Do you *have* to use a healing surge?

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Stop overhealing or you will get too much aggro.

Har!

 

[Kzach]

And Pacifist Healing only applies when they spend a healing surge -anyways-. So no healing surge, no Pacifist Healing.

Actually that's not quite right.

The specific text is, "When you use a divine power that allows a target to spend a healing surge..."

Again, there is no requirement that a healing surge actually be spent.

 

[N0Man]

Stop overhealing or you will get too much aggro.

But only actual healing causes aggro, overhealing is aggro neutral!

 

[DracoSuave]

Actually that's not quite right.

The specific text is, "When you use a divine power that allows a target to spend a healing surge..."

Again, there is no requirement that a healing surge actually be spent.

Good point.

So if you have a divine power that allows an opponent to spend a healing surge, but manages to provide healing if they choose not to, then, yes, Pacifist Healer does work that way, oddly enough.

The feat -does- provide additional healing, which requires healing to already exist to add on to.

 

[CapnZapp]

If the Pacifist healer gets to heal people even if they (or the healer) politely declines to deduct a healing surge, then it's broken, and disallowed in my game.

No dough, no show.

Yes, it's that simple.