Jester is "The Cleric" - Critical Role (Campaign 2)
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- She’s a healer but also like a badass healer y’know so she can like hit things and heal things at the same time…
Jester being a reluctant cleric is one of my favourite running gags so I wanted to compile all the times she wasn’t too keen on the whole healing thing. I hope you enjoy and please share it around if you do!
(A few of the clips are very low resolution because they were captured from the mini-cams during a battle scene!)
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Had sometime off from editing but slowly getting back into it! Thanks for sticking around and supporting me, I really appreciate it and hope to have a few more videos by the end of the year!
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Hey All, I am glad you are enjoying the video, I had a lot of fun making it. Please keep in mind this is all in good fun and simply highlighting a running gag amongst the cast. Remember it is their game and they can all play how they like. Anyone commenting hurtful or disrespectful things about the cast or other commenters will be removed. Let's keep it friendly :)
I loved it when Brian called her a "Battle Mercy"!😂
@@KickyFut oh dang, that would have been a good one to add!
@@GammaAlanna Ah well, next time!😁
Thank you for the great video
Thank you for the 👍and♥️
The rest of the party: “You’re the cleric, you’re supposed to heal people.”
Jester, the glorified archfey warlock: “I’m supposed to what?”
Honestly, when I heard Laura was originally planning on making Jester a warlock before Travis straight up stole it, I was like "That explains SO MUCH about how you play this character!"
Jester
The Cleric Who…Doesn't
lol
@@hfar_in_the_sky Plus, clerics who bemoan healing in favor of other things are often very entertaining as characters.
I think I laughed a little too hard reading this.
Utter nonsense. Jester is the cleric of a Trickster god. Why would she prioritize healing? You are making the common mistake of Cleric=Healer. That is not even close to correct. A cleric is supposed to espouse the mission and ideals of their deity. Jester does that very well.
Sometimes she heals, sometimes she harms, but mostly she sows shenanigans (including in her unhinged Sending spells).
The part to focus on here is the, "The Cleric" part. That is what is the funny thing: people wrongly equate cleric and healer because of the game mechanics and "optimization," but Jester instead is a genuine cleric of a Trickster god who does not hew to that stupid generalization/assumption.
Jester says "The best healing is one that doesn't need to happen!" *hits enemy with a spectral lollipop*
I mean she has a point, kill them BEFORE they hurt your peeps.
@@captin3149 true true has the same feeling of the best stealth is when there are no witnesses :)
Or buries hatchet into the back of a dude's skull
This is more true than most people may realize. The maths of D&D works out in a way that damage prevention is *much* more powerful than healing the damage taken. If you can get a shield spell that shields you from up to X or a healing spell that heals up to X - always take the shield.
@@QemeH It is very true, but just amusing when Beau is downed and Jester very reluctantly heals her. There is a reason they wait for people to go down before they get healed during battle, and it is that math factor. Can't keep up with damage delt in most cases with most healing classes.
The funniest thing about this is that Laura probably did more healing as Vex the Ranger than as Jester the cleric
If you include healing Trinket, that's not even a contest :D
@@QemeH Man i can't wait for the changes to beast related hunters they plan on doing. Beastmaster rangers have needed some tweaks for the longest time.
@@Septemberl4d Pfft. Have you seen the Drakewarden? That's the ticket right there.
@@Septemberl4d Play Pathfinder as the crit role team did, animal companions are excellent in that.
Here's the break down:
Vex only casted 48 cure wound which were low level (due to being a ranger) and 2 lesser restoration and 17 potions (mostly for herself) while Jester has already done 1321 hp of healing (including 79 cure wound 2 prayer of healing 1 mass healing word 1 mass cure wound) during this campaign not to mention other status removal like the greater restoration to remove petrification or revivify to raise Cad. What's impressive however is that Cad with about 22 episode less already did almost 4 times that.
Keep in mind that campaign 1 rules were different too which allowed people to heal much more easily. Potions were a bonus action and you could cast 2 spells within a turn. But she most likely healed more than Scanlan who used about as much healing word as she did cure wound (surely at higher level but it's 1d4 vs 1d8) and she most likely healed close to as much as Pike due to Ashley being Ashley (meaning being here half the time like she is in campaign 2).
Laura didn't lose Vex's greed for money, she just coverted it into greed for spell slots
She needs all her slots to cast sending
@@kitparsons6680 which is a trickery cleric's go to spell for obvious reasons.
