Healing

[Varak]

It is difficulty based. Try healing to full with 50 skill and 80% of health gone, heh heh. At 99.9 you still have a chance to fail, even if it is very unlikely. As long as you can fail, you have the opportunity to gain skill, even if it is very unlikely. When you are healing 900 times an hour those rare occurrences add up quickly for an 8 hour stretch (7200 chances). It does seem easy at a macro level but your healer is working his fingers to the bone that whole time and deserves a little experience for his hard work.

I'm about 20% certain it was 6 seconds for blues on Atlantic. The guild did a fair amount of cross healing, so I had a timer on it. That isn't very certain at all though. 20 years was a long time ago, and I'm way too lazy to parse patch notes, heh heh.