I'm currently playing in a homebrew campaign as a hedge witch/herb witch. As I can cure disease/poison with remedies the hedge witch's empathic healing has gone from being almost useless to completely useless. Luckily for me my GM is happy to change things.
For some context, my characters backstory is that he is from Gundrun (a small human settlement in the Worldwound) and is the inheritor of old Sarkorian magic and traditions. Of course with the destruction of Sarkoris much of their knowledge was lost so in practice he has o reconstruct what he can from fragments of lore, skills etc. passed down though the descendants of survivors and gained though his enigmatic patron (healing). He's a purely a witch but his archetypes (particularly herb witch) link him to the druidic traditions of Sarkoris; evoking a sense of the shamanic, his familiar is a spirit which lives in a skull. He's a (somewhat lapsed) follower of the Green Faith and will typically refer to summoners as "Godcallers", though does not necessarily consider eidolons literal gods. Some consider him to be the "chosen one" destined to break the hold of the demons and heal the Worldwound. He does not believe this and instead travels around selling his healing skills, both magical and mundane, to whomever he can.
With this in mind I was initially set on replacing empathic healing with the witch's bounty major hex. To me this helps reinforce the druidic connection and echoes the magical fruit once grown in Storasta. The hex is flavourful and fits well with the character but its usefulness is debatable. I don't think I'd be prepared to take it as a major hex so this change allows me to take it in place of a standard hex at level 8. I've suggested this idea to the GM and he's amicable towards it.
The other option would be to make the heal skill intelligence based instead of wisdom based. this would give me a +5 bonus instead of +0.