What's a good build for a heal-bot?

[LordBlade]

Was thinking a dragonwrought kobold cleric of some sort. Just not sure how to make the most of him as far as basically being a heal-bot. :p

[Falontani]

You want to play a hjealer? Why not play the Healer class, perhaps throw in some levels of Beloved of Valarian. Run around on a mount that can heal, call a second one with your Healer Levels. You can cast healing spells, your mount can cast healing spells, and your allied unicorn can cast healing spells!

[Venger]

Was thinking a dragonwrought kobold cleric of some sort. Just not sure how to make the most of him as far as basically being a heal-bot. :p

if this is for a pc, don't build a healbot, they're boring

if this is for an npc because no one in your party rolled a healer, mass lesser vigor will pretty much do it beyond any further investment. if you want to be super good at healing, say he's a radiant servant of pelor depending on what level everyone is

[ExLibrisMortis]

I'd go with an idiot crusader. Move, attack, initiate some healing strike, recover maneuvers, done.


Edit: To clarify, this isn't a very good healer--most healing maneuvers only affect allies close by, for one--but it's one that makes healbotting relatively interesting, because it requires some tactical maneuvering.

[Kelb_Panthera]

I think there's a handbook floating around somewhere.

[gorfnab]

The A Game Paladin (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?445134-Weekly-Optimization-Showcase-quot-A-quot-Game-Paladin) is a decent heal-bot
Bards with the Healing Hymn ACF can be used as healers

Here's some handbooks that might help
Band-Aids for Dummies (http://minmaxforum.com/index.php?topic=1520)
A short guide to healing in combat (http://minmaxforum.com/index.php?topic=6656)
A Player's Guide to 3.5 Healing (http://minmaxforum.com/index.php?topic=2710)
The Healer's Handbook (http://minmaxforum.com/index.php?topic=8757)

[SangoProduction]

If Spheres of Power is on the table, literally just take an Incanter (http://spheresofpower.wikidot.com/incanter), and spend all the talents on the Life Sphere (http://spheresofpower.wikidot.com/life).

Don't specialize (http://spheresofpower.wikidot.com/incanter#toc6) in the Life sphere though, as the bonus CL and the other minor bonuses aren't worth as much as just spending those bonus feats you're giving up on simply getting more Life Sphere talents, which boost your healing further, and often boost your versatility.

You can also spend feats to get more Life sphere talents, increase your spell points (ie. Healz Per Day)...or to branch out in to other stuff like...Protection sphere or something, and prevent damage, or really whatever you want.

(To expand further on what I mean by not specializing in Life sphere is that +1 CL only adds, at max, +5 healing, if you take Greater Healing 4 times. But you lose 7 feats over 20 levels for it. There are 6 Restore X talents, which each increase healing by 1d8 (avg. 4.5 each), and increase the number of conditions you can restore. The 7th bonus feat you would have lost can be put in to Greater Healing to increase Healing done by 20, instead of 5.)

[Nifft]

Was thinking a dragonwrought kobold cleric of some sort. Just not sure how to make the most of him as far as basically being a heal-bot. :p

The canonical Heal-bot would be a Warforged Cleric.

An interesting build might be a Chlorophorged - a Warforged Cloistered Cleric (Knowledge, Travel, Nature) -> Landforged Walker PrC, so you are a robot healer who turns himself into a Chia-Pet covered with medicinal herbs & spices.

[Troacctid]

Radiant Servant of Pelor is the iconic "I want to cast healing spells" class. Useful feats include Augment Healing, Imbued Healing, and Touch of Healing.

[LordBlade]

It's not going to be a PC, just a cohort to follow me around. :p

I figure as I'm a dragonwrought kobold warlock, having my heal-bot be of the same would make sense. Maybe some Bahamut priest or something because, kobolds. :p
But mainly I just wanted a walking healing point following the party to be used as needed.

[Nifft]

It's not going to be a PC, just a cohort to follow me around. :p

I figure as I'm a dragonwrought kobold warlock, having my heal-bot be of the same would make sense. Maybe some Bahamut priest or something because, kobolds. :p
But mainly I just wanted a walking healing point following the party to be used as needed.

If you want a Kobold Cleric, then you can make one and it'll be awesome.

Suggestions:
- Cloistered Cleric from here (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#clericVariantCloistere dCleric) gives 6+Int skill points, a bonus Domain, and all Knowledge skills -- for the price of 1/2 BAB (instead of 3/4) and d6 HD (instead of d8), and worse Fort saves. This is a great trade for a heal-bot who will never be on the front lines.
- Kobold Domain from here (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/we/20060420a) gives Trapfinding so this can be your party's Rogue (if you need one). If you don't need a Rogue, then there are better domains.
- Trickery Domain gives Bluff, Disguise, and Hide, plus a bunch of useful spells.
- Travel Domain gives Dimension Door, Teleport, and Greater Teleport. If your party lacks a Wizard, then these are great spells to have available. Take the Scribe Scroll feat and make a bunch of Teleport scrolls. They won't go stale.

