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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7066970" data-attributes="member: 6775031">It would usually be a bad trade, but there might be some situations where you need to keep a particular party member up, because their own contributions are more important than your own. If you're fighting trolls, for example, and only the wizard can deal fire damage; or the enemy is far enough away that the ranger is the only one being effective, but they are also being targetted with return fire. It means you usually won't want to cast a Cure spell during combat.Under the default settings of 5E, any magical healing that you bring to the day is a bonus. You can usually get through six level-appropriate encounters with just your Hit Dice, unless you're tackling things way out of your league. If you want to use some of your spells for healing, then you have that option.This doesn't logically. Combat would go more quickly if in-combat healing was a rare event. Spending your actions on healing would not be the most effective use of your turn, which would result in fewer clerics spending their actions on healings; your other options would remain just as effective as always.</blockquote>