Sage needs a rework

[Darny]

Sage's release state was quite a wonder, but he felt like a god. The nerfs that followed were justified. However, the nerfs just kept coming until as of now Sage has nothing left except his thematic and look, all his abilities feel like placeholders that do no damage. His melee mage playstyle completely evaporated by the standard melee classes(Musa, Zerker, Warrior). He is in quite a desperate state.
Below are some changes I would suggest to nudge him back to a playable state in the new reboot class meta.
Lightning Prison Feels like a placeholder ability because it deals zero damage while also putting you into extreme danger. The risk vs reward makes this unusable in PVP. Crit Chance needs to be re-added to PVP to make this ability worth casting

Bolt > Rift Chain flow feels clunky and unintuitive, it is counterproductive and often puts you into pre-awk unintentionally. Make it an actual flow skill that you can lock or keep enabled so people who dislike this feature are not forced to lock Rift Chain itself.

Rift Chain costs too much stamina.

Sage awakening needs more "primary" high damage skills, every ability feels like fluff except Upsurge.

Bolt needs to be an Iframe

Sage's effective damage range is in melee range but he is as squishy as classes like Archer and Ranger which have significantly more range than him. Sage needs damage and survivability suitable for competing against melee characters.

Shock Relays Frontal guard needs to be re-added, Sage is already a very squishy class no reason to remove it.

Impaling Flash range nerf reverted.

Divine Executioner's stamina lock removal would help Sage with a lot of his stamina troubles.

If any BDO dev reads this, I hope if you take anything from this I hope it will be the revert on Bolt into Rift Chain flow, it feels absolutely terrible.