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<blockquote data-quote="Kinak" data-source="post: 6198481" data-attributes="member: 6694112"><p>Selective Channeling is a great choice. It makes channeling in combat feasible and is, in my opinion, the single most important healing feat. </p><p></p><p>For other healing, Extra Channel is probably also something you'll end up using. Quick Channel has also been amazing in our game (allowing channeling and a targeted heal or two channels in a round). Combat Casting will probably come in handy since you're going to be in the middle of combat. Reach Spell is probably the last I'd take, but it can be pretty handy for healing from across the battlefield.</p><p></p><p>That said, as a rule, you should try to avoid healing in combat as much as possible. This goes double for using spells to heal in combat, but sometimes you've gotta do what you've gotta do.</p><p></p><p>To keep mental space low, focus on your domain spells at first. Those are the only ones you can't trade in for heals, so your other spells you can afford to ignore or not choose optimal spells, because you'll trade in a lot otherwise.</p><p></p><p>Once you do start paying attention to your non-domain slots more, build up a list of specialized tools. Since you can trade them in for healing, having stuff that's awesome ten percent of the time is way better than something that's decent all the time, because decent spells and terrible spells both end up as cures.</p><p></p><p>As far as your other feat slot, it sounds like you'll be doing a lot of tanking, so I'd seriously consider Combat Reflexes. Its one of the cornerstones of tanking and will either make you very sticky (in the tanking sense) or help you deal out a ton of damage with your greatsword. So, win-win. Also, you'll want the Dex for your AC anyway.</p><p></p><p>Barring Combat Reflexes, I'd probably take Extra Channel. You're going to need a lot of stats as a combat cleric and that'll cover for you dropping Charisma a bit.</p><p></p><p>You might want to steer her towards the feat Intimidating Prowess. With it, she can bump her Strength and be even better at intimidating than she was with the Charisma-focused build.</p><p></p><p>Cheers!</p><p>Kinak</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kinak, post: 6198481, member: 6694112"] Selective Channeling is a great choice. It makes channeling in combat feasible and is, in my opinion, the single most important healing feat. For other healing, Extra Channel is probably also something you'll end up using. Quick Channel has also been amazing in our game (allowing channeling and a targeted heal or two channels in a round). Combat Casting will probably come in handy since you're going to be in the middle of combat. Reach Spell is probably the last I'd take, but it can be pretty handy for healing from across the battlefield. That said, as a rule, you should try to avoid healing in combat as much as possible. This goes double for using spells to heal in combat, but sometimes you've gotta do what you've gotta do. To keep mental space low, focus on your domain spells at first. Those are the only ones you can't trade in for heals, so your other spells you can afford to ignore or not choose optimal spells, because you'll trade in a lot otherwise. Once you do start paying attention to your non-domain slots more, build up a list of specialized tools. Since you can trade them in for healing, having stuff that's awesome ten percent of the time is way better than something that's decent all the time, because decent spells and terrible spells both end up as cures. As far as your other feat slot, it sounds like you'll be doing a lot of tanking, so I'd seriously consider Combat Reflexes. Its one of the cornerstones of tanking and will either make you very sticky (in the tanking sense) or help you deal out a ton of damage with your greatsword. So, win-win. Also, you'll want the Dex for your AC anyway. Barring Combat Reflexes, I'd probably take Extra Channel. You're going to need a lot of stats as a combat cleric and that'll cover for you dropping Charisma a bit. You might want to steer her towards the feat Intimidating Prowess. With it, she can bump her Strength and be even better at intimidating than she was with the Charisma-focused build. Cheers! Kinak [/QUOTE]
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