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Hey everyone.
For an upcoming pathfinder game I am thinking of speccing into the sacred servant paladin archetype. Mostly, because this would allow me to summona surrogate healer/support ally to help the party since we lost our cleric in the last adventure. For this, I have to pick a domain limited to Iomedae. I was going over my options and ran into day's resurgence as a domain ability for the day subdomain:
"At 8th level, you can restore a single creature as if it had just completed 8 hours of rest. It takes 10 minutes to use this power. If the use of this power is disrupted, it must be restarted, but it is not lost. At the end of the 10 minutes, a single willing creature that you have touched regains hit points as if it had rested for the night and may make new saving throws against effects that require a save once per day. The target does not suffer any negative effects if such saving throws are failed, but success counts toward removing the affliction (if possible). This ability does not allow a target to prepare spells an additional time per day. You can use this ability once per day at 8th level, plus one additional time per day for every 2 levels beyond 8th."
My question is: what exactly does it refresh? If it restores a creature as if it had rested for 8 hours, it seems like it can restore all class abilities with daily limits to their use except spellcasting. Am I missing something? This almost seems too good to be true. For my chracter, since I dipped into bloodrager even a once per day use of this would restore all smites, rage rounds and LoH uses. I'm sure the party monk and possibly arcanist would highly value this as well.
I suppose I am weighing this daily use against the tactics domain as that is Iomedae's second best domain as I can currently see it. Having an ally reroll initiative three times per day and selecting a feat to use for an entire combat can also be quite nice. Glory/heroism seem decent options but with having access to good hope the value of those is a bit lessened.
A second question would be: what is the best good-aligned healer/support type summon planar ally (level 6 cleric version) can summon? I know the eventual choice is to the DM, but I am curious what the options are.