Quote Originally Posted by Seerow View Post
Cleric hasn't been a dedicated healer since AD&D. I doubt it's ever going to go back to that. If that's what your players are hoping for, then I don't know what can help them.
Actually, in AD&D, the cleric wasn't neccessarily a "healbot" either, and playing one as such was, generally, seen as an inferior way to actually play the class.

Yes, he had the healing magic, but resorting to just healing magic was really ignoring a lot of what he was capable of doing.

However, turning healing into something so ridiculously easy is, IMO a bad thing. It really rubbed every single person in the group the wrong way no matter what their starting edition was. Not a single person out of about 10 folks thought it was in any way good.