Something would be a better alternative to taking cleric stance away altogether. I never realized how pathetic Scholar damage without CS is until I went to the Wolf's Den Pier and was using the target practice dummies and ended up casting my Scholar DOT's on them without CS (since its disabled to replicate the PVP environment as far as our actions go and they did like nothing. Maybe being able to click them on and off was OP... but it sure was nice when a paladin and monk tried to gank me on my mount solo and I dismounted and killed both of them.

Having something like Cleric Stance, even a PVP equivalent that was more restrictive, would at least let healers take part in what the game mode was designed for more and benefit from the achievements and such, they're kind of left in the cold. Every job comes with risk... melees risk running into burst range at the wrong time, ranged people risk getting their LB interrupted, for a healer to risk their healing potency situationally would make things more interesting. What's the worst that could happen, Slaughter mode becomes somehow imbalanced, or people stop playing Secure? Oh right damage is already done on that front.