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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4930318" data-attributes="member: 35909">A lot of things change in terms of power when you start at high level as opposed to level 1 or so.  Nonspellcasters are from the very outset likely going to be weaker than the casters.  Dual casting progression prestige classes are letting out by 16, so the character starts right away as a decent caster in two classes, instead of having to struggle his way there the first 5-6 levels, straddling two classes with very little synergy.In general, there are a lot of "theoretical builds"  -- many of which are on the char op boars on WotC's site, which look awesome, but in fact take many levels to achieve that awesomeness, including often having to endure being weaker at lower levels before it all comes together.  Building for the future, and all.  But if you start at high levels, the future is now!Not saying any of this as an indictment of high level starting play, but there are major effects of doing so on the game.As you noted, if you had to make this guy from level 1 and the group had no other healer, it wouldn't work out nearly as well. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>