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For the psionic healer: [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Eikre
06-16-07, 08:42 PM I just picked up the Magic Item compendium, after being set over the edge about not having it. And I come across a little doodad called the Amulet of Retributive Healing.

It's not a bad item, to be sure; it lets you benefit from the same healing you've lain down on another person, three times a day. It's also cheep. But I trawl this forum, every day, and I've seen no reference to it, at all.

I don't think it's really a fantastic item for most clerics, but it seems just so tidy for a Psion or a Psionic Warrior (Not as likely, on that last one) to pick this up and use it in conjunction with Empathic Transfer. Empathic Transfer, naturally, is a damn fast way to pull damage off of someone, early game, but I always feel compelled to carefully calculate averages and have a suitable layer of Vigor waiting, which makes it difficult to apply the mindful bandages when it's needed most.

This thing, though, it would let a mindful Psion soak whatever feedback he encounters from his benevolent manifestation, and then gain half of what he's healed over it.

P'raps it's not a magnificent concept, but it seems so perfect to me. Like I said, I haven't seen it mentioned before, so I thought I might bring it up...
TheKeyofE
06-16-07, 10:01 PM If it works with Powers, then it could potentially triple Empathic Transfer's effectiveness:
Normal:
+ (2d10 to someone else) - (1d10 to self) = net gain of 1d10
With amulet:
+ (2d10 to someone else) - (1d10 to self) + (2d10 to self) = net gain of 3d10, plus no need to Vigor beforehand

Compare it to a cleric, who would only get double benefit, and only if said cleric is injured themselves.

I don't have Magic Item Compendium (yet). Does it work with any healing effect, or only Conjuration(healing) spells?
Eikre
06-16-07, 10:19 PM Anything that heals, so long as you could have benefited if the same effect was played on you. So, an Elf wizard can't benefit when he heals the Warforged, and the living cleric can't benefit when he casts Harm on his Necropolitan buddy.

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Eikre 06-16-07, 08:42 PM	I just picked up the Magic Item compendium, after being set over the edge about not having it. And I come across a little doodad called the Amulet of Retributive Healing. It's not a bad item, to be sure; it lets you benefit from the same healing you've lain down on another person, three times a day. It's also cheep. But I trawl this forum, every day, and I've seen no reference to it, at all. I don't think it's really a fantastic item for most clerics, but it seems just so tidy for a Psion or a Psionic Warrior (Not as likely, on that last one) to pick this up and use it in conjunction with Empathic Transfer. Empathic Transfer, naturally, is a damn fast way to pull damage off of someone, early game, but I always feel compelled to carefully calculate averages and have a suitable layer of Vigor waiting, which makes it difficult to apply the mindful bandages when it's needed most. This thing, though, it would let a mindful Psion soak whatever feedback he encounters from his benevolent manifestation, and then gain half of what he's healed over it. P'raps it's not a magnificent concept, but it seems so perfect to me. Like I said, I haven't seen it mentioned before, so I thought I might bring it up...
TheKeyofE 06-16-07, 10:01 PM	If it works with Powers, then it could potentially triple Empathic Transfer's effectiveness: Normal: + (2d10 to someone else) - (1d10 to self) = net gain of 1d10 With amulet: + (2d10 to someone else) - (1d10 to self) + (2d10 to self) = net gain of 3d10, plus no need to Vigor beforehand Compare it to a cleric, who would only get double benefit, and only if said cleric is injured themselves. I don't have Magic Item Compendium (yet). Does it work with any healing effect, or only Conjuration(healing) spells?
Eikre 06-16-07, 10:19 PM	Anything that heals, so long as you could have benefited if the same effect was played on you. So, an Elf wizard can't benefit when he heals the Warforged, and the living cleric can't benefit when he casts Harm on his Necropolitan buddy.