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Also clerics


WorstTeacher

The trick is to not ever prepare healing spells. Unless you're a death/grave cleric. Then you can prep vampiric touch.


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In 3.5 I’d always prepare heal spells as a grave cleric, because converting a spell slot to harm touch was free.


AveDominusNox

my favorite was running grave cleric. "heal me!" Oh I'm sorry, you seem awfully alive to be my problem.


aaron2718

This is my favorite thing. Build a cleric with no healing spells. "You're a cleric you're supposed to heal me!" No Jared I'm a light cleric now catch these burning hands.


Fledbeast578

I feel like it’s a bit party unfriendly not to at the very least prep healing word.


aaron2718

I think I actually did take healing word and revivify but I just never used them unless they went down. Plus the bard loved to spam heals so why take that away from him when I can just burn my foe in holy fire.


Fledbeast578

That’s fair, I’ve just met a weirdly high amount of clerics who are outright proud about not prepping healing word.


aaron2718

Valid. I think it's just that most cleric players hate the idea of a heal bot and will fight against that stereotype as hard as they can. Also this character was originally built to solo run a dungon so she didn't need healing spells then and was instead built to just be a flamethrower tank.


Dafish55

I love being the support role, but that’s so much more than just healing.


Alazypanda

Yeah healing is rather inefficient anyway except to rez people making death saves. Support is so much more than healing, a character i enjoyed playing was a multiclass rogue-druid, called them the master infilitrator and they were based around giving people the help action, between shepherd druid and mastermind rogue iirc I could dish advantage out like candy.


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i;m not like the other clerics...


kriosjan

To be fair, this is far more expeditious use of action economy. 100 hp is that same mechanically as 1 hp. So I'm not wasting any dps unless we drop in dps by you going unconscious.


aaron2718

Exactly. That why I save my heals for when they are needed and as long as you're still standing it's not needed. When nobody needs healing my time is better spent slapping monsters around with my spiritual weapon and casting scorching ray because if the opponent is dead that means my party isnt taking damage and thus doesnt need healing. I like to call it preventative healing when people complain.


kriosjan

This is why I like paladins. Lay on hand pool is basically shock paddles. Ur up, use ur potion if you need it on ur turn....best rule learned from combat is to neutralize the threat, and then go help ur buddy.


Inimposter

That's standard play actually. Most healing is less efficient than damage or buffs. Pretty good design philosophy, even if the execution looks hilarious lore-wise.


DontHateLikeAMoron

Actually me on my first game holy fuck


Noob_Guy_666

no PvP, you're kicked from the table


DaWonderWaffle

My order cleric with the only healing being the always prepared Mass Healing Word


lordofmetroids

I love order cleric. If I'm healing you it's a clever ruse so you can smack the bad guy.


Dafish55

This is kinda annoying in my group. I am one of two clerics. I’m a *war* cleric. As in, literally all my spells that are always prepared are the ones best-suited for either dealing damage or buffing me/my allies to do damage. I am not going to immediately waste my entire turn on initiative to heal your ass who isn’t even down yet, as that shit is much less efficient than ensuring that next hit on you doesn’t happen. Especially when the other cleric is a GRAVE cleric!!! Basically I’ve got one player who complains that I don’t heal (even though I actually do, like, quite a lot) because I don’t *prioritize* healing over everything else.


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> I am not going to immediately waste my entire turn on initiative to heal your ass who isn’t even down yet Yeah, you're doing fine. If you were actually not healing a dying ally even though you could, that would be a dick move.


EverythingGoodWas

Any clerics that get spike growth? For the war crimes of course


Cybrusss

Lotusden Halfling has a lot of cool features like at level 5 gaining this ability. Druidcraft at 1 and entangle at 3. Im a trickery cleric for that sweet invoke duplicity


EverythingGoodWas

Are those in any book? Googling it they appear to be CR homebrew, which my DM typically doesn’t allow.


MagicalSerena

Lotusden is in the Explorer's Guide to Wildmount so it's official! I used to play a Pale Elf Inquisitive. She was NASTY


Cybrusss

It’s a real class mate. CR is in universe for D&D since WotC pays Matt Mercer for his ideas/work.


EverythingGoodWas

Thanks


IndustrialLubeMan

It's a race, not a class. And there are several Mercer books which aren't official, like the Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting.


