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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 1909763" data-attributes="member: 707">It's still uber enough for PCs.  At 15th-level, 150 hp is going to fully heal most PCs, save perhaps for the barbarian or fighter who rolled really well.  Most of its weakening in 3.5 is for lower-level casters (who don't get the full effect anymore) and hp juggernaut monsters (no more 300+ hp dragon healing himself to full in 1 action.)  It's still virtually unchanged for standard PCs.So at 15th-level--coincidentally the time when Heal caps out its effect--a sorcerer can spend a feat to learn Heal.  In a stroke, he's made himself arguably as good a healer as the cleric, perhaps better, since he can spontaneously cast Heal using any of his 5th+ level slots.  And he's got a lot of 5th+ level slots.I'd have to see how it played out in a game to really make a fair judgment on this one, but my gut tells me it intrudes on the cleric's bailiwick too much for a game that actually has a cleric PC.  In a game without a cleric, it's not so much a problem.  In fact, I might encourage it, to allow the party to access healing without having to insert a cleric NPC.I do think it's a big deal.  Whether or not it's too big a deal, I'm not so certain. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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