Health

Health, represented by the red bar in the user interface, represents the character's life force (often called "hit points"). When a character's health reaches zero, the character dies.

Health Capacity
All characters start with 100 health, and gain 20 health at each level up. This brings the health capacity to 480 at the highest level of 20. Players can increase their maximum health capacity by using certain items, such as Runes of Vigor, certain weapon upgrades (with the "hale" prefix, or the "fortitude" suffix), or temporarily through the use certain skills, such as Vital Blessing or Endure Pain.

Health Regeneration/degeneration
The rate at which health regenerates (or degenerates) is represented by small arrows or "pips" that appear in the health bar. Each "pip" indicates 2 points per second of health recovery (arrows pointing to the right) or loss (arrows pointing to the left).

Natural Health Regeneration
If a character is not at full health, isn't attacking, isn't using a skill that targets foe, and hasn't lost health recently (from damage, sacrifice, or health degeneration), then the character will slowly start gaining health regeneration as a form of natural healing. Natural health regeneration stops when any one the above conditions cease to be true.

x       = seconds after the last hit or sacrifice. y-red   = gained health in total. y-green = health regeneration per seconds, 2 per pip. y-yellow = max gained health in total, reached after 17 seconds.


 * After 5 seconds you get a health regeneration of 1
 * After 7 seconds you get a health regeneration of 2
 * After 9 seconds you get a health regeneration of 3
 * After 11 seconds you get a health regeneration of 4
 * After 13 seconds you get a health regeneration of 5
 * After 15 seconds you get a health regeneration of 6
 * After 17 seconds you get a health regeneration of 7 until you reach full health.

Maximum Health Regeneration/Degeneration
The maximum net regeneration or degeneration is limited to ten pips. Example: If a character is both poisoned and burning, the character would normally have a total of -11 pips, but due to the limit the player will only suffer from -10 health degeneration. If Healing Breeze is then cast upon that character, the spell provides +3 health regeneration, and the net total will now be -8 pips (not -7, because the limit doesn't change the basic effects of conditions affecting the character). In this case, the -1 pip over the visible -10 is "hidden" and doesn't immediately affect the player's health, but still counts towards canceling out the +3 regeneration. This is also noticable when multiple hexes and conditions cause so much degeneration on a character that small amounts of regeneration may be completely useless.

Health Degeneration from Conditions
Players can gain health regeneration or suffer health degeneration from numerous Conditions or skill effects.
 * Bleeding - health degeneration of 3
 * Poisoned - health degeneration of 4
 * Disease - health degeneration of 4
 * Burning - health degeneration of 7

Skills that cause "health gain" (or steal health)

 * Healing Signet, "Victory is Mine!"
 * Predator's Pounce, Predatory Season
 * Blood Magic: Blood Renewal, Order of the Vampire, Soul Leech, Unholy Feast, Vampiric Gaze, Vampiric Touch, Mark of Subversion
 * Curses: Feast of Corruption, Insidious Parasite, Parasitic Bond
 * Death Magic: Consume Corpse, Soul Feast, Taste of Death
 * No Attribute: Grenth's Balance
 * Aura of Restoration, Ether Renewal
 * also see Skills that cause Healing

Skills that affect maximum health

 * Defy Pain, Endure Pain
 * Fertile Season, Symbiosis
 * Vital Blessing
 * Aura of the Lich, Demonic Flesh
 * skills that cause Deep Wound

Skills that cause health regeneration

 * "I Will Avenge You!", "I Will Survive!"
 * Melandru's Resilience, Symbiotic Bond, Troll Unguent
 * Healing Breeze, Mending, Shield of Regeneration, Succor, Watchful Spirit
 * Blood Renewal, Life Siphon, Life Transfer, Verata's Sacrifice, Well of Blood, Well of Power
 * [[Image:SpectralAgony.jpg|15px|Monster]] Agnar's Rage, Crystal Hibernation, Dwayna's Blessing

Skills that cause health degeneration

 * Faintheartedness, Life Siphon, Life Transfer, Malaise, Parasitic Bond, Suffering, Well of Suffering, Wither
 * Conjure Phantasm, Crippling Anguish, Migraine, Phantom Pain
 * [[Image:SpectralAgony.jpg|15px|Monster]] Spectral Agony
 * skills that cause bleeding, burning, disease, or poison