by Astral on Thu Mar 12, 2015 1:52 pm
I never used the battle of attrition term before, I'm fine with the word regenfighting.
In my opinion regenfighting comes in more shapes than that.
- Posion based regenfighting. Neither your damage/damage reduction/or regeneration are outstanding, but thanks to poisoning your foe he has even worse attrition than you. Examples : Apheelsik users and non-melee specialized Gorgons.
- 'Mana regen fighting'. Most regenfighters spend health as a resource, but highly poisonous Warlords only care about the mana and they can fight 1HKO stuff too. A new addition to this niche genre is the Alchemist in mana form equipped with halpmeh.
- Lifesteal based regenfighting. It's unique to the Vampire, who doesn't look like a regenfighter with his nerfed 1 point of health regen. However if you cultivate a big blood farm and have high lifesteal you can explore mid combat to heal your bloodcows and your virtual regen becomes the sum of all those monsters' regeneration. The most niche version so far, since if you have such a big blood farm you can generally health spike anything. The only place where it was a meaningful thing to do was VT VGT.
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