Fast Healing

School	Restoration
Level	Apprentice
Magicka Cost	73
Casting	Fire and Forget
Delivery	Self
Effect	Heals the caster 50 points.
Duration	-
Perk	Apprentice Restoration (1)
Spell Tome	Spell Tome: Fast Healing
Game/DLC	Skyrim

Fast Healing is the Apprentice healing spell in Restoration. It restores 50 points of health in one burst after a short charge. That makes it better than Healing in an emergency, since Healing only heals a little at a time.

Fast Healing belongs to the early game, once Restoration reaches the Apprentice rank. Most court wizards sell the tome, and so does Colette Marence at the College of Winterhold. A copy also lies in Apocrypha in the Dragonborn DLC.

Spell Tome

Fast Healing is learned by reading Spell Tome: Fast Healing. Calcelmo, Colette Marence, Falion, Farengar Secret-Fire, Madena, Nelacar, Sybille Stentor, Wuunferth the Unliving and Wylandriah sell the tome.

How It Plays

Fast Healing is a fire and forget spell cast on the caster. It needs a short charge, then the whole heal lands at once. That makes it the first emergency heal in Restoration. A caster who is about to fall can recover fifty points in a moment.

The other hand stays free while the spell sits ready. A warrior can keep a sword in one hand and Fast Healing in the other. A mage can pair it with a Destruction spell or a ward.

Compared with Healing and Close Wounds

Healing, the Novice spell, restores health a little at a time while it is held. It is cheaper but too slow when a fight turns bad. Close Wounds, the Adept spell, heals twice as much in one cast and gives more health for each point of magicka. Fast Healing sits between them, and it is the least efficient of the three for its cost.

Once Close Wounds is learned, that spell does the same job for less magicka per point healed. Until then, Fast Healing is the best quick heal available.

Perks and Builds

The Apprentice Restoration perk halves the cost of Fast Healing. Regeneration makes every healing spell stronger, and Respite lets healing spells restore stamina too. Recovery speeds up magicka regeneration between casts.

Sailor's Repose, the reward for the Frostflow Abyss quest, adds 10% to every healing spell. Fortify Restoration gear lowers the cost of the spell.

Training Restoration

Restoration only rises when a healing spell restores health that was really lost. Fast Healing pairs well with Equilibrium, an Alteration spell that turns health into magicka. Equilibrium drains health, and Fast Healing restores it in one burst. With good perks, the pair can refill both bars while the skill climbs.

Colette Marence trains Restoration to expert level at the College of Winterhold. Danica Pure-Spring in Whiterun trains it to master level.

Cost and Efficiency

Fast Healing costs 73 magicka at a skill of zero for 50 points of health. Healing costs 12 magicka per second for 10 points per second, so the slow stream is cheaper for the same amount. Fast Healing earns the extra cost when enemies are landing hits faster than a stream can keep up.

A higher Restoration skill lowers the cost of each cast. Extra healing comes from the Regeneration perk and from Sailor's Repose. Dual casting overcharges the spell into a bigger heal for a much higher price.

The Respite perk suits warriors in particular. Each cast refills stamina along with health, which keeps power attacks and sprinting going in a long fight.

Followers Who Cast It

Several followers carry Fast Healing. Marcurio, the hired mage at the Bee and Barb in Riften, heals himself with it when hurt. Onmund from the College of Winterhold casts it when he is badly injured.

Gameplay Tips

The Regeneration perk raises the healing to 75 points.
The Respite perk makes the spell restore stamina as well.

Spell Categories

All Restoration Spells

Novice

Novice spells are the first a mage learns and cost the least magicka.

Name	Image	Cost	Casting	Effect
Healing		12 per second	Concentration	Heals the caster 10 points per second.
Lesser Ward		34 per second	Concentration	Increases armor rating by 40 points and negates up to 40 points of spell damage or effects.

Apprentice

Apprentice spells need a little practice in the school.

Name	Cost	Casting	Effect
Fast Healing	73	Fire and Forget	Heals the caster 50 points.
Healing Hands	25 per second	Concentration	Heals the target 10 points per second, but not undead, atronachs or machines.
Steadfast Ward	58 per second	Concentration	Increases armor rating by 60 points and negates up to 60 points of spell damage or effects.
Turn Lesser Undead	84	Fire and Forget	Undead up to level 6 flee for 30 seconds.
Necromantic Healing	37 per second	Concentration	Heals the undead target 10 points per second, but not the living, atronachs or machines.
Sun Fire	24	Fire and Forget	Ball of sunlight that does 25 points of damage to undead.

Adept

Adept spells are the middle rank and hit noticeably harder.

Name	Cost	Casting	Effect
Close Wounds	126	Fire and Forget	Heals the caster 100 points.
Greater Ward	86 per second	Concentration	Increases armor rating by 80 points and negates up to 80 points of spell damage or effects.
Heal Other	80	Fire and Forget	Heals the target 75 points, but not undead, atronachs or machines.
Repel Lesser Undead	115	Fire and Forget	All affected undead up to level 8 flee for 30 seconds.
Turn Undead	168	Fire and Forget	Undead up to level 13 flee for 30 seconds.
Heal Undead	115	Fire and Forget	Heals the undead target 75 points, but not the living, atronachs or machines.
Stendarr's Aura	248	Fire and Forget	For 60 seconds, undead in melee range take 10 points sun damage per second.
Vampire's Bane	72	Fire and Forget	Sunlight explosion that does 40 points of damage in a 15 foot radius to undead.
Poison Rune	246	Fire and Forget	Targets that fail to resist take 3 points of poison damage per second for 30 seconds.

Expert

Expert spells are powerful and expensive to cast.

Name	Cost	Casting	Effect
Circle of Protection	171	Fire and Forget	Undead up to level 20 entering the circle will flee.
Grand Healing	254	Fire and Forget	Heals everyone close to the caster 200 points.
Repel Undead	353	Fire and Forget	All affected undead up to level 16 flee for 30 seconds.
Turn Greater Undead	267	Fire and Forget	Undead up to level 21 flee for 30 seconds.

Master

Master spells are the strongest in the school and need the most skill.

Name	Image	Cost	Casting	Effect
Bane of the Undead		988	Fire and Forget	Sets undead up to level 30 on fire and makes them flee for 30 seconds.
Guardian Circle		716	Fire and Forget	Undead up to level 35 entering the circle will flee. Caster heals 20 health per second inside it.