@@haerdalis84 100%
@@kitparsons6680 next season she'll be a wizard
@@toddalexander5015 Almost... she's a Sorcerer. lol
My favorite Jester "cleric" moment was the time she used her foot to cast cure wounds because she couldn't be bother to reach down
omg yes lmao which episode was that again?
I wish I could remember!
It was for Caleb and I think it was in the cave where they found the Summer’s Dance sword and when Fjord absorbed the Orb. It was before Ep. 26.
2x22 timestamp (2:22:28) I believe
@@_Elanur104 So many 2s and you ruined it with an 8.
Jester when it comes to having to cast healing spells has the same energy as Vex having to spend money.
Dude, I feel that way about money as a cleric, because all of my good spells are expensive!
@@shinybugg9156 damn diamonds that our party doesn’t help pay for. Just to save there asses.
@@linkofdoom24 don't use those spells on them if they don't help pay, I bet after a few days (or longer) of being petrified and you refusing to help, or on day 9 of you refusing to cast raise dead because they don't help with component costs but still expect you save their asses when something happens, the party will probably start helping you.
Jester is "the cleric" because she knows when not to waste a spell on someone who is about to go down, when she could just drop a "spare the dying" on them a round or two later. Jester is the best and Laura seems to understand that....
@@linkofdoom24 *Chuckles Sensibly in Zealot Barbarian*
"I never traveled with a bunch of people that I thought would die in front of me" completely made me lose my shit 😂😂
And the WAY she says it
"I don't wanna be a good cleric. I wanna hit him."
My Cleric has those, he calls them teaching moments.
11:55
Paladins in a nutshell.
@@RadiantJo As a paladin main that mostly intimidates people by murdering others around them: You have a point.
I like to call it preemptive healing. If you kill the SOB before it hurts your friends you don't have to heal your friends.
Whenever I think of jester and healing I think “I could heal you or I could murder the person killing you”
That's literally what happened during my d&d session last Saturday.
Our Life Cleric stepped over my dying character's unconscious body to melee. I crit failed my 2nd death savings throw.
And now I have to reroll a new character
Aka how to actually play a cleric
the "optimized" way to play cleric, as i'm sure any hardcore min maxer could tell you, is exactly what you described. there's no point in healing if the source of death is still a threat. at least from a mechanical point of view.
@@Dracon350 I find that the “optimized” way to play inevitably fucks you over in the worst possible time.
@@stingerjohnny9951 optimized play, for the most part usually coincides with most character's motivations and actual reactions to the events occurring in combat. generally speaking, optimization will rarely lead you to a bad situation unless your DM is pissed that you are optimizing and punishes you for it. and to that end i mean there IS a line.
let's say, for example, your character is married to another character, pc or npc, and that other character goes down, the normal reaction shouldn't be, "i'll just hold off the enemy long enough for someone to get them up". that would be the optimized way to do it, but your character wouldn't do that, they'd fucking take off towards their spouse and shove a healing pot down their gullet.
optimization is alright, but it shouldn't come before story telling imo.
"Between you and me, jester is a bad cleric" with jester sitting between them
I'm guessing Jester wasn't next to them in the game. Though it is funny that Laura is sandwiched between them.
does anyone know what episode this is from?
C2E36 pretty much exactly 2hrs41mins in :)
I love the pun from that
Sincerely,
Ms. Centurion
@@8Rincewind it wasn't Jester, no. But it was Laura, which is the same, but different.
I just love the reveal on the editing, where it pans the two over and reveals Laura in the center of the shot.
"I'm THE cleric?!?" was when I first knew I was going to love Jester
I haven't watched any of the TM9 episodes yet, but I'm in the 80s on VM and have seen a few animatics on YT from various bits of TM9 campaign.
In my case, I knew I was going to like Jester from watching a fan animatic and hearing her say "Hi, I'm Jester!" to Caleb.
That was also the moment I realised "Welp, guess I'm watching Critical Role now."
Jester IS Joe Pesci.
My was when she first time talk to Caleb
Jester seems like she would put healing spells IN the donut
i loved the interaction with beau and jester here.
