General

The healing skill is checked whenever you use bandages to heal humanoids. Healing works on yourself, other players, most NPCs, most monsters using the human body animation, orcs and orc lords, some other humanoid monsters and swamp dragons.

Anatomy is very important when you rely on bandages as your main source of healing. It is also possible to use Healing without Anatomy, but only as a backup healing method.

• Curing poison: Minimum 61 Healing, 61 Anatomy
• Resurrecting dead players: Minimum 81 healing, 81 Anatomy

• Your Anatomy and Healing skill: up to 80-90 points with both skills GM.
• The number of times you've been interrupted: The maximum damage that can be healed is lowered every time you're disrupted.
• Your dexterity: With high DEX you can compensate for interruptions.
• The formula to calculate the damage healed is believed to be: Anatomy/5 + Healing/2 + 10 for the maximum amount and Anatomy/5 + Healing/5 + 3 for the minimum amount.

Healing Table

The time it takes to apply a bandage is also dependant on your dexterity. Warriors with high dex can heal themselves faster than mages with low dex. Healing yourself also takes more time than healing others.

Action	Time
Healing, self	approx. 12 sec with 90 dex
Healing, others	approx. 5 sec
Curing, self	approx. 13 sec
Curing, others	approx. 6 sec
Resurrecting	approx. 11 sec

Skill Training

At low levels (0-65 healing) you can gain just by healing yourself or others. The easiest way to do this is to create a tinker dart trapped box and attempt to pick it. You will fail and hurt yourself. Now just apply bandages until you're at full health, then set off the trap again.

You can also hire some npcs and have them all fight each other while you heal them.

Normal healing and curing appears to be target based. Because of that it's easier to switch to resurrection at higher levels (81+). Go on a boat with a ghost (dead player), then attempt to ressurrect him. Below

Resurrection is the fastest way to GM healing.

Tips & Tricks

• UOA has a key to 'bandage self' that automatically starts a bandage.
• Record an UOA macro using a bandage (don't target it), and then change it to 'use item type'. With a macro like this it's easy to heal other players.
• UOA also has a bandage timer that shows how many seconds ago you started your bandage.
• When you're poisoned, wait until the bandage is just about to kick in before drinking a cure potion, so you can't be poisoned again before the bandage works.
• You can gain from healing monsters, too. Orc lords and other strong humanoids work well (Healing monsters is not possible in Trammel). Realize you will be flagged criminal ("gray") and freely attackable when healing monsters.

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Version 1.0: 09/10/02 -Initial Draft.

Information Gathered from: Old UOPG Guide, Old Phazer Skills Guides, personal experience, UOStratics, UOPG Readers, and other sources.