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Battle of attrition is the term used by Desktop Dungeons creators of define a fight when you are exploring mid-fight to gain resources. Another widespread term on the forum is '''regen-fighting'''.
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If you explore tiles while you are fighting against an enemy, your health and mana will regenerate. However, the monster will also regenerate its health, so it's not a good idea to explore mid-battle.  
  
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As you will often want to fighter monster at an higher level than you are, they would often heal quicker than you. So knowing if you can do it is not always obvious. here are some tips to know when you can do it.
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Or is it?
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'''Battle of attrition''' or '''Regen-fighting''' is the term used by Desktop Dungeons creators when you are exploring mid-fight to gain health and mana.
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As you will often want to fight monster at a higher level than you are, they would often heal quicker than you. So knowing if you can do it is not always obvious. Here are some tips to know when you can do it.
  
 
Note that you can read [[Annotated Playthrough: Regenfighting]] for more explanation.
 
Note that you can read [[Annotated Playthrough: Regenfighting]] for more explanation.
  
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== Regen Fighting Math ==
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== When to regen-fight ==
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Whenever a tile is explored, the player and all monsters will heal a number of hit points equal to their level. So a 5th level monster heals 5 hit points per tile. Some special abilities, such as {{t|fast regen}} can modify this, but such abilities are rare. Since most difficult monsters will be higher level than you, this means they also heal more health than you. If you want to win a long-term battle of attrition, you'll need to deal more damage then them or have some other kind of advantage. Often times, a glyph such as {{s|BURNDAYRAZ}} or {{s|HALPMEH}} is exactly the advantage you need to do this.
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Whenever a tile is explored, the player and all monsters will heal a number of hit points equal to their level. So a 5th level monster heals 5 hit points per tile  Some special abilities, such as {{t|fast regen}}, can modify this, but such abilities are rare. Since most difficult monsters will be higher level than you, this means they also heal more health than you. If you want to win a long-term battle of attrition, you'll need to deal more damage then them or have some other kind of advantage. Often times, a glyph such as {{s|BURNDAYRAZ}} or {{s|APHEELSIK}} is exactly the advantage you need to do this.
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In general, your regen-fight is efficient when
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* you have high attack power,
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* you have high physical/magic resistance (depending on the enemy's attack type),
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* you have {{t|Damage Reduction}} or {{t|Life steal}} ability to decrease incoming damage,
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* you have some method of poisoning (and monster is not {{t|undead}}),
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* you have {{t|corrosive}} or {{t|Burning Strike}} ability,
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* the monster has low attack power,
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* the monster has zero to low (physical) resistance.
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And those not a good target of regen-fighting are monsters with
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* {{t|Fast regen}} - only {{c|Monk}} class or characters with high poison ability can have a chance.
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* {{t|Poisonous}} - unless you have {{s|HALPMEH}} or {{t|Poison Immune}}.
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* {{t|Mana burn}} - unless you have {{t|Mana Burn Immune}}.
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* {{t|Curse Bearer}} - unless you don't have some resists or damage reduction or have sufficient popcorns.
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* {{t|Weakening}} or {{t|Corrosive}} - just no.
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If you are in a long fight, your maximum health and mana is not a big deal here. The important thing is the '''efficiency''' of regeneration and attack. Let's see some common examples and learn how to determine if you can win the fight (with minimum resources). The easiest method to estimate the efficiency is simply calculating the average damage done for each when a certain amount of tile is explored.
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== Example Situations ==
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You may have lower attack and lower health regeneration than your target, but the mana regeneration fills the gap. Many glyphs can be used with these mana.
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{{s|BURNDAYRAZ}} is the standard glyph as it always spawns. Its damage alone seems below average, but its burning lowers targets' regeneration rate, so it's not bad.
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{{s|HALPMEH}} is actually very poor. But being the only glyph which directly heals you, high attack and resistances make this glyph much better than usual.
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{{s|BYSSEPS}} has average damage per mana rate. However, you will need other glyphs because it can be only used once per hit, and health is mostly consumed faster than mana. So it's not an ideal glyph to use.
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{{s|PISORF}} requires a lot of walls to use in chain, so most of the time you will use a fixed secondary target monster. Then the efficiency is bad.
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{{s|APHEELSIK}} is literally made for regen-fighting, but since it is too great you will over-poison the target without help of other glyphs.
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{{s|BLUDTUPOWA}} is a unique glyph which allows you to mana-regen-fight. This is below average for standard characters, but you can evade debuffs, {{t|Physical resist}} or a super strong attack.
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=== {{s|BURNDAYRAZ}} ===
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Since BURNDAYRAZ is the only glyph spawning in every run, this will be your main glyph used for regen-fighting. This glyph is good because leaving a {{t|burning}} stack will lower its health regeneration rate by 1.
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Let's say you are Lv5 with 30 attack, the enemy is Lv6 with 40 attack. By exploring 6 tiles,
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* You heal 5×6 = 30 health. That's 3/4 of an attack, so 30 × 3/4 = 22.5 damage is done by normal attack.
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* You cast one fireball. That's 20 damage, actually 21 if the burning pop damage is considered.
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* The enemy heals (6-1)×6 = 30 health.
