Hi. I am finally back to playing descent. It took me a while to get a new play group together. We had this question come up and I can't remember the ruling on it. After an attack roll, If a hero wants to spend a surge to recover fatigue or Avrics recover damage ability. Is that said hero required to actually deal damage ( after shields and such like conditions ) to the monster in order to trigger these abilities? Or can he recover the stamina damage regardless of the end result? Excluding misses of course

Only Conditions (those with cards and tokens) need damage being dealt for applying. Every other effect can be used if the attack does not miss.