WHy is healing so weak

[miofio]

My shadowheart is level 12 cleric, but using level 5 mass heal only heals each person by 10 hitpoints, is healing suppose to be this weak?

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Because healing is fundamentally a crutch...

[Rabidnid]

Originally posted by miofio:

My shadowheart is level 12 cleric, but using level 5 mass heal only heals each person by 10 hitpoints, is healing suppose to be this weak?

Healing is mostly from potions or in combination with that other spell that maximised healing outcomes.

[Kaisha]

If she's a light cleric she can punch out a ton of healing, especially if you gear her for it. But her default (trickster) is pretty much crap.

[victorvnv]

Light clerics push extra healing but overall healing doesn’t scale with gear so that’s why.

Mele and ranged damage also is crap on its own but as it scales with gear and they made some ridiculously OP gear pieces then damage ends up upping like crazy while healing stays at base always

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

If healing > damage, then nothing ever dies.

5e nerfed healing while increasing means of mitigating damage.

Also, Cleric is no longer a healbot.

[BitterHeals]

Originally posted by miofio:

is healing suppose to be this weak?

Yes. Healing was intentionally made weak in 5E because WotC felt players being healbots was not fun design, that they should spend more time fighting instead. And that strong healing classes led to whack-a-mole player healthbars and fights not being as challenging. The majority of healing in 5th edition is intended to be occur between fights, from healing potions and rests.

[Soji]

Yea its probably supposed to be that weak. Fights already take forever in this game, couldn't imagine how long it would if you could actually manage to outheal the damage. Best way to think of it is try to mitigate the damage instead of healing what damage you take, save your action economy which is very important esspecially when you're outnumbered like 5 to 1 in some cases

[glenn3e]

there's a ring you can get that gives +2 heal whenever you heal, even when doing short rest she heals extra. There's another ring that gives bless and damage resistance when you heal. Very useful for Shadowheart Light cleric to do a mid-battle area heal. The channel divinity ability of Light Cleric heals a lot(20+ at level 7) and is area effect.

[LordOfTheBread]

Healing ismeant to support the team, not top everyone all the time. That said respecing Shadowheart as healbot is pretty stgng.

[Recjawjind]

In actual D&D, I often heal my party members for RP reasons, even though doing damage would almost always be more efficient, because healing is fundamentally (and ment to be) inefficient.
It's a last resort, thats only ever going to be efficient if it buys you more than it costs action economy wise (i.e when someone is downed). Even bonus action healing word costs you action economy, much moreso in actual D&D though, since normally you can only cast 1 levelled spell on your turn, so if you heal, you can't use your strong offensive spells anymore. Here, you can do both, but healing still costs resources so still, a last resort usually.

[xxx RIP xxx]

It all depends on your class. To me Paladin healing is quite decent while Cleric healing is kind of lame.

[Gracey Face]

It's part of the DnD ruleset. Healing never keeps up with incoming damage, healing is meant to be something you do between fights or in rare instances to keep a specific person conscious for an extra turn so they can do one thing or another.

DnD is all about damage output and crowd control/disables.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Originally posted by xxx RIP xxx:

It all depends on your class. To me Paladin healing is quite decent while Cleric healing is kind of lame. :krvdrink:

The best "healer" I've made so far is Oath of Ancients Paladin/Lore Bard.

[Eleander]

Right Light cleric is the healer, the one domain thats most blaster caster, its Life domain not light >.>. If you want mass heals, also use beacon of hope if you want to max out each heal roll. But in my experience right after beacon of hope you get hit with something dumb and loose concentration.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by miofio:

WHy is healing so weak
My shadowheart is level 12 cleric, but using level 5 mass heal only heals each person by 10 hitpoints, is healing suppose to be this weak?

If you think healing is weak, then you clearly did something wrong with your character build.