Heal

Healing is both a general term for the act of gaining health and a specific mechanical term related to certain effects that grant health. The healing player and healed player see blue numbers showing the amount healed. Blue numbers are shown even when no health are actually gained (usually because the character is at full health).

Modifiers that affect the caster
These skills affect the healing output of the caster. Only specific sources of healing are modified. As a rule of thumb, these three will only modify spells with an immediate healing effect, including any immediate conditional healing (e.g. Dismiss Condition) and healing of multiple targets (e.g. Heal Party). The Divine Favor bonus remains unchanged. Healing from enchantments is usually unmodified, with the exception of End Effects (like Patient Spirit or Shielding Hands, but not Watchful Spirit). The additional healing of Healing Ribbon is increased by the first two skills, but not decreased by Healer's Covenant.
 * - increases healing of all monk spells
 * - increases healing of Healing Prayers spells
 * - decreases healing of Healing Prayers spells
 * - doubles Divine Favor bonus for Smiting Prayers spells

Modifiers that affect the healed
These modifiers will affect any healing the target receives, including Divine Favor and any indirect effects, but not health gain (see below).

Increases healing:

Decreases healing: These effects stack multiplicatively. Healing reduction from multiple sources only stacks to -40%.
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Skills that punish healing


These skills are not triggered by all forms of healing. All direct heals and self heals trigger them, but many other effects (Divine Favor, Vigorous Spirit, Divine Boon, Aura of Restoration, ..) do not.

Healing vs. health gain
Healing is not the only source of health gain. Health regeneration, life stealing, life draining and most effects described as causing the target to "gain health" rather than be "healed" do not count as healing; these are not modified by healing modifiers, nor do they trigger the hexes mentioned above.