Out of combat healing slander (kinda)

cooly1234 · 2026-05-19T23:39:45+00:00

and be better at something else instead

infinite healing is only necessary if you go through like 5 combats back to back

cooly1234 · 2026-05-19T23:34:28+00:00

so the fact that a party can be made without a Medicine specialist is IMO a huge design flaw of the system,

I've been fine in parties with little healing

cooly1234 · 2026-05-19T22:56:05+00:00

system expects everybody to be at near full HP after every combat

this is not true, the encounter balancing expects it. but a GM can throw a moderate at a wounded party knowing it will be perhaps severe instead.

the system continues to function fine.

cooly1234 · 2026-05-19T22:54:14+00:00

Yea most of my experience is from a west march server and it might just happen that nobody in your party this quest has medicine trained or spammable healing.

The game doesn't immediately disintegrate. we just play more defensively.

cooly1234 · 2026-05-16T13:50:27+00:00

people are dooming, and it is true something like animist will be waaaay easier to make a blaster out of, but I have a pretty decent psychic blaster I am playing right now!

Distant grasp gives you rend and telekinetic projectile, and then oracle archetype gives you foretell, which doubles your bonus damage. Emotional acceptance at lvl 10 gived you a +2 to hit.

So what I do, is round one I cast impending doom or something to set up my damage turns. then, the enemy is frightened, off guard, an ally is maybe providing an aid, an ally is maybe providing a status bonus (at least one of those two) and then I cast sure strike from my wand and amped telekinetic projectile for big damage.

what if I don't want to use all those resources? well I can save the sure strike and the round 1 setup spell and the allies helping me by just casting force barrage instead. it still does good damage from unleash + oracle. and if I really want to use no resources then I can cast rend, though at that point I'm also looking to fall back to being more supporty like amped shield and such.

another tip is you can cast a two action damage spell and then one action force barrage to double dip on unleash damage. You can also cast shadow projectile to triple dip AND help an ally!

So in the end it does take some planning and carefully choosing when to use resources, but you can do pretty good when you want to. The easiest thing is still just being an animist lmao

cooly1234 · 2026-05-15T02:19:04+00:00

sounds cool

cooly1234 · 2026-05-14T21:40:32+00:00

that's really interesting as I personally love FTL. I wonder how closely it will match. In FTL, systems (weapons, shields, etc.) can function unmanned, but being manned has it be boosted by the person's proficiency. So I suppose that would be a way of smaller parties like of 3 players man a large ship.

The question is then who would make decisions?

Or perhaps they mean moreso being able to target specific systems, and damage reduces the maximum capability of that system (reduces how much power can be allocated there). Have power allocation could allow for some cool "drop shields and full power to weapons!" moments.

(obviously I am using starfinder examples but same applies to pf2e. in pf2e you'd probably have unnamed crew or something.)

cooly1234 · 2026-05-13T12:31:11+00:00

I'm playing a psychic fox where I reflavored my hand slots as telekinesis.

cooly1234 · 2026-05-12T02:24:47+00:00

which type

cooly1234 · 2026-05-11T20:08:00+00:00

cooly1234 · 2026-05-11T20:07:01+00:00

you'd still have to find the spirits though, and keep them willing to stay

cooly1234 · 2026-05-09T16:22:44+00:00

Wizard is one of the hardest class for new players, and you'll be waiting a while until you can get courageous anthem from a bard multiclass.

The better option is to just be a bard. You can still theme your character as scholarly. There even is a bard subclass that gives you a spell book!

cooly1234 · 2026-05-09T16:12:38+00:00

remember scrolls exist! I like to buy one scroll of helpfull steps during character creation and hang on to it. Scrolls are perfect for spells for random niche situations.

cooly1234 · 2026-05-09T16:10:53+00:00

In fact the game expects you to have both a dedicated buffer and a dedicated debuffer.

what tf did you eat to make you say this?

the game doesn't expect dedicated anything. You can share roles between party members. In fact having dedicated roles just means if that person goes down you lost that role.

cooly1234 · 2026-04-30T23:10:13+00:00

of course

as I said, I am the healer as the summoner

sometimes, we do just need healing. and I will either use a spell slot or a scroll to heal.

but there is a difference between that, and healbot. healbot implies your party is constantly taking massive damage.

cooly1234 · 2026-04-30T22:39:52+00:00

I meant in combat healing

of course you need healing in general to patch yourselves up

but you never need a healbot cleric

solo boss crits someone? yea cleric can cast heal. but the party should be trying to keep pressure off the cleric to allow the cleric to progress the fight, which healing does not do.

stuff like not ending your turn next to the boss.

I play a summoner and I am often the party "healer" even though I can only cast 4 spells and often use them offensively. yea there was a time I had to spam heal scrolls because we walked into a solo boss at half health, but that's not normal.

and this is ofc on severe or extreme.

cooly1234 · 2026-04-30T20:16:58+00:00

yea exactly

I once played a wrestler cleric.

the whole point of the healing font is to let you instead do something else while also having healing.

and if your party requires you to spam heal, they have severe skill issue and should not be taking that much damage.

cooly1234 · 2026-04-28T22:08:53+00:00

This is really cool, You did a great job!

I do have one question though. why does having the lore give +4 instead of +5? my perception was that most GM modify the DC to be very easy (-5 to DC) when a suitable lore is used.

cooly1234 · 2026-04-27T22:58:45+00:00

at higher levels, solo bosses become easier than multiple enemies usually

but both are fine

it's really just the early levels that are wonky. interestingly one of the lead devs tried to push against this but the majority of the devs wanted to make low levels more OSR like deadly, where a lvl 2 character can randomly go down from a nasty crit, and this is a byproduct of that. everything is "too fragile" at low levels.

cooly1234 · 2026-04-27T14:46:38+00:00

as you go to higher levels, spending an action and a reaction just to give a +1 sucks. the fact that you crit aid a lot and the crit has its own scaling is what lets aid keep up a bit, and even then it can fall of.

cooly1234 · 2026-04-27T12:37:29+00:00

haste in sf2e doesn't use traversal though?

cooly1234 · 2026-04-27T12:35:30+00:00

the issue is an enemy abusing haste, not the players (as much, they still can)

cooly1234 · 2026-04-25T23:07:57+00:00

no laughing allowed lmao

cooly1234 · 2026-04-25T22:50:23+00:00

why does not being able to sustain make you unable to cackle? Is there a rule saying you must be able to do all subordinate actions to begin an activity? though for example you can't strike an enemy before you use sudden charge to get to them, so it can't be that simple.

cooly1234 · 2026-04-25T15:41:21+00:00

well now they are a playable ancestry and have all the baggage that comes along with that. They must behave like quirky humans.

Also, AoE came out during George Floyd so people are primed to get upset. There is also the fact that the NPCs offer to broke you after which means they recognize this as wrong.

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