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* All thing considered, 22.5 + 21 - 30 = 13.5 damage is done per six tiles.
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It's positive so I win the battle, though its efficiency is around average.
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Also, to show how resistances are superb on regen-fighting, let's consider the same situation with '''25% resists'''. Then the enemy's attack is effectively 30.
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* You heal 30 health. That's one full attack, so 30 damage is done by normal attack.
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* You cast one fireball, that's 21 damage.
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* Enemy heal 30 health.
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* 30 + 21 - 30 = 21 damage is done per six tiles.
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Now the efficiency became '''1.5× better!''' 25% resists may seem weak, but it's really a big deal.
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If you stack another 25% resists on top of it, it becomes 36 per six tiles, being 2.7× better!
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If you have full 65% resists (actually it's quite impossible for lv5 character but anyway) it becomes 58.5 per six tiles, being 4.3× better.
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=== {{s|HALPMEH}} ===
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HALPMEH is actually a poor glyph without an improved melee ability. This glyph can also be a good choice when the enemy has low attack, or have {{t|Magic resist}}. Let's think about the same situation.
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By healing 5 tiles,
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* You heal 25 health and 5 mana. HALPMEH is used once, so you heal 45 health in total.
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* 45 health is 9/8 of an attack, so 30 × 9/8 = 33.75 damage.
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* The enemy heals 6×5 = 30 health.
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* So you are dealing 3.75 damage per five tiles.
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Sadly, this fight will use up all of your blackspaces left.
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If you improved your melee ability by having 25% resists,
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* 45 health is 3/2 of an attack, so 30 × 3/2 = 45 damage.
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* Enemy health 30 health.
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* You are dealing 15 damage per five tiles. Yeah... BURNDAYARAZ slightly wins.
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If you stacked 50% resists, the damage done is 37.5 damage per five tile. Now HALPMEH is winning against BURNDAYRAZ.
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Needless to say, full 65% resists make HALPMEH a great regen-fighting tool.
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=== {{s|BYSSEPS}} ===
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For 6 tiles revealed, {{s|BURNDAYRAZ}} does 4×(level)+7 damage. For standard character who boosted no base attack, 3 {{s|BYSSEPS}} does 3×(30%×5×(level)) = 4.5×(level) damage. So BYSSEPS is slightly weaker than BURNDAYRAZ, but its damage isn't that bad. If you are {{r|Orc}}, BYSSEPS overshadows BURNDAYRAZ in terms of damage.
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However, you can only use BYSSEPS once per attack. Your health bar can often tank 2-3 hits from the enemy, but it means only 2-3 shots of BYSSPES are usable, while your mana bar allows maybe 5 shots. The same rule applies for regen-fighting. If you should erode some resistances, that's great go ahead with BYSSEPS. If not, you will have to find other glyph to use spare mana, and when you find BURNDAYRAZ just use it instead.
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=== {{s|PISORF}} ===
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When you are pushing a monster into a wall, the mana efficiency of {{s|PISORF}} is exactly same with {{s|BYSSEPS}}. So it's quite average, and if you are under {{g|Binlor}} this gives you piety. But when you don't have enough wall, you should find a stationary target to push it against. Then PISORF does only 48% of your base attack instead of 60% (often even less because of the damage is rounded down), making it a very disappointing glyph to use.
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=== {{s|APHEELSIK}} ===
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This poison glyph is arguably the single best glyph when you are doing a regen-fight. By simple calcaulation, you can completely stop the regen of a monster whose level is twice yours. Actually, this glyph is too strong so that you will apply overflowing amount of poison to target. Generally {{s|BURNDAYRAZ}} is used with spare mana, but other glyphs all stand their chance because APHEELSIK is just too strong. To make things simple, let's just assume you have BURNDAYRAZ and burning isn't considered at all.
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Let's say you are Lv8 with 50 attack. the enemy is Lv10 with 90 attack.
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* Since the target's level is equal or less than twice of your level, its regeneration is completely halted.
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* The monster will fully recover the poison by 80/10 = 8 tiles.
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* Exploring 8 tiles will heal you 64 health points. That's 64/90 of an attack, 50×64/90 = ~36 damage is done.
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* Exploring 8 tiles will heal you 8 mana points, but you need 5 mana to cast APHEELSIK. Spare 3 mana is half a fireball, which deals 16 damage.
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* So 36 + 16 = 52 damage is done per 8 tiles. This is quite a good deal.
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=== {{s|BLUDTUPOWA}} ===
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{{s|BLUDTUPOWA}} makes you possible to kill some quirky enemies such as {{m|Wraith}}, {{m|Acid Blob}} or {{m|Naga}}. These three monsters all have reduced health so you don't even need to regen-fight normally. Often this glyph is used with {{s|BURNDAYRAZ}}, and actually it's the best since {{t|burning}} stack will give a huge boost to the damage done. You can usually win the battle with it. However, regen-fight with BLUDTUPOWA eats up too much blackspace, so it's not encouraged to use it too often.
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Let's say you are Lv5, and the enemy is Lv8. You are using {{s|BURNDAYRAZ}}.
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* Also assume you start regen-fight with 4 burning stacks already on it. (You already used up 12 tiles by casting BLUDTUPOWA 4 times)
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* For 3 tiles explored and 3 tiles consumed, you cast 1 fireball. First one deals 24 damage, and it grows to maximum 30.
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* Since the enemy has lowered regeneration, it heals 7×3 = 21 health points.
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* So first 6 tiles will do 3 damage, and second 6 will 4 damage, ..., to maximum 9 damage.
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* If the enemy had 30 health left when 4 fireballs are cast, you need 30 blackspaces to completely kill it (by burn stack pop) and total 48 tiles(!) are used.  
  
