To use the Healing skill, double click clean bandages and target yourself or another player to heal them. When healing someone else you must remain within two tiles of them to complete the healing process. Healing someone can only result in gaining karma, never a loss of karma.
A minimum level of 61 for both Anatomy and Healing is required to cure someone who is poisoned. A minimum level of 81 for both Anatomy and Healing is required to resurrect a player ghost. Resurrecting others has a delay of about 5 seconds. It is not possible to resurrect yourself.
The amount of damage that can be healed depends on your Healing and Anatomy skills. The speed in which your target is healed depends on your Dexterity:
Dexterity:
- 10 - 19
- 20 - 39
- 40 - 59
- 60 - 79
- 80 - 99
- 100 - 119
- 120 - 139
- 140 - 159
Time on Self:
- 11 Seconds
- 10 Seconds
- 9 Seconds
- 8 Seconds
- 7 Seconds
- 6 Seconds
- 5 Seconds
- 4 Seconds
Time on Other:
- 4 Seconds
- 4 Seconds
- 4 Seconds
- 3 Seconds
- 3 Seconds
- 3 Seconds
- 2 Seconds
- 2 Seconds
If you are trying to use any healing ability and you are attacked by a spell, missile or melee attack then you are likely not able to apply the bandage as well as you would have had without the attack. You may receive a "your fingers slip" message - the more of these you receive, the less successful your healing attempt will be (as you really need to concentrate to heal wounds). Healers with high dexterity and high healing will suffer from slipped fingers less than a novice healer with low dexterity.
When healing, you soon appreciate the value of a bandage. There are three ways to supply yourself with bandages - the expensive way and two cheap ways!
The Expensive Way:
| Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 | Step 4 | Step 5 | Step 6 | Step 7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Go to a tailor shop |
Make sure you have gold |
Buy a bolt of cloth |
Cut the bolt |
You get "cut cloth" |
Cut the cloth |
You get 50 bandages |
The Cheap Way #1:
| Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 | Step 4 | Step 5 | Step 6 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Find a fluffy sheep |
Use blade to shear sheep |
You get wool |
Go to a tailor shop |
Use wool on wheel |
You get yarn |
|
| Step 7 | Step 8 | Step 9 | Step 10 | Step 11 | Step 12 | |
Use yarn on loom x5 |
You get a bolt of cloth |
Cut bolt |
You get "cut cloth" |
Cut the cloth |
You get 50 bandages |
Sheep are quite common in the land and come in two forms. Fluffy ones
can be shorn for their wool and they then loose their fluffy look.
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Collecting wool not only means that you get a steady supply of bandages for nothing. It also means that you get out into the fresh air and meet other folk. Tamers and bards are very common where sheep can be found - why not team up with them for a while and get some healing or even veterinary training done at the same time?
If you're not a member of the local animal protection association, you can kill the sheep after shearing them and wait for new ones to spawn. The new ones will come as the fluffy type, with wool still attached to them. Just remember to first cut the wool off the sheep, then kill it, not vice versa. Although you can still get wool from the sheep after killing them it will be stained with blood and not combinable with clean wool. The stained wool also does not give as much yarn as clean wool.
The Cheap Way #2:
| Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 | Step 4 | Step 5 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Find a cotton field |
Pick cotton |
Go to a tailor shop |
Use cotton on wheel |
You get thread |
||
| Step 6 | Step 7 | Step 8 | Step 9 | Step 10 | Step 11 | |
|
Use yarn on loom x5 |
You get a bolt of cloth |
Cut bolt |
You get "cut cloth" |
Cut the cloth |
You get 50 bandages |
Side Note: Cotton and Wool also bring a good price by selling them directly to the Tailor or Weavers before spinning them... a good way for a new character to make gold!
Complimentary skills:
Healers need not be pacifists - in fact, a great deal of them are highly skilled warriors. In the old days you had to be a dab hand at self defence just to get to the bank. Things are different now, yet there are many folk who still follow this path - actually, having combat skills and training them will greatly increase your healing and anatomy skills.
Other skills that many healers learn are Magery, Alchemy, Spirit Speak and Tailoring. There are extensive notes on all of these but Spirit Speak - a little known skill. The skill gives you the ability to understand what all those "OOoo's" spoken by a ghost are, without having to make them a party member. Many of you will wonder why folk train a skill which does not offer them any great game advantage - dedicated healers will know the answer to this.
The philosophy of a healer:
So just what is a healer? Are they a person that has the ability to cure the sick and injured. Can they resurrect the dead? The answer is "yes and no". A healer is more than a person who heals. A healer is a person that goes out of their way to heal and help those in need. They go to places of great danger in order to take their skills to the masses without thinking of the personal danger to themselves.
A healer embraces the virtues of compassion, sacrifice, humility and honesty...
Compassion is the ability to be sympathetic to the feelings and sufferings of others. To share their pain, and, to do what thou can to ease their misery. Show compassion in all thy dealings, lest thy heart grow hard and cold.
Sacrifice is to love thy fellow creatures enough, that thou art bravely able to give off thyself. To give without thought of reward or gain. To sacrifice that which thou dost need to aid those that are in need. Delve deep into thy heart and soul that thou may find true generosity of spirit.
True humility is the opposite of pride, without humility the path of the Avatar will be a rocky one. For, if thy spirit is filled with pride then how cans't thou learn? Thus shed thy pride, that thou may humbly follow the virtues of the Avatar.
Thou shalt not steal or lie, but more than this, seek the truth in all things. Strive to be honest in all thy actions. Look deep into thyself for, only by knowing thyself can thou know truth.