UO Healing Skill Guide

Beginner

support

Healing is one of the most essential support skills in Ultima Online for any melee or dexterity-based character. It allows the use of bandages to restore hit points, cure poison, and resurrect allies. Combined with Anatomy, it becomes a powerful tool for solo and group survival.

Healing is a support skill in Ultima Online, rated as Beginner difficulty to train. This guide walks you through everything you need to raise Healing from 0 to grandmaster, including the most efficient training methods, the targets and items to use at each skill range, and the gains you can expect along the way. Whether you are building your first character or optimizing a finished template, the breakdown below will help you train Healing as quickly and cheaply as possible.

Below you will find an overview of what Healing does, a step-by-step training guide, recommended skill ranges, any bonuses Healing provides, and the templates that pair well with it. If you would rather skip the grind, UO King can deliver a ready-made character or the gear you need to support a Healing build on your shard.

Overview

Healing is the bandage-based recovery skill in Ultima Online. By applying clean bandages you can mend your own wounds or those of an ally, cure poison and even resurrect fallen ghosts, all without spending mana. Healing works hand in hand with Anatomy: the two skills together decide how much life each bandage restores, while your Dexterity governs how quickly you can wrap a bandage. Because it costs no reagents or mana, Healing is a staple support skill for warriors, tamers and hybrid templates alike.

Training Guide

Skill gains occur by using bandages to heal damage, cure poison, or resurrect. Best trained alongside Anatomy for efficiency.

Skill Range	Recommended Method
0.0 – 30.0	Buy from a Healer or Paladin NPC
30.0 – 60.0	Use bandages on yourself or a tamed pet while taking damage
60.0 – 90.0	Spar with a friend or pet to take consistent damage
90.0 – 100.0	Train curing poison and resurrecting with poisoned pets or dead friends
100.0 – 120.0	Continue high-end healing while farming or during PvP support

Training Ranges

Recommended training targets for different skill levels

0.0 – 30.0

Range 1

Targets: Buy from a Healer or Paladin NPC

30.0 – 60.0

Range 2

Targets: Use bandages on yourself or a tamed pet while taking damage

60.0 – 90.0

Range 3

Targets: Spar with a friend or pet to take consistent damage

90.0 – 100.0

Range 4

Targets: Train curing poison and resurrecting with poisoned pets or dead friends

100.0 – 120.0

Range 5

Targets: Continue high-end healing while farming or during PvP support

Skill Bonuses

Healing has several requirements and quirks worth knowing before you rely on it in the field:

You must have at least 61 Anatomy and 61 Healing to cure a poisoned target.
You need at least 81 Anatomy and 81 Healing to resurrect another player's ghost.
Resurrecting someone carries roughly a 5 second delay, and you can never resurrect yourself.
You must remain within about 2 tiles of the person you are treating.
Being struck interrupts the bandage; each interruption cuts the amount healed by 35%.
Healing another character can only grant karma, never remove it.

Advanced Notes

The amount of life a bandage restores scales with both skills. The minimum healed is roughly Anatomy/6 + Healing/6 + 3, and the maximum is roughly Anatomy/6 + Healing/3 + 10. An interruption happens when a monster hits you for more than 26 damage, or another player hits you for more than 19 damage while you are bandaging. The grid below shows the minimum and maximum points healed for combinations of Anatomy (rows) and Healing (columns).

Anatomy \ Healing	0	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100	110	120
0	3-10	4-13	6-16	8-20	9-23	11-26	13-30	14-33	16-36	18-40	19-43	21-46	23-50
10	4-11	6-15	8-18	9-21	11-25	13-28	14-31	16-35	18-38	19-41	21-45	23-48	24-51
20	6-13	8-16	9-20	11-23	13-26	14-30	16-33	18-36	19-40	21-43	23-46	24-50	26-53
30	8-15	9-18	11-21	13-25	14-28	16-31	18-35	19-38	21-41	23-45	24-48	26-51	28-55
40	9-16	11-20	13-23	14-26	16-30	18-33	19-36	21-40	23-43	24-46	26-50	28-53	29-56
50	11-18	13-21	14-25	16-28	18-31	19-35	21-38	23-41	24-45	26-48	28-51	29-55	31-58
60	13-20	14-23	16-26	18-30	19-33	21-36	23-40	24-43	26-46	28-50	29-53	31-56	33-60
70	14-21	16-25	18-28	19-31	21-35	23-38	24-41	26-45	28-48	29-51	31-55	33-58	34-61
80	16-23	18-26	19-30	21-33	23-36	24-40	26-43	28-46	29-50	31-53	33-56	34-60	36-63
90	18-25	19-28	21-31	23-35	24-38	26-41	28-45	29-48	31-51	33-55	34-58	36-61	38-65
100	19-26	21-30	23-33	24-36	26-40	28-43	29-46	31-50	33-53	34-56	36-60	38-63	39-66
110	21-28	23-31	24-35	26-38	28-41	29-45	31-48	33-51	34-55	36-58	38-61	39-65	41-68
120	23-30	24-33	26-36	28-40	29-43	31-46	33-50	34-53	36-56	38-60	39-63	41-66	43-70

Bandaging speed depends on your Dexterity. Healing yourself takes about 11 - (Dexterity / 20) seconds, while healing another character takes about 4 - (Dexterity / 60) seconds, rounded up. Approximate timings are shown below.

Dexterity	Time per Bandage on Self	Time per Bandage on Other
10 - 19	11 Seconds	4 Seconds
20 - 39	10 Seconds	4 Seconds
40 - 59	9 Seconds	4 Seconds
60 - 79	8 Seconds	3 Seconds
80 - 99	7 Seconds	3 Seconds
100 - 119	6 Seconds	3 Seconds
120 - 139	5 Seconds	2 Seconds
140 - 159	4 Seconds	2 Seconds

These formulas come from extensive player testing on a test shard and were not officially published by the developers, so treat the exact numbers as close approximations.