WHM changes I would like to see

[LegoTechnic]

You know I've thought about this, and honestly, I think S-E should just bite the bullet and let healers buff. It seems they want WHM to be the "heal-specialist" class, but all three healers originally had tools for role swap built in, so just bring them back.

When AST was introduced it came with Diurnal and Noct stances which let it play like a WHM one way and a SCH the other, with its core set as a buff-healer. That's fun, so keep that, and don't be afraid to let card buffs be meaningful. In turn, bring back Selene as a buff fairy, and let Selene buff with haste and damage plus effects. This would make Eos the WHM regen fairy, and Selene the AST buff fairy. Both classes have had this role-switch option since conception, so just bring it back and run with it.

So what about WHM? Well, it used to have a role-swap as well. and it was called Cleric Stance. Bring that back, but instead of being a "DPS mode", make it role-switch. Keep the longer cooldown so that when you use the ability it locks you into it for a few seconds, but make it so that any spell that would normally apply a regen effect instead applies a Haste effect instead, with hastes overwriting regens and vice-versa to give weight to your decision. Haste has long been a White Magic staple spell, so let them make a decision to switch between a regen healer or a buff healer depending on the situation. If you tie it to something like Cleric Stance then it becomes more restrictive than SCH fairy swap due to its cooldown, but without the fairy mana cost, and it gives parties a lot more options.

I feel the mistake was never that AST and SCH were too powerful, but that WHM not having buff abilities of its own made buffs on other classes too desirable. So just bring back some history and make the issue about balancing buffs, rather than trying to balance buff-classes with a pure-heal.