Healing (Skill)

Related topics: Healing Kits

Introduced:

Release

Updated:

Spring 2014

Healing
Description	Helps you heal injuries.
Formula	(Focus + Coordination) / 3
Base Status	Unusable
Cost to Train	6
Cost to Specialize	4
Buffs	Healing Mastery (Spell), Coordination (Spell), Focus (Spell)
Debuffs	Healing Ineptitude (Spell), Clumsiness (Spell), Bafflement (Spell)

Items

Starting Equipment

All

Handy Healing Kit

Other Items

• Other Healing Kits can be found as loot on creatures, purchased from Healers in Towns, as rewards from some quests, and crafted from components (Plentiful Healing Kits).

Spell Stacking

• Spell Stacking and override information for spells that affect Healing can be found at:
  • Focus (Spell)
  • Bafflement (Spell)
  • Coordination (Spell)
  • Clumsiness (Spell)
  • Healing Ineptitude (Spell)
  • Healing Mastery (Spell)

Notes

• Unusable if not trained or specialized.
• Heal with hotkeys by putting a Heal Kit on a hot key, then dragging and dropping your main pack (big tan one) onto a hot key. Then press the kit key followed by the pack key and you will heal yourself.
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• The difficulty of healing increases based on the absolute amount of life lost and is different for combat and peace modes:
  • Peace mode difficulty: (Amount of Missing Health * 2)
  • Combat mode difficulty: (Amount of Missing Health * 2.6)
  • Note: These formulas imply that as total health increases, the difficult of healing at relative life values (e.g. healing at 50% life) increases.
• As part of the Forces of Nature patch, the following changes were made:
  • The formula for used for effective healing skill (when compared to healing difficulty) was altered:[1]
    • Trained Healing: (Buffed Healing Skill + Kit Bonus) * 1.1
    • Specialized Healing: (Buffed Healing Skill + Kit Bonus) * 1.5
  • A new combat mode healing animation was added.
    • Note: Previously, the combat mode heal sequence dropped the player to peace mode, healed, and then reverted the player to combat mode.[2]
• As part of the Spring 2014 patch the following changes were made;
  • Healing animations are now shorter. The heal comes earlier in the animation.

Skills
Magic Skills	Arcane Lore, Creature Enchantment, Item Enchantment, Life Magic, Mana Conversion, Void Magic, War Magic
Combat Skills	Finesse Weapons, Heavy Weapons, Light Weapons, Missile Weapons, Two Handed Combat, Summoning
Secondary Combat Skills	Dual Wield, Dirty Fighting, Recklessness, Sneak Attack
Defense Skills	Magic Defense, Melee Defense, Missile Defense, Shield
Crafting Skills	Alchemy, Armor Tinkering, Cooking, Fletching, Item Tinkering, Lockpick, Magic Item Tinkering, Salvaging, Weapon Tinkering
Misc Skills	Assess Creature, Assess Person, Deception, Healing, Leadership, Loyalty, Jump, Run
Retired Skills	Appraise Armor, Appraise Item, Appraise Magic Item, Appraise Weapon, Axe, Bow, Crossbow, Dagger, Gearcraft, Mace, Spear, Staff, Sword, Thrown Weapons, Unarmed Combat