Maintaining your vitality and clarity of mind is essential for survival in
Mystavaria. Whether you're battered from battle or drained from spellcasting,
you'll need to recover your Health (hp) and Mana (mp) to stay alive and press
onward.
Recovering Health
Health can be restored in many ways. Some methods are available to everyone,
while others require training, rare items, or magical aptitude.
Basic recovery methods include:
- Sleep: Entering a restful sleep will slowly regenerate your health
over time. The longer you remain asleep, the more health you regain.
- Bandages: Learned in the Survival skill, basic bandages can be used
to treat wounds and stop bleeding.
- Herbs: Certain plants found in the wild have healing properties when
properly prepared by an herbologist.
- Health Potions: Bottled restoratives can quickly replenish lost health
and are widely available.
In addition, a wide variety of professions and skills offer powerful healing
or curative abilities. These may affect you, a group, or an entire area.
Healing Halls
Some settlements (such as Arborvella) contain Healing Halls where practicing
healers can lend their aid. Inside, you may REQUEST HEALING to be cured
of wounds and ailments. Do be aware, these healers will refuse your request
if you are in an aggressive or recently combative state.
Recovering Mana
Mana represents your mental energy and magical focus. When depleted, you will
be unable to cast spells or use abilities that require concentration.
Basic recovery methods include:
- Meditation: Entering a meditative trance slowly regenerates mana. The
longer you remain in the trance, the more you recover.
- Herbs: Certain plants found in the wild have restorative properties
when properly prepared by an herbologist.
- Mana Potions: A swift burst of restored mana.
A few skills also offer abilities which are capable of syphoning mana from
others, transferring their mental energy into your own.
Recovery During Combat
The most basic methods of health and mana recovery (sleeping and meditation)
are generally too slow to be effective or fruitful during combat. It is
recommended to ensure you are properly equipped with a health and mana potion,
as well as a stock of basic herbs, which are much quicker methods of recovery
that do not leave you vulnerable during battle.