I agree that raw upgrades to the ver spells and jolt would be wonderful, Especially if they do some neat aesthetic effects to make it feel more red magey, aka more rose petal impact effects.

the melee combo is fine, I do however love the idea of a "Enchanted Blade" effect that causes your autos you do for a brief period to have a chunk of magic potency thrown on them while doing your melee combo skills. the question would be figuring out the optimal combination of time and potency to make it just feel like a bonus and not something you have to build your burst rotation around.

I do agree with needing an aoe combo finisher. The trigger state, however is something that needs to be figured out. Personally I like the idea that each time you cast EM you build a stack of *insert cool name here* and then once you get 3-4 stacks you'd go into a combo of Verflood (White Mana)/Verfreeze into an AoE version of scorch (call it Ardor or something? not the most appropriate name considering lore stuff but whatever I'm just reaching for names)