There are Initiate feats for the various Dragon Gods in Dragon Magic. I think some of them were pretty good, but I don't recall which off the top of my head.

[Falontani]

It's not going to be a PC, just a cohort to follow me around. :p

I figure as I'm a dragonwrought kobold warlock, having my heal-bot be of the same would make sense. Maybe some Bahamut priest or something because, kobolds. :p
But mainly I just wanted a walking healing point following the party to be used as needed.

Definitely do the healer! You both get Unicorn mounts

[Uncle Pine]

Remember you can use the Martial Spirit stance for infinite out-of-combat healing. Easiest ways to get it are a Crusader dip or buying the Devoted Spirit equivalent of a lesser crown of White Raven.

[Nifft]

Remember you can use the Martial Spirit stance for infinite out-of-combat healing. Easiest ways to get it are a Crusader dip or buying the Devoted Spirit equivalent of a lesser crown of White Raven.

If you have a DM, then this is not certain at all.

[SirNibbles]

For a healbot, it's worth getting the Maximize Spell (Player's Handbook, page 97) and Mastery of Night and Day (Player's Guide to Eberron, page 125) feats. The latter allows you to spontaneously Maximize any cure or inflict spell. This doesn't affect the spell level or casting time, so it's basically free Maximize.

[tiercel]

Another handy guide: Boosting Rest-Based Healing (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?189716-Boosting-Rest-Based-Healing-A-Microguide-3-5). Sure, everyone knows about Wand of Lesser Vigor, but it turns out you can crank up the hit points (and more impressively, ability score points) you can heal every night pretty cheaply.

Especially if your cohort is a bard — then you get all the bard buffs outside of the nightly heal-ups to boot.

Not exactly the same thing as an in-combat healbot, of course, but as plenty of folks have pointed out, in-combat healing usually loses to battlefield control, buffing, debuffing, etc. (And if you really want some in-combat healing, your bard buddy can Obtain Familiar for a raven flitting around with its master’s UMD ranks and a Cure X Wounds wand or what have you.)

[Remuko]

Isnt there a feat or something that lets you heal with eldritch blasts? idk if you could use that on yourself but if you really wanted your cohort to be like you he could be a DW Kobold Warlock with that feat and he blasts you with eldritch blast healing.

[Falontani]

Isnt there a feat or something that lets you heal with eldritch blasts? idk if you could use that on yourself but if you really wanted your cohort to be like you he could be a DW Kobold Warlock with that feat and he blasts you with eldritch blast healing.

Eldritch Disciple, can turn his eldritch blast into a "healing blast" at will. And yes it can be used on yourself (I dont see anywhere that says you can't target yourself with a ranged touch attack, although you may provoke an attack of opportunity from yourself)

Combo this with Eldritch Glaive and Eldritch Spear so you can iterative full attack your ally to heal them, or snipe them from 300 ft with a healing blast

[Dr_Dinosaur]

See if you can backport the PeiZin Practitioner Oracle from Pathfinder. The Life Mystery’s life link ability automatically heals your allies at the cost of your own health, and you get Lay on Hands to heal yourself back up as a Swift, allowing you to cast or fight without worrying about falling behind in combat

[LordBlade]

So, I went with the Healer, and it's been working great so far. She's saved our butts a number of times thus far. :)

I'm wondering though, for her class ability to get a Unicorn companion... would there be something that's similar but more thematic for a Bahamut worshiper?

Essentially my Healer is following my Warlock around (as my Companion from Leadership) and believes that I am a holy messenger of Bahamut, showing the "lesser" races the true glory of the mighty dragon-blooded Kobolds. I was going to make an Evangelist originally, but I got told that it would probably bug the crap out of the party and just stick to a more devoted (and silent) healer type of follower. :p

Anyway, would there be some sort of draconic equivalent to a Unicorn that might work as a companion?

[MaxiDuRaritry]

Anyway, would there be some sort of draconic equivalent to a Unicorn that might work as a companion?Refluff the unicorn as a kirin (http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Kirin_(summon))?

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/a/a7/FFLTNS_Kirin_Artwork.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/640?cb=20160508015105

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/6/69/Mobius_-_Kirin_R3_Ability_Card.png/revision/latest?cb=20160804222529
(Open in a new tab to see it full-sized.)

[LordBlade]

Is there not a Kirin as a base creature for 3.5? I can't seem to find one.

[MaxiDuRaritry]

Is there not a Kirin as a base creature for 3.5? I can't seem to find one.The only one I know of is in Oriental Adventures.

However, there's nothing saying that you can't crossbreed one with a unicorn. Just say you happened to have summoned such a unicorn/kirin crossbreed. Mechanically, it's a unicorn. Fluff-wise, it looks something like the above, scales and all.

[Kelb_Panthera]

Is there not a Kirin as a base creature for 3.5? I can't seem to find one.

Max is right about the kirin being in OA but it's -way- more powerful than a unicorn. That's why he suggested the fluff change.

If you're looking for something draconic, I seem to recall there being something in dragon magic that might fit the bill.