cheaply healing ability damage

[sreservoir]

preferably with items, because I have only two feats to spare.

must be reusable, and preferably cheaper than 200 gp/point/day, because orbs of mental restoration are probably better than that.

alternatively, some way of getting restorations and heighten onto the beguiler spell list with at most one feat, to use mitigate suffering.

[TurtleKing]

Well there is a very cheap method. It is called sleeping. If you rest for a night you heal 1 point of ability damage.

[Psyren]

Take a level of Binder and bind Naberius every morning?

[sreservoir]

Take a level of Binder and bind Naberius every morning?

right, I forgot about that ability of naberius. (although I think that's basically the most common reason binder dips get mentioned: naberius ability healing cheese.)

[Psyren]

right, I forgot about that ability of naberius. (although I think that's basically the most common reason binder dips get mentioned: naberius ability healing cheese.)

It's not cheese; as you yourself have no doubt discovered, ability damage is annoying. It's not like you can cure the entire party of it.

[sreservoir]

It's not cheese; as you yourself have no doubt discovered, ability damage is annoying. It's not like you can cure the entire party of it.

that's the probably-intended use. I was actually fiddling with corrupt spells and those feats in elder evils, so.

[Biffoniacus_Furiou]

Rod of Bodily Restoration, MIC. Every party should have at least one of these. In the lower levels every character should make a point of getting a Healing Belt (MIC) as well.

[Dusk Eclipse]

Naberius: Sacking your Stats for fun and profit (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=4124.0)

:smalltongue:

[ericgrau]

At 6.2k total I dunno. You might never even need 20 lesser restorations and if you do you're likely to need to heal multiple people at once and for the same ability score so that then the rods only provide partial usefulness. I mean what you're saying by getting the rods is "I expect 20 fights with ability damage soon, such that I'm willing to worsen my effectiveness elsewhere in the meantime." Often that means 7 levels and 5 months of real time.

Ideally, if possible, I'd get a 25 charge wand for 2.25k or at worst comission a 50 charge wand for 4.5k. Lesser resto also handles fatigue and ray of enfeeblement, which is a minor additional bonus.

In general expendables give more bang for your limited budget. By the time you think you might get your money's worth out of the re-usable, it is once again more powerful to buy expendables and the money you lost from your decision 5 levels ago is laughably small compared to your new budget. That said the rod and orb heal a ton of damage at once and I'd get one of them (and not the other) if, say, I was in a campaign focused on armies of shadows so that I could get frequent enough uses out of it to be worth it. But in general I wouldn't.

[kestrel404]

Bah. He's already using UMD. Buy a paladin's wand of lesser restoration: it's 750 gp.

[ericgrau]

Actually it'd be caster level 2 for 1500 gp and paladins wands are generally not available for spells that are also cleric spells, but ya, something like that. Hunt down the rare paladin with craft wand and commission one (which then must be fully charged) or get a used cleric wand with half charges or whatever you can manage. Heck argue for a random number of charges if you have to; used wands both are perfectly reasonable and allowed in RAW.

[Acanous]

if your party contains a wizard, trap their spellbook with a Magical Resetting Trap of Lesser Restoration.

If you get the spell cast by a paladin, it's dirt cheap. It never runs out, it's capable of fixing more than just ability damage, there's rules for trapping spellbooks, getting around the usual "Must be immobile" caveat... and it's a note to the DM: We do not enjoy ability damage, so it goes away after every fight.

[deuxhero]

Actually it'd be caster level 2 for 1500 gp

Stop! Artificer time!

[kestrel404]

Stop! Artificer time!

Or Archivist.

[ericgrau]

Damn it now I got MC hammer music stuck in my head.

[Grendus]

Stop! Artificer time!

You'd want an Archivist, actually. After an Archivist learns it from a paladin scroll, it's a first level Archivist spell, so they can craft a wand of it for 750. An Artificer can't replicate that because technically Lesser Restoration is a second level Archivist spell... the only spells on their base spell list are cleric spells.

[Zaq]

Check this out. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=189716&highlight=microguide)

If you do nothing else, you can grab a Restful Candle and a few potions/scrolls/wands of Healthful Rest. If you really start cranking it, though . . .

[kestrel404]

Oh my, I'd never noticed the Mind over body feat (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/psionicFeats.htm#mindOverBody) before. That's very nice!

[deuxhero]

You'd want an Archivist, actually. After an Archivist learns it from a paladin scroll, it's a first level Archivist spell, so they can craft a wand of it for 750. An Artificer can't replicate that because technically Lesser Restoration is a second level Archivist spell... the only spells on their base spell list are cleric spells.

Artificer can't pull from the Paladin list directly and bypass the minimum CL=2 issue?

[deuxhero]

Oh my, I'd never noticed the Mind over body feat (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/psionicFeats.htm#mindOverBody) before. That's very nice!

Of course, the wording makes it have no effect if you're con drained... Indeed, you actually get penalized for having it.