Healing potion and Heal on card doesn't work every time

[Gothm]

I have tried it both ways: when consuming the potion or performing a heal on myself from the card, I'll click on my character OR I'll click the "Confirm Target" button at the bottom while my character is highlighted. The animation triggers yet I don't get healed! This is a huge deal and I've lost three scenarios as a result. What is worse, is that this isn't consistent. Sometimes it does heal. Does anyone have similar issues with heal?

[Teensies_King]

Is the mercenary you are healing poisoned? If someone poisoned is healed, it removes the poison, but their health is not increased.

[scott_smart2000]

Yeah, I'd guarantee you were poisoned if it's working only inconsistently. You should have a skull symbol above your character's head to denote poison. Healing while poisoned only removes the poison (and maybe wound?). Healing non-poisoned characters will remove wound and heal up to the max health.

[Gothm]

Yep, it was the poison.

[Mike Garrison]

Poison can be bad juju. There are a fair number of cards that have very small heals, which are really there to get rid of poison. Like the Tinkerer had a card where he moves and then gives heal 1 to all adjacent allies. This might as well really say "remove poison from all adjacent allies".

It can be an issue when you really need a big heal, and you have a big heal, except you desperately wish you also had a small heal to get rid of your poison, so you could use your big heal to actually heal.

[Druitt]

Originally posted by Mike Garrison:

Poison can be bad juju. There are a fair number of cards that have very small heals, which are really there to get rid of poison. Like the Tinkerer had a card where he moves and then gives heal 1 to all adjacent allies. This might as well really say "remove poison from all adjacent allies".

It can be an issue when you really need a big heal, and you have a big heal, except you desperately wish you also had a small heal to get rid of your poison, so you could use your big heal to actually heal.

Though you can also use this against monster healing: cover wounded monsters with an AoE poison -- which will usually have a weak attack -- and even if you do that too late to give your heavy-hitters +1, as long as it's before the heals, it will keep the heals from healing HP, freezing the wound for another whack next round.