So I guess in that light it could be very powerful (healing a total of 52.5 avg hit points, plus someones healing surge in the case of our party).

And yes you are correct on the average. I divided by 3 for some unknown reason (actually I was thinking 3 dice, but knew it was only two values added for the average min and max healing).

The average healing of 3d6 is 7. That isn’t a ton of hit points even if it goes to everyone. At this level a minion hit does that much. So I can’t see that being too powerful. And it keeps the flavor of the shaman (healing multiple targets) without stepping on the toes of other leaders (Cleric still have ridiculious single target healing). So I think we have successfully come up with a ruling on this that is both balanced and in line with intent of the class. I can’t see that being that much better then say my pargon path power, dealing radiant damage to all blooded targets equal to my CHR (currently 3) within 5 squares of me when it’s their turn. If it hits twice it’s almost the same average damage as it is healing, on undead it’s better in one hit, and it’s automatic, it just happens where this shaman on is just a tad more situational (and needs in most cases an on-going Daily power to even come up). Now of course this is one example, and you can’t judge it too much on a class by class basis, but they seem inline. in some ways mine seem a little more powerful in most cases.

Some people still seem to think that this is more of a replacement effect (a person in a zone or adjacent to a zone gets the healing INSTEAD OF a person adjacent to your spirit companion). This would, in my opinion, be pretty lame and would not come up very often.

I’m sort of thinking that if the over all conclusion is that all allies within a zone can get the healing then they cannot be either of the original two targets, no one can get healed from this twice. It just seems that with how massive the zones are, this version of Shaman would be too often throwing heals that were healing their mane target as effectively as a cleric but then often healing a number of other targets as well. Not that this would really be the end of the world, but it sort of damages the flavor.

“When you restore hit points with your healing spirit power,”

Ok the defenders in the group get nailed big time. as the cleric has yet to go in turn order and there are more baddies between you and him in init order. the defenders happen to be next to your spirit companion. you hit the defenders with a multitarget or burst heal, healing them enough to last till the clerics turn…

“any ally adjacent to or within a conjuration or zone that you created with a shaman power or a shaman paragon path power also regains hit points as if he or she were adjacent to your spirit companion.”

Now this part is tricky. as I don’t have a PHB2 on me at work. lets say you threw a defensive zone around the ranged casters. the way i read this is that the allies in that zone or along the outside edge(adjacent), also regain hit points as if they were the ones standing next to the spirit companion. so whatever heal you thrw on the defenders would also affect these characters.

the really sticky part comes in if the defenders also happen to be in or adjacent to a conjuration or zone. based on the way it reads, they may be healed twice. once from the actual ability being cast, and then once again by the paragon path power. This one I would normally leave up to the GM. But if they are healed twice, then any “monster” would also benefit from the rule. If the ability read similar.

just my two cents.