Faceplant8 replied to Health vs Stamina March 4, 2023 @ 9:24:11 am PST
Obviously there's times when stamina foods can make life more pleasant, but in any type of combat situation I prefer 3 health foods, and here's why:
- Your max stamina has very little effect on stamina regeneration. There's some benefit, but it's minimal. Once you're very low on stamina, which happens often in combat, it doesn't really matter if you ate all health foods or all stamina foods. Essentially, you have a bigger bucket, but the same size faucet filling it.
- Health, on the other hand has drastically different regeneration rates for health foods over stamina foods. Top tier stamina foods regenerate HP at 3 hp / tick. Top tier health foods regenerate at 5 hp / tick. That's nearly twice the regeneration rate. In this case, your health bucket is bigger and your faucet is also much bigger.
- You can get away from pretty much any combat. period. I've probably run from 100s of combat situation if all different conditions and survived almost all of them. Obviously there are some worst case situations that you can't get out of, but, most, if not all of those are going to be stamina locked situations that you get yourself into. In this case, refer to the first bullet. It doesn't matter what you've eaten if you get stamina locked.
- You have a natural buffer if you have high health when you get into bad situations. For example, if you get stamina locked and your health is still high, you can take a hit or two while you wait to get out of it, then recover.
- I see mention of 1-shot in other posts. Obviously you don't ever want to be in that situation when at full health. If you're regularly in that situation, then you're relying more on luck than skill. If you can be 1-shot by a 2* draugr, for example without even knowing it's there, then what fun is that? Saying that you're going to rely on stamina to get you out of those situations is not going to work.
I have been trying 2 health, 1 stamina a bit lately, since I've played a bit on my main server, where I have stacks of blood pudding, that somewhere along the line went from a great health food to a good stamina food. Mostly it's been in mistlands, wearing light armor, and fighting with knives, where you would think it would help the most.
For the most part I've noticed very little difference. Getting up hills is a bit easier. I seem to be able to get more sustained combos in with the knives more often (this is where it makes the most positive difference), but, mostly I just seem to have to run away more often due to my health getting beaten down. Taking down single, weaker opponents might be better, but stronger opponents or multiple opponents, where I'm in the most danger and need the extra health more, it seems worse.
- Your max stamina has very little effect on stamina regeneration. There's some benefit, but it's minimal. Once you're very low on stamina, which happens often in combat, it doesn't really matter if you ate all health foods or all stamina foods. Essentially, you have a bigger bucket, but the same size faucet filling it.
- Health, on the other hand has drastically different regeneration rates for health foods over stamina foods. Top tier stamina foods regenerate HP at 3 hp / tick. Top tier health foods regenerate at 5 hp / tick. That's nearly twice the regeneration rate. In this case, your health bucket is bigger and your faucet is also much bigger.
- You can get away from pretty much any combat. period. I've probably run from 100s of combat situation if all different conditions and survived almost all of them. Obviously there are some worst case situations that you can't get out of, but, most, if not all of those are going to be stamina locked situations that you get yourself into. In this case, refer to the first bullet. It doesn't matter what you've eaten if you get stamina locked.
- You have a natural buffer if you have high health when you get into bad situations. For example, if you get stamina locked and your health is still high, you can take a hit or two while you wait to get out of it, then recover.
- I see mention of 1-shot in other posts. Obviously you don't ever want to be in that situation when at full health. If you're regularly in that situation, then you're relying more on luck than skill. If you can be 1-shot by a 2* draugr, for example without even knowing it's there, then what fun is that? Saying that you're going to rely on stamina to get you out of those situations is not going to work.
I have been trying 2 health, 1 stamina a bit lately, since I've played a bit on my main server, where I have stacks of blood pudding, that somewhere along the line went from a great health food to a good stamina food. Mostly it's been in mistlands, wearing light armor, and fighting with knives, where you would think it would help the most.
For the most part I've noticed very little difference. Getting up hills is a bit easier. I seem to be able to get more sustained combos in with the knives more often (this is where it makes the most positive difference), but, mostly I just seem to have to run away more often due to my health getting beaten down. Taking down single, weaker opponents might be better, but stronger opponents or multiple opponents, where I'm in the most danger and need the extra health more, it seems worse.
6:13 pm, March 4, 2023