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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shurai" data-source="post: 1833463">I play a Warforged Cleric (Level 3 at the moment), in a 3-player campaign with a Shifter Ranger and a human Artificer.  Here's my take on the issue of Warforged balance:* The immunities haven't mattered yet, but the campaign is still young.* No-need-to-sleep has been pretty useful, but probably no more useful than to an Elf.* Healing hasn't been a problem (is there an Eberron campaign without an Artificer?).* Fortification hasn't helped yet (that I know of).* +2 Con has been mighty, more mighty than I was expecting.* -2 Wis and -2 Cha are . . . painful.  But then, I'm playing Cleric, which is admittedly a bizarre (read:  fairly weak) class choice.Basically there's no way to have a Warforged Druid, Cleric, Paladin, Bard, or Sorcerer without taking a major performance hit.  That sucks, because that's half the classes in the game.  It was really frustrating making this character, because I had to give up a lot to make him work as a Cleric at all.The trouble with me is that I can't stand the idea that race should determine class.  Still, the character concept was well worth it.  I guess I watched The Iron Giant too many times, or else I read Diesel Sweeties too often.So, based on my experience, Warforged are more well-balanced than they appear to be at a glance.The real trouble to me is that balance by forced class choice isn't really balance.  I suspect that Warforged are stronger Fighters than all of the other Eberron/PHB races, even moreso than Shifters.Those are my observations.  I'm not sure what I'd do to fix it.-SPS - Warforged are always 1/2 affected by healing magic unless they take the Warforged Juggernaut prestige class to a certain level or, I believe, certain Warforged feats.</blockquote>

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