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Message: <blockquote data-quote="R_kajdi" data-source="post: 3878417" data-attributes="member: 24709">This whole mentality of "a class has to be played this way" seems a bit off to me. I mean, why is it so much worse for the healing situation to have a cleric who doesn't play a heal-bot as opposed to a character that doesn't do healing at all? Also, doesn't this really mean  that one of the big cleric decisions (channel positive or negative energy) really can only go one way. I know my personal favortie cleric I ever played was a negative channeler (Wee Jas) It was a bit of a different choice, but everyone was aware of it in the party so it worked.   Just being a cleric and being capable of using CLW wands really means that at moderate level you can heal after combat. The solution is in a party without a lot of combat healing to be a little more cautious in combats, since you can't on someone being able to give you back 50+ hp in a round if you are really getting mauled. With the above mentioned character, I think I had something like 20-25% of my spells every day memorized as heals. So I saved combat heals to where they were really needed, and used a CLW wand while out of combat to heal people up. Would you really basically say to that you should drop that character off at the nearest town, in favor of a more generic one? Seems sort of mean spirited to me-- I mean, I'm not out there complaining about the wizard's spell load. Why should I get a bunch of flack if I'm not heal optimized?</blockquote>

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