Quasi-class: Healer (Monk/Cleric)

[lala]

Note:
This class is unbalanced but for a very good reason; it has NO offensive capability, resulting in a lot of difficulties levelling when solo - definitely a support class)

Description
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All clerics are known to have the aid of their diety to heal, and even to inflict great pain.
Some manipulate the power bestowed upon them by their god to also cause great affects, while others are strengthened for war.
A very rare few walk a path that is usually considered a myth by most folks, that of the Healer.
The healer forsakes all weapons and conflict to focus on the art of medicine and healing.
So great is their sacrifice they become formidable in these arts that they seemly godly in their domain of healing and strenghtening the mind, body, and spirit.
In fact the Healer is a humble person walking the land, not judging anyone and aiding those who need their help.

Requirements
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- Domains must be Healing & Protection
- By level 22 must have the following:
* Must have 7 levels of Monk, 9 levels of Cleric
* Feats; Skill Focus end Epic Skill Focus Healing

Restrictions to abilities/benefits
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- For all benefits apart from Monk related abilities, the Cleric spell Sanctuary MUST be active on the character.
This spell is round based and can be dispelled. So is a designed weakness to the class for balance.

This ensures the player remains passive and not try to get the benefits of this quasiclass when wanting to play offensive.
- Character limited to robes and must not use a shield

Benefits
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- For certain spells (see below), caster level is equal to Cleric level + Monk level
- Use of heal skill; Hit points healed = Heal skill + Healing Kit * Charisma bonus.
- Healing kits +10 upwards when used affect area size large. It heals the amount above for the one targeted and 1/2 for others in area of affect.
- Cure spells are multiplied by the respective Spell Focus/s Conjuration, eg:
* Spell Focus Conjuration multiples hit points healed by 2
* Greater Spell Focus Conjuration multiples hit points healed by 4
* Epic Spell Focus Conjuration multiples hit points healed by 6
* Legendary Spell Focus Conjuration multiples hit points healed by 8
- Monsterous Regen & Regen improved; Regens per round also now gain +1 for each Conjuration spell focus/s + Charisma bonus, to a maximum of 45.
- Turn Undead through the arts of healing has been re-channeled;
* Turn undead no longer turns or affects undead, now it Greater Restores all party members anywhere on the same map. This ability can only be used 1 per 6 rounds, uses a Turn Undead ability and requires rest once all are used.
- Monk feats (Monk SR and Monk conceal) are level based on Monk level + Cleric level
- Implosion, the healer has learnt how to redirect the powerful forces of destruction to what creates life. Casting Implosion now does a Mass Ressurect.

Spells affected by Monk and Cleric levels:
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0.
- Cure Minor Wounds

1.
- Bless
- Cure Light Wounds
- Endure Elements
- Entropic Shield
- Protection from Alignment
- Sanctuary
- Shield of Faith
- Summon Creature 1

2.
- Aid
- Bull Str
- Cure Moderate Wounds
- Darkness
- Eagle Splendor
- Endurance
- Fox's Cunning
- Owls Wisdom
- Remove Paralysis
- Resist Elements
- Silence
- Ultravision

3.
- Clarity
- Cure Serious Wounds
- Negative Energy Protection
- Magic Vestment
- Prayer
- Protection from Elements
- Remove Blindness/Deafness
- Remove Curse
- Summon Creature 3

4.
- Cure Critical Wounds
- Deathward
- Freedom of Movement
- Neutralise Poison
- Restoration
- Summon Creature 4

5.
- Monsterous Regen
- Energy Buffer
- Raise Dead
- Spell Resistance
- Summon Creature 5
- True Seeing

6.
- Heal
- Planar Ally
- Summon Creatur 6

7.
- Greater Restoration
- Regenerate
- Resurrection
- Summon Creature 7

8.
- Mass Heal
- Summon Creature 8

9.
- Implosion (changed for this quasi-class)
- Summon Creature 9
- Undeaths Eternal Foe

This quasi-class is very powerful but then it sacrifices ALL offensive capability for it.
Furthermore it has weaknesses such as AC being compromised (Wis bonus for Monk) by needing Charisma for some benefits, and restricted to robes and no shield.
Another key balance is that you either go high on Monk for SR-conceal-etc, or high Cleric for the legendary Summon and ress spell. You cannot get both.

I would love to see it, I have played Healer chars in the past and they are much tougher to keep alive and play well than nearly any other build.
Also its great for Roleplay

[lala]

For monk abilities I just mention Monk SR and Conceal, it would be nice if the other feats such as Monk movement could include both Cleric & monk levels when quasi-class requirement is once met.

[lala]

Last thing, a special sanctuary is cast when a cleric has the Protection Domain, hopefully the benefit can be kept when looking to modify the spell to include monk levels.

Cheers
Lala

[FunkySwerve]

It's an interesting concept. There are a few problems, however. It isn't an unusual class combo. It does have a somewhat unique angle, however, and more monk levels than a caster cleric would take, though, so that isn't a huge problem for me. The larger problem is the complexity. This class would require modifying many many scripts, and add overhead to them in the process.
Funky

[lala]

Ah I do seem to find the more complex ideas
At least its simpler than the monk spell rebound concept I had (I think)

On a serious note I can work out something along the same lines but with much less scope (looking at reducing whats affected but have it scaling instead).

1st question though, is it important for you to have the Sanctuary spell active so as to stop the Healer being used for melee as well?
It would be great to have a powerful quasi-class thats fully support orientated.

Cheers
Lala

[FunkySwerve]

That's yet another complexity of this spell. There are some things you can do in sanctuary that you shouldn't be able to, thanks to Bioware, and this'd require hunting down all of them related to clerics. Not my cup of tea.
Funky

[Parazia]

u need to at least ahve some other kind of armor options or it would become pointless to make due to no armor=death. clerics already have no armor then u reduce them to no shield no armor and charisma based abilitys? this character is gonna have no armor at all. maybe could implement an item that increases the armor or works like the lvl 1 wiz/sorc spell shield that adds a shield armor modifier. just my thoughts taht if this class has no armor it is gonna be getting killed constantly.

[lala]

behn said:

u need to at least ahve some other kind of armor options or it would become pointless to make due to no armor=death. clerics already have no armor then u reduce them to no shield no armor and charisma based abilitys? this character is gonna have no armor at all. maybe could implement an item that increases the armor or works like the lvl 1 wiz/sorc spell shield that adds a shield armor modifier. just my thoughts taht if this class has no armor it is gonna be getting killed constantly.

From what Funky says I doubt we would see a quasi-class like this as it is just too much trouble.

The balance of AC on the build is right, with that amount of healing power it has it needs to be kept on its toes, otherwise the party will rarely stay down for longer than 1 round.

[FunkySwerve]

If you can rework it to balance out without the sanctuary, It stands some chance, but you'd also have to reduce the scriptcalls involved, to reduce server overhead. A few quasiclasses like this one would, I suspect, cause noticable decrease in server performance. That's part of the reason it's so hard for players to suggest quasiclasses, and the major reason I would reject the build as is, not sanctuary bugs. Please don't be discuraged, getting one that works as a quasiclass involves some luck or scripting knowledge, because of this factor!
Funky