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I'd be wary of buffing Ephemeral Insight anymore than bypassing all forms of elemental mitigation other than things like Sayakana. The whole reason Charge Mind got adjusted is because it was so powerful of a pre-engage buff.

It'd make it so that when you engaged on someone who had CM'd prior you'd usually just die immediately since they'd preloaded an entire extra round of damage.

On the surface, yeah, only making your damage Akashic doesn't sound great. Its purpose is bypassing elemental resistance/nullification you'd otherwise be running into. Of course you aren't going to use this if your target does not heavily resist or nullify your damage type. Otherwise it's extremely potent if your build is heavily reliant on boosting one damage type or you really don't have anything better to do for prepping.

Making it any better universally risks it becoming what old CM was. Watching Evoker instantly kill people because the map was so big it allowed them to prep long enough to kill you immediately on engage.

Trex vs the average tank my akashic ryemei crit that could be doing 600ish akashic damage with 200hundofucking lightning attack is being reduced to 100-200 ish akashic damage (all that for 12m) because funny haha Magic DR and Marmor, dear god if they guard I'm doing less than 100, ephemereal insight doesn't even guard break.