The may 31st patch made rift chain work with bolt. This change made the awakening feel clunky and awkward because it forces you to mentally account for it EVERY time you cast bolt so you don't accidentally cast rift chain and TURBO NUKE DELETE YOUR STAMINA BAR. If you want to buff awakening sage's movement how about you just buff Bolt? Seems quite straightforward since it's an awakening skill in the awakening kit.

Also, how is it that you have to bundle in 3 unnecessary nerfs to spear bolt, shock relay, and impaling flash. How on earth is the net negative nerf worth the net positive buffs here? You've made significant downgrades to 3 skills in exchange for changes no one asked for that directly makes the class less fun to use and clunky.

Sage's stamina usage is straight up broken and pre-awk skills are way too slow. Even if some do a nice chunk of damage, the animation speed is so slow that it evaporates any DPS potential the move has. They need to fix both these problems before i'd be fine with the rift chain change.

I lock rift chain now because it is so obnoxiously implemented because its just putting you into pre-awk when you dont want to. Allowing it to be put on hotbar instead of being forced to be the "next action" after bolt would nice. Yea, also I hope it's a bug with how much stamina it uses.