Rhun
First Post
Not going to work on anything particular just thought her as a druid/cleric split all the way up.
The benefit is a couple more spells she can cast as an equivalent character lvl (right now she has two more spells than a third lvl caster) the drawback is Spell lvl she should have second lvl spells now but won't for the next two lvls, but as you said whatever healing she does bring is more than what the party did have.
I like cleric for spontaneous cure spells straight druid won't allow that. So I'm thinking druid spells to aid in encounters and cleric spells for the messy clean up.
Just a note from the character optimization point of view...unless you are looking at some sort of "theurge" class when you gain some more levels, you'll find your PC underpowered if we ever get to high levels. The loss of caster levels and higher level spells will prove to be a big drawback, I think you'll find. The caster level thing can probably be fixed by taking certain feats, but I don't think there is a fix for the high level spell thing.
Just wanted to point that out. I'm all for players playing whatever character they want!