So you want a DPS/healer hybrid without the cleric stance? I think it's gonna take more than making a melee healer with DPS strats in mind for the problem to "be solved".


Healers aren't meant to join the fray for any reason whatsoever. There is no benefit for having a healer being in melee range unless they are trolling the party. It's too much risk for little rewards. As I said before, if you are going to make this special melee healer have more defense to compensate and thus have more durability than a mage healer, just make the darn job a new tanking class and be done with it.