The Evil Healer: A Unique take on Healing ft.
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2023
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RJ at DnD builds reached out to us with a challenge build and collaboration. The challenge, to build the evilest healer. So today here is our Evil Healer.
This build is a Mountain Dwarf Divine Soul Sorcerer Utilizing spells that allow us to deal damage and heal ourselves simultaneously setting us up for big burst heals with Life Transference. This build's signature spells are wither and bloom, vampiric touch, life transference, and enervation, each allowing us to steal hp from our enemies and give it to our allies.
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Remember a necromancer is just a healer that never gave up
Lmao, poor man is still trying to heal his dead dog. Keep going man, kibble will make it!
Either that or they're a healer who's fashionably late
It is important to master both the sanguine arts and necromancy to make use of the full body
I still think the "Cure" spells should be necromancy school. It involves manipulation of life and death.
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I always liked the idea of the sadist healer. Offers to heal for free, but doesn't always just heal allies. Sometimes doing burst heals that heal enemies too to keep the suffering going.
Blood for the blood God. Keep the agony pouring.
Interesting.... noted
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In 3.5, going warlock+cleric. Turn eldritch blast into chain blast and take the prestige so it heals.
There was a bonus action fest you could take to heal all creatures within 30ft by like 1d8+wisdom mod.
So aoe heal and chain heal nonstop. No buffs, no walls or damage spells. Just heals. And watch the struggle.
@@travisroberts2809 I remember the chain blasting!
My favorite is the one who's just a little too encouraging, like "yeah just jump out the window, I'll patch you back up after we'll be fine. Worst case, I can just bring you back if you hit wrong
@@techwizsmith7963
Lol
Your build actually embraces the theme, his does not.
You 100% win. Other guy just wanted a meme of telling you to be an ass to your party. You put thought into a really fucking cool build! I'm gonna try this!
Thanks! Glad you liked it
Blood Sorcerer. Love it.
Play a Dhampir would be more thematic though.
I feel like this would definitely be a build that could make great use out of Dwarven Fortitude. Action: Dodge and gain health, then Quicken spell life transference. And it's a Con half feat which is never bad
I think this feels evil from start to finish, as opposed to the surprise BBEG. Depends on what you're going for, but I htink this one is more applicable more often
A single level dip into Life Cleric makes those heals more effective, including the ones that heal yourself.
What level would be the most optimal?
@@anarchyantics2271 the usual answer is first level, for armor. But with Clerics, you get your heavy armor as a subclass feature. So it doesn't really matter, as long as you have the features in place by the time you need them.
If I was going to play it from level 1, I'd take my first 5 levels in wizard to get my third level spells ASAP. Then I'd grab my single level of Cleric and back to wizard.
Alright, thanks for the advice
I just automatically thought of the Medic from TF2. Heal so others can hurt more
This turned out so much cooler than I expected, looks like a blast to play!
I love all
Your challenge builds. Good stuff
Hmmmm.... not the most optimized build, but wickedly flavorful, and it sounds really fun to play. I might have to try using a character like this sometime
I would have totally thought that you would have taken life cleric, necromancer and stars druid as well as either aasimar or dhampir.
I think adding one level of Death Cleric and going with the Dhampir race is how I would build this. Death Cleric gives you an extra necromancy cantrip (Spare the Dying is my pick because low Wis doesn't matter), lets you target 2 creatures with necromancy cantrips for free as long as the targets are within 5' of each other, gives you proficiency in the medium armor we want, and martial weapons (so could use a rapier with dex when not life transferring or biting with the dhampir's natural weapon). Also, it means you can get thaumaturgy with one of the cleric cantrips you gain at 1st lvl cleric. I'd take thaumaturgy, guidance, and mending with those 3 picks.
Dhampir gives you 35 move speed as opposed to 25 move for the dwarf, and they get free spider climb. They also get a bite that is a con based attack which can also heal them.
I am planning on trying to play this in my next campaign (with DM permission/buy-in) but make it a secret that eventually gets revealed to my allies that I'm actually a Dhampir instead of a Half-Elf and that I have been using evil/black magic to heal my party members.
My group is cool and likes secrets/reveals/not necessarilygood characters/etc, so I think they would be fine with this.
I'm SO glad I subbed to your channel. You do the corner-case builds and the strange and different builds...just like me.
The evilest healer... United Healthcare says hi...
And sues for identity fraud
This is definitely a better build for the theme. DnDbuilds has a pretty benevolent healer up until the backstab and depends a lot on favorable DM involvement and a late stage backstab.
