Why don't we have more DPS abilities ?

[Carighan]

...Warhammer?

Nah, super-simplified description of the Cleric, Shaman, Blood Mage and Disciple in Vanguard Saga of Heroes. The game flopped hard, but it had some really intelligent design choices that would not work well with where modern MMOs as a genre went but are still extremely smart in a vacuum.

To make some of these designs work, the game did some wild things. For example, you had a defensive and an offensive target at the same time. So a Blood Mage would use graft skills to heal their defensive target while performing various drains on their offensive target without having to swap targets. Funky stuff. Disciplies needed their defensive target to designate where their healing from their attacks goes. Though to be fair, the Monk in WoW recycled a lot of that concept but sadly also massively watered it down a bit later.