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Alright, a Question about Touch of Jorasco...
« on: March 14, 2012, 11:43:55 PM »
Touch of Jorasco is a halfling-only 1st level Cleric spell from Races of Eberron that essentially grants you a Lay on Hands pool of 2*CL (Max 10 HP, but that's only a Reserves of Strength away from being much, much higher.) It grants that pool all day long, which means that we can do fun things with Imbued Healing and Healing Lorecall, given that Healing Lorecall only checks when you cast the spell, IIRC.

Which means, if I'm remembering everything correctly, you could go ahead and tap someone to heal 1 HP, a condition (Fatigue is a nice one to remove at lower levels), and grant some kind of boon.

It is a Conjuration (Healing) spell, which leads me to ask... how does it interact with Augment Healing, Magic of the Land, that Charisma-to-healing class feature that Healers get, and the Healing Hymn Bard ACF? Does that additional healing apply to the pool as a whole (so Augment Healing would increase the pool size by 2, the Healer class feature would increase the pool by your Charisma, etc), or would it apply to each time you heal a target with it. Because if it is the latter...

So, what is it?
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Re: Alright, a Question about Touch of Jorasco...
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2012, 03:12:12 AM »
Healing Hands is the Healer ability you're thinking of, and it looks like it only applies once per spell.  It also only applies to spells cast as a Healer, meaning it wouldn't work at all with that Cleric spell unless it was added on to the Healer list.

Unless you want a homebrew idea on it, that's pretty much it.

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Re: Alright, a Question about Touch of Jorasco...
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2012, 03:46:42 AM »
Well, what about the feats/ACF?
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Re: Alright, a Question about Touch of Jorasco...
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2012, 04:59:13 AM »
Healing Lorecall states: when casting a conjuration (healing) spell, choose to remove any one of the following conditions affecting the subject of the spell, opposed to saying something like heal one effect per subject at any point during the duration of you're healing spell which while reasonable to say it works, isn't a definitive point saying you can play tag multiple times to cure stuff repeatedly.

Imbued Healing states if your spell affects multiple targets they can all gain the same bonus. Problem is you spent a Standard Action to heal 1HP and award, say +20 Temp HP that lasts a minute as a 20th level party, to a party member which is a huge waste of time and you are the reason people died. Take the DR 3/X choices at level 1 and retrain the feat out later.
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Re: Alright, a Question about Touch of Jorasco...
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2012, 03:59:51 PM »
Good catch on the first, and the second would obviously be for a low-level party; seriously, this is a 1st level spell.
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Re: Alright, a Question about Touch of Jorasco...
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2012, 06:13:00 PM »
I think those bonus healing effects would all just add to the pool.  It'd be like the ruling on Augment Healing and the Vigour spells, where the bonus healing is only applied in the first round, not to every round.
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Re: Alright, a Question about Touch of Jorasco...
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2012, 07:24:06 PM »
I think those bonus healing effects would all just add to the pool.  It'd be like the ruling on Augment Healing and the Vigour spells, where the bonus healing is only applied in the first round, not to every round.
Why bother to make healing worse?

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Re: Alright, a Question about Touch of Jorasco...
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2012, 08:03:22 PM »
Well, they can't go around making their iconic Cure spells completely worthless, can they?
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Re: Alright, a Question about Touch of Jorasco...
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2012, 08:06:03 PM »
Well, they can't go around making their iconic Cure spells completely worthless, can they?

Moreso than they already are later in game?