Giving Whm an identity

[Shurrikhan]

Plenary is lily consuming GCD.

Then your

Solace - Plenary - Rapture / Plenary - Solace - Rapture = damage reduction buff

Plenary - Rapture - Solace / Rapture - Plenary - Solace = party regen effect

Rapture - Solace - Plenary / Solace - Rapture - Plenary = damage increase buff

WHM-jutsu would take up to 5 GCDs to set up. There's a reason all but one shield in the game is instant and all percentile mitigation is oGCD.

Aren't the lilies not enough?

Short answer: No.

I don't expect a complete revamp of the class, that would be the same as making another class.

I'd prefer that over a gutless one, if that ultimatum were a real one.

Giving whm-s an incentive to use that ogcd is how you get ppl to use it to optimize their gameplay.

Using a skill even more rigidly on-CD is not "getting people to optimize" it. You've removed what little skill ceiling remains to it.

What kind of identity do you propose for whm?

Off the top of my head, one that builds solidly off its Conjurer roots, with White Magic seeming a logical extension thereof and capitalization thereupon.