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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 2978069" data-attributes="member: 40177">I *really* liked the art for the healer... I think it's the best class art I've seen yet, hands down.As for the class itself...I think the "girlfriend" analogy is a pretty good one, and the class does seem to be marketed that way (unicorn being the obvious example).  I would have liked to see the class have something else instead - there are far too many classes that grant some sort of special animal/mount that it's getting old.I also would have loved to have seen a class that heals without casting spells.  I think a healing class with no spells would have been a lot more interesting than something that really has the cleric's spell list with a lot dropped out.  As an example, the dragon shaman is almost a cleric replacement, and he gets no spells whatsoever... doing something similar with the healer would have been great.I also think the healer's ability to regenerate limbs for characters is neat, but outside of the scope of the D&D rules.  I don't know about you, but we didn't have too many characters losing limbs, and, to the best of my knowledge, there isn't a whole lot in the rules that could cause a character to lose a limb (except for vorpal weapons, but a head isn't really a "limb", y'know?).  So, it seems silly to allow a character to fix a problem that isn't ever really a problem addressed in the rules.As in, if you play the game by the rules, it's highly unlikely your character will lose a limb in combat.  Because of this, it's highly unlikely that a healer will ever use the restore limb ability.  But, whatever.If you were to try and play a healer in my campaign, I'd probably refer you to a cleric with the healing domain... but that's because I play in smaller groups where the highly-specialized nature of the healer would be detrimental to the group as a whole.  If I were running a larger party (say, six or seven players with henchmen), then I'd be all for a player running a healer.  Even then, I'd allow the healer a speed boost (to better move about the battlefield), a choice of animal companions, and maybe an expanded spell list.</blockquote>

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