Windwalker Monks and DKs added a new take on the DPS role via their class themes. Sure as a Warrior I could cleave opponents apart with 2H swords, however with DKs, I could spread diseases and raise skeletons while swinging around a 2H sword.
I'm not saying that more melee healing shouldn't be added. I'm simply saying the concept of melee healing isn't something new to WoW. Part of the problem is that Schwarkopf doesn't view Fistweaving as melee healing, when actuality it most definitely is.
Okay, but the topic is interesting class ideas, not interesting but vague spec ideas. So I'd like Schwarkopf to expand his/her idea into a full class concept.Really, it's vague enough that you could put it inside anyone and anything. All you need to do is justify the touch-range gimmick, which is easily imagined into almost any class concept since nothing in RPGs follows very stringent logic, haha.