I think Jester and Caduceus being in a party together actually highlights why Cleric is such a strong and versatile class in 5E. You can fill a whole slew of roles if you specialize right with your domain and prepared spells, and really augment to your specific playstyle. With Cad joining the party, she’s actually able to hone in on DPS, Debuffing and Crowd control, while Caduceus can do Sustain and Healing. It’s no wonder the Mighty Nein are such a pure unit when you have a main healer and a battle healer at the same time.
It’s also nice that it gave Laura the chance to actually play her way. You could tell Pre-Molly that she was frustrated in her limitations. In campaign 1, her original choice was Rogue, but she allowed Liam to take it(or I think he got first dibs), then with Campaign 2, she was originally gonna be a pact of the tome Fey warlock, but since Travis wanted to be one really badly she opted out of that too. Both times though that has actually given her an interesting story addition, such as Trinket or Artagan being a complicated deity/patron relationship. I think it’s worked out but I hope she gets first pick for sure next Campaign.
As a side note, it is interesting that according to CritroleStats, Cad has double the average healing of Jester, but jester has been responsible for all but 1 resurrections, and pulled off that wild feat of sewing back together the sage of Cad’s family, without breaking them and bringing them back to life. So she’s most definitely a lifesaver.
Cad is a paramedic, Jessie is an ER doctor.
I love their dynamic, however Cadeucious does the buffs, debuffs, control & heals ie Cleric things. Jester seems to mostly talk on the phone but I wouldn't change a thing!
I think Taliesin also enjoys Cad better too. In the earlier episodes he would often only be able to cast Vicious Mockery or Blood Maledict in combat and seemed like he felt a little inneffective, whereas as Cad he is always very excited to cast Eyes of the Grave, Bane, Bless and especially Sentinel at Death's Door.
@@SirFrancisBaconn I think it’s definitely been a blast for the both of them. A part of me thinks a College of Swords Bard might’ve worked better for Molly in the long run but I’m exicited to see where the Blood hunter plot goes.
@@SoDaoudi I do sort of see that train of thought. I disagree, but I understand where you’re coming from.
“My friends cant die if I kill the monsters first” is a perfectly valid strategy for clerics ahdhfhgg
With Cad on the party? Absolutly, since someone else will pick up the slack.
It worked well for Vox Machina as well, since Pike was often not with them except for major shit, the strategy to kill it first and fast and use minor healing to get people who are knocked out worked.
But BOI did it show that it was not sustainable for the M9. Everyone was squishy damage dealers/debuffers and the only proper healer was...well...Jester. That, at early levels when options are limited was asking for shit to happen.
Vox Machina: A Cleric, a Druid, a Bard, and even a Ranger and partial Paladin.
Mighty Nein: One healer
And they wonder why they're dying so much while Vox Machina kept on trucking along.... xD
Well technically now they also have a partial Paladin (Fjord) and a partial Bard (Cad), and the one ability Yasha has. It's recent but this group is shaping itself into a safer version.
@@cussundriakneal9904 Yuuuup. VM, while not as developed, or well acted, are miles more impressive...on everything else. Had Ash been around more, and by extension Pike, I don't see them the first Vacna fight. They were what? Level 17 by then? But pike wasn't, and wasn't there either. That + Vestiges and just sheer versitility made VM able to beat any major enemy if they had the time to prepare. Once they got the heroes feast + long rest on the mansion cheat code enabled it was a foregone conclusion.
Zero primary healers, one class capable of casting healing spells. Jester / Laura didn't want the role of "healer". (Which is fine; clerics are good at other things.)
In Caleb they had a Wizard in the support/debuff role who did a lot to prevent incoming damage (e.g. Slow, or the earthen claw spell he used early on to restrain enemies where they could be picked off without being able to melee anyone.)
But with that many party members, and nobody with feats or a bard to boost short-rest healing, you still want some healing spells. And especially at low levels, you might need some in-combat healing to pop someone back up.
Campaign 2 definitely had a party-composition problem before Caduceus. It sucked for Laura that she got stuck as the one party member even capable of casting healing spells when she didn't want that to be her primary role. Off-healer / backup sure, that's something she did very well, and using spells like Command or Banishment to reduce incoming damage by taking one enemy off the board while they dealt with others.
If she'd wanted to play a character that liked healing, and chosen her subclass to boost that (e.g. Life domain cleric), that could have worked out. But it's still a single point of failure to have only one healer, with the in-combat backup being someone using a potion or Healing Hands on her.
