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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8035516" data-attributes="member: 18">Strongly disagree. Being a healer and being a &quot;healbot&quot; are two entirely different things. Being a &quot;healbot&quot;, as in person who insists on only casting heals, cures and buffs, even if it doesn't make sense, has been counterproductive in 3E, 4E and 5E. In 3E a wand of CLW supplanted you in most ways. 4E we've discussed and 5E is similar to 4E in that even the healiest healer can do a meaningful amount of damage and CC and prevents far more damage than they could ever heal.Real healers play to win, not to get people injured then heal them. Healboting is fundamentally perverse unless it is the greatest benefit and last time that was true was in 2E in larger parties only.Every player I know IRL who long-term played healers (and that's several) loved 4E's approach because they got to do stuff beyond blowing every spell slot making other people's HP go up slightly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8035516, member: 18"] Strongly disagree. Being a healer and being a "healbot" are two entirely different things. Being a "healbot", as in person who insists on only casting heals, cures and buffs, even if it doesn't make sense, has been counterproductive in 3E, 4E and 5E. In 3E a wand of CLW supplanted you in most ways. 4E we've discussed and 5E is similar to 4E in that even the healiest healer can do a meaningful amount of damage and CC and prevents far more damage than they could ever heal. Real healers play to win, not to get people injured then heal them. Healboting is fundamentally perverse unless it is the greatest benefit and last time that was true was in 2E in larger parties only. Every player I know IRL who long-term played healers (and that's several) loved 4E's approach because they got to do stuff beyond blowing every spell slot making other people's HP go up slightly. [/QUOTE]

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