CatharzGodfoot wrote:Expecting a single 'religious person' class to work is absurd. Religiousness isn't a role or a power; it's a trait. There's no reason that a priest of Mars should have the same class as a priest of Aphrodite, or a different class than an atheist warrior.Midnight_v wrote:I just think you really actually should able to be the cleric of "Mars" or "Ogun" and be as badass as any melee. I mean thats the real argument for clerics being able to be almost anything. Making, or trying to make them healbots hurts the game, and creates a scenario in which very few people will play them.
Thusly you could replace the damn class with something like crusador all together, with healing strikes if you feel that you have to have that, but very little combat healing actually occurs, its a weird thing that I've only seen really happen full time in MMO's.
If you need a healer class, then fine, make a healer class. But don't force the healer to be religious or force every priest to be a healer.
Man fuck you if your idea is "You're a priest of the WarGod, which is to say you're a figher with somekind of fluff hang up"
No. Motherfuckers are doing the shit WRONG, but there's no fucking reason you can't have a functioning religious dude, who gets stock healing power's (which really the medicine man's whole shit is that he can fix broke shit) AND some kinda war form that puts him on par with the fighter (or a working melee thing).
No reason except you, and a plethora of assholes who think that shits been wrong for so long that the wrongness has become the norm, don't wanna fuck with it but it just sounds so full of fail.
How does one do a healing class really? I mean is it just by saying: Allow overhealing as temp hp? Or does it need to be that plus massive combat swings.
I mean I'm just throwing darts here but if there was a spell that said "Holy Light" Allies are healed for 50hp, creatures within X ft must make a reflex save or be blinded for X rounds.
What I see is many people trying to fix evocation by putting riders on it like that. I mean BFC and healing together might make the class worthwhile...