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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashrym" data-source="post: 8123974" data-attributes="member: 6750235">The issue with 0hp pop up healing is letting players drop to 0hp also comes with status effects.  Unconscious and prone have negative effects, and the risk of instant death still exists.People look to clerics for healing because it's traditionally the primary healing class.  It's currently designed with healing in mind, which is clear with even a casual glance at the spell lists.5e does allow for other classes to replace clerics as healers and does give every class healing with hit dice at the very least.  That doesn't mean clerics shouldn't heal when it's appropriate.  All classes make appropriate choices with their actions and sometimes that's healing, sometimes it's buffing, and sometimes it's attacking or other damage.Some comments gave me the impression of extremism instead of playing for fun and to the strengths of the classes.  To me, a cleric who blatantly refuses to heal should have been another class.  A cleric who heals when it's important and takes other actions as well (because other actions are usually better in combat) is playing the class the way that makes sense to me.</blockquote>