fix Warforged monk self-healing

[Angelus_dead]

When a Warforged Monk heals himself with Fists of Light or Healing Ki, he takes the -50% penalty for divine healing due to being a Living Construct.

That should be removed, and warforged should get full benefit from monk healing. After all, compare it to Paladins- the DDO version of Paladins' Lay On Hands was modified to have 100% effectiveness on Warforged.

Monks are even less like a divine spellcaster than Paladins are, and thus they should have full repair-equivalency with their healing abilities, for both game balance and thematic flavor reasons.

PS. Here is an alternative way to address the above problem: At the levels where a WF monk would gain poison or disease immunity as a class feature, he instead gains a +25% boost to divine healing, which does not stack with the Healer's Friend enhancement (and which disqualifies him from that enhancement in the future)

[xanvar]

agree 100%

[Zaodon]

/signed

[QuantumFX]

When a Warforged Monk heals himself with Fists of Light or Healing Ki, he takes the -50% penalty for divine healing due to being a Living Construct.

That should be removed, and warforged should get full benefit from monk healing. After all, compare it to Paladins- the DDO version of Paladins' Lay On Hands was modified to have 100% effectiveness on Warforged.

Not disagreeing with your tread but adding a clarification for you. The LOH ability to have 100% effectiveness of warforged appears to be a compromise solution to mimic the warforged racial substitution levels for paladins. (Races of Eberron pg 132)

Monks are even less like a divine spellcaster than Paladins are, and thus they should have full repair-equivalency with their healing abilities, for both game balance and thematic flavor reasons.

Agreed. Making it a "Heal" type ability rather than a "Cure" or "Repair" ability may also have a "halo effect" of fixing the unintended devotion/potency effect.

PS. Here is an alternative way to address the above problem: At the levels where a WF monk would gain poison or disease immunity as a class feature, he instead gains a +25% boost to divine healing, which does not stack with the Healer's Friend enhancement (and which disqualifies him from that enhancement in the future)

Some other options:
- Follow the idea for P&P substitution levels and make an AP enhancement for WF monks that adds Immunity to Stunning.
- Maybe add a 2/4 enhancement for WF monks that gives Medium Fortification/Heavy Fortification without penalizing the effectiveness of divine healing. (Yes I know that fortification is rarely an issue for warforged but this is about adding build freedom to this race/class combo. I'm substituting an ability that can be gained on an item for another ability that can be gained on an item.)

[Hendrik]

/not signed.