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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8854092" data-attributes="member: 6877472">I hate using Healing Word.  Even back in 4e, when it was far more powerful, guaranteed to heal a little more than 25% of your total health, I refused to engage in "whack-a-mole" shenanigans unless desperate.Too often, I'd throw out one of my 2 encounter heals on a Striker who might as well be naked for as terrible as their AC was, they'd get up, throw out more damage without even thinking of using second wind or drinking a potion or anything that would prevent them from taking more damage.  Then the enemy would flatten them again, and they'd cry to me for heals.We were playing a D&D Encounters season, the Shadowfell one, uh, Dark Legacy of Evard, I think it was.  I was trying out the new Death Priest- my Dwarven Priest of Dumathoin, Toric Azyur.  In the first session, the Blackguard was basically one-shot by these weird shadow minions that, if they hit with their attack, melded with your shadow and stopped being monsters, instead becoming an instance of ongoing 2 necrotic damage (if you made the save, they were ejected and became monsters again).  So we're doing what we can to kill these things, and the Rogue drops.I heal him, he gets up, he falls again.He begs for another heal, and I looked at the player and said "I don't have the resources to spend healing you.  I have one heal left, and that's for the Fighter."I still remember how his eyes got wide and he said "but, but, you have to heal me, you're a Cleric!""Nope, sorry.  Second Wind or something next time."5e Healing Word is even more ridiculous, as often it results in you being so weak that a goblin could take you out with a thrown rock.  So I refuse to prepare healing word, as I feel it's just a horrible waste of a spell slot.The fact that Cure Wounds is also rather woeful in healing people hasn't escaped me, of course, but at least you might survive the next attack!</blockquote>

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