Why not reduce the cast time of raise? Alot your traits make no sense when it can be just made into the base spell. It introduces extra complexity and that's a bad thing for MMOs.

The target range is the same for a reason. If bard was given an extra 5yards lets say that would make them more effective than say a BLM.

If you give WHM a BLM pose then it's not a BLM pose now is it.