This is more sadomasochistic and the spells have a lot more thematic value.
I think your build won this one. Where his build focuses primarily on being a traditional healer with a scheme to do something evil in the future, your build is inherently evil from start to finish. Most healers aren't going to steal life from others to heal their allies, there would be a class devoted to such. Well done! >:)
My idea drops the Life Transference strategy, but my evil healer would be a Dhampir Grave Cleric 18/Spores Druid 2. Grave Domain has the reputation of being the "Good" Death Cleric, but they do still get spells like Bane, False Life, Vampiric Touch, Blight, and Anti-Life Shell, and their Channel Divinity can give an enemy vulnerability to damage on an attack. Plus, Grave's capstone ability (Keeper of Souls) allows them to siphon life from dying enemies and use that energy to heal allies. And they can do that once per round with no action cost and no limit to the number of uses per rest.
Death Domain Cleric also fits this idea, but Grave is the mechanically stronger option, has a better healing kit, plus Death Domain is in the DMG while Grave is from Xanathar's, so more DMs would probably allow Grave.
For the build, focus is heavily on Wisdom and Constitution, with at least 14 Dex for Medium Armor, which would be something made out of bone for flavor and if the DM is a big stickler for the Druid armor rule.
The primary reason for the levels in Druid is for Shillelagh, to attack with Wisdom, and because Spores Druids is the easiest way to get Chill Touch cast with Wisdom. There is also the cool flavor that this character could activate their Symbiotic Entity to add Necrotic damage to their Dhampir bite. If doesn't cause the bite to heal for more, but a vampiric bite infected with necrotic spores does fit the evil healer theme.
The reason I didn't go more than 2 levels in Druid in order to make the Symbiotic Entity more usable at higher levels is because there is a lot of overlap between the Spores Circle spells and both the Grave and Death Domain spells, the Grave Domain capstone fits the concept too well, and Halo of Spores allows this character to still use the spores to deal necrotic damage as a reaction.
Flavor this as a blood mage
I feel Sorcerer 6 and Undead Warlock 14 could provide some interesting options.
Thank you for the idea 😊
This is eviler!
(Any/all)
I've made a Changeling Celestial Warlock/Divine Soul Sorcerer. His patron (matron) is a Deathpact Angel (Ravnica - Orzhov). He was my evil healer. If I could change anything about him, I would change his race to reborn and give him the Remarkable Recovery feat. Keep him in the fight and continue keeping his allies in the fight as well. I once conned a bunch of homeless vagabonds who were loitering and instead arrived at the Church for some shelter and food. What they didn't know was in exchange for their souls.
Wow, great build for the concept!
~_~
By level 10 and clever multiclassing, that necro damage is boomtastic
Having watched both videos, you’re the clear winner imo. Both videos were great though 👏🏻
I think an interesting potential interaction is using _Life Transference_ on yourself, since the amount of hitpoints gained is double that which you lost. If you use it on yourself combined with _Death Ward_ while you're very close to 0 hp, you can heal yourself for even more.
Damn. If only I could.
"You sacrifice some of your health to mend another creature’s injuries." you cant target yourself. Also if you have 5 HP the max that you can heal is 10 HP no matter the roll
@@LeakysTV I considered that part of the spell flavour text, given the more robust "one creature of your choice that you can see within range" in the following sentence specifying who you can target - lacking the "other than yourself" similar spells get. I wouldn't go as far as to say that your interpretation is wrong, though.
I _would_ say that your interpretation of how much you heal is wrong, though. The spell specifies that it heal hit points equal to twice the amount of necrotic damage you take. Damage taken in the rules is *always* unrelated to how many hit points you have (left). So if you deal 10 necrotic damage to yourself while you only have one hit point left, you still heal 20 hit points.
@@MalloonTarka this two question are alread answer by Crawford on Sage Advice (putting the link is deleting my comment) XD i did the research when giving the spell to one of my player magic item
is-life-transference-spell-intended-that-you-can-target-yourself-with-it/
life-transference-spell-if-the-caster-only-has-1-hp-can-he-grant-more-than-2-hp-to-the-target-of-the-spell/
@@LeakysTV You brought receipts, excellent.
I might still quibble about RAW vs. RAI, "I recognise that the council has made a decision", etc etc, but I think that no one would disagree that yours is now the stronger position.
Ah, alas.
This one is better. More in the spirit of an evil healer.
