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I know that a Spiritshaper will always have the upper hand when it comes to straight up healing, but I think a healing focused Occultist(Spirit/Agility) could actually work.
They do not have as many CC abilities as a Spiritshaper, but they do have 2 cleanse abilities and a bunch of heal/shield abilities.
So as a personal challenge to myself I will be making one at some point.
What do you guys think?

It works as long as your party out gears the content. Their two unparalleled healing skills are good multi-tick heals and are the bread and butter of occultist healing. None of the basic skills really put up big healing numbers in an emergency unlike a SS who have a couple of options. Truthfully, the occultist fills the hybrid niche and needs to be played as such. Focusing solely on healing or damage is only a detriment to the class and breaks the reason why a group would bring an occultist along. Well played, it does a great job support healing incidental group damage while putting out decent AoE damage at the same time. The biggest problem I had with the class was the fact that some of their damage is location targeted and with mobile targets you struggle to maintain dps or straight up miss.