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Let's define :
 
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* Dh = damage caused by hero (in hitpoints, or hp)
 
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* Rh = point restored by hero per tile (in hitpoints/tile, or hp/t) (usually level of the hero)
 
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* Df = damage caused by fireball (hp)
 
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* Cf = number of tiles to cast a new fireball (usually, cost in mana) (t)
 
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* Dm = damage caused by the monster (hp)
 
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* Rm = point restored by the monster per tile explored (hp/t) (usually level of the monster, or level-1 if the monster is burning)
 
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* T = number of tiles required to kill the monster (t)
 
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* H = remaining health of the monster before you begin regen-fighting him (hp)
 
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* Hh = total health of the hero
 
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* Hm = health of the monster in the beginning of combat (normally full health but you could do some damage to him before level up
 
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* M = total mana of the hero
 
  
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If you purchased {{boon|Flames}} or {{i|Battlemage Ring}}, each fireball deals 5 more damage with the same situation.
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* With same situation above, the enemy would only have 10 health left when 4 fireballs are cast.
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* First 6 tiles will do 8 damage, and popping the burn stack will kill the monster.
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* So you need total 18 tiles to completely kill it. That's super better.
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The interesting situation comes when {{s|BLUDTUPOWA}} + {{s|APHEELSIK}} + {{s|BURNDAYRAZ}} are combined. You can completely stop its regeneration, use spare health to use BLUDTUPOWA, and kill it with BURNDAYRAZ.
  
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You have the total damage caused to the monster by the hero per tile (taking into account the regeneration) :
 
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'''Dt = (Dh*Rh - Dm(Rm - Df/Cf))/Dm (in hp/t)'''
 
  
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So, you can regen fight if '''Dh*Rh > Dm(Rm - Df/Cf)'''
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Let's say you are Lv4, and the enemy is lv9.
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If you decided not to cast fireballs, you can regen fight if '''Dh*Rh > Dm*Rm'''
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* By exploring 5 tiles you can cast one APEELSIK to completely stop its regen.
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* Use up 5 more blackspaces to convert health into mana, and that's 5/6 fireball, which deals at ~14 to ~17 damage.
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17 damage per 10 blackspaces isn't bad, and it's at least positive. Normally a lv4 character stands no chance against lv9. Boosting your spellcasting power further improves the efficiency.
  
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== Interesting Classes ==
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Some classes have special ability to regen-fight.
  
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Now, lets have a closer look at the formula:
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=== {{c|Monk}} ===
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We have for both the monster and the hero a ratio emerging : Damages*Regeneration (in hp*hp/t), which we could call the hit-regeneration ratio. The higher, the more potent is the character in regen fighting (he strikes stronger than his opponent and/or regenerates quicker).
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The Monk class is the king of regen-fighting, having high {{t|Physical resist}} and double health regeneration. In most cases the Monk class uses {{r|Orc}} race. The Monk can win any proper monster when enough blackspaces are given.  
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However, when we take into account the fireball, the damages caused by the fireball per turn (ratio Df/Cf) reduces the regeneration per tile (Rm) of the monster, hence that new value "Dm(Rm-Df/Cf)" for the hit-regeneration ratio of the monster.
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Finally, the number of tile required to kill the monster in regen fighting would be :
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Orc Monk does not have a poor base attack, and regens very fast to use BYSSEPS enough. And since the health is fully healed too fast, Orc Monk has a problem keeping the burn stack. Mixed use of BURNDAYRAZ and BYSSEPS is a good choice, but BYSSEPS alone can be an effective glyph.
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T = H/Dt
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'''T = H*Dm/(Rh*Dh-Dm(Rm-Df/Cf))''' (in t)
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For efficient regen fighting, for H, we should consider the remaining health of the monster once the hero has used its full stock of health and mana for the original strikes (before starting the regeneration). This the higher max health and mana, the less tile you will use for the regeneration part of the fight.
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Monk can use {{s|BLUDTUPOWA}} effecively since he recovers double health from exploring, which can be converted into mana. Though it's a viable choice against some monsters, you should conserve blackspaces as they are critical resources for the Monk class.  
  
