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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6762281" data-attributes="member: 37579">That and the abundance of CLW wands, which kept people healed between encounters. 3e was the first edition to really have characters walking into each combat fully healed. That was a big difference from 1e/2e where attrition was a very useful DM tactic. Prior to 4e, healing combat was pretty situation. It was easier to use spells to buff or nuke in combat and break out the wand after.  The cleric was broken due to its buff spells, that it automatically knew every divine spell from every splatbook, and also had decent armour, good weapons, reasonable hp, and two good saves. The healing was incidental to the CoDzilla. Kinda. Some classes had secondary roles, but others did not. Many like the warlord, shield fighter, orb wizard, rogue, and ranger really just focused on their primary role. Later builds really expanded on this and made secondary roles a firmer part of the design. It's a neat way 4e evolved and improved over time. This might have grown out of the original design for the druid, with was conceived as having two roles.</blockquote>