4th ed Divine Power excerpt on WOTC "Miracle Worker"

[Silverblade The Ench]

Divine Power Excerpts: Favored Soul

Oddly, it says "Favoured Soul" but it's actually the "Miracle Worker" ?
anyway, I love the lvl 20 power, "Reap What You Sow", it transfers all "save can end" conditions from allies in 5 burst, to the target Wisdom vs Will..
that would be so nasty versus creatures that use a lot of AOEs....mmm....

 

[The_Fan]

I swear that 20th level ability is one I've seen before. It's giving me the weirdest sense of deja vu, like there's one out there with the same name and effect. I can't for the life of me figure out where, though

 

[Belphanior]

It looks a bit like the Orb of Unlucky Exchanges (AV p.96).

 

[Dice4Hire]

Now that is a cool paragon path. Serious boost to healing, a very serious boost. And the level 20 daily is jsut plain mean.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

this is the first paragon path I have seen that I can say"why"

I mean really did someone run into a cleric that had any items or feats toward healing that didn't rutinly call spend a surge and add X, where X was already more then the surge???

I mean who plays a cleric then says "Man i wish i were a better healer"

 

[Nymrohd]

I am worried the boost may be too serious. Especially combined say with the Mark of Healing, it could make a party completely unkillable.

 

[Umbran]

Unkillable? Probably not.

Remember that there's a trade off. If lots of your powers are in healing, that means they aren't there to do anything else - like doing damage to monsters.

 

[Piratecat]

I mean who plays a cleric then says "Man i wish i were a better healer"

My players. I've heard it from both groups that I run.

 

[Charwoman Gene]

My players. I've heard it from both groups that I run.

That's because you are a power-mad killer GM. Lighten up on them, for pete's sake!

 

[LightPhoenix]

I wasn't overly thrilled with it.

Firstly, I'm not enamoured with powers that are immediate reactions. This is especially true for these powers. While they're triggers that will happen often, the fact that they are Ranged means you'll be drawing OAs for using them.

Second, Reap What You Sow is fairly situational. True, at higher levels enemies may have more stuff that requires a save. Still, if you don't have effects that require saves, the power is useless. Additionally, to get the most use out of it you have to be fighting critters that have multiple effects that a save can end. It's not bad as a mass curative, however to get the most effect you need to hit an opponent.

Healing Action is okay, but requires you to be adjacent to allies. Word of Life is neat, but I think it would be better as a feat (see Backstabber, etc). Aura of Health is very nice.

Unlike Piratecat, I don't think anyone in my group has ever thought that the Cleric didn't heal enough. I think that might be my biggest problem with the Miracle Worker. If you want to build a healing Cleric, you can do that relatively easily even straight out of the PHB. Where I think this might be the most useful is for Warlord/Bard/Shaman (w/ Cleric MC), who aren't as great at straight healing as a Cleric.