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You can derive H from Hh, M and Hm. Assuming you are using fireballs:
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=== {{c|Gorgon}} ===
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The Gorgon is another good regen-fighter. The Gorgon needs additional bonus damage to be strong. Since her poisoning ability is great, {{s|APHEELSIK}} or {{i|Venom Dagger}} has only a little use. Also {{s|BURNDAYRAZ}}'s regeneration lowering is not very charming, though it's still good with {{s|BYSSEPS}}.  
  
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Physical damage performed before beginning regen-fighting: D<sub>physical</sub> = D<sub>h</sub> &times; &lfloor;H<sub>h</sub> / D<sub>m</sub>&rfloor; (example: &lfloor;1,7&rfloor;=1)
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=== {{c|Chemist}} ===
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The Chemist has two special forms, health form and mana form.
  
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Fireball damage performed before beginning regen-fighting: D<sub>magic</sub> = (D<sub>f</sub> + 1) &times; &lfloor;M / C<sub>f</sub>&rfloor;
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Health form is equal to having 25% better {{s|HALPMEH}}, just like the {{c|Paladin}}. But since he has no natural damage and HALPMEH isn't an attractive option for regen-fighting, it's generally not good. You need a descent boost of attack power and resistances to be more effective than just using the mana.
  
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However, Mana form is good. It's equal to having '''100% better''' {{s|BLUDTUPOWA}}, as it does not consume additional tiles. If he finds {{s|APHEELSIK}} mana regen-fight becomes really efficient.
  
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Thus,
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=== {{c|Rat Monarch}} ===
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The Rat Monarch is a special class. The damage done gradually grows, and the Rat Monarch can win just anybody when enough blackspaces are given. {{s|HALPMEH}} helps stacking corrosion stacks, but isn't very good for landing a killing blow. {{s|PISORF}} doesn't do good damage unless you stacked a huge amount of corrosion. {{s|BURNDAYRAZ}} is often the best glyph in final blow, and {{s|APHEELSIK}} is somewhat overshadowed by BURNDAYRAZ.
  
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H = H<sub>m</sub> - D<sub>physical</sub> - D<sub>magic</sub>
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One interesting glyph is {{s|CYDSTEPP}}, which allows the Rat Monarch to stack corrosion stacks to a big monster such as bosses. This glyph doesn't help to regen-fight for other classes.
  
  
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Latest revision as of 15:40, 18 February 2024

If you explore tiles while you are fighting against an enemy, your health and mana will regenerate. However, the monster will also regenerate its health, so it's not a good idea to explore mid-battle.

Or is it?

Battle of attrition or Regen-fighting is the term used by Desktop Dungeons creators when you are exploring mid-fight to gain health and mana.

As you will often want to fight monster at a higher level than you are, they would often heal quicker than you. So knowing if you can do it is not always obvious. Here are some tips to know when you can do it.

Note that you can read Annotated Playthrough: Regenfighting for more explanation.

When to regen-fight

Whenever a tile is explored, the player and all monsters will heal a number of hit points equal to their level. So a 5th level monster heals 5 hit points per tile Some special abilities, such as Trait: fast regen fast regen, can modify this, but such abilities are rare. Since most difficult monsters will be higher level than you, this means they also heal more health than you. If you want to win a long-term battle of attrition, you'll need to deal more damage then them or have some other kind of advantage. Often times, a glyph such as Glyph: BURNDAYRAZ BURNDAYRAZ or Glyph: APHEELSIK APHEELSIK is exactly the advantage you need to do this.

In general, your regen-fight is efficient when

  • you have high attack power,
  • you have high physical/magic resistance (depending on the enemy's attack type),
  • you have Trait: Damage Reduction Damage Reduction or Trait: Life steal Life steal ability to decrease incoming damage,
  • you have some method of poisoning (and monster is not Trait: undead undead),
  • you have Trait: corrosive corrosive or Trait: Burning Strike Burning Strike ability,
  • the monster has low attack power,
  • the monster has zero to low (physical) resistance.

