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I originally posted the below question here: http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.ph … st18185493

It was suggested that I put it over here as well as all three of my proposed interpretations have come back from responses. I would love to get some kind of official ruling on this as I have a player using this PP in my group.

How are people interpreting the Healing Guides ability under the Spirit Tempest PP?

"When you restore hit points with your healing spirit power, 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."

This just seems like a mess to me. An ally adjacent to your spirit companion only regains hit points if it is the ally you choose to regain hit points, they don't always get it (though this statement almost makes it sound like they do always get it). Then I was wondering if it meant all allies or just one ally. It seems they should have said "any ally or allies" if they wanted it to be more than one.

When we first read this we though it just let you pick an ally within the zone as the target for the bonus healing but it does say "also regains hit points" so then i figured we had done that wrong.

What are your thoughts?

That is, it seems, the most common interpretation. However it has not been the only interpretation.

On my blog Jim makes a good point about "What happens when the original target (the one that spent the surge) is within a zone?".

I am thinking that several allies can get healed but that no ally can ever get healed more than once. Unless I hear some great argument to the contrary (or something official) I will probably go with this.

I'm far more comfortable with the initial target not being included. As I already said, I don't feel it is in flavor.

Seems quite obvious from all of this discussion. I think the only thing missing is the word "respectively" when saying within a zone or adjacent to a conjuration. As written in your quote above you can be adjacent to the zone to receive benefit, which does not seem to be the intent. I could be wrong here, but that is the only issue that I can find with the wording as it is now.

So assuming this applies to people within a zone or adjacent to a conjuration, every ally that meets that criteria that was not the original target gets the secondary benefit. The "other than the target" restriction was not removed and there is no explicit limit to the number of allies this can apply to.

The healing spirits class feature states that the shaman chooses one ally adjacent to her spirit companion to receive the extra healing. Healing Guides says that from now on, when the shaman triggers a healing surge, all allies that are adjacent to her conjurations and within her zones regain hit points as if they were adjacent to her spirit companion. I don't see where it increases the number of allies that will receive the extra healing --- so I think it's still just one. What it does is make it easier to place the extra healing where the shaman wants, and also, if she is a protecting shaman, to add her CON bonus when she provides healing.