Permanent Blindness

[Radagar]

Anyone else encountered this? I've read that sleeping at the "base" is supposed to remove it, but it doesn't. The scrolls are too high level to use, and expensive on top of that. Is this meant to be this way?

[Chester Copperpot]

I had the same issue, but I was exhausted. I was able to get rid of it with a complete rest, which I assume is when you pass all the checks. I kept failing the cook check, so resting never worked until now.

[Grifta]

Blindness on Core difficulty, the alchemist at Oleg's can sell you a potion. Or, cleric's get the remove blindness spell.

[Radagar]

Unforunately that didn't do anything for me. I tried resting repeatedly to get all successes and all the debuffs remain.

[Arkatan]

Its part of the pathfinder ruleset, some low level blind spells can cause permanent blindness on a character so its something that can be quite difficult to deal with, cool that they stuck so close to the rules as to keep something like this though

[Morgian]

Blindness is a permanent affliction, cured only by magic, unless you play below normal difficulty, which goes easier on you.

[Astareal]

There is also an option to remove negative conditions on rest in the menu

[Dadvocate09]

My only party character that can use the scroll can't succeed, and the cleric that sells the scroll won't just cure the blindness on my party member. It's absurd that my party member has to remain permanently blind because the interface has no way to direct the NPC cleric to cure the condition. This design is awful.

[AlexnChaos]

yeah, Blindess is horrible when you get stuck with it, however, it does make a wonderful Debuff when your fighting something nasty, because unlike most other debuffs it's not going to fade away at just the wrong moment

[Ghilteras]

I too find Blindness extremely punishing. Normally in Pathfinder you can pay for temple services in any city to get a cleric to remove it for you. Here it seems they kept all the aspects of the spell except the easiest ways to cure it. Really bad design

[Nightfall]

At the moment, the only way to play in Normal difficulty is to Save / Reload after any roll of the dice.

[Memmo]

Enable the cure afflictions on rest in gameplay options. It'll also fully heal your party with 8 hours of rest.

[Stoibs]

Ah cool, I must have missed that 'cure afflictions on rest' toggle in the options.
My fighters have had STR drained from those nigh-impossible-to-kill spider swarms for a good few in-game weeks now and it was getting a bit old.

The difficulty in this game when it comes to some of these mechanics of annoyance is no joke and kind of unfun, I'm definitely not going to keep any pretenses of being 'hardcore' or a purist and will happily partake of these hand holding/ease of life difficulty toggles for the sake of my sanity and enjoyment.

[Memmo]

The game lacks the Heal skill, so you can't use that to boost healing on rest or to recover ability damage. I'm fine with pretending that option enables such use of the Heal skill.