Vox Machina, level 15: goes through a full resurrection ritual complete with nat 20 love confession because they waltzed into an EXTREMELY foreseeable trap and then got absolutely mowed down by an off-brand warlock, a bunch of hired guns, and one guy with a Prismatic Spray, despite a ton of miscellaneous heals throughout.
Mighty Nein, level 15: pretty much gets an entire eldritch horror flesh city literally flung at their heads while they're racing the clock against a high-risk high-reward corruption mechanic, leaves with more living PCs than they technically came in with.
I love how when it finally came up in Campaign 3 with Sam, Laura just let loose:
"You're a CLERIC without a HEALING SPELL prepared. Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?"
"C'mon Cleric, do your job Cleric, just heal the party Cleric!"
and then FCG proceeds to pull off the most amount of healing in one action in any of their campaigns xD
Jester is a good cleric
Just a terrible healer.
😂😂
So are necromancers 😂
@@whoseverpanic3160 Whaddya mean? Necromancers are greaaaaat healers - even death doesn’t stop them! XD
@@OverkillDM only an adventuring party can stop them 😂
@@whoseverpanic3160 they just have really bad timing but are wonderful healers
My favorite was Episode 101 when Jester has no healing spells left and casts Healing Word on Cad, yelling "Get better!" at him.
Cad, I imagine, gave her a thumbs up and went “Thanks”
@@DeathnoteBB Immediately thought of "cats with thumbs" meme
@@JayTohab Firbolgs with thumbs XD
Isn't Healing Word a healing spell? lol
@@SkrymNV The joke here is that she didn't have a spell available, so she just shouted words at him. There was no actual healing, just words advocating for him to get better.
I totally get Laura's frustration, the Cleric has such an awesome offensive spell list, and it can feel confining to be reduced to "Need heals plz".
people got sick of getting shoehorned into healer so they buffed the class to make it more interesting, but jester still can't be bothered lol
@@charlesissleepy clerics have always been really stronk. They can be incredibly tank too. It's just the only thing people want is "healer".
Well, the role's going to fall to the cleric when the rest of the party are wizards and monks and warlocks and barbarians and rogues. There's no sorcerers or paladins or bards that can branch into healing to support or take over the heal role.
@@Metrion77 I suppose technically Sorcerer can take Divine Soul or Warlock can take Celestial but I see your point, being the “dedicated healer” isn’t an attractive position in a game where there are so many options for literally any other build
Reminds me of my first Cleric, actually. Tempest Domain, wanted to smite enemies in the name of Zeus, except for my dipshit party members constantly crying "CLERIC DO YOUR JOB AND FUCKING HEAL ME!!!!"
Oh man, Sam is *such* a troll... always with the surprised "you CAN?" when she tells people of her (theoretical) capabilities :D
He's such a pain in the ass/gift to have at the table
He critiques most of them but only in humorous ways. Fjord's weak body, Caleb's overly depressing moods, Beau's lack of polite conversational skills, Jester never healing, etc. I mean even in Campaign one Taryon was like a living critique of Vox Machina itself.
@@CampaignerSC Taryon was somehow the best character in that whole show.
@@chesh05 Considering his character is a personification of Vox Machina's bad qualities that is completely valid.
Only after did Sam slap on a very emotional backstory
i love that watching Laura play taught people cleric and healer are two different things and that's ok 😂
Its DND, you dont have to conform to any role. But the meme is just too good.
@Hector Lewis i mean, not gonna jinx it, but VM didn't have a cleric, and they healed just fine
@@willnelson9906 Pike was a cleric
@@ormmannen i thought pike was a paladin? and anyway, a lot of the time pike wasn't there
@@ormmannen granted, i haven't watched VM, soooo
Honestly Laura really wanted to play a Fey Warlock. She only played a cleric because Travis chose the Warlock
Honestly, as great as that would have been, this is VASTLY funnier.
@@starsgears9200 eh, imo, Laura wouldn't have to deal with all the internet cry babies, if she had gone with Warlock. Thus, that would be more fun.
Though as a counterpoint, if Laura didn't play Jester as an extremely naive shut in that has no social cognizance who "didn't know she was supposed to heal" she wouldn't have to deal with it anyway.
(Don't use a class that has a niche existence, and then ignore everything about that existence and expect to feel fine.)
@@u.s.s.chucklefucker1657 Or, here's a thought, we could all acknowledge that they get to play their characters as they see fit even if it is mechanically suboptimal and that frequently that's more entertaining than being mechanically perfect. She picked the rogue of clerics and is doing a good job with it.