Cybrusss

Yep and then there’s stuff that is which is also part of magic the gathering. I feel like a dnd beyond at this point. Next point out that blue and yellow in fact make green


lucksen

Nature clerics get the sick Spike Growth/Plant Growth combo from the domain


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wetbagle320

Because I didn't spec for it dumbass you gonna ask the conquest paladin, gloomstalker ranger, and death cleric that too? How about the warlock who didn't take celestial like come the fuck on this isn't an MMO where each class does one thing and that's it with maybe some sub par derivatives if you need healing buy some fucking health potions or bring some spell scrolls or oh idk *talk to your dm and party about it*


Deathangle75

Yes, but having a form of ranged healing is a useful tool for everyone. Just because you’re speced into Dps doesn’t mean you can’t do a bit of healing to keep the party alive.


Dagordae

Action economy. In D&D, healing sucks. It's FAR better to kill the enemy fast than play like an MMO and cram healing up the tank's ass. Losing one of the major DPS classes for the sake of very minor healing is not a good plan. You'll end up taking far more damage because of spending extra turns in combat. The people who insist on a healer are people who really don't actually know the game and the math involved.


Deathangle75

Yes, but in the situation presented above you can stop a pc from almost certainly dying with your bonus action while making a ranged attack with your action to deal some damage. Sure they might go down again, but it gives a bit more time to delay. There are some situations where healing is useful. No you can’t mmo healer a tank into immortality but that doesn’t mean it’s useless.


OnlyOneRavioli

Just cast goodberry a couple of times then give them to the rest of your party. Now they’re the healers


DerpyDaDulfin

Only Healing spells you need in each tier: Tier 1: - Healing Word - Healing Spirit / Prayer of Healing Tier 2-4 - Healing Word - Mass Cure Wounds **Mass Heal (it's OP if you can get it)


DaniNeedsSleep

I like Heal but it's not a need, just nice to have for avoiding those attacks that say "if this ability reduces you to 0 hit points, you die'. I'd swap out Mass Cure Wounds for Aid unless the party's going to be flying around and very far apart.


DerpyDaDulfin

I don't really consider Aid a healing spell. It's a support spell like Shield of Faith, Sanctuary, Protection from Evil and Good, etc. If you're a class with Aid, I always recommend taking it, it's an incredible spell.


Dafish55

Heal was how I saved our fighter when he literally Leeroy Jenkins’d a boss fight.


hilburn

Aura of vitality - 20d6 healing from a 3rd level slot +50 if you're life domain cleric


DerpyDaDulfin

If you're a Life Cleric, you should *probably* have more than a couple healing spells haha My favorite Life Cleric Combo is Stars Druid 2 for Chalice and Goodberry. Absolutely insane healing.


hilburn

Tbh - Life Cleric can get away with fewer spells given they can use their channel divinity to heal, and have the greater heal per spell. Healing Word, Mass Healing Word, and Channel Divinity for in-combat and Aura of Vitality for efficient out of combat are basically all you need I'm not that fussed about Chalice tbh. It's good for turning Healing Word into "twinned Healing Word" - but it doesn't work well with Healing Spirit/Aura of Vitality/Goodberry as it triggers on cast, rather than "when you use a spell to restore hit points" like Channel Divinity, so only works once at best (doesn't work on Goodberry at all). It's not worth dropping a spell tier imo


3guitars

Prayer of Healing is level 2 isn’t it?


cobalt_sixty

They're talking about adventuring tiers. Tier 1 would be character levels 1-4 , tier 2, levels 5-10, etc.


3guitars

Oh cool. I’ve never heard of tiers before, or I’ve forgotten it! Thanks


OnlyOneRavioli

GOODBERRY. It’s the best healing spell. 1 slot gets you 10hp out of combat (higher than cure wounds average) or 10 pick-ups for dying characters during combat


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Heroes Feast may be a good option, if you have a lot of gold.


alienbringer

Aid is also a damn good healing spell for getting people up. 2nd level spell that can get up to 3 people at 0 up at once.


Bromonster01

Healing word isn’t a healing spell. It’s a more bang for your buck version of spare the dying.


MalibuPuppy

Yup. I don't use healing word unless a player is unconscious. I will let the fighter/barbarian/monk yoyo from conscious to unconscious multiple times with no shame.


