DracoSuave
First Post
I may be late to this soiree, but... um... its not? I think this is the key point in the ruling.
a) CLW grants healing as if the target spent a surge, but a surge is not actually spent.
b) Healers Lore triggers when a cleric power enables a target to spend a healing surge.
a + b = Healer's Lore does not apply to CLW.
I agree with keterys in that I think you are reading too much into this one.
Mirtek's got what I'm trying to say.
It's not that I disagree with the ruling, it's that the ruling now makes OTHER things break.
The other (and probably better fix) is to cause Healer's Lore to specify explicitly that it does not grant the hit points when a surge is not spent.
As it is, effects that treat things as if something else happen DO trigger that something else. Yes, other healing surge triggers don't trigger, because Cure Light Wounds is specific in HOW it's treated: You regain hitpoints as if... which means that additional saving throws, etc, aren't applicable. But anything to do with regaining hit points IS. And Healer's Lore is 100% absolutely a 'regaining hit points' effect.
The correct and elegant solution would be an additional 'You must actually spend a healing surge for this to take place; effects that mimic a spent healing surge will not benefit from this' on the end which solves the problem succinctly.