Increase your character's health in Dragon's Dogma 2 (DD2) by leveling up and equipping health-boosting augments. See how to heal, increase and recover your character’s max health, and an explanation of the Health stat.

How to Heal

Different Ways to Heal
Use Curative Items Use the Curatives Quick Slot Heal with Magick Spells Sleep in an Inn, House, or Camp Remove the Loss Gauge Heal After Death

Use Curative Items

Use curative items such as food, potions, and medicine to heal yourself. These items will be under the Curatives tab of your inventory.

Curatives range from herbs to finely crafted medicine called roborants, each healing varying amounts of health.

Some of these curatives also cleanse you from dangerous debilitations such as Blighted or Torched.

Powerful roborant can be made by combining herbs, dried food, and other materials. Dried food can be created with food items that ripen or age in your inventory.

List of All Curatives

Use the Curatives Quick Slot

The Pawns Command prompt at the bottom-left of the screen can be toggled to show inventory shortcuts instead.

Toggle the Pawn Command menu by holding LB (Xbox) or L1 (Playstation) and pressing the corresponding direction in the d-pad.

D-pad up will be the weakest health-restoring curative, and your D-pad down for the weakest stamina-restoring curative.

List of Controls and How to Change

Restore Health with Magick Spells

Some vocations can heal themselves or other party members with magickal spells!

The Mage is the best support vocation for healing and clearing debilitations for the whole party. At the same time, the Magick Archer can also heal party members in a pinch by charging a Remedy Arrow.

However, the Sorcerer can only heal themselves with the Decanter skill by absorbing an enemy's health.

Best Vocations and Class Tier List

Healing Spells

All Healing Spells
Skill	Vocation	Effect
Anodyne	Mage	Conjures a magickal curative sigil that recovers the health of the caster and their allies when in contact with it.
Argent Tonic	Mage	Fully and instantaneously recovers the Health of the caster or of a single ally. Does not recover the loss gauge.
Decanter	Sorcerer	Saps the target’s Health and grats it to the caster. The effect continues for as long as the spell is maintained, but the caster must remain stationary.
Remedy Arrow	Magick Archer	Looses an arrow blessed with magick that revives fallen pawns when fully charged. If loosed too early, the arrow will restore the Health of any allies it strikes.

※ Each of these skills has advanced versions except for Anodyne.

The Sorcerer and Magick Archer can be unlocked by completing certain quests. The skills listed above are also unlocked by achieving certain ranks within that vocation.

How to Unlock All Vocations and Classes

Sleep in an Inn, House, or Campsite

Sleeping in an Inn, campsite, or in one of your purchased houses will also completely restore your character's health, including the Loss Gauge.

Resting in camps also has the advantage of having the opportunity to cook food for temporary buffs.

Since resting in inns costs money, you may consider buying houses in the Vernworth and Bakbattahl.

How to Get Houses and All Houses List

Recover the Loss Gauge

If you find yourself unable to heal past a certain point, your character has built up the Loss Gauge, which temporarily decreases your maximum health.

The easiest way to restore the Loss Gauge and heal to full health again is to rest in inns, a campsite, or in a house.

Heal After Death

You can do an exploit by pausing the game right after receiving a fatal hit and using a curative item to prevent dying. While this keeps you from dying, you still build up the Loss Gauge and lose maximum health.

List of All Exploits

How to Increase Maximum Health

Increase Your Character Level

Each level-up increases your character's stats, including the base Health stat. However, each vocation receives different stat values depending on each vocation's stat growths.

The Warrior vocation boasts the most HP stat growth for each level up.

How Does Stat Growth Work?

Equip Health-Boosting Augments

It's also possible to increase your character's health by learning and equipping the right Augments. These are unlocked by leveling a specific vocation, which you can then equip on any vocation afterward.

.In the previous game, the Vigilance augment increases your character's health by 100 and is unlocked by leveling up the Fighter vocation.

Equip Health-Boosting Rings

There are rings that can increase your maximum health. The Ring of Triumph and Ring of Exultation both increases your health by 100 points.

Recover the Loss Gauge

The Loss Gauge decreases your maximum health whenever you are hit or load the last save point after dying. You cannot heal past the Loss Gauge.