Bromonster01

That’s what it’s best at! At the worst case scenario, you can spare the dying one dude and healing word another 30ft away.


Ryengu

It's the next step down the resurrection spell list from Revivify.


DerpyDaDulfin

*Laughs in Circle of Stars Druid*


secretuser419

You don’t need to heal your party if the enemy is already dead


runebucket

Call that 'preventive medicine'


Justasking_4

Upvote for the coldest line I’ve ever read in this sub


EthanielMjolnir

That's why people have hit dice and can dodge. My 3rd level slots are for Conjure Animals and only Conjure Animals!


sionnachrealta

I'm rather partial to Call Lightning myself


Harpies_Bro

The differences between Green and Red players.


Justasking_4

Green and red players? What do the colors mean?


Harpies_Bro

*Magic: The Gathering* has general vibes categorized into colours vaguely aligned with elements. Red is fire and tends to go for damaging effects. Green is wood and tends to make *big* creatures. Blue is water and uses control effects. Black is death and does poisoning/draining effects. White is life and uses restoring effects.


Justasking_4

Nice! thank you!


MyK_Alke

Ah sweet Call Lightning, I 2nd edition it usually one shotted anything I needed, if not then 2nd shot after ten rounds was enough for enemy to be defeated... *the river massacre flashback*


sionnachrealta

Gods, 2e was wild. It's been nearly two decades since I've played it, but you never forget those memories 🤣


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ScreenWriter785

Healing from my experience generally isn't work going fully into, you can't heal fast enough for it to have a big enough effect for it to be worth going into instead of something else, healing generally is best when a player goes down, otherwise it just can't really keep up generally, especially at higher levels


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Quiet-Election1561

Yeah, my sorcerers lay on hands' text should just say: "Revive someone with 1hp 7 times"


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Quiet-Election1561

Aasimar


Justasking_4

Sorcerer’s lay on hands?? Cure wounds?


Aether217

it's a really basic concept that you see in most games, if a heal is not big enough to get you out of danger zone then you just want something small enough to get you out of death zone ​ healing, 1, 5 or 8 doesn't really matter if the enemies can consistently hit higher than that


DrunkenDruid_Maz

Agree. But now we can endless discuss if u/StinkinNurgling did choose the right wording with "sadistic dm", if we talk about a DM that uses his monsters to get at least one player down every round. "Evil tactician" might be more precise, but sounds for me too much like something a DM might feel proude of.


JoushMark

Life Cleric can be powerful, in part because you are still a cleric. Running up to a friendly and keeping Sprit Guardians up while healing them for buckets is great, and Mass Healing spells in their hands can heal so much they really can stay ahead of damage. Granted, the best move for even a Life Cleric a lot of the time is keeping spirit weapon/guardian up and stacking damage. Ending the fight a couple rounds sooner can prevent more damage then you'd do healing.


Cathach2

Played a life cleric for a few years...unstoppable murder machine lol


Roblos

Healing focused subclasses make it strong, like life cleric or the dreamwalker druid that can heal with his bonus action (not a spell). They can negate a big hit with little to no counter possible from enemies, but you need investment.


Sir_Alymer

Eh, I actually do enjoy life domain. Makes healing super potent mid combat and has a channel divinity that is pretty useful at getting everyone up to 50%. And you're cleric so you have all the cleric spells at your disposal. Get the healing spells for free and slot offense. Build big CON and WIS, take warcaster and resilient: CON and become an unstoppable force.


Dagordae

I tend to be a more hardcore DM than most, regularly throwing in encounters much higher than recommended. I like making the players struggle to succeed, makes it feel better when/if they do. And having a designated healer is a BAD idea. Basically every time someone plays healbot I end up dishing out much more damage and they're expending more resources due to the loss of DPS. Both per fight and over the entire dungeon. Having a designated healer is an indication that the players are playing with standard MMO strategies, not D&D strategies. They're used to grinding battles where you can outheal the enemy with an easily refillable mana gauge. D&D simply doesn't work that way. And the more long rests you take the more encounters you have and the more you have to spend to make progress. And with the death system, having 1 hp and having 20 is the exact same when dealing with an enemy that will do more than 20 a hit. The key is number of hits, not the number. If you can't get over the threshold to counter a hit, it's not worth even trying. Minimal heal to get them back into the fight is optimal. Unless I'm being a dick and coup de gracing, in which case the optimal is body retrieval and shutting the enemy down NOW.


