"But when I say that I want minuscule little Awakening Mystic buffs, well then everyone loses their minds!" 

1. “Please try again bug fix” This bug has lasted 1+ years and acts as a self-cc when playing tight timing &/or playing with lag

2. Remove down smash on Absolute Roaring Tiger, Absolute Thunderpound, and Sea Burial - in general mixing a skill to have both CC & down smash is not good, especially on skills used to re-CC. In addition, Sea Burial is often used to rotate SA, and down smash interferes with group play. Removing these down smashes removes some potential to down smash reset in 1v1 but also removes some potential to int other people's combos in group play by down smashing a KD'ed target when rotating protections.

3. Remove 3 shard consumption on Seaburial (Keep 1 shard consumption), Remove 1 shard consumption on Roaring Tiger. Seaburial is an extremely low value skill - having it consume 3 shards is egregious given the nerfs it has received. Instead of buffing the skill's damage remove the egregious 3 shard consumption instead for better shard management. In Awakening, Roaring Tiger, in neutral gameplay is used to restore 300 HP. The fact it still consumes 1 shard to this day is outdated as the damage increase is little to negligible difference with the loss of a shard. 

4. Remove Bound & Downsmash from Earth Splitter & add frontal guard. This skill that was given to us as part of the Reboot was a major letdown. Nothing special on this skill other than it has downsmash which gave an already plentiful downsmash kit more downsmash.  

5. Rework Raging Wind skill (it was also dead on arrival): Currently locked for all forms of PvX. One suggestion is only to allow skill to flow out of Dragon Strike, give it Stun & Down Smash. This skill was even more of a letdown than Earth Splitter

6. Spiral Torpedo lingering SA to remove gap at end (similar to Awa Striker brother). I'm not saying make it linger like Rage Hammer or Rising Dragon but at least give it the same SA duration at end that Awa Striker. In this current ranged meta with Multi-Tick CCs, getting CC'ed at the end of spiral torpedo due to its gap is commonplace, and often Gushing Water flow is needed to close this gap. 

7. Add flows to Dragons Rip, suggested skills to flow quickly out of vacuum: rising dragon, seaburial, and spiral torpedo. Similar to how our new Abyss skill flows out of Roaring Tiger, Thrashing Wolf, and Sweeping Kick - please give us flows out of our vacuum. In the current state of the game, our vacuum is as low value as it gets. People can easily PvE Iframe out of it. Alot of the new classes have iframes that last long enough to completely escape it. Ever since reboots removed the 30% slow our vacuum has had less and less value. It's AoE in comparison to other vacuums is also mid. The only thing it has going for is it's accuracy debuff but even then it's functionality is still diminished. 

8. Remove gap from crouching wolf flow back step by making iframe linger. Timing is already extremely tight on using this flow, but getting punished because of desync and poor game design is shitty. 

9. Allow consecutive backward dashes that Succ mystic has (which doesn’t consume shard). Succ Mystic can backward dash when Flash Step is up without having to turn camera. Awakening Mystic can only dash once before consuming shards or putting skill on cooldown. Flash step should work this same way.

10. Awakening Mystic Wave Orb locked direction on cast hot fix. Before reboots, you could adjust the angle of Waveorb midcast. After reboots, waveorb was changed so whichever way it was initially cast it's effectively locked in that direction. This change came out of nowhere and was likely due to faulty coding. For example, Succ Mystic's waveorb had a similar issue in which on cast the skill was direction locked. This has been fixed for Succ Mystic for god knows how long yet Awakening Mystic still has this same problem.

The fact that Pearl Abyss has done nothing with this spec functionally speaking since Reboots tells me that they really don't know what to do with this spec, or even class, as a whole. Even QoL suggestions get ignored because the developers are too busy adjusting other classes that are in a better state right now.