The quick answer
Unlock Healer through Legacy: Healer’s Calling with Mu Ji’an in Qinghe, then diagnose patients with Wind Sense and treat them in the prescription-card minigame. Develop the career and relevant prescriptions separately. The objective is to defeat the illness while preserving your own treatment resources.
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Find the four Healer screens
After the introductory quest, open Careers → Healer. The career groups several jobs together, so choose the screen that matches the problem you are trying to solve.
| Screen | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Healer’s Upgrade | Career development and Healing Mastery; inspect Career Notebook requirements. |
| Prescription Upgrade | Improving an individual treatment card with Prescriptions. |
| Prescription Settings | Inspecting and arranging your treatment deck. |
| Medicine | Medicine crafting; this is separate from playing treatment cards. |
Begin with Prescription Settings and read the cards you actually have. Identify an affordable treatment, a way to survive incoming pressure and any resource or draw effect. A card you upgraded but did not include in the active deck cannot help the next patient.
Unlock Healer in Qinghe
The introductory route begins at character level 13 with Legacy: Healer’s Calling. Find Mu Ji’an near Mercyheart Village, follow the marked herb-gathering request and complete the tutorial treatment. Use the quest’s marked objective rather than assuming herbs already in your bag satisfy a collection step.
After the tutorial, open the Healer entry in the Careers or Professions menu. Familiarise yourself with career progression, prescriptions and available treatment activities before choosing a more demanding patient.
Diagnose before deciding how to treat
Approach the patient, use Wind Sense and begin the diagnosis interaction. Inspect the illness and the recommended Healing Mastery. This is career-specific information, not your Martial Mastery score.
Choose an encounter you can use to learn. If a player request is far beyond your current treatment setup, develop it through easier activities first. Entering the same difficult case repeatedly without changing the deck or career level is unlikely to produce useful progress.
Shi Yimo’s Encounter provides a concrete example of treatment being required for quest progression.
A reliable approach to each treatment turn
A treatment succeeds when the patient’s Affliction Severity reaches zero. Your Vital Energy is the resource you must keep from running out; Fieryhearts pay for prescription cards. Standard treatment also has a 10-round limit, so surviving indefinitely is not a winning strategy. Check the encounter’s displayed counters before choosing your first card.
- Check the illness’s next action and your remaining Vital Energy.
- Play an applicable buff before the action it improves.
- Use treatment cards to reduce the illness’s remaining severity.
- Add protection when the forecast threatens your survival.
- Spend the turn’s resources deliberately and watch the remaining rounds.
Illustrative turn: with 3 Fieryhearts, a 1-cost setup card leaves 2 for treatment. If you instead spend all 3 on an unrelated action, the setup cannot pay off that turn. Read whether a buff affects the next card, the current turn or a longer duration before deciding its order. The costs in this example illustrate budgeting; they are not a prescribed deck.
Understand the two treatment families
| Family | What to inspect |
|---|---|
| Physiotherapy | The prescriptions and attributes used for the relevant physical treatment. |
| Qi Therapy | The prescriptions and attributes used for the relevant internal treatment. |
| Defensive prescriptions | Whether protection is worth its cost against the forecast action. |
| Resource or draw effects | Whether they enable a stronger sequence this turn or next. |
Avoid filling a deck with expensive cards simply because they look stronger. Try a combination whose costs fit together. For example, a low-cost setup card is useful only if you can still afford the treatment action that benefits from it.
Improve the cause of a failed treatment
If you survive but run out of rounds, review your treatment output and how often you spend turns without reducing the illness. If you lose Vital Energy early, review the forecast and your defensive choices. If the whole encounter feels beyond reach, inspect career rank and prescription levels.
Career Notebooks improve Healer progression; prescription improvements are separate. Use upgrades to solve the problem you observed. Quick Treatment may become available for cases your mastery sufficiently exceeds, but it does not replace learning the card game for harder patients.
Practical guides
Walk through the first patient deliberately
- Inspect the patient with Wind Sense and read the illness and treatment requirement.
- Check that your Healing Mastery is suitable before committing to the attempt.
- At the opening of the card game, locate Affliction Severity, Vital Energy and Fieryheart.
- Read the illness forecast, then compare the cost and effect of the playable cards.
- Choose treatment when safe, or protection and setup when the forecast calls for them.
- After each turn, reassess the remaining severity and the remaining time.
- Read the result, then inspect rewards and the career screen before selecting another patient.
Do not click through the opening as if this were a normal combat encounter. The important question is what each card changes and whether you can survive long enough for that change to matter.
Diagnose a failed treatment before changing the deck
| Result | What to investigate |
|---|---|
| Vital Energy reaches zero early | Protection, the illness forecast and whether setup took too long. |
| Time runs out with severity remaining | Treatment output, unused turns and costly setup that never paid off. |
| Useful cards stay unaffordable | Fieryheart costs and the balance of the active deck. |
| The treatment cannot be started | The named illness requirement and Healing Mastery. |
| A new card never appears | Whether it is in the active prescription setup. |
Change one thing and try a comparable patient. Replacing the entire deck after every loss makes it difficult to learn which card or decision helped.
A worked example: setup versus immediate treatment
Imagine you have enough Fieryheart for either a setup card or an immediate treatment, but not both. If the illness forecast threatens your remaining Vital Energy, neither choice should be considered without checking a defensive option first. If you are safe but close to the round limit, a setup effect that needs several later turns may arrive too late.
This is a decision pattern rather than a fixed card rotation. Read your actual hand and forecast. After the attempt, improve the card you relied on or the career requirement that blocked you; do not spend Prescriptions expecting them to raise the career tier.
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Common questions
Can I cure my own illness through the Healer treatment minigame?
The profession treats other patients. For your own illness, use the available clinic treatment or request another player’s help; equipping a healing combat skill does not automatically remove the illness.
Is Healing Mastery the same as Martial Mastery?
No. Inspect the Healer career for treatment readiness and the combat development screens for Martial Mastery.