cutting gust jabs jabs, iop standard, defensive stance , earth branch, wind branch, bone enough sustain?

What do you mean with this? You mean wasting your entire turn to heal an iop as another iop?

to heal a iop as the same iop thats being healed, to heal yourself.

those are out of the way and expensive for iop. comparatively, masq can just spit on itself, ougi passively gains armor when targets take their poison damage, and have you ever looked at bloodthirsty fury?

we have a lifesteal option, but it's hefty cost is really hard to work with.