Video game characters...What powers should a healer have?

Question

I am making a video game, but I am stuck on the character: healer/priest. What powers should it have?

Answer 1

Obviously a healer type should have the ability to cure status defects, heal HP, and possibly buff their partners. Now, depending on what direction you want to go with this "class", you could do a lot of things.

Do you want it to be a nature oriented healer? You could throw in nature-oriented abilities. Damage-over-time spells sound right.

Do you want it to be a priest? Throw in lightning! Smite your enemies with holy power. Or throw in fire instead, to burn your enemies and cleanse them.

Do you want it to be a witch-doctor type class? Throw in hexes and debuffs and stuff like that. Curses.

Do you want it to be a bard-like class? Throw in musical abilities. Musical attacks, along with the heals and whatnot. Confusion.

Do you want it to be just a holy healer? Do almost all healing, but be sure to throw in at least one pretty good damage spell that is just like a holy light or something. Final Fantasy games, "Holy"-esque.

Do you want it to be a melee healer? Give the class some melee attacks and stuff, and the potential to use decent weapons, along with the usual healing abilities. Maybe throw in some kind of ability that increases your own damage, or just make it to where the stats naturally raise more than you'd expect a normal healer to.

If you have the potential, you could also give the healer a pet to help with the damage dealing.

There are tons of possibilities! I'm sure you could come up with much more if given time. As could I, or anyone else.

Answer 2

The same as traditionally given.

1. Healing - duh
2. Buffing - extra AC, extra damage etc.
3. Cures - cure poison, cure disease, remove curse etc.
4. Ressurection of dead players
5. The ability to do holy damage against evil, against demons, against undead (or turn undead) etc.)
6. Perhaps abilties similar to a fighter type character including heavy armor (example, the cleric class in D&D).

These are all classic healer abilities from games like D&D, EQ, DAoC, WoW, DDO etc.

Answer 3

if hes a healer/priest then he should have the powers to heal pople and convert eniems to the religon he is because thats what preists like to do and then they can follow him and or help him in the game

Answer 4

The ablity to heal characters health for one, revive the dead members of your party, the ability to cure them of poison and to cast protection spells.

Answer 5

healing spells, protection spells, mace weaponry, dagger weaponry, staff weaponry and maybe the ability 2 control a pet

Answer 6

since his a priest let him say a few latin words then auras come out then BOOM, you or your buddies are dead!... i mean healed!!!


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Answer 7

magic

Answer 8

magic

Answer 9

cure, cura, curaga