And then he had the audacity to drop it for Paladin XD
@@Slipgatex drop is the wrong word.
"Healing Word is such dog shit..! On like, what it can do!"
"Healing Word...?"
"Yeah...!"
"NO ITS *NOT!"*
XD Lol! Sam single handedly kept Vox Machina alive with the little spell, and we all know how MVP Scanlan was most of the time.
The man knows the sheer utility of Healing Word.
Jester's response to being called "THE Cleric" was big "what do you mean YOU people" energy, and I loved it.
I took it more as her leaning on the fourth wall and making fun of the role system in D&D
@@stingerjohnny9951 Por que no los dos?
@@P0rk_Sinigang Touché (and yes I know that’s French not Spanish lol)
'You have a six pack of donuts but no healer's kit? What kind of cleric are you?' That was just hilarious.
The edit of laura appearing between sam and tal 3:53 absolutely wrecked me.
"Between you and me, Jester's a really bad cleric..." [camera pans to show Laura literally between the two of them]
@@2thatonegirl16 Comedy 👌
"I promise, I'll heal you if you start to hurt, okay?"
Was expecting Matt to go "Travis, make an Insight check"
Matt breaking at Sam's "She CAN health people." 🤣🤣 I lose it every time.
The '????' where Jester's class should be at 10:22 is hilarious! Nice touch
Good catch :)
OMG I never noticed :DDD
I always thought they’d use “Chaotic Good” or “Caring Wildcard” but the ? marks are fantastic.
Omgsh wow that's so great
I hope Laura plays a Sorcerer at some point. Not only can they put up big damage, which she loves to do, but she'd make many a meal out of Subtle Spell.
Edit: I'm watching C3. I know about her C3 character. So do the full dozen people that commented to tell me that my wish was fulfilled.
This or Portent would be like giving her a nuke.
Petition for Laura to be a Sorcerer in the next campaign. It doesn't matter what kind of Sorcerer she plays. I had played as one during my first campaign and it's so lit.
@@ericaesturas1816 Divine Soul, and see still gets flak for not healing.
Personally I hope she plays a Mammoth Totem Barbarian. Same as Bear totem, just flavored differently. Because "Fuck it, I'm a mammoth!"
@@christopherbacon1077 Nah. That would be boring and a waste of her talents to play a barbarian. She needs to do more spellwork. She’s actually quite good at it.
I feel like it's glossed over too much, but Sam's outrage at laura's shitting on Healing Word. Scanlan cast healing word or inspiration nearly EVERY round. Scanlan's healing words were clutch as hell in the last campaign. Sam was offended for a spell that he used near constantly to great effect.
this is so true, but it probably helped a lot that VM was allowed to do any level spell AND (up to) a 2nd level spell in the same round. while M9 spell casters can only do a spell and a cantrip in one turn
@CarminSteele she hated wasting spell slots yet.....she would burn through spell slots for sending all the time.
Healing Word > Cure wounds. You only really use healing to save unconscious people, not filling up HP. So Cure Wound's higher values are irrelevant. Then HW outclasses due to range
I’m pretty sure that’s why he chose to be a cleric in campaign 3
@@trealosgaming3345 the difference there is that she usually only sends messages before they bed down for the night so she won't have to worry about running into an encounter without her spell slots.
Jester the reluctant healer. It's such a funny character concept. She will revive them but be disgruntled about it 😂 I love Laura Bailey
I will never tire of Laura saying “I’m THE cleric?” I’ve never traveled with a bunch people I thought would die in front of me!”
One of my favorite moments is when they were fighting a monster and Caleb almost died and ended up killing the monster, but the whole time he was running away questioning why neither of the clerics were healing him 😂
Do you mean the fight against Lorenzo? Where they had three healers but Caleb still was running on low HP the entire fight and the only time a Mass Heal was cast, he was out of sight? xD
3:48 the funniest thing about this is that Sam says "between you and me" as Laura is literally between him and Taliesin
That face + noise he pulled at 2:54 killed me
Like a silent "well..."
i don't know how to describe your editing style with the pop in circles but it elicits so much joy in me, amazing job with this one omg
The editing on this is really well done - from the Sam/Tal conversation splitting to reveal Laura in the middle to the little circle insets of the rest of the cast laughing along, I appreciate what you've achieved!
