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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gaiden" data-source="post: 1812242" data-attributes="member: 103">I am almost thinking augment healing is the most important thing to possibly take especially because the empower healing would make the +2 effectively into a +3 (and I am always about the synergy).Looking over the analysis for the other feat choices (bravo by the way), I agree that quicken is mostly useful for combat clerics.  In fact I was thinking that it would be amazing with the divine metamagic for a quick rigtheous might, divine power, divine favor and holy sword.  However, it would be so rarely I would get to use that as I have to make sure to heal everyone else.  So really the quicken would just let me cast more heal spells.The Divine Spell Power is looking very nice indeed.  WOW - Holy Word would rock the evil baddies I am fighting - simply rock them!  Of course, I have to make it to 13th level <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.  We have just set ourselves up to be the targets of a major trouncing.  Because the cleric is less about offense, flame strike would not see as much use.  However, even with fire seeds - on a good roll that would be a total of an extra 24 or so points of damage.  This is indeed probably the best choice for my character.However, I have to think story as well.  I think the feat that is most in line with my character's personality development is augment healing.  He has transitioned from uber undead turner to uber healer <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.  His entire philosophy has changed as I mentioned in the first post to view undead as psychologically tormented souls that are in need of release as opposed to a plague upon the world that ought to be destroyed with relish.  With his focus so strongly on healing augment healing seems as natural choice, and certainly, it is not a sub-par feat.  Quite the contrary it is probably the best choice right behind divine spell power.I usually go for things to give my characters more actions in combat, i.e. I was originally going to go with quicken.  However, as quicken would most likely be used with healing, I think from an efficiency perspective, I get more mileage out of the augment healing then with the quicken - a similar effect for less spells (just fewer targets with the lower level spells).What say you?BTW - I think I might take Divine Spell power at 15th.  I have to at some point take CWI for roleplaying reasons but that is a post adventure schtick (my cleric will have indirectly been the cause of the destruction of Jozan's holy symbol - a relic, and so has taken it upon himself to make a new symbol of the faith to replace it when the crisis that is saving the world is complete <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />).</blockquote>

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