Before the launch, WP/DoK were intended to have healing abilities which proc on hit (so theoretically melee WP/DoK should be able to heal while being engaged in melee) and some anti CC. This concept was later used in Wrath of Heroes for character named Conrad and it worked pretty well against AoE casters.wots wrote:as far as fixing wp/dok to be melee healers, no one seems to have mentioned the elephant in the room. any reasonably competent tank will kill/neutralise a melee healer with interrupts in the current state of game. the old aoe heal was nice, but divine assault/rend soul is very easy to halt so if you are looking at a rework, i would suggest this will be an issue with making them viable as their most effective st heal is so unlikely to land
As you mentioned there is no place for the chanelled and/or summoned abilities in the frontline, so I fear an eventual melee healer would require not only to change one mastery tree but also to rework / change some existing abilities and mechanics.