We have 2 players with BattleClerics, though, like Superman & Clark Kent, they've never been seen together on any game night. And both of them were late to the party- early on, we had NO healing beyond our surges and no Leader.
How Do You Heal?
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We have 2 players with BattleClerics, though, like Superman & Clark Kent, they've never been seen together on any game night. And both of them were late to the party- early on, we had NO healing beyond our surges and no Leader.
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I play in a smaller game with 3 strikers : my human assassin, a dragonborn barbarian, and a drow archery ranger. My assassin (bleak disciple) tends to have a lot of ways to mitigate and avoid damage, the drow tends to stay at range and not get in too much trouble, but the barbarian tends to be at death's door quite a bit. That being said, we tend to not have a lot of combat - it's a more story oriented game.
One of the groups I'm running spent a large portion of heroic tier without a leader due to a bit of a revolving door of players. The swordmage was able to do a decent amount of damage reduction/prevention, and then the group also picked up a paladin who specialized in healing. As the group was about to hit paragon, a new player came in with a Sentinel druid.
All in all we currently have 6 players running with a single Sentinel and paladin as the healers. The swordmage helps some but does more damage prevention than actual healing. A seventh player will likely be back from his thesis-induced break and is running an ardent. All in all, even without the ardent, the group has a ton of healing available and even with MM3 damage numbers, I have a hard time truly threatening the party with death -- the closest call coming when the ranger decided to go off and investigate the hostile tower on her own, leaving the rest of the party a couple floors behind.
That being said, before the party gained much in the way of leaders, I did implement one house rule. That being that a healing potion allowed you to regain a full surge of HP. I will say though that if you are going to run a largely glass cannon party, you better make sure you hit early and often though. Odds are the dice will eventually catch up to you.
All in all we currently have 6 players running with a single Sentinel and paladin as the healers. The swordmage helps some but does more damage prevention than actual healing. A seventh player will likely be back from his thesis-induced break and is running an ardent. All in all, even without the ardent, the group has a ton of healing available and even with MM3 damage numbers, I have a hard time truly threatening the party with death -- the closest call coming when the ranger decided to go off and investigate the hostile tower on her own, leaving the rest of the party a couple floors behind.
That being said, before the party gained much in the way of leaders, I did implement one house rule. That being that a healing potion allowed you to regain a full surge of HP. I will say though that if you are going to run a largely glass cannon party, you better make sure you hit early and often though. Odds are the dice will eventually catch up to you.
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