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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jefe Bergenstein" data-source="post: 7192387" data-attributes="member: 31506">Man, you must really hate clerics lol. Your suggestions would basically neuter them to a low AC, no damage healbot with less utility than a bard/wizard/fun caster. You can't actually keep anyone up with the piddly combat heals, and thanks to whack a mole healing, you're better off just letting them go to 0 hp and just focus down the enemy faster until then. Basically all buffs requiring concentration, so you're limited in that department as well.  The reason Life clerics have armor is because they would be in the thick of it. Cure Wounds and Lesser Restoration are touch spells. Protection from Energy/Good//Evil, etc are touch. Bless is 30 feet, which means you're basically in someone's melee range on their turn. Besides, the game has too many no/lightly armored full casters as is. Armor and a martial bent help define the cleric class.  Their main issue is they have a pretty lame spell list, so the few good spells on the list (Hold Person, Spiritual Guardians, Banishment etc) tend to get trotted out more than other classes who have a more interesting spell list. It's not like you're casting Control Water or Meld into Stone a ton.</blockquote>