Quote Originally Posted by Exiled_Tonberry View Post
I get where you're coming from, and I wouldn't mind WHM taking advantage of their strong dps skills either, but in the end I'm looking for a strong healing experience with WHM. I want skills that solidifies us as a very strong healer, not just an AST without buffs.
Unless you're willing to use more set up, I'm not sure that's going to be possible, given that an AST itself is a WHM carbon copy apart from having traded out Asylum and Assize for buffs. If you willing to use more setup though, I feel like its elements could play a far greater part in its toolkit. That's pretty much an untapped treasure trove at the moment, with only unreliable and non-bankable 20% chance procs to show for that huge alleged component of Conjury.

Alternatively, you have other traditional skills, such as Re-raise or Shell, but you'd have to find a way for the first's niche advantage not to be overwhelming and the second to be distinct from the simple % Def/mDef bonus of Protect and flat absorbs (Nocturnal Field, Galvanize, Stoneskin), not just in tooltip description but in actual use.