elecgraystone
First Post
I have to disagree with you. NO amount of damage is meaningless. Just today I saw a big bad guy go down from a 4 damage attack. And why aren't you optimizing your melee cleric? That d8 str should be 2d6 strength if you optimize.Furthermore, since it seems not to have gotten through to a few people: you don't depend on your Cleric doing 1d6+wis or 1d8+str to win battles. You depend on your striker doing 1d10+str+SA/HQ/Curse damage two or more times a round. The function of a leader in an optimized party is to set up the battlefield and make enemies easier to hit. The pacifist cleric does that, while maintaining extremely high levels of surgeless healing.
The pacifist healer get better healing because he doesn't chip in on the damage part of the fight. He SHOULD be a better healer since he isn't helping kill the creature. [you can -2 defense someone all day and it's not going to die] I still see nothing wrong with that.