[SOLVED] healing in 0.8.3

I just tried the 0.8.3 patch using a level 23 woodelf healer I had built up with 0.8.2.  No healing was working.  Spells (heal self, cure, heal group, major healing, gemberry) didn't work, health potions didn't work, and building the woodelf healing building and upgrading it to do full-map healing also didn't work.  The "healing rays" graphical effect would happen as expected, but no hit points would be given.  This same hero could cast a lightning spell and that worked fine.

As far as I can remember this weird healing bug has been around in pretty much every version of WBC3. It's a pretty rare bug which is apparently related to a certain hero and possibly even the campaign. Someone managed to 'fix' it by deleting the hero, but that's the only way I know of other than to use a different exe to fix it. In this case that might be impossible though. The only compatible exe would probably be the 0.8.2 one. It might be worth trying to use 0.8.2 and if it's working again switch it back to 0.8.3.

I can only partly remember this and may have even seen it first hand - if I did I didn't think much of it at the time, else I would have remembered it. Does that mean I suffered at its hands but found a fix?.

The first thing I would have tried is changing / removing my Hero's items, as it could be caused by a clash of an item's ability with a Hero item, especially since the items themselves can bestow actual Hero abilities on to the Hero. Which could mean that perhaps there's a limit to the amount of Hero abilities any one Hero can have at any one time, and if there are too many items with Hero abilities, it renders some null. (like how the editor wont load the first few tile XCR's when there are too many to load, but will load the later ones)

I tried replaying the map ("Curled Earth", played as woodelves as before, though only played it long enough to test) and removing all hero items -- even with zero hero items the heal spells did not work. I also tried a different map ("Invasion", played as knights) and that didn't help either. I did notice that the "cure" spell still partially works -- it does cure conditions, it just does not provide any hit points.

If anyone experiences this healing bug, rebooting your machine might fix it.  See this thread for more info.

You had your computer left switched on for months?

If this was the cause then that would explain why I may have never seen this (or if I had, then didn't think anything of it) because I switch my computer off at the end of every day.

I encourage everyone to keep energy consumption to a minimum for ecological reasons. Leaving computers on when you don't intend to use them is no good.

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