Originally Posted by
Nykolas
The mage healing soul is about dealing damage and cast times for heals. you would want to roll cleric, you have the purifier (Disc preist) sentinel (holy paladin) warden (now an AoE healing soul with HoTs like an AoE druid) defiler (its a really cool soul, its about damage prevention big CD's dealing damage and burst healing) I would roll a cleric for more healing options. Also, you could make a spec like shadow preist mixing inquisitor with cabalist. The only melee spec with pets at the moment is warrior beast master and that is a support spec, and druid in the cleric tree is also a dps melee tree with a pet. although you could possibly make a rogue melee spec with a ranger pet.
If you chose cleric you get the most options:
4 healing specs
2 melee specs
2 caster specs
1 tank spec
You are able to spupport tank heal and dps as a cleric, this would be your obvious option. The tank soul uses melee to AoE heal too, but the healing is not substantial.
Inquisitor has 2 dot's and cabalist has many more AoE dots, you could combine these to make a DoT spec. RIFT has so many options available to you, you can almost create anything you feel comfortable playing.
If you are looking to a holy pally type spec with the same appearance roll sentinel.