spending your weave window on extra damage.

I'm not sure what else it could do though.

[Saefinn]

What exactly did you expect 'augment it's abilities' to mean?

It has a button, that upgrades other skills.

Sage still has the best system for consolidating all of it's GCD skills to just four buttons, and has the GCD skills most worth using, and has a set of GCD abilities that feel different to use compared to other healers. Which makes it not feel like a cookie cutter WHM clone, and is a win in my book.

Could Eukrasia have gone a little further? Sure.
It would be cool if it could be used to upgrade Eukrasian Toxikon, which would increase it's damage but make it a 1.5s cast with no recast, effectively spending your weave window on extra damage.

I'm not sure what else it could do though.

Pretty much. I think its main advantage is consolidating more functionality into less space.

I think it'd be cooler if they did take it further with more abilities, but ultimately it'd still function as it does now, like Dark Arts did for DRK.

For it to properly feel like augmentation I think we'd be entering FFXI SCH's territory with stratagems, which I think would be cool but they would add button bloat and I would think would be difficult to implement in FFXIV where button bloat can be an issue.

But at least with SGE you get a couple of other abilities that sort of fulfill it, Zoe enhances healing and Pepsis detonates GCD shields.

Though I do have things I'd complain about, Eukrasia is a mechanic I think is fine...if anything my disappointment is that I don't get to use them more because oGCD's always take priority over GCD's and the one mechanic SGE has that could correct it is a DPS loss most of the time.