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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6593412" data-attributes="member: 996">The healer's kit only stabilizes, unless you have the feat, even then, it's 1/short rest.&nbsp; Feats are optional, only the variant human can get one before 4th.&nbsp; But, yeah, all that healing for 5gp, at 1st level will have an impact on the game...It leaves the caster an attack, and at low enough level, the caster's attack action can be relatively worth it, yes.Cure wounds itself, though? Meh. Good for out of combat and little else.</blockquote>Goodberry, Healing Word, and Cure Wounds are all spell resources, though, so they're slots diverted to healing, whichever ones you're using.&nbsp; Heh.&nbsp; That flashed me back to 3e discussions.&nbsp; Yeah, the offense-is-king strategy works, and seems to work demonstrably /really/ well, until it doesn't, then you have a TPK.&nbsp; If the DM really wants to challenge you, the strategy just gets you harder fights.&nbsp; Conversely, some DMs balk at a possible TPK and will softball an encounter that starts to turn that way.&nbsp; &nbsp;Now we're just getting into perennial issues with D&amp;D.&nbsp; You have classes with different resources, to balance them you need to adventures to cluster around a certain 'day' length (in terms of challenge - mostly rounds of combat).&nbsp; The party needs enough healing to get through those days.&nbsp; The classes that provide the healing thus need more resources (since the healing, itself, helps the party, not them).&nbsp;&nbsp; If healing resources can be swapped for others (spells, mainly), then the classes who provide healing can pull ahead of other, similar classes that don't (like the wizard - which you're finding to be lagging classes that have healing spells in their lists), if they can find a way around the healing burden.&nbsp; There's more than a few ways.&nbsp; The 5MWD, the offense focus your group is using, cheap healing items, and simply having multiple healers instead of only one or two.&nbsp; So, if you see the wizard lagging the Cleric, Bard &amp; Druid a bit at low level, it's not necessarily the wizard's fault.&nbsp;Healing Word is nice in that it lets the cleric make an attack, but it heals less.&nbsp; Either are workable.&nbsp; For the tactics you're using, Healing Word is a good fit.&nbsp; But both use up spell slots.But it sounds like, on top of prioritizing offense to minimize the need for healing, you've also collected a lot of healing resources.&nbsp; You have multiple classes with healing spells in your party, you have a variant human using an optional feat to heal 10d6+10*HD for 5gp, and you're stocking up on potions.&nbsp; So, those casters are using fewer of their slots for healing, making them seem better relative to the wizard.&nbsp; Not a problem with the Wizard.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 6593412, member: 996"] The healer's kit only stabilizes, unless you have the feat, even then, it's 1/short rest. Feats are optional, only the variant human can get one before 4th. But, yeah, all that healing for 5gp, at 1st level will have an impact on the game... It leaves the caster an attack, and at low enough level, the caster's attack action can be relatively worth it, yes. Cure wounds itself, though? Meh. Good for out of combat and little else.[/quote] Goodberry, Healing Word, and Cure Wounds are all spell resources, though, so they're slots diverted to healing, whichever ones you're using. Heh. That flashed me back to 3e discussions. Yeah, the offense-is-king strategy works, and seems to work demonstrably /really/ well, until it doesn't, then you have a TPK. If the DM really wants to challenge you, the strategy just gets you harder fights. Conversely, some DMs balk at a possible TPK and will softball an encounter that starts to turn that way. Now we're just getting into perennial issues with D&D. You have classes with different resources, to balance them you need to adventures to cluster around a certain 'day' length (in terms of challenge - mostly rounds of combat). The party needs enough healing to get through those days. The classes that provide the healing thus need more resources (since the healing, itself, helps the party, not them). If healing resources can be swapped for others (spells, mainly), then the classes who provide healing can pull ahead of other, similar classes that don't (like the wizard - which you're finding to be lagging classes that have healing spells in their lists), if they can find a way around the healing burden. There's more than a few ways. The 5MWD, the offense focus your group is using, cheap healing items, and simply having multiple healers instead of only one or two. So, if you see the wizard lagging the Cleric, Bard & Druid a bit at low level, it's not necessarily the wizard's fault. Healing Word is nice in that it lets the cleric make an attack, but it heals less. Either are workable. For the tactics you're using, Healing Word is a good fit. But both use up spell slots. But it sounds like, on top of prioritizing offense to minimize the need for healing, you've also collected a lot of healing resources. You have multiple classes with healing spells in your party, you have a variant human using an optional feat to heal 10d6+10*HD for 5gp, and you're stocking up on potions. So, those casters are using fewer of their slots for healing, making them seem better relative to the wizard. Not a problem with the Wizard. [/QUOTE]

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