White mage a Mage first, Healer second

[Carighan]

WHM is most definitely mage first, healer second...

As evidence, I point to how often Glare gets cast in fights over healing spells.

Yeah that's one of my main gripes, less of "role feel" since casters spend their GCDs casting damage and ideally only want to heal via oGCDs.

It ought to be the opposite. Say my Malefic were instant cast oGCD, but with a 2.5s CD, and virtually all healing oGCDs are either instant cast or casted but are GCDs. In return I lose Lightspeed of course, so healing itself on the move becomes super tricky. Now I'd actually have empty GCDs (no biggie, not like anything changes, I'm just spamming Malefic anyways), but as soon as I need to actually heal/protect, I'm spending GCDs on that while my DPS is only the "side gig" I do.

That's how healing ought to be!