TSCR blood cleric comes to mind for added evil 😊
both builds are unique and interesting however i think purely on intention the druid build that Rj did wass more evil however machnicly speaking youre sorc feels like an evil greedy healer great contest fun builds and charitor ideas i will be incorerating in games
I currently have a player that’s playing a neutral evil shadar kai divine soul sorcerer/death cleric in the Descent into Avernus campaign that I’m running. They are a selfish character that is only healing and keeping the party alive because the party are what’s standing between the devils and them.
I like both D&D Daily and D&D builds a lot, but I gotta say D&D Daily made the best Evil Healer.
this one felt more in line with being evil
Recommend a Challenge: Please do a „Champion of Fortuna“ build. Someone so blessed by the goddess of luck that they can almost not fail. So use the Luck Feat, maybe Bend Luck ability, and some spells that gaining advantage/ give disadvantage etc. Can see potential there
This build makes for a good scion of Loviatar. Raised by a cult to bring their godess into the world. They escaped and want to do good in the world but they can't heal, only transfer life.
Life Transference: Avg 18 dmg, 36 healing + 4.5 dmg/9 healing per level
Life Cleric
Disciple of Life adds 5 + 1/level = 18 d, 41 h + 4.5 d / 10 h per level
Blessed Healer heals you 5 + 1/level = 13 d, 41 h + 3.5 d / 10 h per level
Circle of Stars: Chalice adds 1d8+WIS to either you or another creature
Target: 13 d, 50.5 + 3.5 d / 10 h per level
You: 4.5 d, 41 h + 3.5 d / 10 h per level
If you're going to be relying largely on vampiric touch, [original] fallen aasimar + death domain cleric (x) can really hit like a truck [VT's damage roll + character level + 2x cleric level +5] -and subsequently heal like half a truck, and you have 1-3 uses of this channel divinity per short rest. Would definitely recommend getting heavy armor proficiency though, maybe fighter 1 for defense fighting style. Alternatively, with extended spell metamagic and life cleric (1+) you could extend aura of vitality to 2 minutes and restore 2d6+5 12 times using the 1 spell slot outside of combat to bring yours and others hp back up. Disciple of life also causes Regenerate to heal 10 per activation, so that would be a good candidate for twinning or extending
I think Twin Spell and Life Transference would work. It would be different if maybe it said something like dealing the damage to a target ally. Then it would be targeting two creatures.
please do a build that based on Stone Aegis (from the Stone Sorcery subclass)
The Dwarven race Feat + Dragonblood vile give a you an in-battle bonus action way to regain up to 5 sorcery points Per long rest
Which is both somatic and really powerful given Howell spell slut hungry this builders
I was thinking about a character that utilizes the Arcane Tricksters level 9 feat Magical Ambush. The Bladesinger Wizard comes to mind, but maybe someone has a better idea or has something creative for me? :)
I will probably go death Cleric (or blood if tal dorei) with a dip into long death monk (at 6 you can get infinite spam of fear and stunning stike but i will focus on spells), kill stuff with doulbe toll the dead (need to be on melee so chill touch will be less effective, still good to have), get that juicy 8 temp hp and use them for life tranference. warcaster for more twinned toll the dead. spirit guardian necrotic. be a dhampir or some tanky race like goliath or earth genasi or shadar kai (jump in tanking with spirit guardian up since it can give you the hp in others creatures turn if they die). remember you can dash or disengage even in medium armor
What a wicked build! Ehhh that one was a stretch, and i’m not from Boston
Nice build. Can you make Jack of blades from fable
Can you do a build that optimizes spirit guardians?
I would go Dhampir for the flavor.
I have a Death Cleric that i have self imposed a rule that he must drain kife to heal, so i took animal handling and always try to find rabbits, squirrels, rats, etc which I drain to heal. His healing hurts too, its not pleasant. If i run out of animals to drain, I will touch an ally and deal 1d4 damage to drain them in order to heal someone else.
Let's talk about the Hollyphant in the room: Why didn't you MC into Warlock to get the Pact of the Chain boon and the Invocation "Gift of the Ever-Living-Ones"? ("Whenever you regain hit points while your familiar is within 100 feet of you, treat any dice rolled to determine the hit points you regain as having rolled their maximum value for you"). Even if this doesn't max out the damage of Vampiric Touch, I would allow it for the healing dice rolls.
How effective would a paladin that works around shadowblade be?
Pretty sure you can’t get vampiric touch with this build
I would like to set a fairly open challenge in concept.
