Character Level: 2
Race: Human
Role: Melee/Support/Healer
Class choices:
- Battle Spirit
- Battle Master hex
We are playing through Wrath of the Righteous.
The only real comments I can make on this so far is that healing is tough to do on this character (much like it would be on a druid, and to a lesser extent, witch). Healing Spirit feels incredibly broken as a first level ability - but it was also the only reason we were able to survive our combats during the session.
Having switched from being a cleric, I feel like Healing Spirit outpowers Channel Energy pretty well at this level. Getting to automatically restore 12HP at this level to an ally for up to (3+cha)/day is nice.
Thoughts:
I'd like to see an archetype or other class feature (maybe in the Life spirit) that allows the Shaman to become a main healer with a little more ease. The oracle gets to add Cure (or inflict) to its spells known automatically, and the witch has access to spontaneous healing via the Hedge Witch archetype.
Right now it feels silly that Battle shaman is a better healer at low levels than a Life shaman is.