The Evil Healer: A Unique take on Healing ft.  

Remember a necromancer is just a healer that never gave up

I always liked the idea of the sadist healer. Offers to heal for free, but doesn't always just heal allies. Sometimes doing burst heals that heal enemies too to keep the suffering going. Blood for the blood God. Keep the agony pouring.

You 100% win. Other guy just wanted a meme of telling you to be an ass to your party. You put thought into a really fucking cool build! I'm gonna try this!

Blood Sorcerer. Love it. Play a Dhampir would be more thematic though.

I think this feels evil from start to finish, as opposed to the surprise BBEG. Depends on what you're going for, but I htink this one is more applicable more often

Your build actually embraces the theme, his does not.

I feel like this would definitely be a build that could make great use out of Dwarven Fortitude. Action: Dodge and gain health, then Quicken spell life transference. And it's a Con half feat which is never bad

This turned out so much cooler than I expected, looks like a blast to play!

A single level dip into Life Cleric makes those heals more effective, including the ones that heal yourself.

Hmmmm.... not the most optimized build, but wickedly flavorful, and it sounds really fun to play. I might have to try using a character like this sometime

I would have totally thought that you would have taken life cleric, necromancer and stars druid as well as either aasimar or dhampir.

I currently have a player that’s playing a neutral evil shadar kai divine soul sorcerer/death cleric in the Descent into Avernus campaign that I’m running. They are a selfish character that is only healing and keeping the party alive because the party are what’s standing between the devils and them.

I was thinking about a character that utilizes the Arcane Tricksters level 9 feat Magical Ambush. The Bladesinger Wizard comes to mind, but maybe someone has a better idea or has something creative for me? :)

The Dwarven race Feat + Dragonblood vile give a you an in-battle bonus action way to regain up to 5 sorcery points Per long rest Which is both somatic and really powerful given Howell spell slut hungry this builders

Pretty sure you can’t get vampiric touch with this build

I just automatically thought of the Medic from TF2. Heal so others can hurt more

I feel Sorcerer 6 and Undead Warlock 14 could provide some interesting options.

I've made a Changeling Celestial Warlock/Divine Soul Sorcerer. His patron (matron) is a Deathpact Angel (Ravnica - Orzhov). He was my evil healer. If I could change anything about him, I would change his race to reborn and give him the Remarkable Recovery feat. Keep him in the fight and continue keeping his allies in the fight as well. I once conned a bunch of homeless vagabonds who were loitering and instead arrived at the Church for some shelter and food. What they didn't know was in exchange for their souls.

Wow, great build for the concept! ~_~

I think adding one level of Death Cleric and going with the Dhampir race is how I would build this. Death Cleric gives you an extra necromancy cantrip (Spare the Dying is my pick because low Wis doesn't matter), lets you target 2 creatures with necromancy cantrips for free as long as the targets are within 5' of each other, gives you proficiency in the medium armor we want, and martial weapons (so could use a rapier with dex when not life transferring or biting with the dhampir's natural weapon). Also, it means you can get thaumaturgy with one of the cleric cantrips you gain at 1st lvl cleric. I'd take thaumaturgy, guidance, and mending with those 3 picks. Dhampir gives you 35 move speed as opposed to 25 move for the dwarf, and they get free spider climb. They also get a bite that is a con based attack which can also heal them. I am planning on trying to play this in my next campaign (with DM permission/buy-in) but make it a secret that eventually gets revealed to my allies that I'm actually a Dhampir instead of a Half-Elf and that I have been using evil/black magic to heal my party members. My group is cool and likes secrets/reveals/not necessarilygood characters/etc, so I think they would be fine with this.

This is eviler! (Any/all)

