Merciful Healer


Rules Questions


Ok just looking for clarification. Does a merciful healer qualify for greater mercy and similar feats? If not, what feats that incorporate mercy ability does a merciful healer qualify for? Any input would be greatly appreciated. QM-

Sovereign Court

The ability doesn't allow you to qualify for any feats that have other prerequisites, it simply is able to use them in a similar manner to the Paladin's Mercy class feature. I can't think of any ability that would really find that last part helpful except for the Paladin/Cleric multi-class characters out there, which is something that's done.


Morgen wrote:

The ability doesn't allow you to qualify for any feats that have other prerequisites, it simply is able to use them in a similar manner to the Paladin's Mercy class feature. I can't think of any ability that would really find that last part helpful except for the Paladin/Cleric multi-class characters out there, which is something that's done.

Seems pretty silly to include the last line of verbiage for the ability then. Why say it works like the palidan feature for qualifying for feats if every feat requires both mercy and lay on hands as prereq. for it?

Sovereign Court

Probably either something someone didn't look at as closely as they should at those feats prerequisites or it was left open to allow for future feats/abilities/spells to be applied to it. Or even this was revision X of the archetype where that that ability was going to be more powerful but ended up being changed and they just missed a sentence at the end.

I mean we don't see every little thing before a book comes so maybe an earlier draft of the Merciful Healer actually had Lay on Hands, but then later it was changed to something else. It wouldn't be the first time something like that happened, one sentence would be pretty easy to miss.


I agree Morgen. I am thinking of rewriting these as special feats for the Merciful Healer. I picture the Merciful Healer as being the most common of magically active priests. You know the local cureall who helps out those in need because they are touched by the light, etc.

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