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<blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 5002779" data-attributes="member: 51942">The errata to hospitaler's blessing makes it pretty clear that the blessing is intended to apply to attacks that are part of a multiattack action.&nbsp; They specifically fixed close and area attacks after all:Page 101: Replace “attacks one of your allies” with
“makes an attack against one of your allies that does
not include you.” The former text generates a disproportionate
amount of healing, and it doesn’t give a
monster a good way to use close or area attacks without
healing its enemies.

In the last discussion on marking, including explicitly stuff like multiattacks when asked to CS they stated that the intent was to use a &quot;singular&quot; attack as in the combat section; i.e. a single attack is a single ranged, melee, area, or close attack.&nbsp; The combat section even explicitly states that if a ranged / melee attack has several targets that those are actually separate attacks.Hospitaler's blessing applies to each attack by the marked enemy.&nbsp; On the other hand, according to the FAQ you're not forced to make all secondary attacks that a power grants (see chaos bolt), which would apply here too: the monster doesn't need to violate a mark if a multiattack includes the paladin; he can forgo attacks not including the paladin should it choose to do so.Essentially, a multiattacking monster should not violate a hospitalers mark; certainly after the first attack when it discovers that it's strikes actually heal the target.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="eamon, post: 5002779, member: 51942"] The errata to hospitaler's blessing makes it pretty clear that the blessing is intended to apply to attacks that are part of a multiattack action. They specifically fixed close and area attacks after all:[INDENT]Page 101: Replace “attacks one of your allies” with “makes an attack against one of your allies that does not include you.” The former text generates a disproportionate amount of healing, and it doesn’t give a monster a good way to use close or area attacks without healing its enemies. [/INDENT]In the last discussion on marking, including explicitly stuff like multiattacks when asked to CS they stated that the intent was to use a "singular" attack as in the combat section; i.e. a single attack is a single ranged, melee, area, or close attack. The combat section even explicitly states that if a ranged / melee attack has several targets that those are actually separate attacks. Hospitaler's blessing applies to each attack by the marked enemy. On the other hand, according to the FAQ you're not forced to make all secondary attacks that a power grants (see chaos bolt), which would apply here too: the monster doesn't [I]need[/I] to violate a mark if a multiattack includes the paladin; he can forgo attacks not including the paladin should it choose to do so. Essentially, a multiattacking monster should not violate a hospitalers mark; certainly after the first attack when it discovers that it's strikes actually heal the target. [/QUOTE]

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