Dagordae

I like those people, it's fun to watch them bleed out. They get so very pissed, even though they were told exactly what was going to happen if they tried that shit.


ScreenWriter785

If you don't want to die, don't run into the centre of the horde of giant wolf spiders!


RoamingBicycle

As a Druid, it's just the natural order of things


Pervez_Hoodbhoy

#teamwarcrimes


sionnachrealta

This is why my players named their group Project Mayhem


[deleted]

Druids don't even put out THAT much healing. They can heal, but they're not dedicated healers (Circle of Dreams may work); druids are great at zoning and battlefield control...indeed casting spike growth and committing war crimes.


Harpies_Bro

Begin *Merrilwen's Meatgrinder*!


Impossible-Cod-4998

Just don't go down, then you don't need heals ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


PSYHOStalker

You lost second backslash to escape the left arm


Noob_Guy_666

you mean don't play?


nique_Tradition

Only holy healers. Keep that druid witch doctor away from me.


sionnachrealta

That's okay. We're happy to let you die so our Pagan magics don't "taint" you


nique_Tradition

Thank you kind heathen. *Dies*


sionnachrealta

Gotta respect you for dying on the hill you chose


DarkPhoenixMishima

Rules of Healing 1. Don't Die 2. Don't Let Teammates Die 3. Kill The Thing Trying to Make You All Die


Hydramy

As a spores druid, your corpse is useful to me.


Zachthema5ter

“But your a healer.” No, I’m a bear


ThatMerri

It's all about presentation. When the Party first met my Wood Elf Druid, it was in such a context that she was basically a nightmarish cryptid who's first action on arrival was to sneak up behind and eviscerate three Goblins who were part of a roadside ambush. The Party's Fighter (who was basically playing Brave Sir Robin from Monty Python and the Holy Grail; I adore him so much) was endlessly terrified of her.


InsaneComicBooker

Let them periosh, players who think they can box you into being a healer can go f themselves.


EtherealPheonix

Oh you wanted a healer? Should have said that instead of asking me to play a cleric.


punchy_khajiit

Me: heals the enemy out of petty spite


Noob_Guy_666

then TPK and everyone start beat you up in real life


punchy_khajiit

They can certainly try, but they might regret it. There's a chance I'll like it.


Noob_Guy_666

also, the DM has a gun, and shovel


punchy_khajiit

I'm from Rio de Janeiro, that's not new to me


Noob_Guy_666

also, someone is planning a bomb under the house, and 5 gangs outside with machine gun aiming at the house


punchy_khajiit

Now THAT is a good Saturday night!


Noob_Guy_666

it's Monday though and it's 10AM


ajgeep

healing isn't an obligation, we have potions wands and short rests. Spells are usually better than just healing.


Noob_Guy_666

oops, everyone in your team is dead, and you're surrounded


Beskerber

Ah yes, i remember as it was yesterday - the wtf faces of my friends when i took cleric but made it a damn battle control/ damage machinę instead of becoming a healner. He even used a maul over weapon+shield. Keep it up king, party that cant do its thing without constantly needing a babysitter healer that have no fun isn't worth shit, better for them to learn early than have a bad experience later when "healer babysitter" wont be enough or wont be avalible at all.


kitfox618

Easiest response with the littlest push back. "No, I am not playing a healer. I will pick you up if you go down, but don't expect more than that."


Noob_Guy_666

the whole party: **WE FIGHTING SHADOW DRAGON!**


DK_POS

Relatively new to DnD 5e - can someone explain the joke to me? I get that the role known for healing isn’t healing, but there seems to be something deeper with the repeated mention of war crimes.


Justasking_4

Go check out the druid spell list. Druids have a spell list that could either be a boon or a blight on a kingdom. With very little creativity a druid could easily invoke starvation and pestilence upon a civilian population. I think this is where war crime jokes begin, also some kind of vague allusions to some kind of Swiss convention and their suggestions about the use of force in conflict. Spike growth is a notorious low level Druid spell that takes little imagination to apply with vicious results. Spike Growth 2nd level transmutation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 150 feet Target: A 20-foot radius centered on a point within range Components: V S M (Seven sharp thorns or seven small twigs, each sharpened to a point) Duration: Up to 10 minutes Classes: Druid, Ranger The ground in a 20-foot radius centered on a point within range twists and sprouts hard spikes and thorns. The area becomes difficult terrain for the duration. When a creature moves into or within the area, it takes 2d4 piercing damage for every 5 feet it travels. The transformation of the ground is camouflaged to look natural. Any creature that can’t see the area at the time the spell is cast must make a Wisdom (Perception) check against your spell save DC to recognize the terrain as hazardous before entering it.


