====== Regeneration ======

{{:abilities:regeneration.png?nolink}} **Regeneration** is accelerated natural healing that happens in battle.

For example, at the start of a new combat round, a character with **Regeneration (10%)** will regain **10% of their maximum HP** (or however much they're missing, whichever's less), **rounded up**. This even happens while a unit is [[Disease|Diseased]].

Regeneration also decreases the chance of getting an [[Afflictions|Affliction]] (after the increase from being [[Cursed]] but before the decrease from having [[Affliction Resistance]]), making it even nicer on [[thugs]]:

<WRAP center align 45%>
^  Regeneration Percent  ^  Affliction Chance Multiplier  ^
|  5%  |  1/1 (no change)  |
|  10%  |  1/2 (50% less)  |
|  15%  |  1/3 (67% less)  |
|  20%  |  1/4 (75% less)  |
|  25%  |  1/5 (80% less)  |
|  30%  |  1/6 (83% less)  |
|  n%   |  1/(n ÷ 5)       |
</WRAP>

=== A Note for Pretenders and Prophets ===

A character's starting HP in a fight might //not// be their actual maximum HP. Regeneration only restores lost HP up to the maximum, and therefore doesn't start healing until **after** that maximum is plunged beneath.

===== Sources of Regeneration =====

Regeneration is a [[Nature]] buff:

  * The Regeneration [[Bless]] adds 10% Regeneration; it requires {{path>N7}} on your [[Pretender]].
  * Three [[Enchantment]] spells give it; these are ??Personal Regeneration?? at [[Research]] Level 2, ??Regeneration?? (AOE 1) at Research Level 3, and ??Mass Regeneration?? (a full-army buff) at Research Level 8. The first spell requires {{path>N2}}, the second requires {{path>N3}}, and the third requires {{path>N4}} and {{gems>2N}} (or, if you're desperate, {{path>N3}} and {{gems>3N}}). There's also ??Strength of Gaia?? (for the caster) at [[Conjuration]] Level 4, which requires {{path>N3E1}}.
  * Quite a few Items provide Regeneration, too.

Note that all of these provide **Limited** Regeneration, which doesn't work on the [[Inanimate]]. 10% **Unlimited** Regeneration is provided by the Reforming Flesh Bless, which requires {{path>D6}} on your Pretender, but that Bless effect only applies to the [[Undead]].

=== Stacking ===

  * All Regeneration Items [[stacking-effects|stack]], but not with item duplicates (e.g two rings of regeneration)
  * Spells do not stack with each other.
  * The bless stacks with all other effects.

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