And those not a good target of regen-fighting are monsters with

If you are in a long fight, your maximum health and mana is not a big deal here. The important thing is the efficiency of regeneration and attack. Let's see some common examples and learn how to determine if you can win the fight (with minimum resources). The easiest method to estimate the efficiency is simply calculating the average damage done for each when a certain amount of tile is explored.

Example Situations

You may have lower attack and lower health regeneration than your target, but the mana regeneration fills the gap. Many glyphs can be used with these mana.

Glyph: BURNDAYRAZ BURNDAYRAZ is the standard glyph as it always spawns. Its damage alone seems below average, but its burning lowers targets' regeneration rate, so it's not bad. Glyph: HALPMEH HALPMEH is actually very poor. But being the only glyph which directly heals you, high attack and resistances make this glyph much better than usual. Glyph: BYSSEPS BYSSEPS has average damage per mana rate. However, you will need other glyphs because it can be only used once per hit, and health is mostly consumed faster than mana. So it's not an ideal glyph to use. Glyph: PISORF PISORF requires a lot of walls to use in chain, so most of the time you will use a fixed secondary target monster. Then the efficiency is bad. Glyph: APHEELSIK APHEELSIK is literally made for regen-fighting, but since it is too great you will over-poison the target without help of other glyphs. Glyph: BLUDTUPOWA BLUDTUPOWA is a unique glyph which allows you to mana-regen-fight. This is below average for standard characters, but you can evade debuffs, Trait: Physical resist Physical resist or a super strong attack.

Glyph: BURNDAYRAZ BURNDAYRAZ

Since BURNDAYRAZ is the only glyph spawning in every run, this will be your main glyph used for regen-fighting. This glyph is good because leaving a Trait: burning burning stack will lower its health regeneration rate by 1.

Let's say you are Lv5 with 30 attack, the enemy is Lv6 with 40 attack. By exploring 6 tiles,

  • You heal 5×6 = 30 health. That's 3/4 of an attack, so 30 × 3/4 = 22.5 damage is done by normal attack.
  • You cast one fireball. That's 20 damage, actually 21 if the burning pop damage is considered.
  • The enemy heals (6-1)×6 = 30 health.
  • All thing considered, 22.5 + 21 - 30 = 13.5 damage is done per six tiles.

It's positive so I win the battle, though its efficiency is around average.

Also, to show how resistances are superb on regen-fighting, let's consider the same situation with 25% resists. Then the enemy's attack is effectively 30.

  • You heal 30 health. That's one full attack, so 30 damage is done by normal attack.
  • You cast one fireball, that's 21 damage.
  • Enemy heal 30 health.
  • 30 + 21 - 30 = 21 damage is done per six tiles.

Now the efficiency became 1.5× better! 25% resists may seem weak, but it's really a big deal. If you stack another 25% resists on top of it, it becomes 36 per six tiles, being 2.7× better! If you have full 65% resists (actually it's quite impossible for lv5 character but anyway) it becomes 58.5 per six tiles, being 4.3× better.

Glyph: HALPMEH HALPMEH

HALPMEH is actually a poor glyph without an improved melee ability. This glyph can also be a good choice when the enemy has low attack, or have Trait: Magic resist Magic resist. Let's think about the same situation.

By healing 5 tiles,

  • You heal 25 health and 5 mana. HALPMEH is used once, so you heal 45 health in total.
  • 45 health is 9/8 of an attack, so 30 × 9/8 = 33.75 damage.
  • The enemy heals 6×5 = 30 health.
  • So you are dealing 3.75 damage per five tiles.

Sadly, this fight will use up all of your blackspaces left.

If you improved your melee ability by having 25% resists,

  • 45 health is 3/2 of an attack, so 30 × 3/2 = 45 damage.
  • Enemy health 30 health.
  • You are dealing 15 damage per five tiles. Yeah... BURNDAYARAZ slightly wins.

If you stacked 50% resists, the damage done is 37.5 damage per five tile. Now HALPMEH is winning against BURNDAYRAZ. Needless to say, full 65% resists make HALPMEH a great regen-fighting tool.

Glyph: BYSSEPS BYSSEPS

For 6 tiles revealed, Glyph: BURNDAYRAZ BURNDAYRAZ does 4×(level)+7 damage. For standard character who boosted no base attack, 3 Glyph: BYSSEPS BYSSEPS does 3×(30%×5×(level)) = 4.5×(level) damage. So BYSSEPS is slightly weaker than BURNDAYRAZ, but its damage isn't that bad. If you are Race: Orc Orc, BYSSEPS overshadows BURNDAYRAZ in terms of damage.

