Healing Pretender

[chrispedersen]

Originally Posted by lch

I do. After a successful healing attempt has been made, afflictions are being removed in the following order, until one has been successfully removed:

1. battle fright: 50% chance
2. feeblemind: 25% chance
3. diseased: 50% chance
4. crippled: 25% chance
5. blindness: 25% chance
6. lost eye: 50% chance (only possible if blindness is cured first)
7. weakened: 50% chance
8. mute: 25% chance
9. lost weapon (tail/pincer/branch/tentacle/...): 25% chance
10. lost an arm: 25% chance
11. some affliction that I don't know what it is: 85% chance
12. chest wound: 50% chance
13. limp: 50% chance
14. never healing wound: 10% chance

The "Never healing wound" is named like that because there is only a healing attempt if there are no other afflictions, or all previous healing attempts on the other afflictions have failed AND then there's only a 10% chance to heal it. A maximum of one affliction is cured per check.

Thanks for the great table ich; but I'd like to comment that immortals *must* have either better chances, or chances to heal multiple wounds.

[JimMorrison]

Immortality grants Recuperation, and from everything I've witnessed, Recuperation follows totally different rules than Healing.

[Lingchih]

Yeah, recuperation is very fast. Often the wounds are healed at the end of the battle. I've seen Gorgons take afflictions in a battle, that they no longer had at the end of the turn.

[Fate]

Aaah! Wrong on both counts! I could've sworn hannyas had regeneration...

An update on my second question. I modded flagellants (random starting affliction) into arcoscephale with an awake mother of serpants. Both the mother of serpents and the priestess healed more than one unit per turn.

Also, the portion of units healed increased with more healers (even though they are all 100%), so it appears the same affliction can be tried for many times (though only once by each healer?).

[lch]

Originally Posted by Fate

An update on my second question. I modded flagellants (random starting affliction) into arcoscephale with an awake mother of serpants. Both the mother of serpents and the priestess healed more than one unit per turn.

Also, the portion of units healed increased with more healers (even though they are all 100%), so it appears the same affliction can be tried for many times (though only once by each healer?).

Mother of Serpents and Priestess are both Healers with 100% chance to heal, so their attempt at healing always succeed. It is as you think, every healer gets one chance to heal an affliction. They follow the order that I gave and try every existing affliction on the unit until they've healed one or failed on all of them.

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by lch

Mother of Serpents and Priestess are both Healers with 100% chance to heal, so their attempt at healing always succeed. It is as you think, every healer gets one chance to heal an affliction. (JimM - on every unit present) They follow the order that I gave and try every existing affliction on the unit until they've healed one or failed on all of them.

To clarify, he is saying that a Healer set to "Heal" orders will try to Heal an Affliction on every Afflicted unit (including commanders) in the same province, whether there is only 1, or if there are 500, each unit gets to roll against the Healer skill to see if an Affliction -may- be Healed. Then the subsequent rolls are made to gauge if an Affliction actually gets removed.

Hope that helps.

[lch]

Ah, yes. A healer only heals up to one affliction per unit per turn, but he's providing his services to all friendly units in the whole province.

[GrudgeBringer]

Well, the affliction Strength -4 was healed on the second try by the Priestess. So I am good to go....