Fixed: healing gains

[RoadKill]

Right. Curing and ressing is more difficult than healing. But you can GM from healing alone. It just requires healing more damage.

This is why old macro guides suggested finding a hill that injured yourself and walk up and drop off until you were at 1 health...then heal yourself.

Covetous entrance works great for this too

[Xukluk Tuguznal]

The way I understand this is that you can still gain skill from attempting regular heals. However, you will not gain as fast as curing or resing at higher levels. I was playing my poisoner last night fighting orcs and was gaining healing in the 70's without having to cure. It's just really slow.

my thing is i've gone through 4+k bandages and not gained at all. I don't mind slow gains after a certain points. I just wanna make sure it isn't "No Gains - Unless". Which currently it seems to be.

[Derrick]

At what skill level?
More details plz

[Xukluk Tuguznal]

At what skill level?
More details plz

I'm currently at 96.3

[Faust]

Macro ressing on a ghost and you'll be gm in no time. I don't see you gaining very much with that high of healing skill from only healing.

[Xukluk Tuguznal]

Macro ressing on a ghost and you'll be gm in no time. I don't see you gaining very much with that high of healing skill from only healing.

Wasn't really going for 'much' just something. It's pointless to macro healing at that lvl. You'll just burn through an obscene amount of aids. (Mind ya this is my opinion). I figure eventually it'll gm.

[alatar]

When training an alt char with my dummy-char, who has 95.3 healing, I went all day performing cross-heals back & forth and didn't gain a single point of healing the entire time.

However I did find a nice method to afk-macro healing from 62-82..

[Slade]

However I did find a nice method to afk-macro healing from 62-82..

1: Find character without archery
2: Equip bow
3: Beat character with healer
4: Use bandaids on defenseless archer.
5: ??????
6: PROFIT

[Virindi1]

I'm trying to find a confident answer here.

Almost all my characters get stuck around 77 healing after spending most of the time healing a spar partner or mage gainer.

How do I get past this? Do I have to heal a poisoned target? At what level can I rez a ghost? Does the ghost need to actually click "Yes, I wish to rez" or can I just afk macro that? Any other ways?

Thanks!

[Derrick]

You will be able to gain from resing at 80. You may find it most efficient to gain from curing for the next few points. Although it's possible to GM from just healing damage, it's not very easy. One you are resing, the ghost does not have to actually resurrect for you to gain skill, only for you to be successful.

[Kraarug]

Yep, cure poison till at 80 (The strengh of poison doesn't seem to matter) and log on a ghost. You'll GM from there.

[Red]

It seems like healing gains from 95+ off ressing a ghost is a tad too slow. I'd compare it to trying to GM resist. Is this intentional?

[Gnarr]

i went from 77.4 not real (74 real) healing last night just healing a sparing partner that had nothing but a sword (gm swords) as defence for himself...by the time the shard restarted 4 hours later and 2k aids he was at 81.sumthing. i macroed ress as soon as the shard started back up and here i am 10 hours later with 88.2 (86.6 real) i haven't had any real difficulties raising heal so far, other than to lazy to get more bandaids and set up macro...that has been the only thing keeping me from any significant gains.

[Derrick]

i went from 77.4 not real (74 real) healing last night just healing a sparing partner that had nothing but a sword (gm swords) as defence for himself...by the time the shard restarted 4 hours later and 2k aids he was at 81.sumthing. i macroed ress as soon as the shard started back up and here i am 10 hours later with 88.2 (86.6 real) i haven't had any real difficulties raising heal so far, other than to lazy to get more bandaids and set up macro...that has been the only thing keeping me from any significant gains.

Thanks much for posting this. This is the first hard data I've seen on healing gains.

[Xarx]

It took me less than 5000 band aids to get GM healing from 90, macro resing a ghost over night.

Got to 90 by healing 3 chars to get GM resist =O