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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 6731089" data-attributes="member: 20564">There seems to be a lot of people saying that healing and mitigation are equivalent.&nbsp; I say they aren't, and that's a great niche to put the warlord.&nbsp; Healing is retroactive, mitigation doesn't have to be.I don't want &quot;oh look, it's the same as the cleric&quot;.&nbsp; I'd rather have thing that are demonstrably, wildly, their own.&nbsp; Reaction to parry close attack for an all-or-nothing instead of heal/mitigate XdY HPs of damage.&nbsp; Push people out of areas of effect, make an effective shield wall and give everyone in it +2 AC, etc.I'm not pushing for Warlord personally, but it looks like there is a lot of interest and I'm not one to say &quot;badwrongfun, only my way is correct!&quot;.&nbsp; So let's make a cool warlord.&nbsp; And if people are asking for opinions (as a poll does), I would suggest instead of making them a healer clone to give them their own niche that is demonstratively mechanically different.&nbsp; Not a drop-in-replacement for a healer, but something that could play nice with a healer in the party if you have one.&nbsp; Maybe go with something like song of rest for out-of-combat healing, and action (proactive) or reaction based mitigation instead of later healing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 6731089, member: 20564"] There seems to be a lot of people saying that healing and mitigation are equivalent. I say they aren't, and that's a great niche to put the warlord. Healing is retroactive, mitigation doesn't have to be. I don't want "oh look, it's the same as the cleric". I'd rather have thing that are demonstrably, wildly, their own. Reaction to parry close attack for an all-or-nothing instead of heal/mitigate XdY HPs of damage. Push people out of areas of effect, make an effective shield wall and give everyone in it +2 AC, etc. I'm not pushing for Warlord personally, but it looks like there is a lot of interest and I'm not one to say "badwrongfun, only my way is correct!". So let's make a cool warlord. And if people are asking for opinions (as a poll does), I would suggest instead of making them a healer clone to give them their own niche that is demonstratively mechanically different. Not a drop-in-replacement for a healer, but something that could play nice with a healer in the party if you have one. Maybe go with something like song of rest for out-of-combat healing, and action (proactive) or reaction based mitigation instead of later healing. [/QUOTE]

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