Healers that aren't clerics

[Doug McCrae]

I don't like the idea of the plate-wearing warrior/healer so I'm looking for non-PrC classes, feat chains, magic items or other abilities that would enable a being to heal others reasonably well.

So far I've got:

Bard, druid, paladin, adept, healer (Miniatures Handbook), cloistered cleric (Unearthed Arcana), House Jorasco (Eberron), favoured soul (Complete Divine), spirit shaman (CD), shugenja – water (CD)

 

[IanB]

I don't like the idea of the plate-wearing warrior/healer so I'm looking for non-PrC classes, feat chains, magic items or other abilities that would enable a being to heal others reasonably well.

So far I've got:

Bard, druid, paladin, adept, healer (Miniatures Handbook), cloistered cleric (Unearthed Arcana), House Jorasco (Eberron), favoured soul (Complete Divine), spirit shaman (CD), shugenja – water (CD)

Add the dragon shaman from PH2, and if you feel like 3.5ing it, the shaman from OA. The crusader from Tome of Battle has some minor healing ability as well.

 

[moritheil]

Any non-fire shugenja will work.

 

[Remathilis]

Mystic From Dragonlance as well.

An Ardent (Comp. Psi) or a Psion(Egoist) can also act as a healer. To make this work the best, you need a PrC from WotC's site (Sanergim?) and you're almost as good as a cleric.

 

[blargney the second]

Artificer, warlock with curing wands, or various magic items in MIC.

 

[Michael Silverbane]

There's also the option to just add curing and condition removal spells to the sorcerer/wizard spell list.

Later
silver

 

[hong]

A long time ago, in a ruleset far, far away, I hacked up a priest based on the OA shaman:

http://www.zipworld.com.au/~hong/dnd/priest.htm

 

[Plane Sailing]

Ranger (especially via wands)

Rogues (via UMD)

 

[jasin]

Add the dragon shaman from PH2, and if you feel like 3.5ing it, the shaman from OA.

It's been 3.5ed in Dragon #318.

There's also the mystic from the Dragonlance, which is basically a spontaneous cleric without heavy armour and only one domain.

 

[Pazu]

No mention of the archivist (Heroes of Horror)? I'm shocked!

Spontaneous Healer is a useful feat in this regard, too.