Thank you, that's very kind of you to say. I try to make each new video a little bit better in terms of editing techniques and transitions so it's rewarding when people take notice!
The best moment will forever be at 3:00
"She CAN heal people. She's able to" 😅
"cleric who is allergic to healing" is my new favorite trope
3:47 "Between you and me, Jester's a really bad cleric." When Laura is sitting between Sam and Taliesin. The pun game is too strong.
3:50 Nott to Cad: "Between you and me, Jester's a really bad healer" and Laura is literally sitting between them. That has the exact same Sam energy as naming his character Nott, the Brave vs Nott the Brave
OK, probably stupid question but, what's the difference between having a comma and not having one?
@@michaeldaniels642 A bit late, but:
"Nott, the Brave" means "Nott, the person who is brave." Meanwhile "Nott the brave" Means "I am not the one who is brave, that is not me."
@@harshman6530 ah, thank you for explaining
I love when they asked her why’d she pick the cleric class and she straight up said i don’t know
She picked the Warlock class, but then Travis wanted it.
Jester was a character she already played in a one shot before, so she used her as a backup after travis took her warlock.
@@adamryan977 - My understanding was that Jester was going to be a warlock, not that she had a different warlock character.
There's a Warlock subclass with an archfey patron, rather than having to make it work for a cleric.
And Laura said she wanted to take the warlock invocation that let you cast Sending for free an unlimited number of times, to a limited set of recipients listed in your Book of Shadows. So Jester would have pen-pals.
I'm sure she was talking about this being a thing she had imagined for Jester, and I think on talks machina she might have explicitly said that Jester was going to be a warlock.
Campaign 3 Laura should get first pick on class!
They chose their classes with out telling anyone so I believe she chose this
@@elliemr5427 she was going to be a warlock actually but when she told Travis he wanted the class so she gave it to him
@@herz5159 why couldn't they both been warlocks? That would've been awesome
@@SuperEdvinsson They probably didn't want overlap
@Hector Lewis Tal was originally a blood hunter
Jester isn't The Cleric, she's the Eclair-ic
I love sam with "She 'CAN' heal people." I laugh so hard everytime.
I always laughed at jester being so reluctant to heal people, but now that I'm playing the sole cleric in a group of 7 players at 2nd level, it's so frustrating - I can heal or attack. If I heal, I can't deal damage 😭and I'm the only person in my party who's played before, so lots of squishy characters are just RUNNING INTO COMBAT with low AC/low HP so it's a hectic time.
(I also wanted to be a druid or a monk, but monk is frustrating at lower levels and we already have a druid who went a similar direction with what I had in mind for a druid character, and our party seems to just want to attack so 'the cleric' have i become 😅)
@@kaylaboland637 Just make everyone start carrying around healing potions.
I feel your pain. As a cleric to a monk and a rogue, my advice is just stop healing them until after they fall unconscious and pretend to consider not healing them once they do. Don't say anything to the other people at the table, just whisper under your breath a bit and let them sweat it out. You're a team player, but your TEAM depends on YOU to stay alive. If you have spiritual weapon, just throw a Spare the Dying out to a particularly reckless individual and let them sit it out while you brawl. The point isn't to be mean, it's to make them play more cautiously
Let people fall unconscious a bit before healing them, you'll see they will suddenly become a lot more careful about their actions
@@jeohranalfhir8366 I'm definitely kind of doing that tbh lol, it's in character for my cleric anyway as she's fascinated by the weird anatomy and physiology of her party so it gives her a second to examine how their bodies react to harm from afar :P
This just makes the moment of when she heals Fjord better and funnier, and he says "She loves me!" XD
The Mass Heal during the Uka'toa fight was the redemption moment for this entire compilation.
"The Cleric" is salty and I love it.
My DM actually cleared this up recently for our table without even watching CR, although he has seen some of it. This was just a "general rule" type of observation. To paraphrase, be basically said:
I've seen you guys, and loads of other players over the years rely so much on healing magic that you are hoarding potions. You do realize the point of potions of healing in a group like yours is so the MAGIC can be conserved, not the other way around right?
I never thought about it that way for some reason, but he's proven right. Now that we're all using our potions first and magic second, our cleric has been WAY more effective in the other areas and made for a much more diverse character for them to play.
This is a interesting point 🤔.
