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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 8033097" data-attributes="member: 72555">Int bonus casts of lesser restoration at level 9, plus 2 3rd level spell slots.A cleric has 3 level 3, 3 level 4 and 1 level 5 at this point.  That is 6 casts of lesser restoration and one of greater restoration.So at level 9, Cleric > Alchemist at this problem.  To a ridiculous degree; the Cleric can cure entire kinds of status effects the Artificer can do nothing about.At level 15, the Alchemist gets 1 daily gem-free cast of greater restoration.  The cleric has up to 8th level slots at this point, and has had greater restoration for 6 levels.  She can regenerate limbs, which the artificer can only do by burning one of your attunement slots.  The cleric can cast hero's feast, which is a mass cure-poison-disease and preemptive-status-effect immunity.  And the cleric has 5 level 5 or higher spell slots every day to remove status effects.The Alchemist is mediocre at removing (and preventing) status effects.  By the time they get it, clerics have been removing the same effects for 4-6 levels, and when they get the ability the cleric is still better at it.I mean, the cleric does have to burn a spell prepared.  But the artificer has burned 2 subclass features, which is much more expensive.</blockquote>