Meridian 59 User's Guide
Status Bars
The three slider bars to the right of your character show how well you're doing in three critical areas: health, mana, and vigor. Keep a close eye on these bars: they change constantly, showing you how well you're taking care of yourself.
- Health -- The Health slider is the critical measure of your ability to survive. When it goes to zero, you are, quite simply, dead. As you become more proficient in combat, and take on more challenging foes, your maximum health rating will improve. To restore lost health points, use a Heal spell, and work on your Vigor stats; you'll heal faster if your Vigor is high.
- Mana -- Your Mana number indicates your essential spellcasting capacity. As your magical studies progress, and you discover and merge with the Mana Nodes that lie hidden within Meridian 59, your maximum mana rating will improve. Whenever you cast a spell, your mana is temporarily depleted. To restore it, find yourself a safe place, and rest. Like Health, you'll recoup faster if your Vigor is high
- Vigor -- This slider shows how quickly you can heal from an injury, or recover lost health and mana points. To stay vigorous, eat and drink often, and use the Rest icon at the top of the window to kick back and take it easy once in a while.
- Maximum Rating. As a new citizen, you may be at your full health capacity with just 20 health points. As you gain experience, your maximum capacity increases. Long-time citizens can have Health and Mana ratings that approach 100 points, and Vigor ratings up to 200. Your maximum rating appears as a dark blue shadow on the three slider bars.
- Actual Rating. This is where you really stand at any given moment. Even if you're capable of carrying 75 hit points and 80 mana points, your actual rating may be far lower if you've been running around, fighting, and forgetting to eat and rest. On the slider bars, your actual rating appears as a bright blue bar.
