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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shiroiken" data-source="post: 8609264" data-attributes="member: 6775477">One of my recent characters was a healing based cleric (Nature, not Life). I never used Healing Word, letting the Bard use that in combat since I often used my bonus action. Instead I focused on out of combat healing or action based combat healing. Yes, damage pretty much always outpaced healing, but it really didn't matter since everyone entered just about every combat at/near full HP. Only a few times did more than 1 PC ever drop to 0, and almost all of those were big boss fights (there were 2 notable low level fights that just went bad for us). A well timed upcast Cure Wounds, Mass Cure Wounds, or Heal can swing everything.Actually it's not. Unless the DM hides the initiative order or you roll each round, the cleric (bard/druid/whatever) can simply choose not to cast the spell if the enemy is going between him and the downed PC. Casting Healing Word in that case only makes sense if: there's AoE or environmental damage, the enemy continues to attack the downed PC, or they already have a failed death save (making a "1" death).</blockquote>