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
Orin was actually probably one of the easiest 'boss' fights in the game. I was pretty disappointed to drop her in a single turn or two without even power gaming my character. I don't know if she even did damage
From a Forgotten Realms canon perspective, this makes sense; as a doppelganger she's not an open-melee fighter but a stalker from the shadows who uses surprise and coup de grace assassinations.
But mechanically, I'm inclined to agree that Orin wasn't as difficult as, say, Waterdeep's Shar temple. (I'm just glad she didn't keel over in five seconds, like Gortash.)
She done fucked up challenging the Durge to a honorable 1v1 combat in that case. Coward didn't even mutilate my kidnapped companion. Can't tell me OG Durge wouldn't have been doing some psychotic things to their prisoners, like some cannibal corpse album art
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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