Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

Originally posted by vinyblaster:

Can this be confirmed? I always thought regen rate was static regardless of your max possible stamina. Ergo, I always felt that having high stamina was great for the beginning of a fight, but then it became meaningless since the bigger the bar the longer it would take to regenerate.

So your claim is that instead of regen being "+x points per second" it is actually "+x% of total per second". I need to test that!

There's a formula listed at https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Stamina#Regeneration (probably obtained via datamining) that shows baseRegen = 6 + 6 * (1-(remaining stamina/maximum stamina)).

It would appear that the more stamina you have remaining, the faster your stamina regenerates. To put it another way: The lower your bar, the slower the stamina regeneration.

My impression that it is completely percentage based was apparently inaccurate; instead, regeneration rate is affected by the amount of stamina used.

I may be misinterpreting your post, but you have maximum stamina regeneration when your stamina is 0, and the regeneration decreases as your stamina bar goes up.

The key takeaway (IMO) is that, once you're out of stamina it is irrelevant how much stamina you started with (your max stamina).

Eating high-stamina foods gives you a larger tank, but it's filled with the same size hose, which means you can go longer before it's empty, but once it's empty, it's the same as having a smaller tank until you wait around for it to refill.

As to the OP, you're stating an opinion. It's not up to us to change your opinion. That's like asking us to convince you that pizza is not your favorite food.

My opinion is that if they removed stamina, the game would be braindead easy, so they'd have to replace it with some other mechanic that might be worse.