However, you can only use BYSSEPS once per attack. Your health bar can often tank 2-3 hits from the enemy, but it means only 2-3 shots of BYSSPES are usable, while your mana bar allows maybe 5 shots. The same rule applies for regen-fighting. If you should erode some resistances, that's great go ahead with BYSSEPS. If not, you will have to find other glyph to use spare mana, and when you find BURNDAYRAZ just use it instead.

Glyph: PISORF PISORF

When you are pushing a monster into a wall, the mana efficiency of Glyph: PISORF PISORF is exactly same with Glyph: BYSSEPS BYSSEPS. So it's quite average, and if you are under God: Binlor Binlor this gives you piety. But when you don't have enough wall, you should find a stationary target to push it against. Then PISORF does only 48% of your base attack instead of 60% (often even less because of the damage is rounded down), making it a very disappointing glyph to use.

Glyph: APHEELSIK APHEELSIK

This poison glyph is arguably the single best glyph when you are doing a regen-fight. By simple calcaulation, you can completely stop the regen of a monster whose level is twice yours. Actually, this glyph is too strong so that you will apply overflowing amount of poison to target. Generally Glyph: BURNDAYRAZ BURNDAYRAZ is used with spare mana, but other glyphs all stand their chance because APHEELSIK is just too strong. To make things simple, let's just assume you have BURNDAYRAZ and burning isn't considered at all.


Let's say you are Lv8 with 50 attack. the enemy is Lv10 with 90 attack.

  • Since the target's level is equal or less than twice of your level, its regeneration is completely halted.
  • The monster will fully recover the poison by 80/10 = 8 tiles.
  • Exploring 8 tiles will heal you 64 health points. That's 64/90 of an attack, 50×64/90 = ~36 damage is done.
  • Exploring 8 tiles will heal you 8 mana points, but you need 5 mana to cast APHEELSIK. Spare 3 mana is half a fireball, which deals 16 damage.
  • So 36 + 16 = 52 damage is done per 8 tiles. This is quite a good deal.

Glyph: BLUDTUPOWA BLUDTUPOWA

Glyph: BLUDTUPOWA BLUDTUPOWA makes you possible to kill some quirky enemies such as Monster: Wraith Wraith, Monster: Acid Blob Acid Blob or Monster: Naga Naga. These three monsters all have reduced health so you don't even need to regen-fight normally. Often this glyph is used with Glyph: BURNDAYRAZ BURNDAYRAZ, and actually it's the best since Trait: burning burning stack will give a huge boost to the damage done. You can usually win the battle with it. However, regen-fight with BLUDTUPOWA eats up too much blackspace, so it's not encouraged to use it too often.

Let's say you are Lv5, and the enemy is Lv8. You are using Glyph: BURNDAYRAZ BURNDAYRAZ.

  • Also assume you start regen-fight with 4 burning stacks already on it. (You already used up 12 tiles by casting BLUDTUPOWA 4 times)
  • For 3 tiles explored and 3 tiles consumed, you cast 1 fireball. First one deals 24 damage, and it grows to maximum 30.
  • Since the enemy has lowered regeneration, it heals 7×3 = 21 health points.
  • So first 6 tiles will do 3 damage, and second 6 will 4 damage, ..., to maximum 9 damage.
  • If the enemy had 30 health left when 4 fireballs are cast, you need 30 blackspaces to completely kill it (by burn stack pop) and total 48 tiles(!) are used.


If you purchased God boon: Flames Flames or Item: Battlemage Ring Battlemage Ring, each fireball deals 5 more damage with the same situation.

  • With same situation above, the enemy would only have 10 health left when 4 fireballs are cast.
  • First 6 tiles will do 8 damage, and popping the burn stack will kill the monster.
  • So you need total 18 tiles to completely kill it. That's super better.

The interesting situation comes when Glyph: BLUDTUPOWA BLUDTUPOWA + Glyph: APHEELSIK APHEELSIK + Glyph: BURNDAYRAZ BURNDAYRAZ are combined. You can completely stop its regeneration, use spare health to use BLUDTUPOWA, and kill it with BURNDAYRAZ.


Let's say you are Lv4, and the enemy is lv9.

  • By exploring 5 tiles you can cast one APEELSIK to completely stop its regen.
  • Use up 5 more blackspaces to convert health into mana, and that's 5/6 fireball, which deals at ~14 to ~17 damage.

17 damage per 10 blackspaces isn't bad, and it's at least positive. Normally a lv4 character stands no chance against lv9. Boosting your spellcasting power further improves the efficiency.

Interesting Classes

Some classes have special ability to regen-fight.

