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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Undrave" data-source="post: 8254569" data-attributes="member: 7015698">It's not BAD support, it's BORING support. Most of these require very little input from the Cleric once cast and a lot of them include concentration so you can't really do anything else very fancy once you've used your ONE spell for the encounter. At 2nd level you got 3 spell slot. There's a lot of pressure to keep at least one of them in reserve for healing, then you cast Bless or Shield of Faith or whatever and you're down to 1 spell slot available. Do you keep it for another fight to use Bless or do you try to try another one of your spell you've never used before? Anything else sucks compared to bless. Sure, you get more spell slots as you go on but the pressure of being THE healer (in a game with no healing surges) and that your best spells are not only great (but boring) but monopolize your concentration, means you just don't get as much freedom with them as you would think. And again, you only feel like a support character when you spend a spell slot. The Cleric has no Cantrip similar to Vicious Mockery or Frostbite. A Mastermind Rogue can spend a bonus action to Help Another AT RANGE and grant them Advantage on their next attack... Why isn't that a cantrip a Cleric can do?!</blockquote>