Health

During PvP, detailed information about your opponent's HP is obscured. This means you will not know the exact HP percentage an opponent has.

Players that are not in the same party, raid, alliance, or guild will not be able to see other player's exact health bar values or percentages. This information will instead be displayed in quarters. A player may be able to progress to see sixths or eighths.

• NPCs will always show exact health values.
• Previously it was stated that a player's name plate would deteriorate to give an indication of how much damage they have taken.

If you are targeting another player specifically, another player not an NPC. If you're targeting another player and that player is not a member of your guild, alliance, raid, or party- those are the four affiliation factors. If they're not a part of those four groups you will not have specific information of their HP level. You will have quarters of information to their [HP] level and you may progress to get that a bit more granular, perhaps to sixths or eighths. You're not going to have exact information about what amount of hit points they have available to them. That level of obfuscation protects a bit of that engagement, that TTK interaction. So you might overshoot a target if you don't know exactly if they're down to their last 20% or 25%. That I think is a very healthy thing to have in PvP, but it is not a normal game design mechanic. – Steven Sharif

• Max Health is a Constitution stat in Ashes of Creation.

Healing

Overhealing indicated by a blue temporary health bar overlay on a player's health bar.

• Cleric classes are the only classes that can fill the role of a primary healer. Classes with Cleric as a secondary archetype will have self-healing benefits as well as limited healing benefits to other players.

No one is going to fill the role of a primary healer other than the healer archetype; but there will be secondary class options that you can select, which will provide you with some level of sustainability under restoration, most of that will be centralized to yourself, especially in the case of a Paladin. – Steven Sharif

• Heals from any archetype can crit.

• Bards offer lighter healing over time, as well as skills that buff healing received from the Cleric. Smaller groups may be able to rely on Bard healing alone if they have a Tank. Larger groups facing stronger enemies will likely require a Cleric healer.

If you're a small group, you might be able to get away with Bard as your only support/ healing, if you have a Tank. But then maybe if you don't have a Tank, you'll want to bring a Cleric. So, composition, strength, enemies: these all things that matter. – Douglas Miller

• In general, templated AoE heals will heal non-combatant (green) players.

Q: Will AoE and action heals also heal raid and alliance members?

A: Depending on the type, if it's a templated AoE, yes it would heal any non-combatants essentially. – Steven Sharif

• Players cannot heal enemy mobs.

You cannot heal enemy mobs. There's just really not a a relevant use-case for that when it comes to the design mechanics of such a thing, other than its primary use, which would be to grief other players. – Steven Sharif

• Certain healing abilities, such as Communal Restoration, can overheal. This is indicated by a blue temporary health bar overlay on top of a player's health bar. If the temporary health points expire without being consumed they do not count as effective heals.

• Fighters may have debuffs that can reduce healing received on a target.

Q: Do you plan to add any sort of counters for healing? For example, a debuff that applies a reduced healing effect or maybe even cause damage upon healing?

A: Ashes aims to be a more difficult leveling experience than perhaps we have been accustomed to over the past decade of MMO gameplay. And with that in mind, when it comes to balancing during Alpha-2 and thereafter, there is not going to be an overage of healing that's available. We will tune those things. We'll have an opportunity to balance those things... Some of the debuff options that the fighter class has within their class kit are debuffs that can reduce received healing on the target. – Steven Sharif

Healing skills

Skill	Icon	Origin	Description
Barrier		Cleric	Sacrifice 25% of your maximum health and apply that much temporary health to target ally for 10 seconds. Does not stack.
Blood Fusion		Fighter	Return 100% of damage dealt as health and 50% of damage dealt as mana over the next 6 seconds. If activated while below 50% health, gain 25% increased damage mitigation and healing received over the duration.
Cathartic Melody		Bard	Nearby party members gain Cathartic Melody: Your attacks have a 25% chance to heal yourself for 50% of the damage done. Melodies can be played concurrently with other abilities.
Cheerful Melody		Bard	Nearby party memebers gain Cheerful Melody: Healing received increased by 20%. Also lightly heals for (15%🢆) Magical Power (healing) every 2 seconds. Melodies can be played concurrently with other abilities.
Communal Restoration		Cleric	Restore health equal to (150%🢆) (healing) to all party members in range and apply Communal Restoration.
Consecrating Wave		Cleric	Send forth a cone of radiance that deals radiant damage to all enemies while healing the ten nearest allies.
Consuming Lethal Blow		Fighter	Lethal Blow returns 50% of overkill damage dealt as health and mana.
Defiant Light		Cleric	Heal target ally for 50% of their maximum health over 10 seconds. If that target would receive fatal damage while under this effect, this effect is consumed and prevents that target's death, healing them for 25% of their maximum health instead.
Deliverance		Cleric	Held ability: Charges up healing energy that heals a target ally upon release, scaling in power the longer it is charged and the more % missing health of the target.
Divine Flare		Cleric	Place a targeted area heal on the ground that heals all targets within after several seconds. Total healing is split between all targets hit.
Divine Infusion		Cleric	Consume Divine Power to instantly complete the remaining cast time of any healing spell currently being cast. The amount of Divine Power consumed is proportional to the amount of cast time remaining upon activation.
Flash Cure		Cleric	Instantly heal target ally. This may be used during other ability activations.
Gambit		Bard	In a daring maneuver, transfer life to or from target party member, depending on who has a lower percent health. This ability will not reduce either player below 20% health. The character that loses life in this exchange gains Solace.
Healing Aura		Caravan	Provides healing to nearby defenders over time.
Healing Touch		Cleric	Heal target ally in melee range for a large amount of health.
Indomitable Spirit		Tank	30% increased max HP and 30% increased healing received.
Joy		Bard	Nearby party members gain Joy: Gain temporary health equal to 10% of your maximum health. Lasts 30 seconds. Generates Theme of Comedy .
Judgment		Cleric	Cast a heal on target ally for a large amount of health. If this is cast on an enemy, it instead deals radiant damage to the target and applies 2 stacks of Burning.
Lovely Serenade		Bard	Target ally is healed for (150%🢆) (healing) every second. The final hit applies Glee.
Mend		Cleric	Instantly launch a healing projectile toward target ally. Restores (100%🢆) (healing) in health upon arrival.
Pensive Melody		Bard	Nearby party members gain Pensive Melody: Restores mana equal to 1 + (1%🢆) magical power every 2 seconds. Melodies can be played concurrently with other abilities.
Quick Wit		Bard	Jest with target ally, healing for (150%🢆) (healing) and applying Glee. Ridicule target enemy, damaging them for (100%🢆) bludgeon damage and applying Demoralized.
Resonant Weapon		Bard	Your weapon combo finishers trigger additonal effects based on your active music.
Resplendent Beam		Cleric	Held ability: Fire a beam of healing energy toward a target ally. Charging this spell allows the beam to bounce to up to 5 additional friendly targets closest to the original target, based on how long it was charged. The amount of healing is reduced for each subsequent target.
Shake It Off		Tank	Activate to instantly restore 50% of all damage taken in the past 4 seconds. Always heals for at least 10% of your maximum HP.
Shielding Dance		Bard	Heal yourself and nearby allies for (50%🢆) (healing) every second and apply up to one instance of Shield to each target.
Soothing Glow		Cleric	Apply a healing over time effect to target ally. Reapplying this effect extends its duration on the target by its base duration value.
Wings of Salvation		Cleric	Sprout phoenix-like wings and leap to target ally, then grant a small amount of temporary health to that target on arrival. An ally is defined as any non-combatant player or non-mob NPC.

See also

• Healing
• Stats
• Mana