Best of the Best - Leaders.

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I'm really surprised the Warlord is so far ahead. Healing is what the leader is all about and Clerics dominate, especially with the addition of Divine power.

It your foes are played intelligently, they will easily focus fire down group members and the poor healing of the Warlord will not pull you through. Granted some fights the enemies shouldn't fight as effectively as others ( lets say oozes as compared to actually intelligent foes ) but in general if your foes are intelligent they will use the same tactics as PCs, the most important of those being focus firing.

Poor healing of the Warlord? I have to wait till the end of the battle until my Inspiring Warlord has a chance to actually use most of his encounters or dailies. Way too much healing would go to waste otherwise.

 

[Tallifer]

In our party, the wizard needs a tactical warlord to reliably hit with his most important daily spells. Otherwise that big bad evil magician just keeps blasting the party to smithereens.

The fighter might like the extra healing of a cleric, although in fact it is the softer warlord the enemies like to swarm in the round or two before the fighter can mark them.

The archer likes the occasional boost from the warlord.

 

[doctorhook]

I really enjoyed playing my tactical lord, but his healing ability was somewhat weak. Moreover, newer feats mean that characters are more accurate, so the large to hit buffs provided by the tactician are somewhat less important.

I really like my TacLord and his status as party-lynchpin.

Can anyone verify the extent to which Victim's statement is true?