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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6739092" data-attributes="member: 996">There's nothing wrong with options.  Damage mitigation and hp restoration should both be available, in whatever pool of maneuvers or whatever other mechanic the class uses.  Pick lots of either, some of each, switch them up based on the situation, ignore both in favor of full-bore offensive buffing - that's the kind of flexibility support classes need, and existing ones have (and then some, since they can also whip out all sorts of other spells).There's never been any demand for one, but you never know how much that's just because there's never been one.  The archetypes for it certainly exist:  empathic or gifted healers with no other magical abilities, or only a few very closely-related ones.  They're not nearly as commonplace as the concepts the Warlord covers, but they're out there in genre, more so than clerics or other vancian casters.Adaptability works.  The Resourceful Warlord build was the poster child for that approach, too, now that I think of it.A mystic sub-class could be a simple class based on the empathic healer not uncommon in science fiction.  But it would also make sense to have a 'simple caster class' that has several sub classes with very different, distinctive, specialties - one of which could be simple healer, though I suspect straightforward blasting would be more popular.</blockquote>