![]() ![]() Because of channeling positive energy, I can heal the party without using spells, so I can use spells to affect the combat by casting buffs, debuffs, and damage inflicting attacks. I can (thru a domain power) throw my scythe as a ranged attack. I'm playing a cleric in a Pathfinder game, and I'm the healer, and I have a lot more fun during combat, because I have a lot more options. Except, everyone should be able to do something fun in combat, even if they are the healer. It's easy to say that my problem was my choice of class, since as a healing cleric, I was pigeon-holing myself into being the healer and nothing else. "Anyone need healing? Yes? Then I cast a level 2 cure spell on the wizard." "Anyone need healing? No? Then I swing my axe at the orc." "Anyone need healing? No? Then I swing my axe at the goblin." Rinse, repeat, for every round of combat. If they didn't, I would swing my axe at something. This meant that for any combat that popped up during the campaign, I would ask if anyone needed healing. The one fight that I tried casting what few offensive spells I had nearly ended in a TPK (with over half the party down and making death saves by the skin of their teeth) because we ran out of healing and took too many crits. Doing otherwise would be a waste of my time and would endanger the party. I would not and did not cast any spell that didn't restore hitpoints. With this in mind, I kept all of my spells in reserve to cast as healing spells. This means any combat can suddenly turn against the party when a key PC takes a crit they weren't anticipating. Due to the action economy, PC's get swung at more often than PCs get to swing back at the monsters, so PCs suffer more crits than they inflict, statistically. Unfortunately, because of how critical hits are handled in game, combat is far more swingy than before. I played out party's cleric, I went healing/life domain (or whatever they call them this time) but had decent enough stats to fight on the front line. ![]() I'm going to say that my own experiences with D&D 5th edition combat have been boring as well. ![]()
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