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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 7675092" data-attributes="member: 7635">Awesome. Seems like a solid subclass, with more emphasis on "makes others look cool" than than the battlemaster. The thing is if you ask people what was the selling point of the warlord, I think most would agree martial healing. It was a leader class. Its only "locked" class ability was inspiring word. In PHB 1, it was the only alternative to the cleric for said role. I think the class got very stuck in the "healer" paradigm for that reason. I'm not sure at this point you could separate it again. Which means WotC, if it ever does decide to try to take a stab at the warlord again, has to face this elephant in the room. I don't think they can avoid it again. Which means if they do opt to make a new warlord, its going to have to either go full martial healing haters be damned and find a way to explain it in game (via some form of supernatural power like magic, psionics, ki, or martial adepts) or do some sort of half-measure (like KM's HD method) which will make them inferior in said role. Neither is going to prove popular, and I doubt WotC will bother when it can claim "battlemaster" and be done.</blockquote>