Using Cures on Undiagnosed Wolves

I just wanted to jump back in and add that I don't think if you use the wrong cure the wolf should be penalized. The penalty is already that you used a cure that didnt't work and lost the item.

Agreed - I like getting the symptoms and the art changes, but they feel pointless if we're forced to officially diagnose the illness anyway. It would be nice if we could actually figure things out like Tala said we could.

Agreed with starchaser and I love Kenji's idea of the herbalist losing energy rather than SC

Yeah - if you give them the wrong cure - then its only fair you lose the resource. But if you manage to get it right first try, you save time and could even get some sort of bonus?

Thinking of them like pack doctors, if they see enough 'exposed tissue, deep wounds' symptoms I think they'd right away recognize it as a 'Open Wound' every new one they saw.

I totally love this, def support

like i can now guess almost every illness correctly

Support! I’m sure the diagnosis feature would still get plenty of use, especially with the illnesses that have symptoms in common with several others. If a wolf has an open wound or something, it’s pretty obvious what needs to be used, and they shouldn’t need a diagnosis. I do think it would be interesting to not always get a notification right away if you got it wrong... perhaps a wolf’s wound was infected and they didn’t realize it, so after using an open wound cure they’re still sick on the next rollover, or maybe that mild cold turned out to be influenza and it has now spread to another pack member. That, along with having a negative effect (such as gaining another illness) for using the wrong cure, would be a good incentive for people to still get a wolf diagnosed unless they’re absolutely certain.

support! i'd like to at least be able to use a "cure-all" without diagnosing