According to the FoF answer posted above, if you use enhanced bandages at 120 Healing, the game treats it as 130 Healing for the calculation of how much damage is healed (and it uses whatever your antomy score happens to be).
Just remember that anyone with less than 120 skill must use a power scroll to unlock those extra 10 points of healing. If you're at GM skill, you need to have at least a 110 scroll eaten or you don't get the benefit.
No, because a 120 scroll opens the skill as it's the highest.
that not how it works.....enhanced bandies doesnt raise your actual skill
This is correct. Enhanced bandages allow you to heal for the same amount of damage as if you had 10 points higher in the skill than you do, but they will not increase your chance to rez or cure poison. They simply allow you to heal for more hit points than your actual skill would allow. In order for them to work you must have either the skill points unlocked (110 scroll if you have GM Healing or Vet) or have obviously eaten a 120 scroll in the case of 120 skill. It all has to do with the way the formulas are set to work and the physical mechanics of how they're applied.
That is not correct.
Then you need to go back and find the FoF response that told us we needed to have the appropriate skill scroll eaten to free up the +10 points, because we were specfically told it was necessary.
The quote where they corrected this - January 25, 2008
"Enhanced Bandages - do they help if you're already at your skill cap," redux:
Leurocian looked over this again, and it turns out while we were partly right, we were also definitely wrong:
"Using enhanced bandages - even if you’re at your healing cap - will affect the amount of hit points healed. Enhanced bandages essentially adds 10 to your healing skill for the purposes of calculating the amount of hit points healed."
What they do NOT do is improve your success chance (say, for resurrection, which is 64% at GM.) So if you're capped out, they do provide a benefit, but it's a very specific benefit.
(Note: if you're NOT at the cap, one other thing enhanced bandages can do is bump you up over the minimum skill requirements for curing poison (60) and resurrecting (80.) You'll have a pretty low success chance, and you won't be able to gain skill from those attempts, but you can try 'em.)
Thanks to Athos for very kindly pointing out that we'd overlooked something
Nope. Wrong one. How do I know that? Because they don't specifically state you need to eat a +10 scroll. If it was that easy to find, don't you think I would have just posted it? Keep looking.
Your misreading, read the bold part where it says that you will get a benefit EVEN WHEN YOU ARE AT YOUR HEALING CAP. They didn't specifically state you need to eat the scroll because it is obviously implied with the statement about the healing cap. Don't believe me if you want but its been tested on test center. Go there and test.
Which is not correct. You get the benefit "even when you are at your healing cap" - in other words, you do not need anything "unlocked".
The "healing cap" is 120, which is what they were referring to when they said you still get a benefit when you are at "the cap".
Your healing cap is whatever you have eaten powerscrolls up to. Walk away from the discussion if you want, but I have tested it on Test Center, have you?