Class: Monk Monk

The Monk class is the king of regen-fighting, having high Trait: Physical resist Physical resist and double health regeneration. In most cases the Monk class uses Race: Orc Orc race. The Monk can win any proper monster when enough blackspaces are given.

Orc Monk does not have a poor base attack, and regens very fast to use BYSSEPS enough. And since the health is fully healed too fast, Orc Monk has a problem keeping the burn stack. Mixed use of BURNDAYRAZ and BYSSEPS is a good choice, but BYSSEPS alone can be an effective glyph.

Monk can use Glyph: BLUDTUPOWA BLUDTUPOWA effecively since he recovers double health from exploring, which can be converted into mana. Though it's a viable choice against some monsters, you should conserve blackspaces as they are critical resources for the Monk class.

Class: Gorgon Gorgon

The Gorgon is another good regen-fighter. The Gorgon needs additional bonus damage to be strong. Since her poisoning ability is great, Glyph: APHEELSIK APHEELSIK or Item: Venom Dagger Venom Dagger has only a little use. Also Glyph: BURNDAYRAZ BURNDAYRAZ's regeneration lowering is not very charming, though it's still good with Glyph: BYSSEPS BYSSEPS.

Class: Chemist Chemist

The Chemist has two special forms, health form and mana form.

Health form is equal to having 25% better Glyph: HALPMEH HALPMEH, just like the Class: Paladin Paladin. But since he has no natural damage and HALPMEH isn't an attractive option for regen-fighting, it's generally not good. You need a descent boost of attack power and resistances to be more effective than just using the mana.

However, Mana form is good. It's equal to having 100% better Glyph: BLUDTUPOWA BLUDTUPOWA, as it does not consume additional tiles. If he finds Glyph: APHEELSIK APHEELSIK mana regen-fight becomes really efficient.

Class: Rat Monarch Rat Monarch

The Rat Monarch is a special class. The damage done gradually grows, and the Rat Monarch can win just anybody when enough blackspaces are given. Glyph: HALPMEH HALPMEH helps stacking corrosion stacks, but isn't very good for landing a killing blow. Glyph: PISORF PISORF doesn't do good damage unless you stacked a huge amount of corrosion. Glyph: BURNDAYRAZ BURNDAYRAZ is often the best glyph in final blow, and Glyph: APHEELSIK APHEELSIK is somewhat overshadowed by BURNDAYRAZ.

One interesting glyph is Glyph: CYDSTEPP CYDSTEPP, which allows the Rat Monarch to stack corrosion stacks to a big monster such as bosses. This glyph doesn't help to regen-fight for other classes.

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General Concepts:

New Players Guide · Strategy · Unlocking content · Leveling · Quest Icon.png Quests · Restart.png Puzzles · Veteran.png Traits · Booster-hp.png Booster-atk.png Health and Attack · Booster-mp.png Mana · Stone Fist boon.png Knockback · Fine Sword.png Items · Vicious Badge.png Badges · GoldChallenge.png Class Challenges

Classes:
Building: Guild Guild Building: Thief Den Thief Den Building: Church Church Building: Mage Tower Mage Tower
Tier 1 Class: Fighter Fighter Class: Thief Thief Class: Priest Priest Class: Wizard Wizard
Tier 2 Class: Berserker Berserker Class: Rogue Rogue Class: Monk Monk Class: Sorcerer Sorcerer
Tier 3 Class: Warlord Warlord Class: Assassin Assassin Class: Paladin Paladin Class: Bloodmage Bloodmage
Explorers' Guild Tutorial
Special Class: Crusader Crusader Class: Transmuter Transmuter Class: Tinker Tinker Class: Guard Guard
Audit Zeppelin Alchemist Goat Glade
Monster Classes Class: Chemist Chemist Class: Gorgon Gorgon Class: Half-Dragon Half-Dragon Class: Goatperson Goatperson
Class: Rat Monarch Rat Monarch Class: Vampire Vampire
Races:

Race: Human Human · Race: Elf Elf · Race: Dwarf Dwarf · Race: Halfling Halfling · Race: Gnome Gnome · Race: Orc Orc · Race: Goblin Goblin

Gods:

God: The Pactmaker The Pactmaker · God: Binlor Ironshield Binlor Ironshield · God: Dracul Dracul · God: The Earthmother The Earthmother · God: Glowing Guardian Glowing Guardian · God: Jehora Jeheyu Jehora Jeheyu · God: Mystera Annur Mystera Annur · God: Taurog Taurog  · God: Tikki Tooki Tikki Tooki

Monsters:
Common Advanced Special Plants

Monster: Bandit Bandit · Monster: Dragon Spawn Dragon Spawn · Monster: Goat Goat · Monster: Goblin Goblin · Monster: Golem Golem  · Monster: Goo Blob Goo Blob · Monster: Gorgon Gorgon · Monster: Meat Man Meat Man · Monster: Serpent Serpent · Monster: Warlock Warlock · Monster: Wraith Wraith · Monster: Zombie Zombie 