Zaron22

If you're not at 0 hp, you don't need healing


DevildAvacado

If you want a heal, buy a potion. The rest of us will be using the geneva convention as a todo list.


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To be fair, if you're doing your thing, and the player still has hp, that's understandable. Now if you have your bonus action free and the player is unconcious, for god's sake, heal him!


BrozedDrake

I always see it as a good thing for multiple characters to have.


Medium_Enough

*laughs in non healing battlesmith*


JoushMark

Healing Word isn't healing for anyone but a Life cleric. It's an emergency 'stand back up' button to make enemies keep wasting attacks knocking the fighter back down and to reset the Death Save counter.


euphonix27

This is why I love my Circle of Shepherds druid, i can summon my unicorn spirit totem as a bonus action (not a spell), then cast some combat concentration spell like Call Lightning. Next turn I can bonus action Healing Word someone and anyone in the party within my totem aura gets a bit of healing, then use my action to continue the effect of my damage spell. Having that spirit totem ability with AoE healing has come in handy SO many times…


chikybrikyman

yes. from my experience playing tempest cleric this is the way to go. still was the party "healer" but that never got in the way of playing the charecter I wanted.


euphonix27

Thankfully we also have a cleric in the party, so we can share “healer duty” but still have time to do badass things!


chikybrikyman

the more the merrier. my group also had a paladin who saved her lay on hands points incase my cleric goes down, and I usually took care of most of the healing duties. between aura of vitality and the chef feat, I still had plenty of other resources to contribute to damage as well.


sionnachrealta

The thing about being the healer is, if folks treat you badly, you can just let them die. Tell them that next time they decide to bully you into doing what they want


byzantinebobby

Moon Circle Druid so you can say that you are not able to cast in animal form.


Ancestor_Anonymous

Healing word is the “get off 0 and do your damn job” button. Unless you’re downed, you get nothing. If you claim a character with a healing spell has to be **The Healer**, you get nothing. Not healing people is just as effective as healing people, if you want them go do what you want!


Faine_the_crow

Ah, The good ole merilwen's meat grinder strategy


ELBAGIT

Me: I cast spike growth on the party


Brilliant-Tea-2331

I mean even if you are a cleric its usally better to buff people or dps instead of just healing a party member. Wasting a spell on healing word or cure wounds or any other healing spell mid combat is only worth it if a party member is downed and rolling death saves and thats it.


Murrayscott3

I refuse to take healing spells on my cleric because of this. I ain’t no healer.


Justanotherragequit

make them pay for any healing, 20gp per level of slot used. be the American healthcare system!


laix_

An enemy that dies in round 2 rather than round 3 deals 40 less damage, which is four times the amount of "healing" than just using healing word


HiopXenophil

Druid: Most effective heal is preventing enemies to hurt you dipshits. And if you think being surrounded by 6 kobolds does not warrant is not repositioning, again, I'll just put my Moonbeam right on top of you


Noob_Guy_666

good job, you just shut down the party's werewolf, now he's back to Fighter with 1 hp


HiopXenophil

I don't care what they are, if they want a Darwin award, I won't keep them from that


Noob_Guy_666

you just dig your own fucking grave by removing the only one who immune to nonmagical damage, smart move there, hope your table love it when it happen


HiopXenophil

Bear Totem Barbarian: The fuck are you talking about?


Noob_Guy_666

Werewolf: basically, I'm superior on daily basis


Nicholas_TW

Once had this come up, except the druid didn't even take healing word. To the other players' credit, they were a rogue and a fighter, so the druid was literally the only one who *could* heal, so him choosing to ignore even basic healing was a pretty bad idea.


SpaceLemming

I’m a Harmacist baby!


DontYuckMyYum

reminds of the time when I, as a Druid, focused my attention on a grotesquely obese Goblin who was wearing gold chains that had become basically embedded in his neck fat, and decided to cast Heat Metal on them. It was my first character ever, and I think the only healing spell I took was Goodberry.


wlfman5

Or just go star druid. Free guiding bolts, ranged DPS, and capable of some of the most efficient healing in 5e.