My idea drops the Life Transference strategy, but my evil healer would be a Dhampir Grave Cleric 18/Spores Druid 2. Grave Domain has the reputation of being the "Good" Death Cleric, but they do still get spells like Bane, False Life, Vampiric Touch, Blight, and Anti-Life Shell, and their Channel Divinity can give an enemy vulnerability to damage on an attack. Plus, Grave's capstone ability (Keeper of Souls) allows them to siphon life from dying enemies and use that energy to heal allies. And they can do that once per round with no action cost and no limit to the number of uses per rest. Death Domain Cleric also fits this idea, but Grave is the mechanically stronger option, has a better healing kit, plus Death Domain is in the DMG while Grave is from Xanathar's, so more DMs would probably allow Grave. For the build, focus is heavily on Wisdom and Constitution, with at least 14 Dex for Medium Armor, which would be something made out of bone for flavor and if the DM is a big stickler for the Druid armor rule. The primary reason for the levels in Druid is for Shillelagh, to attack with Wisdom, and because Spores Druids is the easiest way to get Chill Touch cast with Wisdom. There is also the cool flavor that this character could activate their Symbiotic Entity to add Necrotic damage to their Dhampir bite. If doesn't cause the bite to heal for more, but a vampiric bite infected with necrotic spores does fit the evil healer theme. The reason I didn't go more than 2 levels in Druid in order to make the Symbiotic Entity more usable at higher levels is because there is a lot of overlap between the Spores Circle spells and both the Grave and Death Domain spells, the Grave Domain capstone fits the concept too well, and Halo of Spores allows this character to still use the spores to deal necrotic damage as a reaction.

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Like both of your builds. But when it comes down to pure evil. I personally prefer my own thri kreen spore Druid build. He can bring anyone back from the battlefield one way or another.

Pretty simple solution. If you want me to pay for healing, I'm not gonna tank for you as well. I'll pay you. But you have to keep yourself alive.

Huh. I was just thinking of someone munching on goodberries while charging a delayed blast fireball in a small room

I followed the build on dnd beyond but i cant pick vampiric touch? Anyone know why???

Life Transference: Avg 18 dmg, 36 healing + 4.5 dmg/9 healing per level Life Cleric Disciple of Life adds 5 + 1/level = 18 d, 41 h + 4.5 d / 10 h per level Blessed Healer heals you 5 + 1/level = 13 d, 41 h + 3.5 d / 10 h per level Circle of Stars: Chalice adds 1d8+WIS to either you or another creature Target: 13 d, 50.5 + 3.5 d / 10 h per level You: 4.5 d, 41 h + 3.5 d / 10 h per level

Can you do a build that optimizes spirit guardians?

I think an interesting potential interaction is using _Life Transference_ on yourself, since the amount of hitpoints gained is double that which you lost. If you use it on yourself combined with _Death Ward_ while you're very close to 0 hp, you can heal yourself for even more.

Evil? Never actually heal, just buff with temp hit points. Instead of healing a pc with the “rope a dope” healing, turn your squishy wizard into an ape with polymorph. (Before they get too low, so you still F with their spellcasting) Or a creature not so great at combat for your tank. Why not? You all have hit dice you can spend, until they’re all used up of course. A fitting build for a party of real life jerks that always mess with each other.

Your’s is better. DND builds’ healer is just mean to the other players at the table and your build feels more dark, vampiric, and thematic.

I love all Your challenge builds. Good stuff

What if I actually never heal people to full in order to keep them in constant pain as long as possible? Like the pharmaceutical companies. I mean... what?

I have a Death Cleric that i have self imposed a rule that he must drain kife to heal, so i took animal handling and always try to find rabbits, squirrels, rats, etc which I drain to heal. His healing hurts too, its not pleasant. If i run out of animals to drain, I will touch an ally and deal 1d4 damage to drain them in order to heal someone else.

How effective would a paladin that works around shadowblade be?

please do a build that based on Stone Aegis (from the Stone Sorcery subclass)

Am I missing something, cause I don't see how you can cast vampiric touch? It isn't on the sorcerer or the clerics spell lists?

both builds are unique and interesting however i think purely on intention the druid build that Rj did wass more evil however machnicly speaking youre sorc feels like an evil greedy healer great contest fun builds and charitor ideas i will be incorerating in games

Nice build. Can you make Jack of blades from fable

your evil healer is way better. other is just an evil player lol

This one is better. More in the spirit of an evil healer.

How did he get Vampiric Touch on a sorcerer? It’s warlock/wizard and only one grave or death domain cleric Did I miss a spell adding background? Is that just assumed at this point?

will you ever get a better camera?

Based off the reactions from a discord I shared this in, think this HEALER might need a bit of a REDO. /joke

Nice tattoo

I'm SO glad I subbed to your channel. You do the corner-case builds and the strange and different builds...just like me.

