Benediction not 100% heal

[Haggai]

I've always understood Benediction one way. It cures everyone in the party to 100%. (and now cures almost all status ailments) It seems that this is not the case.

I was in a small linkshell skillup party upstairs in The Boyahda Tree. PLD75, WHM55-ish, a couple DDs and me. We were killing Steelshells and Goobbues. We ended up with two Goobbues at one point. The Paladin was close to death near the end of the last Goobbue with his, mine and the White Mage's MP drained. I was about to pop Manafont and start blasting Cure 3s when the White Mage used Benediction. At the same time, the Warrior used Rampage to finish off the mob.

The strange thing was that while we were catching our breath, we realized that the Paladin's HP was not 100%. We thought it could have been lag and the Goobbue got a hit in just after Benediction, so we looked at the difference of current to max HP. It was higher than the last hit on the log.

That meant Benediction did not cure him 100%. Was really close, but not 100%. We started joking around in Linkshell chat saying <Too Weak> <White Mage>, <Too Weak> <Benediction>.

So I guess Benediction is not 100%. Now that I look at this page, I see that the description says "Restores a large amount of HP and removes all status ailments for party members within area of effect." I suspect that it wasn't 100% because it was an Elvaan PLD75 at near death and a WHM55-ish doing the 'diction.

Has anyone else noticed this?

[Jei]

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I wish it's not 100%, would make Absolute Virtue a joke : /
It is 100%. A slight decrease in HP can happen by a lot of things, like gear change.

[Lasareth]

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Well you could always test it. Get a friend whose whm is level 1, find yourself a high leveled rdm with hp+ gear, go into a beseiged, have him use a giant's drink, then convert to <100 hp. Have the whm use benediction and see how much it heals.

[Ziero]

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It's not 100%, AV just has a boosted Bene. A whm friend of mine when he was 65 trued bene-ing a 75 galka mnk with HP gear to see how much HP he could fill and didn't fill it 100%. My guess is lvl plays a part in the max HP you can cure.

[Sevv]

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i think its effected by whm lvl and healing level, because my healing magic is undercapped (yes i know im slacking) we had tested my bene vs a friend whos whm is 40 and his bene did more then mine.

[Haggai]

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I asked him if he did a gear change, he said no.

Now I want to try it out myself.

[Icemage]

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It's 100% every time. Gear swaps may be to blame in this case. WHM has been my main job since June 2003 and I've used Benediction in virtually every conceivable situation. It has never failed to put people at max HP for me (I know I've healed people for over 2000HP before with it).


Icemage

[Mog]

Re: Benediction not 100% heal

I asked him if he did a gear change, he said no.

Now I want to try it out myself.

He probably ate some +hp food beforehand and it wore off during the fight, after you used benediction. Otherwise, it was lag.

[Necropolis]

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Bene is a 100% like Icemage said.

I was curious about this before, so I tested it in Besieged where people have 3000+hp, and it cures from red to full everytime. I thought maybe being 75 already made a difference so I put my level 1 mule in Besieged and did the same test, and again it cured a for over 3000hp. So far as I can tell it's a 100% everytime no matter what level or healing magic skill.

[Icemage]

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He probably ate some +hp food beforehand and it wore off during the fight, after you used benediction. Otherwise, it was lag.

I'd go with lag and/or HP gear. +HP food wearing off would shrink the perceived damage; i.e. you were 1000/1100 and your +50HP food wears off, leaving you at 1000/1050. Shouldn't work in the other direction.


Icemage

[Kuura]

Re: Benediction not 100% heal

Bene is Not 100%. Ive Bene'd a 75 Galka Monk from single diget HP and it only curred him to about 1700.

[Shinhiryu_Kage]

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Bene is Full 100%.

I've never seen Bene to not fully heal anyone in PT -ever-, and this is after playing WHM for 2 1/2 years.

[Feenicks]

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Same here, Benediction has -always- healed everyone in range to 100% for me, and I have been playing WHM almost exclusively since NA release.

[hongman]

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Im not to argue here, since I am a lowly WHM, and tbh I dont really care...

But.

To all those that have alwasy Bene'd for 100% HP in cases of 2000HP +, how would you explain the circumstances of other's NOT beneing for 100%? Esp those who held specific tests.

Maybe there are hidden attributes to Benediction? Or maybe not.

[Feenicks]

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What if the players who did not get HP back to 100% were cursed or inflicted with Max HP Down, and Benediction healed that status after it had already healed HP to 100%?