Quote Originally Posted by SirShady View Post
I think the main problem here honestly is mostly the fact that Scholar already has a plethora of OGCD healing, and the faerie gauge being tied to Fey Union really limits its use. I think if we swapped Fey Union (Fey Union costs 1 aetherflow to tether for 9 seconds to an ally?) with Energy Drain and used the Faeria Gauge strictly a DPS spender that would eliminate the problem, but it might be a bit tricky. Not sure how other Scholar players would feel about that.
It would make them heal more yes however some would complain about how in encourages overhealing and kinda goes against the fairy identity as its not something that is there to damage

Physis
That would be better but I still think physis would suffer more than gain anything from that change as it limits the applications of its heal buff (no more buffing GCD shields or you lose kardia procs) and in downtime it would still feel bad to use as well as making it a more impractical tool than current version in the case you have high healing scenarios where you gotta use multiple GCD heals. Personally I feel that if you really want to make physis something that procs kardia making it an attack like pneuma (with point blank aoe so its used in downtime) would work (and open up synergy with Zoe) and as said Soteria could be the "kardia for everyone" button

Toxicon and Dps
If you want an emergency kardia button I'd suggest something that makes the GCD heals proc it for a short while, GCD heals are mainly for emergencies so it would fit well and make the kardia mechanic not useless in those scenarios. With that said I don't think emergency buttons like that should be a focus for a barrier healer fix as their whole kit is around avoiding said scenarios

I like the new combo idea but I feel adding 2 more buttons like that would make Sage get too close to button bloat. I think in this department you're forgetting that Sage's identity is also being able to change the buttons with actions like eukrasia (even if this identity is very undeveloped) so maybe that button bloat problem could be solved if you lean on eukrasia versions of existing buttons or new buttons.