While I think a lot of the suggestions on the forums are great and have potential I don't see them happening. Square treats DPS/Buffs/Debuffs like pie. Meaning if there are 3 pieces we each get one yay! But if you want more then that piece has to come from somebody else leaving them with 1/2 while you have 1 & 1/2. I think this was clearly shown when they came out with the dancer, Bard had a wholesale loss on buffs. Astro card % was nerfed overall. The one raid utility that Sch had lost 5%. Astro also lost potency across all damage abilities. Scholar gained potency but lost abilities. Whm gained potency and lost abilities as well. So looks like a ton of take and very little give.

All DPS & Tanks have had their dps potency increased. Their increases are not a ton of potency but more than make up for anything that was removed from healers. So back to pie, our little dps slices were divided up and handed to others. This way they don’t have to count our dps when tuning an encounter and we can focus on healing or a tv show maybe a book. I'm kinda shocked they left healers with any damage abilities at all.

So for us to get buffs and debuffs and keep balance they would remove them from somebody else or change the encounters. Seriously don't see that happening. It would be nice, but I don't see that fitting into the new healers should only be healing theory and it would take away from all the healing spell bloat they gave us.

The way I really see this playing out is Sch is in the middle so Ast will get a buff up in dps and heals. Whm will get a slight nerf to dps and possible heals. This example fits in perfectly with the homogenization concept they have gone with. I’m sure Whm will stay at the top of the dps step-stool but only enough to make up for the lackluster raid abilities the other two currently possess. Or whm will be brought to heel and be given a raid ability and the other two classes abilities will go down again to compensate. Then they will do some QOL changes to smooth out what some of the other complaints are. Either way this plays out I don’t see them changing a lot it would go against their holy grail.