Monster: Acid Blob Acid Blob · Monster: Animated Armour Animated Armour · Monster: Berserker Berserker · Monster: Burn Viper Burn Viper · Monster: Cave Snake Cave Snake · Monster: Changeling Changeling · Monster: Cultist Cultist · Monster: Desert Troll Desert Troll · Monster: Djinn Djinn · Monster: Doom Armour Doom Armour · Monster: Druid Druid · Monster: Forest Troll Forest Troll · Monster: Frozen Troll Frozen Troll · Monster: Gelatinous Thing Gelatinous Thing · Monster: Illusion Illusion · Monster: Imp Imp · Monster: Minotaur Minotaur · Monster: Muck Walker Muck Walker · Monster: Naga Naga · Monster: Rock Troll Rock Troll · Monster: Rusalka Rusalka · Monster: Shade Shade · Monster: Slime Blob Slime Blob · Monster: Steel Golem Steel Golem · Monster: Succubus Succubus · Monster: Thrall Thrall · Monster: Tokoloshe Tokoloshe · Monster: Vampire Vampire 

Monster: Bilious Corpse Bilious Corpse · Monster: Bloo Goo Bloo Goo · Monster: Blood Snake Blood Snake · Monster: Dancing Blade Dancing Blade · Monster: Frigid Corpse Frigid Corpse · Monster: Goblin Miner Goblin Miner · Monster: Golden Statue Golden Statue · Monster: Heretic Heretic · Monster: Mystery Meat Mystery Meat · Monster: Ratling Ratling · Monster: Trapped Chest Trapped Chest · Monster: Revenant Revenant · Monster: Bridge Troll Bridge Troll 

Monster: Plant Plant · Monster: Barbing Bush Barbing Bush · Monster: Corrosive Creeper Corrosive Creeper · Monster: Erosive Eelroot Erosive Eelroot · Monster: Mysterious Murkshade Mysterious Murkshade · Monster: Poisonous Pod Poisonous Pod 

Dungeons:
Easy/Normal Hard Vicious

Dungeon: Hobbler's Hold Hobbler's Hold (Easy) · Dungeon: Venture Cave Venture Cave · Dungeon: Den of Danger Den of Danger · Dungeon: Eastern Tundra Eastern Tundra · Dungeon: Northern Desert Northern Desert · Dungeon: Southern Swamp Southern Swamp · Dungeon: Western Jungle Western Jungle 

Dungeon: Berserker Camp Berserker Camp · Dungeon: Creeplight Ruins Creeplight Ruins · Dungeon: Cursed Oasis Cursed Oasis · Dungeon: Doubledoom Doubledoom · Dungeon: Grimm's Grotto Grimm's Grotto · Dungeon: Halls of Steel Halls of Steel · Dungeon: Havendale Bridge Havendale Bridge · Dungeon: Hexx Ruins Hexx Ruins · Dungeon: Ick Swamp Ick Swamp · Dungeon: Magma Mines Magma Mines · Dungeon: Rock Garden Rock Garden · Dungeon: Shifting Passages Shifting Passages · Dungeon: The Labyrinth The Labyrinth · Dungeon: The Slime Pit The Slime Pit · Dungeon: Tower of Gaan-Telet Tower of Gaan-Telet 

Dungeon: Vicious Steel Vicious Steel · Dungeon: Demonic Library Demonic Library · Dungeon: Namtar's Lair Namtar's Lair · Dungeon: Naga City Naga City · Dungeon: Dragon Isles Dragon Isles · Dungeon: Vicious Gaan-Telet Vicious Gaan-Telet 

Also see: Subdungeons
Buildings:

Settlements · Building: Guild Guild · Building: Thief Den Thief Den · Building: Church Church · Building: Mage Tower Mage Tower · Bank · Blacksmith · Bazaar · Witch · Tavern · Taxidermist · Explorers' Guild · Alchemist · Goat Glade

Glyphs:

Glyph: APHEELSIK APHEELSIK · Glyph: BLUDTUPOWA BLUDTUPOWA  · Glyph: BURNDAYRAZ BURNDAYRAZ · Glyph: BYSSEPS BYSSEPS · Glyph: CYDSTEPP CYDSTEPP · Glyph: ENDISWAL ENDISWAL · Glyph: GETINDARE GETINDARE · Glyph: HALPMEH HALPMEH · Glyph: IMAWAL IMAWAL · Glyph: LEMMISI LEMMISI · Glyph: PISORF PISORF · Glyph: WEYTWUT WEYTWUT · Glyph: WONAFYT WONAFYT

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