I just killed myself with a healing bolt

[Fire_Walker]

I had boomerang spells perk (gamble) and attempted to heal myself. The bolt did not work as intended as I instantly died. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[Water Ｖａｐｏｒ Merchant]

Apparently the Boomerang perk adds enough bonus damage to Healing Bolt to undo it's healing effect. I still have no idea how it's supposed to be usable in any way shape or form when you can't even hit yourself with it.

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by Water Ｖａｐｏｒ Merchant:

Apparently the Boomerang perk adds enough bonus damage to Healing Bolt to undo it's healing effect. I still have no idea how it's supposed to be usable in any way shape or form when you can't even hit yourself with it.

Any kind of trigger spell with healing bolt after it will fire the healing bolt off a surface struck by the trigger spell as if it ricocheted.
So you can put, for example, Sparkbolt+Trigger>Healing Bolt and fire at a wall you're standing next to, and the healing bolt should fire back into you.. But be careful that the wall you're bouncing it off is flat or it may fire off in an awkward direction.

There's several other ways to make it work too.

[baerstein]

Never try it, but maybe you can overcome it with light shot.

[CR48]

you can always use a blood cloud spell

[-=ToX=-]

It always good to add an modifire wich decrease spells damage with healing bolt. Like light shot (as said before) or piercing shot, or any of that type. Specialy if you have any perks that increase spell damage.

I first time by my self found it out hard way... i was like - " if i put damage increase mods on my healing bolt, then it must heal me more!" Next thing i know - game is over cause of 7 damage+, more crit and arcing path made it a anti-healbolt :D

[Perseus]

It's nice that it's now explicitely stated that healing bolts do -10 healing damage, which clarifies how they work really well.

[burn1none]

Originally posted by Water Ｖａｐｏｒ Merchant:

Apparently the Boomerang perk adds enough bonus damage to Healing Bolt to undo it's healing effect. I still have no idea how it's supposed to be usable in any way shape or form when you can't even hit yourself with it.

use bouncy and bounce them off walls to hit you. add piercing for them to bounce around a lot. add the boomerang projectile modifier and dual cast it with a teleport to have an easy mobility/healing wand

the boomerang perk is awful imo avoid it

[Doom Sayer]

Just did as well. I give up with them healing spells are useless. All they do is kill you or at best do nothing. A good run turned into no run. Isnt worth attempting to use. They do like 5 healing at best and weakest enemy in game does like 10. Laughably worthless spells. Its one of those trap ones like perks.

I also wont skip using shields and projectile fields anymore because its not realistic to self heal. Its even worse than vampire perk.

I learned my lesson you heal by using health ups and when you run out its parallel world time. That is how you heal.

[burn1none]

Originally posted by Doom Sayer:

Just did as well

there is access to modifiers which can give you infinite casts of spells like healing. do you know about the Alchemist boss to the left of Mines? Also I was replying to someone else a good spell combo to utilize healing bolts. You can even add split shot and damage field to get a crazy OP healing moving wand

[Doom Sayer]

Originally posted by burn1none:

Originally posted by Doom Sayer:

Just did as well

there is access to modifiers which can give you infinite casts of spells like healing. do you know about the Alchemist boss to the left of Mines? Also I was replying to someone else a good spell combo to utilize healing bolts. You can even add split shot and damage field to get a crazy OP healing moving wand

Wouldnt dmg field dmg you since dmg boosters dmg you?

[flintfakeer]

Originally posted by Doom Sayer:

Wouldnt dmg field dmg you since dmg boosters dmg you?

Damage field is a multiplier iirc. Some damage booster gives a flat bonus. Since healing bolts do negative damage, damage multipliers and subtractive modifiers increase healing while additive and divisive multipliers reduce it.

Edit- Checked it out, looks like I remembered incorrectly. Damage field does seem to deal flat damage. I remembered it doing double damage in a field around it.