Medicine skill

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footwo
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Medicine skill

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I can't figure out how to use this to regain HP. How does it work?
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xolotl
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Re: Medicine skill

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footwo wrote:I can't figure out how to use this to regain HP. How does it work?
Medicine is a "passive" skill, meaning that you don't actually have to do anything yourself. Roughly speaking, each point in Medicine will reduce the amount of time it takes you to regenerate 1 HP by 1 turn. So the more you have, the more quickly you'll regenerate HP. (Endurance does similar things.) I believe that Medicine is also supposed to provide some increased Resistances, though I've never really explored the skill too much.
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Re: Medicine skill

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xolotl wrote:
footwo wrote:I can't figure out how to use this to regain HP. How does it work?
Medicine is a "passive" skill, meaning that you don't actually have to do anything yourself. Roughly speaking, each point in Medicine will reduce the amount of time it takes you to regenerate 1 HP by 1 turn. So the more you have, the more quickly you'll regenerate HP. (Endurance does similar things.) I believe that Medicine is also supposed to provide some increased Resistances, though I've never really explored the skill too much.
But, as always - in general, it is almost always much better to boost HP/HP regen. by boosting the END Attribute rather than the Medicine Skill.

With Skills, Skill Points are precious, and you are much better off putting Skill Points into more useful Skills...
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