Heal Spell

[Crexis]

If I use 1 action I heal a range touched creature 1d8 HP.

If I use 2 actions I heal a creature within 30ft 1d8 + 8 HP?

If I use 3 actions I heal all creatures within 30 ft emanation 1d8 HP and damage all undead 1d8 HP?

Is that how the heal spell works?

[Staffan Johansson]

When you cast it at 1st level, yes. You can use the one- and two-action versions to harm undead as well. Also, undead affected by the spell get a basic Fortitude save to mitigate the damage.

[1bent1]

Staffan Johansson wrote:

When you cast it at 1st level, yes. You can use the one- and two-action versions to harm undead as well. Also, undead affected by the spell get a basic Fortitude save to mitigate the damage.

For the 3 action version is the 30 ft emanation healing 1d8+8?

[Crexis]

I think the 1D8 + 8 healing is only for the 2 action, single target healing.

At level 3, does the heal spell heal 2d8 and 2d8 + 16 for the 2 action version?

Can you keep heightening this above 3rd level?

[lordcirth]

Crexis wrote:

I think the 1D8 + 8 healing is only for the 2 action, single target healing.

At level 3, does the heal spell heal 2d8 and 2d8 + 16 for the 2 action version?

Can you keep heightening this above 3rd level?

"Heightened (+1)" means that you can cast this at every level, and for every level, you get the listed benefit.

A level 2 Heal therefore does 2d8 for the 1 and 3 action variants, and 2d8+16 for the 2 action.

A level 3 Heal does 3d8 or 3d8+24.

[Deadmanwalking]

Yes, a '+1' under Heightening means you can heighten it as much as you like in one level increments for the listed increased effect.

EDIT: Ninja'd. Ah, well.

[RaptorBonz]

So I'm going to raise this thread from the dead for a quick but possibly important question.

In the Targeting, it targets willing creatures. Is that fundamentally different for the 3-action version? Do creatures need to ID the spell to receive the benefits if they are foes?

[SuperBidi]

RaptorBonz wrote:

So I'm going to raise this thread from the dead for a quick but possibly important question.

In the Targeting, it targets willing creatures. Is that fundamentally different for the 3-action version? Do creatures need to ID the spell to receive the benefits if they are foes?

3-action Heal states that "This targets all living and undead creatures in the burst."

So, willing doesn't seem necessary. I know most people don't apply the willing part for a 3-action Heal and consider monsters get healed, too.

[Asethe]

SuperBidi wrote:

RaptorBonz wrote:

So I'm going to raise this thread from the dead for a quick but possibly important question.

In the Targeting, it targets willing creatures. Is that fundamentally different for the 3-action version? Do creatures need to ID the spell to receive the benefits if they are foes?

3-action Heal states that "This targets all living and undead creatures in the burst."

So, willing doesn't seem necessary. I know most people don't apply the willing part for a 3-action Heal and consider monsters get healed, too.

Yes, the 3 action changes the targeting of the spell so it no longer has to be a single willing target or a single undead target, it just has to be within 30'of the caster

[Shade Sel]

I need clarification on the 2 action part of the heal spell:
this is the verbiage i copied straight out of player core

HEAL [one-action] TO [three-actions] SPELL 1
HEALING MANIPULATE VITALITY
Traditions divine, primal

Range varies; Targets 1 willing living creature or 1 undead creature
You channel vital energy to heal the living or damage the
undead. If the target is a willing living creature, you restore
1d8 Hit Points. If the target is undead, you deal that amount
of vitality damage to it, and it gets a basic Fortitude save.
The number of actions you spend when Casting this Spell
determines its targets, range, area, and other parameters.

[one-action] The spell has a range of touch.

[two-actions] (concentrate) The spell has a range of 30 feet. If you’re
healing a living creature, increase the Hit Points restored
by 8.

[three-actions] (concentrate) You disperse vital energy in a 30-foot
emanation. This targets all living and undead creatures in
the burst.

Heightened (+1) The amount of healing or damage increases by
1d8, and the extra healing for the 2-action version increases
by 8

Does the 2 action cast of the spell only adds the 8 points of healing to living creatures? so a skeleton suffers the same damage from the spell no matter how many actions you cast it? (1d8?)

[Squark]

Correct. The two action version of the heal spell does not get a bonus to the damage it does to undead, nor does a two action harm spell get a bonus to damage against the living.