Echo as an aoe that's not hooked to Temporal Anomaly

Been thinking about this awhile now and wanted to know how others felt or if they considered it as well. (just thinking play style wise not endgame min/max concept)

Currently we have Temporal Anomaly that when talented applies echo to 5 people. Kinda nice, works well for healing, even better with you use your HOT reversion to apply hots to 5 people at once from the echo ( even if weaker).

It really got me thinking about the echo “spell” in general honestly i find myself never really touching it directly compared to holding on to mana and essence for Emerald Blossom if needed.

Maybe it’s in part my bias but echoing 1 or 2 individually at a time and then using living flame or reversion sorta feels off when i could have just used living flame or reversion directly and fished/hoped for free casts of emerald blossom.

So… to that end it made me wonder if the echo “spell”, either replacing or adding another option, became an aoe tool/option specifically just to get the echo “buff” to multiple people. So perhaps you hit the echo “spell” and it targets X number of people to give the echo “buff” (% echoed can always be adjusted). (essentially something outside of Temporal Anomaly to apply multiple echo “buffs”)

The concept of echo is nice but i think on an individual casting level it feels sorta off. Feels like it’s better suited if it were worked for multiple people by design at a base level.

I use echo when someone is missed by the temporal anomaly, when i know they’re going to need stronger heals, or when i’m healing the tank.

I think it being an aoe by default while also costing essence would invalidate emerald blossom, and if it didn’t cost essence or have a cooldown it would be too powerful.

And if it did have a cooldown you’re suddenly back to temporal anomaly.