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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ferghis" data-source="post: 5175556" data-attributes="member: 40483">I'm very happy with this update but I have to say that I agree with Dracosuave. The Cure X Wounds powers have language that specifically say "as if the target spent a healing surge." This language means, unequivocally, that the power acts in all ways as if a healing surge was spent. The ONLY exception is that a healing surge is not actually spent. If they meant that the power heals an amount of HP equal to a healing surge (or two or three), then they should have said just that. They've used that kind of language elsewhere. And they obviously had thought it through, since it was corrected so quickly. But they should have put the correction in the update. As things stand now, there is an update, and there is an authoritative forum post that contradicts it.And I'm not being cavillous here. It's annoying that a game director came out on a message board to correct this mistake shortly after the update came out. For what it's worth, I realize that the job of desiging a game as complex and massive as the fourth edition of D&D is frought with difficulty. They do have my sympathy. Still, the game apparently is in immediate need of another update to the update.</blockquote>