Using heals out of combat

[pezit]

Is it possible to activate healing magic etc out of combat and if so how? I know I can use med packs but well I'd rather save those.

[FroBodine]

I would also like to know how to do this. Bump. There must be a way to use your skills and magic outside combat. Musn't there? Game developers? Do you even respond to any problems people are having on this forum?

[SnallTrippin]

I heard Q brings up your spell book?

[futonrevolution]

Go into the inventory screen. When you click on the healing spell, the "Equipped" flag will now be a hotspot for casting it outside of combat.

[FroBodine]

Originally posted by futonrevolution:

Go into the inventory screen. When you click on the healing spell, the "Equipped" flag will now be a hotspot for casting it outside of combat.

Does that only work for your main character? I am not a spellcaster, but I have a follower who has healing. When I click on his spell in the inventory, it says it is equipped, but nothing happens. I do not get an option to use the healing spell.

[KabaI]

Do you need to heal outside of combat? I thought that everyone's health returned to full once the turn based combat system ended.

[FroBodine]

Nope. Your damage remains after combat. I figured it out. My guys were not damaged, so when I clicked on the heal spell or a medkit, I did not get the "Activate" option. If you are damaged, you will. Thanks all!

[futonrevolution]

Originally posted by FroBodine:

Does that only work for your main character? I am not a spellcaster, but I have a follower who has healing. When I click on his spell in the inventory, it says it is equipped, but nothing happens. I do not get an option to use the healing spell.

It works with hired runner mages/shaman. If it has the Activate available, it'll bring up a menu of who can be healed. It only heals the most recent injury, though. If they haven't taken damage since the last time they were healed, they won't be in the menu and the activate button won't show up at all if no one in the party can be currently healed with magic. For older injuries, you're stuck with medkits.

[MMNXXXXFFDMA]

You can heal going into character window (push C) then go to inventory (strange place for spells, I know...) then select HEAL then click on ACTIVATE. If you have multiple allies that you would like to heal their names will appear if eligible for healing. Don't fret, the game will indicate that you must choose a single receipient of the healing, but you can simply heal any character you wish, and repeat the process, once per character. HBS needs to allow multiple characters to be selected for rudimentary admin tasks such as this to improve the ergonomics of this game.

[Elorfin]

I think it's worth mentioning again that the healing spell only heals the most recently taken damage. If your character has received a hit of 8 and then another of 4, the heal will only get rid of the 4 damage. Anything older can only be remedied by plot-healing (like after rescuing Coyote) or medkits.

[drew61267]

it works with healing kits too

[Running-Target]

Heal repairs more than 1 wound as long as you use it within that round, i think i have noticed.

[Procrastinating Gamer]

Originally posted by Running-Target:

Heal repairs more than 1 wound as long as you use it within that round, i think i have noticed.

Nope - the spell's description specifically says that it heals all damage from the last hit. Meaning if you get hit for ten and again for one in the same turn, that healing spell's only going to fix the one point injury.

[syntacticalcrab]

You can heal from your PDA on ANY character. However, remember that the Heal spell is for healing the last hit's damage. So, if you're down 20 total hitpoints, but the last hit you took only did 4 damage, you can only heal 4 damage.

[stephenrozzi]

In 1st battle outside of tutorial my main guy got hit twice for 6 dmg apiece. After battle I went into Jake's inventory to use heal on my main char. Selected heal aaaannnnnnndddddd......nothing. All I got was a tag showing my spell was equipped, no actual option of using the spell. Tried several websites, including this one, and I keep reading the same advice about using healing but it DOES NOT WORK! Just to be clear, I tried healing immediately after the fight. (Just tried again as I write this & nothing) So, can you only heal with the main char out of combat or is this a developer's glitch?

[Sentient_Toaster]

1) Necro.
2) It doesn't matter, because when battle ends you automatically heal the most recent injury as if a Heal spell were cast, so casting a new heal wouldn't heal you any more.