Are there any mmos that let you heal enemies too?

[Stellar Remnant]

Everyone knows how mmos with healers let you heal other players and friendly npcs, but are there any that let the healers also heal the enemy npcs if they so choose?

[Knee]

casting dark attacks on undead

[Fajita Jim]

20..4, 5...♥♥♥♥ 26 years ago I played an MMO called Asheron's Call, where the enemies gained XP and leveled up, too. My guild and I would routinely throw high-level characters at mobs nears the starting towns and let them kill us. We'd take low-level creatures from like level 5 to level 50 and then just leave.

Hilarity ensued.

[TGC> The Games Collector]

There should be a few, I mean, it's a common practice to kill the undead with healing spells.

[Soap]

Dungeons and Dragons Online does. There are spells that do positive energy, and also spells that do negative energy. Positive energy heals the living, and harms undead. Negative energy harms the living, and heals undead. The game generally doesn't let a player use positive energy to heal an enemy (probably because it's used so much), but it does with negative energy. You could heal a zombie enemy for example.

Also some other damage types can heal, like elements. It's mostly seen with fire which will heal certain fire enemies or golems which are made from metal. If for example you hit an enemy golem using a flaming sword, it will heal them for however much fire damage the sword is supposed to do, and damage them for however much slashing damage it does. You have to be careful with spells because of this. It's very easy for a caster to completely heal some enemies by using fire spells.

It's also possible to charm enemies to have them fight on your side for a time. During this time, they could be healed by positive energy.

[Pieshaman]

for example in baldur's gate 2 there is a "boss fight" that looks impossible, but the trick is to kill him with a heal.

[Morkonan]

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Everyone knows how mmos with healers let you heal other players and friendly npcs, but are there any that let the healers also heal the enemy npcs if they so choose?

Everquest used to, but I don't know how it is today. You could also buff them and give them weapons... which was abused with hilarious results early in EQ's history. (I used to arm all the Gnolls in Qeynos from time to time... Yes, that was me, but I'd also give them a bit of gold, too, in order to give the noob sufficient reward for overcoming armed gnolls. :))

(Add-The gnolls would also thank you (I assume) for giving them something, but spoken in "gnoll.")

WoW had some interactions there, but I think the removed it. I remember that it could flag you for PvP in applicable zones, so there was some issue with it. But, I could be misremembering. (I'm pretty sure I could buff them, though, at some point.)


Edit-Add: Just remembered - In EQ, you could heal hostile mobs at some point, but they then changed that because it was being abused. (Healing mobs while people were fighting them) I am unsure if it was allowed on PVP servers, though. Mobs would be healed outside of combat if they survived. (Mobs could also buff other mobs) Charmed mobs were treated like any non-grouped player character for the purposes of healing/buffing.

In WoW, buffing or healing a mob could flag you for PVP, IIRC. I don't think they could be healed while in combat at some point, but it could still flag you.