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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 5630408" data-attributes="member: 58416">The part I bolded is a very good point.  Yes, the cleric has more healing.  However, it's been my experience that you need that extra healing with a cleric because the enemy is alive longer.The other thing to mention is that (in my opinion) the Warlord is a much more versatile member of the party.  You can heal, you can buff your allies, you can function as a defender if necessary (often not a very good one, but good enough to help out,) and many other things.  I would also lean toward saying that many Warlord powers enable you to be a controller.  Not 'control' in the sense of burst, blasts, and walls, but control in the sense that you can shift the battlefield in your favor with many powers which move other pieces of the battle.  Yet another thing to keep in mind is something I said in a different thread recently:  the Warlord is a very easy class to multiclass with.  As such, if you find that the part does need a little bit of help in another area, you can usually pick up a few powers from somewhere else and still be just as good of a leader.  With STR as a primary ability and many abilities triggering from melee attacks, you have fighter and barbarian to easily cherry pick from; many of their paragon paths work fairly well with a Warlord as well.  Personally, I've had good experiences with branching into Paladin out of Warlord.  If you feel you need more healing, there's no reason the Warlord can't MC into one of the other leader classes for a little boost.</blockquote>

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