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<blockquote data-quote="Paraxis" data-source="post: 6425099" data-attributes="member: 13009">Gaming the DM is part of power gaming/optimization, I would say honestly one of the most important parts.&nbsp; If you know the DM plays favorites to particular races or classes because he likes them, if he is stingy with magic items or if he loves handing out belts of giant strength, if the campaign will focus on undead, dragons, or exploring the wilds, all of this helps you optimize your character better.In this case, the choice to take the healer feat was to mitigate the need for other healing, and push through encounters even at low levels, the choice for nature cleric was 3 fold, shillelagh, dampen elements, and mitigating encounters with wild animals which are pretty deadly to low level characters.&nbsp; So this character wasn't exactly the best healer or defender, but I believe he is the best for fulfilling his role in the group which is keeping them alive.&nbsp; If you know the campaign is going to have a theme, optimize to that theme.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paraxis, post: 6425099, member: 13009"] Gaming the DM is part of power gaming/optimization, I would say honestly one of the most important parts. If you know the DM plays favorites to particular races or classes because he likes them, if he is stingy with magic items or if he loves handing out belts of giant strength, if the campaign will focus on undead, dragons, or exploring the wilds, all of this helps you optimize your character better. In this case, the choice to take the healer feat was to mitigate the need for other healing, and push through encounters even at low levels, the choice for nature cleric was 3 fold, shillelagh, dampen elements, and mitigating encounters with wild animals which are pretty deadly to low level characters. So this character wasn't exactly the best healer or defender, but I believe he is the best for fulfilling his role in the group which is keeping them alive. If you know the campaign is going to have a theme, optimize to that theme. [/QUOTE]

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