with how good Dw is it should be more availible to more 1h jobs for more Sub job diversity, however i have thought about an alternative latly for 1h + shield option that might work.

Imagine a trait called magic Sword & board, gicen to rdm/pld/drk posibly rune knight too once it comes out that activates when u have a 1 hand wepon + shield equiped + a enspell

let rdm get 4 tiers of it and the rest at 3 tiers

What it would do is mirror the dmg done off main wepon and add that too your current enspell.

Tier 1 would add 75% of mainhands dmg done as enspell additional dmg to the regulare enspell dmg.
Tier 2 would add 100%
Tier 3 would add 125%
Tier 4 would add 150%

of course you would still loose the haste of DW but it would allow one to boost melee dmg with str/attk and ability's like souleater making /war /drk good choices for sub.

add onto that a boost to spike spells dmg from amount of block your shield has and i think it could give an alternative to DW for melee as well as an option to actually be able to go shield without loosing too much dmg

I think this might be an interesting concept for those melee that have magic boost to melee.

Only thing i see holding it back is that as far as i know enspell dmg isnt added to WS dmg, if SE could alter that to make it carry on any WS that is physical i think it could make a very good alternative as well as fix the lack of elemental WS for RDM.