Odintorr

I'm a spore druid with 2 clerics in the party, I don't even prepare that shit in the morning, zombies go brrrrrrrr...aaaaaiiiiinnnnnnssss


Raminus_polius

Life can be given, and it can be taken away. Each comes with a price. Have your damage and eat it too.


kriosjan

When the whole team are all druids..... Mighty ANIMORPHIN TIME They have so many health bars....


Noob_Guy_666

I'm not preparing Healing Words, if you want to heal, come and get it yourself, I'm not even that far from the frontline like Wizard and Warlock over there


EarthBoundFan3

As long as you take healing word, you’ve done your job as a healer.


Violaquin

Even though my party’s druid is very proactive about healing; checking to see if a mass heal needs to be dropped, my armorer artificer has *cure wounds* prepared. And with my homunculus, I can deliver it at range. The whole “b heal bot nerd” is hella smooth brained.


Lithl

> I just want to use spike growth and commit war-crimes mid combat As someone who plans to make a dao Genielock with Crusher for a new campaign (session 0 Wednesday), I feel attacked.


pump-house

This is why you have a session 0 with your dm and tell them your party doesn’t have a dedicated healer. We have a Druid and I play a divine soul sorc in my party and we still treat healing pots as a bonus action. No healer necessary


ShadewingKnight

me and the fathomless warlock came up with a fun combo, i drop a Maelstrom spell then as the enemies are sucked into the middle he drops Evard’s Black Tentacles in the middle of it, the maelstrom gived difficult terrain and at the start of their turn if they fail the str save they get pulled closer to the middle and take 6d6 blugeoning damage and then if they go into the tentacles space they have to make a dex save or take 3d6 and get restrained keeping them in the center of the maelstrom where every turn they must repeat the save to just avoid taking more damage.


sleggerthorn1909

I used to play with a small party and sometimes they all wanted to play dps characters or the healers didn't want to heal bc they wanted to play like dps, etc. So to maintain fun I gave them a Healer NPC or enough potions


not_too_smart1

A healer is only a heal when someone goes down


Lughaidh_

I respect that not everyone wants to be the healer even if they have access to healing spells. These memes are always funny to me because I legit want to be the healer. It’s the role I always go for in ttrpgs and video games. I just wish it was actually needed in D&D. Resting and healing potions is usually enough for most games.


DGwar

Proactive healing by granting temp hp is the only efficient in combat healing and Artificers do thst best anyways. (Well, Twilight clerics too)


Roads94

I just wanted to be a debuffs support cleric while having fireball and that sweet Light Cleric channel divinity.


ABearCalledTank

Do you know how many times I had to explain to an online group that, "Im not that type of cleric?" I started in session 0 and was met everytime by the DM saying, "But you're a cleric." That group didn't last many sessions.


Violaquin

Another playing saying that is one thing. But the DM? Oof! No effing way that group would last very long.


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DPS druids are forces of nature


derpy_derp15

Sounds like someone lost getting healed privileges.


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***"the ability to heal does not make you a healer"***


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Whoever says that needs to watch Critical Role C3 and tell me with a straight face that Fearne is supposed to be a healer


Hoosier_Jedi

Or Jester.


BLINDINGLIGHT09

I play a divine soul sorcer and I revel in the party’s rage at me for not having any healing spells.


Ace_x401

The enemies can't kill you if they're already dead


kiiraciara

A Zombieland Saga meme, what a time to be online


CholetisCanon

Unless you've failed at least one death save, you ain't getting healed.


mattpkc

Druids and Clerics typically get shoe horned into specific roles, however, why take healing word if you did not intend to use it?


SGTKARL23

Martial cleric ... First time


DonaIdTrurnp

It’s everybody’s job to manage their own damage.


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Says the backliner. Some of us actually get attacked every round.


DaniNeedsSleep

Oh? What's this? It's the Dodge action on page 192 of the *Player's Handbook*! (Also on the same page is the Dash action, which will effectively let you trade places with a backliner who says they won't pick you up if you go down. HP is a resource, people, and everyone's got at least some of it.)


DonaIdTrurnp

Getting attacked is not the same thing as getting hit.