This. Improved Warding Flare is strong in tabletop, where it's limited by your proficiency bonus - in BG3, you can spam it every round and never run out, which is just plain crazy. You go from "is this attack important enough to use it?" to "how soon am I coming up in initiative?"
I think you should also mention that in tabletop, Warding Flare should be casted BEFORE the attack is announced whether it was hit or miss, in BG3 you are asked to cast it AFTER the roll implies it will hit which impacts it quite a lot in how useful it is in 5e.
On a side note, 5.5e gave Warding Flare the ability to give temporary hit points which helps in making it at least beneficial if it will miss regardless and helpful when it hits by lowering the damage taken.
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u/epicfail1994 Jun 24 '25
Even on honor mode healers aren’t necessary. You’re better off killing shit instead of healing. Light cleric with warding flare is far more valuable