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well when running on a PC you can create a new quick slot by right clicking on the quick slot you want to use and thne througha set of menues to navigate to the healing spells, then you select the quick slot and slect the char you want to heal......

The Heal skill is done by using "Healing Kits" as I belive they are called.

Unless you are in combat you will do a "take 20" wich means the game will act as if you have rolled 20.

The hit points you will heal are therefore 20 + your heal ranks + the bonus on the healing kit (ie. +1, +3, +10).

If you are in combat I beliv you will roll an ordinary d20 and use that result instead of the "take 20"

Originally posted by Grendel
...still not getting it...
Certain skills show up on the radial menu after right clicking the Quick bar slot (Parry, search, rage etc) but not heal. ? I guess it's back to the manual but it wasn't clear last night how to do it and I'm not sure it will be any better tonight.
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As I said in my (possible cryptic) post *points up* to use the Heal skill you need to use "Healing Kits". Using these will utilize the Heal Skill.

If you can't use the Healing Kits, I would either think the game has been altered (less likely) or you are bugged (more likely)


As for the second question:
The henchmens weapons are already +1 weapons, she might also be buffed by her own spells and such things.

and just as a side point...Healing kits are items that you find or buy in the game. Without these items you can't heal anything and the healing skill increases the chance of making a sucessful healing whil in combat.....

Ahh. Healing "kits". I read the manual last pm and it was particularly useless on this point until I read the description of items and stuff inthe game. Then it all made sense. After equiping myself with the healing kit in the Quick slot all worked perfectly... Thanks for the input, it did help point the way...

Ahem, any ideas on how to access Listen and Spot? They don't appear in the radial menu choices. I can't imagine you have to go out and buy ears and eyeballs to carry around. Certain of these skills are just not obvious in their accessibility.

Originally posted by Xandax

As for the second question:
The henchmens weapons are already +1 weapons, she might also be buffed by her own spells and such things.

Power attack and Cleave seem to be the key difference here. My +1 club didn't help much. Although when I used the potion of Bull Strength, things came together nicely...


I could go back to the manual....but....am I right to think that you can't access NPC inventories? Can't up their AC etc. What you see is what you get?

listen and spot are automatic and they are done every round I think.....

as for NPC you can't do anything at all with them except seeing what HP thay have atm and giving them healing potions.... it's really sad but you have to live with it..... that's one of the MAJOR flows of the game that I find the most ennoying but that's just my oppinion...

Thanks for clearing that up. Kinda what I thought but it does seem to be a blatant omission (at least after playing the BG series). Still the game is fun, even if we can't have everything we need (I'm just in Ch 1 but could REALLY do with a +4 battleaxe of haste)

You can also "activate" spot/listen by going into "detect" mode, wich by default is one of the 2 first icon on your main quickbar when you start a game.

Originally posted by Xandax
You can also "activate" spot/listen by going into "detect" mode, wich by default is one of the 2 first icon on your main quickbar when you start a game.

IF your an elf, however, listen and spot are always at full strength! (IIRC, for non-elves you have to be in detect mode for full strength, and otherwise its at 1/2 your skill level... Or is that detect traps, aka search?)

Originally posted by Ron_Lugge
IF your an elf, however, listen and spot are always at full strength! (IIRC, for non-elves you have to be in detect mode for full strength, and otherwise its at 1/2 your skill level... Or is that detect traps, aka search?)

I think bot Search, Listen and Spot are activated when you go to detect mode.

Gnome barabarian probably doesn't have the strength / two handed weapon damage that is required. You're probably stuck with really sucky weapons (longswords and their ilk... as two handeds... yuck!) and just can't do it. Try using better weapons / power attack.

Chest bashing depends on how much enchanted your weapon is. You could have a great sword and deal huge amounts of damage but still not damage a chest as it could soak say 5 damage from +1 or better weapons..... one thing to note though is that elemental damage does not count in the soak factor and hence you can open ANY chest with say a sword that deals lightning damage (it will take ages though as you only deal like 1 damage for each swing)... but if you want the loot it's worth it..

Originally posted by Grendel
That's useful to know. Too bad Spike (the Hellhound familiar) doesn't seem inclined to bite chests. His fire dmg would do the trick.....

You can possess him, and use him to bash then... (Thats how I usually opened trapped chests as a mage...)

Personally - my way of opening chest as a spellslinger is Magic Missiles or Fireball.

Fireball is a great chest buster if a few are close together

No waiting with 1 damage from elemental weapons