DEGEN question

Im a little confused about how degen works.
As I understand it a char cannot receive more than 10 Degen pips. However there are combinations such as poison/burning and disease/ burning that can get to 11 pips of Degen.
So if a char can have a max of 10 pip Degen and say that char is healed with
Healing breeze which I think has +3 health Regen, is he only receiving +2 pip Regen? Or does that 1 Degen that is left over just not count at all?

Athis

For players that want info here's the Degen table.
(please correct me if Im mistaken)
Bleeding= 3 degen
Poisoned= 4 degen
Disease= 4 degen
Burning= 7 degen

If a character suffers from all those conditions above which is 18 degen, it will be capped at 10.

If a +8 regen healing breeze is applied, the 18 degen goes to 10 degen which is still the max.

Does the cap only count to conditions, or does it apply to other spells (Life Transfer, Phantasm, etc)

Surley it should apply to DoT spells as well, but I did not know about the "hidden" degen....very interesting to know

DoT spells like life transfer works in the same way as conditions

I got the following info from http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Health#Health_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."

Yeah thats what I thought! So there is a point to degen as much as posible beyond the 10 pip's. This will cause the player grief when he tries to Regen his health with a "Hidden" degen point factor which is not visible to the char.

So If a player has 18 degen on him, and his Troll/ whatever healing skill only does 8 health Regen, the char then still has 10 degen on him, right?

Athis

As far as I understand it, yes.

Correct. The same applies to regen as well..

If you put up Troll Unguent with 8 regen and then get smacked with 12 degen, you;'ll be suffering 4 degen.

Same as if you managed to get your regen up to 18, you'd only see 10 regen and only get the benefit's of 10 regen.. the other 8 regen is "hidden"... if at some point you suffer 8 degen.. you'll be left at 10 regen, not 2 regen.

Thank you for your help guys.


Athis