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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 6738525">A fair point though, while any cleric druid or paladin has healing, priests of light and goodness and kittens make better healers.&nbsp; Which is part of the problem and one of the reasons the Warlord was popular.&nbsp; You make a less effective healer if you take the war, trickery or death domains than you do if you take the light, life or gumdrops and rainbows domain.People feel pigeon-holed because they are.&nbsp; Conceptually all of the options for &quot;good&quot; healers are presented as more priestly, pious and generally holy-do-gooder-in-white-robes than the rest.&nbsp; Add deity alignment restrictions on top of that and you end up with a rather stock &quot;healer&quot; mold that gets boring pretty fast.If I could take the storms domain and heal people with lightning, I think we'd see more variety and feel less pigeon-holed, but since we can't, we don't, so we do.As an aside to 4e, I felt that conceptually each class was more rounded, in part thanks to healing surges, but while the holy trinity was clearly written into it, it had a &quot;4th spec&quot; and felt less dependent on it than 3X or 5e does.&nbsp; I never worried about my parties needing a tank or healer in 4e, I do even on little things now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 6738525"] A fair point though, while [I]any[/I] cleric druid or paladin has healing, priests of light and goodness and kittens make [I]better[/I] healers. Which is part of the problem and one of the reasons the Warlord was popular. You make a less effective healer if you take the war, trickery or death domains than you do if you take the light, life or gumdrops and rainbows domain. People feel pigeon-holed because they are. Conceptually all of the options for "good" healers are presented as more priestly, pious and generally holy-do-gooder-in-white-robes than the rest. Add deity alignment restrictions on top of that and you end up with a rather stock "healer" mold that gets boring pretty fast. If I could take the storms domain and heal people with lightning, I think we'd see more variety and feel less pigeon-holed, but since we can't, we don't, so we do. As an aside to 4e, I felt that conceptually each class was more rounded, in part thanks to healing surges, but while the holy trinity was clearly written into it, it had a "4th spec" and felt less dependent on it than 3X or 5e does. I never worried about my parties needing a tank or healer in 4e, I do even on little things now. [/QUOTE]

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