Restore your maximum health by resting in an inn, campsite, or house.

Powerful items such as a Wakestone or an Allheal Elixir also restores your maximum health, but it is only recommended to use these in difficult boss fights or during the Unmoored World Walkthrough end-game.

Best Healing Items

Allheal Elixir

Allheal Elixir	A precious elixir, decocted to concentrate its curative elements. Consume it to recover Health and Stamina in full, and cure all current debilitations. Weight: 0.20 kg

Allheal Elixir is an item that can cure all Debilitations and also recover your character's health and stamina to max. Allheal Elixirs are quite rare to find in the overworld, but you can buy it from Eldart's Apothecary in Sacred Arbor for 10000 G.

Allheal Elixir Location and Effect

Panacea

Panacea	A tonic known to heal any and all ailments. Consume it to recover an astonishing amount of both Stamina and Health, and cure all current debilitations. Weight: 0.10 kg

Panacea is an item that can cure all Debilitations and recover your health and stamina. It's a bit pricey for 5000 G each, but its effects will help you, especially in the endgame.
Panacea Location and Effect

All Roborant Items

All Roborant Items
・Fruit Roborant ・Mighty Roborant ・Exquisite Roborant ・Mincemeat Roborant ・Miracle Roborant ・Harspud Roborant ・Roe Roborant ・Fine Roe Roborant ・Fine Mincemeat Roborant ・Fine Harspud Roborant

All Roborant items can greatly recover your health or stamina, while also being easy to craft in the game. You can also buy these from merchants all over the world.
These items should help you during midgame to endgame!

Best Healing Items and Curatives List

Stability Extract

Stability Extract	Reduces the chance of becoming afflicted with debilitations for a time. Weight: 0.25 kg

Stability Extract can reduce the chances of your characters getting a Debilitation. It's very useful in your adventures, especially when planning to fight a boss that can inflict Debilitations, like Chimera or Medusa.
Stability Extract Location and Effect

What is Health?

The Character's Hit Points

Health or HP is the stat that measures the Arisen and Pawn's ability to take damage and is represented by a green bar on the character interface. The higher your Health, the more damage you can take before dying or falling unconscious for Pawns.

The Health bar is further divided into White Health and the Loss Gauge.

White Health

White Health refers to the recoverable health that your character can recover through healing when your HP is lowered by taking damage.

Loss Gauge

The Loss Gauge is non-recoverable health, which you accumulate when getting hit or dying and loading from the last save point. This can only be removed by resting or using Wakestones or Allheal Elixirs.

Dragon's Dogma 2 Related Guides

Beginner's Guide: Tips and Tricks

Tips and Tricks

Farming Guides
How to Get Gold Fast	Rift Crystals (RC)
Discipline Points (DP)	Wyrmslife Crystals (WLC)
How to Level Up Fast	-
Beginner Guides
Fast Travel	How to Tell Time
How to Increase Health	How to Save
Best Party Composition	How to Store Items
How to Dodge	All Stats Explained
All Debilitations	How to Combine Items
How to Increase Weight Limit	How to Get Out of Jail
List of Controls	Best Settings
What is Knockdown Power?	How to Light Up Dark Places
How to Lower Ladders from High Areas	How to Lock the Minimap to North
How to Fight Aerial Enemies	All Damage Types and Elemental Weaknesses
How to Deal Fire Damage	How to Deal Lightning Damage
How to Deal Ice Damage	How to Deal Holy Damage
Advanced Guides
List of All Exploits	How to Raise Affinity
How to Enhance Equipment	Cooking Guide
How to Give Gifts	How to Create a Forgery
How to Find NPCs	Dwarven Smithing
FAQs
What is Dragonsplague?	Can You Lock On Enemies?
Can You Change Difficulty?	Can You Sneak?
Can You Change FOV?	What Happens When You Die?
Why Do Guards Attack Randomly?	Can You Hide Your Helmet?
Important Locations
How to Get Houses	How to Enter Rose Chateau Bordelrie
Makeshift Vault Key and Vault Location	Hot Spring Location and Effects