Personally I'd love Aetherflow available pre-pull back if the alternative is our current energy drain.

That said, improvements to the old system are always possible whether we had a "hide" ability from ninja to reset our Aetherflow button or we were just naturally given 3 stacks on death.

I'd personally love if deathflare was Direct hit Crit to make it feel more "potent". I also whish our demi moves had "higher potency" abilities potency and trade damage elsewhere. The main argument against this is how dependant we would become on getting those demi-summons out, but would it hurt to have higher than effectively 520 potency on SMN? Especially for our demi summon super moves which are weaker than Fire 4's. Through 2 usages, they total around 1040 potency but that's less than 2*300*1.8*1.15 from 2x Fire 4. Further on this line of thought, I always though that the "Akhmorns" from both demisummons could be a bit different. Bahamut could do the "spam" version (see nidhogg/or ucob bahamut) at reduced potency after the first one, where as Revelation from Phoenix could be more powerful but also only go off once (like morn afah but with 2 charges).

I don't think it would OP to give bahamut a damage up buff for the SMN only. I think its problematic if its suggested it was a party buff. I think 1 is more than enough personally and we're not exactly a job focused around delivering party buffs. A DWT 10% magic bonus like effect would be good however.

Rather than physick, I think drain as a defensive tool might be more in theme with a job like SMN if we were wanting more defensive capability (titan egi shield is ridiculously strong).

I just think egi assaults in general should be more meaningful than "just" ruin 4 generators than they feel like they are now.