It's that whole stupid argument of "Well, what if we really need to use it later?" Yeah, well you need to use it now too so use it.
@ I mean plus, there's sustain vs burst healing. Pots are great if like, a single important character is low, but in a scenario where the main healer, main DPS, and utility caster (that would be Jester, Fjord, and Caduceus) are low, you need burst Mass Healing word otherwise things are going to get REALLY bad REALLY fast.
This is dependent upon your DM, though.
In lots of campaigns, the healing potions are the only way to get the CLERIC up if they go down, or take the choice of who to heal and who to let fate do as it may out of the Cleric's hands if things go sideways. Its great to have a generous DM that lets you play that way... its also pretty rare I think. Most DMs don't reward players for managing to not use resources. Like, if you get through an encounter without using many healing potions, the DM is liable to have the next town experience a "healing potion shortage".
potions are also bad in combat economically since it's an action to use one, if your DM allows potion-chugging as a bonus action then yeah go for it
Jester: "Healing Word is a dogshit spell!"
Also Jester: Constantly forced to choose between doing damage and healing.
The music transition when beau handed jester the healer’s kit KILLED me, you need to win some sort of award for this comedic genius
Tallesin: *as Molly dies' well that was a thing, I should make a cleric so we all dont die down the line
6:30 is my favorite Jester the Cleric clip lol. "It would heard a really good bell but instead I'm doing this!"
What episode was this again?
C2E7 - th-cam.com/video/JAyT10WP-cY/w-d-xo.html
@@GammaAlanna thanyuu
Players: WHY ARENT YOU HEALING US
Forge Cleric: ...I’m not that kind of cleric
Honestly, having a cleric who isn't super excited to heal and wants to cause damage is hilarious. Laura plays it so well. She revives when it's important, the whole RP of Jester is genius tbf.
Also: fantastic editing 👏
I’ve played a cleric who barely knows cure wounds
Now I’m playing a mystic who only heals people because blah blah child soldiers
I’m gonna play a healer who punches to heal
@@doctorjay8673 you mean way of tranquility monk
Or way of mercy if you don’t like UA
healing word: *is the best healing spell in the game
Laura: "wow healing word sucks"
As a 25 AC forge cleric I feel this. You've got so many good spells, and you gotta balance between what the party needs and what the situation calls for.
Revivify is the cleric tax, and Cure wounds, healing word are pretty good. Heal and Mass Heal are too good to ignore.
Lesser and greater restoration saves lives.
Then all your concentration buffs.
Yeah, there's a barbarian.
@Hector Lewis But tanky play is the designed role for a Forge Cleric. Why do you insist on this outdated, contrary-to-design stereotype of Cleric - healer. So much to the point that you accuse other people of having fun wrong? Please provide some support for you belief that clerics have to be primary healers. I am legitimately curious to see if you have any logical reason based on the actual game design.
awwww, you cut the part where she said she has insect plague prepared instead of scrying
I'm gonna need this to be edited to include every time Laura or Dani Carr claims Jester is a good healer on Talks.
Awesome work by the way!
She's not a bad healer; she doesn't waste actions in combat on healing unless people are unconscious.
And she did get some good use of Command and Banishment to reduce incoming damage.
But mostly Caleb and Cad filled the support role of healing by stopping enemies from doing damage.
"Between you and me, Jester's a really bad cleric." Just the slice of cake with Laura being in between them. XD
Love the floating head of Taliesin laughing at 3:20.
When you pick the wrong class in the character creation menu and there's no cancel button.
Except she did not "pick the wrong class"
3:47 "and... between you and me, Jester is a really bad Cleric, so... "
Jester, between them: *Being a bad cleric*
The slide to reveal Sam Riegal just made me lose it, I forgot about his costume.
my favorite moment is later on when Jester didn't have cure wounds prepped, but Fjord did
10:30 Veth: Rogue, Jester: ????, Caduceus: Cleric
The editing at 3:49 is actually genius and hilarious.
Laura's reaction to Marisha's unintentional metagame comment is pure gold.
Don’t forget that Jester got the HDYWTDT on Lucien, their BBEG with a guiding bolt. I love jester the cleric so much
3:40 the cut revealing Laura sitting between the two of them was so fucking funny ahahaha
She should have been a divine soul sorcerer. She could twin and quicken spells increasing her healing and also cast Cantrips as a bonus actions so she can heal and deal damage at the same time
As a guy who actually likes playing a cleric, healing and buffing the party, Jester sometimes hurts my soul.