Let's talk about the Hollyphant in the room: Why didn't you MC into Warlock to get the Pact of the Chain boon and the Invocation "Gift of the Ever-Living-Ones"? ("Whenever you regain hit points while your familiar is within 100 feet of you, treat any dice rolled to determine the hit points you regain as having rolled their maximum value for you"). Even if this doesn't max out the damage of Vampiric Touch, I would allow it for the healing dice rolls.

If you're going to be relying largely on vampiric touch, [original] fallen aasimar + death domain cleric (x) can really hit like a truck [VT's damage roll + character level + 2x cleric level +5] -and subsequently heal like half a truck, and you have 1-3 uses of this channel divinity per short rest. Would definitely recommend getting heavy armor proficiency though, maybe fighter 1 for defense fighting style. Alternatively, with extended spell metamagic and life cleric (1+) you could extend aura of vitality to 2 minutes and restore 2d6+5 12 times using the 1 spell slot outside of combat to bring yours and others hp back up. Disciple of life also causes Regenerate to heal 10 per activation, so that would be a good candidate for twinning or extending

Recommend a Challenge: Please do a „Champion of Fortuna“ build. Someone so blessed by the goddess of luck that they can almost not fail. So use the Luck Feat, maybe Bend Luck ability, and some spells that gaining advantage/ give disadvantage etc. Can see potential there

This is definitely a better build for the theme. DnDbuilds has a pretty benevolent healer up until the backstab and depends a lot on favorable DM involvement and a late stage backstab. This is more sadomasochistic and the spells have a lot more thematic value.

So I went watch his and yeah. He has a diabolical master plan, but doesn't do anything else evil. So I got to give you the edge. Yours is basically evil all the time. Only thing you missed was Dhampir.

Having watched both videos, you’re the clear winner imo. Both videos were great though 👏🏻

I am using this build for my new campaign starting up. I am using a Dhampir Tortle, I love your build but I am not seeing how to take Vampiric Touch when it is not offered to Sorcerers, am i not seeing it, did it get added later? Please help

I will probably go death Cleric (or blood if tal dorei) with a dip into long death monk (at 6 you can get infinite spam of fear and stunning stike but i will focus on spells), kill stuff with doulbe toll the dead (need to be on melee so chill touch will be less effective, still good to have), get that juicy 8 temp hp and use them for life tranference. warcaster for more twinned toll the dead. spirit guardian necrotic. be a dhampir or some tanky race like goliath or earth genasi or shadar kai (jump in tanking with spirit guardian up since it can give you the hp in others creatures turn if they die). remember you can dash or disengage even in medium armor

I think Twin Spell and Life Transference would work. It would be different if maybe it said something like dealing the damage to a target ally. Then it would be targeting two creatures.

I prefer this build, since the other evil healer build is all about fucking up the other players, while this one doesn't require for you to betray them. You have evil healing, but you are still a team player here.

This build makes for a good scion of Loviatar. Raised by a cult to bring their godess into the world. They escaped and want to do good in the world but they can't heal, only transfer life.

What a wicked build! Ehhh that one was a stretch, and i’m not from Boston

I like both D&D Daily and D&D builds a lot, but I gotta say D&D Daily made the best Evil Healer.

I would go Dhampir for the flavor.

By level 10 and clever multiclassing, that necro damage is boomtastic

Flavor this as a blood mage

Thank you for the idea 😊

this one felt more in line with being evil

TSCR blood cleric comes to mind for added evil 😊

I would like to set a fairly open challenge in concept. A combatant (no full caster) who seeks to create chaos and disaster wherever he goes. The idea is that this guy every time he steps on the battlefield is a chaos for allies and enemies, no one is clear which side he belongs to but he is destructive without a doubt.

So, how about an idea of aura juggernaut like in one of your videous, but instead of helping auras he has harmthul one. Something like druids halo of spores or cloacks of flies incantation from warlock

So... If you were to take 1 level of Death Cleric, and then twin spell... Would you technically be able hit 4 creatures at once with Toll the Dead or Chill Touch? As long as they meet the range requirements, that is?

I think your build won this one. Where his build focuses primarily on being a traditional healer with a scheme to do something evil in the future, your build is inherently evil from start to finish. Most healers aren't going to steal life from others to heal their allies, there would be a class devoted to such. Well done! >:)