With Sage at level 80, the biggest take away i'm finding for it compared to scholar is how much better it feels to utilize shields. Even though they technically aren't instant cast because of the Eukrasia animation lock they still come out significantly faster then adlo/succor shields. And then there's the matter of Toxicon, while from an optimization standpoint it is currently rather weak it still feels good to use.

While I struggle to come up with a Toxicon equivalent for scholar, it does make me wish they'd at least reduce the cast time of Adlo and Succor to 1.5 seconds, it would still be a cast that locks you in place but at least they would come out at a similar pace to SGE skills and the weave space would at least allow you to deploy on the same GCD.