I felt it SO much when Taliesin was mildly panicking looking at Laura because she was about to launch a big attack instead of healing an almost dead Bo...
Knowing what happens in the one-shot, watching this is just so refreshing to recall Jester THE Cleric
This supercut has inspired me to play a healer who only uses Spare the Dying and Prayer of Healing to restore health. 1st level spells is for truly useful spells, like Create Water or something.
I like to have a healing word on hand because I can use that at range and as a bonus action where spare the dying is touch and a standard action but in principal yeah healing is for stopping people dying not for wasting entire actions on. With healing word I can get a sacred flame or a toll the dead off in the same round. I don't think I've ever played a 5e healer who found it necessary to prepare both cure wounds and healing word on the same day.
Honestly I love how versatile cleric is. You can totally go “fuck healing” and just nuke or bash enemies penemies
The flying Tal cackle at 3:20 just got me 🤣🤣🤣
The last rant at the end with no video is the best.
I can't wait to see this as a fully animated series! >.
03:20 Taliesin flies by cackling, loved this detail :3
I feel this SO hard. First time laying 5e, I play a War Cleric just to spice up my usual class routine. Usually I like playing the classes that encourage you to get up in the enemy's face and bring down the mighty hammer. I thought if I played a Cleric it would teach me to appreciate the healers that've kept me alive thus far.
The Warlock, WIzard, and Artificer have to *physically* pull me back from the front lines and remind me I have spell slots for healing when all I wanna do is hit people with my giant maul. D': The Monk this campaign is getting all the action because his AC's really freaking high and he nullifies flanking against him.
The journey to her recent character growth is still one the funniest things. "I'm THE cleric."
Jester being a cleric who never heals anyone is the ultimate prank.
10:55 god dam that's a smooth edit
Thanks! I really like it when I can line shots up like this :)
Just wanted to say this is my favorite video of all time. I literally watch it every single day, it’s amazing!
You can tell so much love went into the editing of this video ❤❤❤
Damn, the "between you and me, Jester is a really bad cleric" line as the camera pans out, with her quite literally sitting between the two of them, made me spit up my drink. Too damn funny
I'll be honest, while I was a divine sorcerer, I was the parties go to healer and I get Laura so much. I can heal you, or I can kill the baddie with this fireball. Just dodge it.
I’m currently playing a college of swords bard and I am the closest thing to a healer in this party so I feel ya. I mean I *could’ve* picked healing word... I didn’t but it was an option...
when you play a healer in a mmorpg, you learn to have this attitude
I'm sorry, but Clerics' battle field control allows them to match sorcerers and wizards as damage casters. Pit a sorcerer against a cleric at the mid levels, most good clerics wipe the floor with them. The cleric isn't designed to be a healer - it's designed to fill whatever role your party needs or you want. And Jester wants an Arcane Trickster that can walk up in your face and drop 7d10 necrotic damage via illusory copy
@@francisweller839 thanks God for this comment.
@@francisweller839 This is just not true. Wizards and Sorcerers have better spells when it comes to damage. Sure, Clerics aren't useless at damage if they need to (Spiritual Weapon, Spirit Guardians, Dawn, Flame Strike, etc) but they generally are weaker or at a higher spell level relative to the damage that Arcane spellcasters can do. That's why they have all the support and buff spells that Wizards and Sorcerers don't have access to.
Wonderfully edited together. Kudos on such a fun compilation!
4:18 Jester: The master of deceit!!
this was amazing compilation. I laughed so hard! Love your editing style, very dynamic! thank you for this
"I dont wanna be the cleric i wanna hit him" i feel that.
I think you mean "I don't wanna be the healer". Clerics can be damage-dealers, exactly like Jester. (And have great spells to reduce incoming damage, like Hold Person or Command.)
People who assume cleric == healer are wrong in 5e D&D.
I love this 😂😂😂 the music is so funny over it, thank you so much
Absolutely hilarious. I loved the editing in every way! The way you got Travis’s and Laura’s arches to align was really cool. The pop up laughs are great too!
your editing makes it so much more hilarious
When you get forced to be the cleric, but you realy want to be the warlock..
Seriously amazing clip. Just amazing editing... More props to you!!!!
Epic! Love the colour change and the cut out at the live show!
Your edits are always amazing and so funny holy shit