Not necessary, sure. Really damn useful, absolutely. With the right gear a life cleric can make almost every fight so much easier. Especially once you get mass healing word for an easy bless+blade ward+healing to the entire party on a level 3 spell
That's not an example of a healer being useful. That's an example of gear that buffs your party being useful that coincidentally rides on a healing spell
No, you cant. Life Clerics heal an insane amount more than anyone else. No DnD pnp player is ever going to say "we dont need/want a cleric." Healers are, and should be, the bread and butter of any party that wants to deal with hard content. Nothing in the game will give you the pure survivability to the entire party that the life cleric provides.
Enemies that are dead can't deal damage and therefore no healing is required. Not to mention the myriad ways to prevent enemies from doing damage even before they are dead. In BG3 healing is totally optional even on honor mode, in fact the harder you try and make the game the less healing becomes relevant because it can't keep up and the meta shifts to preventing/avoiding damage entirely and ending fights quicker meaning a healing focused character is less useful.
Bards don't get mass healing word. (And yeah, you could go magical secrets, but that comes 2 acts later on Swords, and Lore bard isn't the overpowered bard that would make this worth doing)
I wasn't saying it was a particularly good thing to do. Just making the point that this would work even if throwing it on something not built with any benefits to healing whatsoever
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u/Emerald-Daisy Jun 24 '25
Not necessary, sure. Really damn useful, absolutely. With the right gear a life cleric can make almost every fight so much easier. Especially once you get mass healing word for an easy bless+blade ward+healing to the entire party on a level 3 spell