Heal not curing confusion?
Pantalion
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Problem: Heal doesn't cure Confusion when cast on a character.
Expected Behaviour: Since Heal heals mental disorders caused by spells or injury to the brain, one would assume it to heal a confused mental state.
Expected Behaviour: Since Heal heals mental disorders caused by spells or injury to the brain, one would assume it to heal a confused mental state.
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It's not a real change in the brain made by a spell but rather a continuous magical effect. In the original AD&D player's handbook there is nothing about healing or removing it, but consider this: the deafness spell can ONLY removed by dispell magic, so I believe it's the same.
(although one can argue that deafness is just an illusion)
instead, it's alteration, which means it's actually temporarily changing your ears not to work. not as if it's causing damage to your ears, or else healing would work, but probably something along the lines of a birth defect-type of effect. heal doesn't solve these types of problems on its own.
confusion has to be a similar idea - except that it's an enchantment. it's not any sort of damage that's been inflicted on you, but your mind simply isn't able to interpret the information running through it properly. perhaps it's like a fog in your head that you struggle and fail to think through. the actual neural pathways of your brain haven't been altered, but the way they would normally function is being changed by the spell.
That said if someone can confirm this also didn't occur in the original BG2 game (i.e. BG2 didn't have heal cure confusion either), I'll close this off as working as intended, since I believe that is in fact the case.