A combatant (no full caster) who seeks to create chaos and disaster wherever he goes.
The idea is that this guy every time he steps on the battlefield is a chaos for allies and enemies, no one is clear which side he belongs to but he is destructive without a doubt.
So essentially just RPing Kharn the Betrayer, blood for the blood god
The conjure greater/lesser demons spells would be great for this concept. conjure elemental too, if you immediately drop the concentration. Though wouldn’t really be super relevant when you get them on AT or EK, maybe Warlock would qualify as not being a full caster for this scenario.
@@elliotbryant3459 The problem is that with a full caster it is very easy for a spell to go wrong or you can hit allies, so the idea is to go for something that is not a full caster that doesn't distinguish between ally and enemy (like giving a sweep shot and "unintentionally" hitting an ally).
@@thatlonewolfguy2878 The idea is not to make it seem so obvious that you are going after your allies, in the end you have to be in a party and if you start hitting them for no reason what are you going to be there for?
@@zegnol897 hmmm, well a lot of that seems more of a play style than something you would build towards, but here are some slightly related mechanics
the volo's guide scourge aasimar doesn't discriminate with its transformation aoe damage. Same for the fallen aasimar's fear;
A barbarian may want to attack an ally to maintain their rage, and a beast barbarian might fang attack an ally for hp recovery as well;
storm herald barbarian's desert aura deals indiscriminate aoe damage, but it's so little it's not really worth mentioning;
Ascendant Dragon and Sun Soul monk could cause friendly fire in their respectable aoe's;
Long death monk or Fiend warlock could knock out a low hp ally or their minion to gain temporary hit points;
Long death monk's fear targets allies and enemies alike;
with the crusher feat you might punch an ally to put them into a more favorable position [same with swarm keeper ranger and repelling blast/Grasp of hadar];
With descriptive environments and a creative mind, a thief rogue can often instigate chaos using their fast hands bonus action;
I know warlock is kind of disqualified, but it does have some relevant non-spell features, the warlock 5 invocation Cloak of Flies also doesn't discriminate ally from enemy within its aoe;
Warlock could also hex an ally to utilize maddening hex and/or relentless hex at their position;
How did he get Vampiric Touch on a sorcerer? It’s warlock/wizard and only one grave or death domain cleric
Did I miss a spell adding background? Is that just assumed at this point?
Good point! We are taking the Witherbloom student background from strixhaven.
Am I missing something, cause I don't see how you can cast vampiric touch? It isn't on the sorcerer or the clerics spell lists?
What if I actually never heal people to full in order to keep them in constant pain as long as possible? Like the pharmaceutical companies. I mean... what?
Based off the reactions from a discord I shared this in, think this HEALER might need a bit of a REDO. /joke
Lol sounds like a blast of a discord 🤣
will you ever get a better camera?
I prefer this build, since the other evil healer build is all about fucking up the other players, while this one doesn't require for you to betray them. You have evil healing, but you are still a team player here.
Nice tattoo
I am using this build for my new campaign starting up. I am using a Dhampir Tortle, I love your build but I am not seeing how to take Vampiric Touch when it is not offered to Sorcerers, am i not seeing it, did it get added later? Please help
If you're allowed to take the strixhaven Witherbloom Student background you can add it to your known spells 👍
@@DnD_Daily Thank you, my roommate was helping look for it and he found it in Tashas under additional Sorcerer Spells page 65. It is my first time playing a Sorcerer, again thank you for the build.
So I went watch his and yeah. He has a diabolical master plan, but doesn't do anything else evil. So I got to give you the edge. Yours is basically evil all the time. Only thing you missed was Dhampir.
Your’s is better. DND builds’ healer is just mean to the other players at the table and your build feels more dark, vampiric, and thematic.
So, how about an idea of aura juggernaut like in one of your videous, but instead of helping auras he has harmthul one. Something like druids halo of spores or cloacks of flies incantation from warlock
your evil healer is way better. other is just an evil player lol
Evil? Never actually heal, just buff with temp hit points.
Instead of healing a pc with the “rope a dope” healing, turn your squishy wizard into an ape with polymorph. (Before they get too low, so you still F with their spellcasting) Or a creature not so great at combat for your tank.
Why not? You all have hit dice you can spend, until they’re all used up of course.
A fitting build for a party of real life jerks that always mess with each other.
So... If you were to take 1 level of Death Cleric, and then twin spell... Would you technically be able hit 4 creatures at once with Toll the Dead or Chill Touch? As long as they meet the range requirements, that is?