Seeing a big Trend with Solo Regen Chosen.

[M0rw47h]

"Random dots" being just a singular dot if you happen to be near bigger fight or? Because if a am or sham wants to kill you in a fight, well mostly the dots will kill you regardless. (Depending on your class etc).

It can apply to multiple scenarios, as you are stuck in many of them while playing on your own. It can be random AoE dots applied near fights as you suggested, but typical HD is ST so it doesn't really apply to this scenario. Most typical is when you get targeted by rDPS and well... you won't charge on your own into dps AM / rSW who have "friends" around them, right? In this scenario regen allows you to disengage in different way than pressing "respawn" and kinda ignore those dots. If HD would nerf your regen, that mostly likely mean getting couple dots would mean certain death.

...and you may say, just group up. Well, thats not always option at every hour you want to play.
I find regen to be positive thing in this game, as it allows having fun, even at hours you can't have your personal healer (and guard) with you. It makes solo with some classes possible and anyhow enjoyable.

I don't think there is any objective truth to this kind of balancing (solo gameplay), so all I can say is share my personal expierence and opinion... and you're allowed to disagree there is nothing wrong with that, as both your experiences in the lakes and "taste" may be simply different than mine.

[Stinksuit]

"Random dots" being just a singular dot if you happen to be near bigger fight or? Because if a am or sham wants to kill you in a fight, well mostly the dots will kill you regardless. (Depending on your class etc).

It can apply to multiple scenarios, as you are stuck in many of them while playing on your own. It can be random AoE dots applied near fights as you suggested, but typical HD is ST so it doesn't really apply to this scenario. Most typical is when you get targeted by rDPS and well... you won't charge on your own into dps AM / rSW who have "friends" around them, right? In this scenario regen allows you to disengage in different way than pressing "respawn" and kinda ignore those dots. If HD would nerf your regen, that mostly likely mean getting couple dots would mean certain death.

...and you may say, just group up. Well, thats not always option at every hour you want to play.
I find regen to be positive thing in this game, as it allows having fun, even at hours you can't have your personal healer (and guard) with you. It makes solo with some classes possible and anyhow enjoyable.

I don't think there is any objective truth to this kind of balancing (solo gameplay), so all I can say is share my personal expierence and opinion... and you're allowed to disagree there is nothing wrong with that, as both your experiences in the lakes and "taste" may be simply different than mine.

I am not saying regen should be removed, it does create different builds but having something to counter the effect, in this case healdebuff imo makes the most sense. It is like you said, we likely have different experiences when roaming since Ive never had issues to solo roam with any of my classes without regen. To me it honestly doesn't really make a difference if something is being done to it or not. Only difference it makes is, I wouldn't have to walk away from deftard regens anymore and ultimately creating more fights for me but its w/e.. to me regen is just a "poor" design because its basically a hot pot that you have permanently on..

[leubac]

I wouldn't mind if hp/4 was completely removed from the game.

[tazdingo]

there's a lot of people who don't remember the alpha days where there was no such thing as solo because shaman checkmated everything simply by existing

[Illuminati]

there's a lot of people who don't remember the alpha days where there was no such thing as solo because shaman checkmated everything simply by existing

I remember live was not quite 4 years, but we have had 10 years of AMs doing it =p

[Sinisterror]

there's a lot of people who don't remember the alpha days where there was no such thing as solo because shaman checkmated everything simply by existing

I never played alpha or even beta. Started the day WAR was released. Do you remember any shaman skill functions way back then?

[Illuminati]

there's a lot of people who don't remember the alpha days where there was no such thing as solo because shaman checkmated everything simply by existing

I never played alpha or even beta. Started the day WAR was released. Do you remember any shaman skill functions way back then?

My guess is the Shaman mobility was pretty nuts on live. That with Odjira and you could kite anything.

[tomolyons]

I think removing the regen pocket item and regen jewelly could potentially fix the issue. Because straight away that removes 160 hp of regeneration. The other regen is from your armor sets. Players shouldn't be forced to run the same builds as everyone to just simply survive. That is when you know something is broken.