Originally posted by Oakshield:

Originally posted by The Big Brzezinski:

No rest bonus means no stamina, regardless of what you've eaten.

That's not true. You still get stamina and stamina regen without rest bonus; even if you haven't eaten anything at all.

All rest bonus does, is boosting the stamina regen.

It is painfully true.

Food gives you a bigger bar to store stamina in. Food does not fill the bar. Only rest and mead does that. A rested player is getting double the stamina income of an unrested one. When cold and wet, they get more than three times as much.

In any fight that lasts longer than a few strikes, stamina regeneration is far more important than the size of the initial pool.