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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6658875" data-attributes="member: 82106">If you look at the 4e healing math that's pretty much what they did. You can have an extra striker and no healer, you will just have a more swingy experience, more blowouts and more TPKs. A modest amount more healing, roughly what a normal non-heal-centered cleric, warlord, or bard (IE one that maybe has a 'heal better' feat or a surgeless heal power, but not focused on that) will slow the fights a bit, there will be a lot less blowouts, but you'll get a lot less meltdowns too. Amp that up to a Pacifist, or add a bunch of healing features to other PCs and you probably WILL increase survivability in most cases, but the combats start to really drag out, and you're past the really sweet spot. Going any further to that extreme just turns the party into a turtle group that can't really win fights, though they will likely take a huge pounding for a couple of encounters before they finally run out of HS and die hard.What is missing is just a pure healer in PHB1. They only designed for the optimum sweet spot in that book.</blockquote>