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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 9017486" data-attributes="member: 6704184">The only reason the warlord wasn’t just as good at healing was that, on release, they had to give each class a focus within their role in order to avoid a thousand powers per class per book. By the end, I’m not even sure that warlords still lagged behind clerics, if built for healing. But they did in the beginning, because it kept power count down and help distinguish classes within a role. The Cleric could have been known for being a high damage leader instead, leaning into group damage boosting and powers that target an enemy and then give the whole team a boost against the target until end of encounter, with a side of healing, and warlord could have given a trickle of healing with damn near every power, and then had big flashy “rally” dailies that healed the whole team with a tactical buff on the side. But they didn’t, because they had arbitrarily decided to nod to the cleric being a healbot by making them a healbot that can also lay down fire.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 9017486, member: 6704184"] The only reason the warlord wasn’t just as good at healing was that, on release, they had to give each class a focus within their role in order to avoid a thousand powers per class per book. By the end, I’m not even sure that warlords still lagged behind clerics, if built for healing. But they did in the beginning, because it kept power count down and help distinguish classes within a role. The Cleric could have been known for being a high damage leader instead, leaning into group damage boosting and powers that target an enemy and then give the whole team a boost against the target until end of encounter, with a side of healing, and warlord could have given a trickle of healing with damn near every power, and then had big flashy “rally” dailies that healed the whole team with a tactical buff on the side. But they didn’t, because they had arbitrarily decided to nod to the cleric being a healbot by making them a healbot that can also lay down fire. [/QUOTE]

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