Maim against healing effects

Question

Which forms of healing does Maim reduce?

Answer

All of them, plus Shield gain. It does not reduce damage.

1. 900.14aMaim sits in the shared recovery ledger, so every path that restores Vitality or grants Shield runs through it: direct heals, ally heals, Feast, each Roost tick, each Hallow tick, and Shield from any source.
2. 900.14bMaim is applied to the eligible amount, after the target's own capacity cap. Healing a unit already at full Vitality restores nothing and consumes no Maim.
3. 900.14cEach point prevents 2 and is then consumed, so Maim is a finite resource that healing burns through. Consumption is ceil(prevented / 2), so a 1-point overflow still spends a whole point.
4. 900.14dThis is why chip healing is a legitimate answer to Maim: many small heals strip the pool as effectively as one large one, and each tick that gets through is a tick the Cull threshold no longer covers.
5. 900.14eFeast is the exception worth noting: because it is capped by missing Vitality first, a healthy Feast unit spends no Maim and gains nothing.

See also Maim Feast Roost Hallow Shield Cull

Rules 500.3 Recovery

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