There is also a cleric of the Medicine domain that would let you take treat deadly wounds for 1 minute instead of 1 hour. But only get it wisdom + 3 times a day.
It was one of the things I disliked about the healer's handbook that there wasn't more support for the heal skill and was more of Halek's solution of "Just magic it."
Magic will always do better at healing. A first level cleric with a positive charisma can do more healing in a day then the best mundane healer. Aoe channel energy is that good.
Of course.
That doesn't mean that the Healer's Handbook had to focus on magic. They could tried to find ways to boost the Heal skill and reduce the opportunity cost of not having a Cleric in your party.
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Magic will always do better at healing. A first level cleric with a positive charisma can do more healing in a day then the best mundane healer. Aoe channel energy is that good.Of course.
That doesn't mean that the Healer's Handbook had to focus on magic. They could tried to find ways to boost the Heal skill and reduce the opportunity cost of not having a Cleric in your party.
Wand of cure light wounds and someone with use magic device. Or a bard. Or an alchemist. Or a witch. Or (insert class with cure light wound son list).
Or go infernal healing and have your wizard/sorcerer use it.
Magic will always do better at healing. A first level cleric with a positive charisma can do more healing in a day then the best mundane healer. Aoe channel energy is that good.Of course.
That doesn't mean that the Healer's Handbook had to focus on magic. They could tried to find ways to boost the Heal skill and reduce the opportunity cost of not having a Cleric in your party.
Wand of cure light wounds and someone with use magic device. Or a bard. Or an alchemist. Or a witch. Or (insert class with cure light wound son list).
Or go infernal healing and have your wizard/sorcerer use it.
Right. Those are all ways of dealing with the opportunity cost.* Paizo could have worked to improve the Heal skill to provide another method to deal with it. They chose not to, which is fine because they make the rules to their game.
But when someone says (approximately) "I wish Paizo would have provided better non-magical healing methods in the Healer's Handbook," and the reply is, "Well you can just use magic to heal," it seems like you may have missed his point.
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*Some of them (e.g. Wand of Cure Light Wounds) have a literal GP cost that you are paying, and scale poorly with level, but that's another discussion.
To apply treat deadly wounds to a couple of people at once there's always a familiar - they share your skill ranks.
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To apply treat deadly wounds to a couple of people at once there's always a familiar - they share your skill ranks.
'Listen, Valorica, I appreciate the help, but it feels a little off-putting when you're bandaging the barbarian and leaving me to your rat familiar to patch up. Yes I know he cleaned his paws.'
Totally. I've wanted to be able to really use the heal skill for things other than pre-reqs for feats. And they do kinda keep putting stuff on heal skill but it never addresses its big issue of needing to take an hour for a few hps.
There is the skill unlock, then the psychic faith healing unlock, the vest of surgery, a couple of traits..
Cause like you have Nex I think it is in the game world where the gunslingers came about. They came about specifically because magic was giving a big middle finger to casters in that area. I mean do you really want a healer to heal you when their spell could just as easily remove all the bones in your arm and then implant them into your brain?
The OPs world might be one where they don't actually have a vending machine that chucks out wands of cure light wounds at the entrance to every dungeon and every main street in most towns.
Could be a world like the Time of Troubles where magical was all f-u. Or a world where there is no magical healing like Dragonlance Cartoons.
There's a badly misnamed inquisitor archetype, the Ravener which gets 2 revelations (at 1st & 8th). Slightly less magical than an oracle as a 6 rather than 9 level caster.