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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7272251" data-attributes="member: 996">It's meant to be adaptable to different styles, too.   It's combats are geared towards speed, mainly.  That can mean everyone makes it through without getting dropped, and it can mean that healing actions can be 'wasted' compared to moar offense - but it can also mean a PC gets dropped early, and the loss of that combat contribution puts the party behind the monsters and it spirals from there.  In-combat healing is as much a necessity in 5e as in any prior edition, but mainly as a sort of safety-valve to enable that tuning for fast combat.  The presence of a bonus action healing word, and the relative weakness of healing spells compared to the damage potentials you're likely to face point to that - and also, incidentally and presumably unintentionally, lead to whack-a-mole.</blockquote>