Thanks



I typically don't like Life Rep on a druid because of their Mass Life.
For example;
Your a Vita Ele Druid
You have let's say, 12,500 Life w/ oak (8,200 w/o oak)

You are dueling a barb and you use your Dr set up, your life is now 11,350 with 50% Dr

The barb has 5k ww (Example) he hits you as you are stomping and staying on top of him (like you said)
he hits you and kills your oak, dealing no damage to you, just your zoo, (Wolves or bear and oak)
You tele away recast oak / wolves or bear and re bo. You go back and stay on top of him, this time when he ww's you, he hits you and not your oak, you live and he teles away to avoid being killed. Let's say your 11,350 life went down to 9,650 (1,700 Life Loss)

Let's say you have GM standard of 40 Life Rep (Can have more in BM cases)

40 Life Replenish - 3.91 Life Replenish/Second

1,700 (Life) / 3.91 Life Rep/Second = 434.78 (Actual Calculated Number - 434.7826086956522)
That is 435 seconds (7 Min 25 Sec) before you even get back that 1,700 Life.

Obviously nobody will wait that long for Life Rep to do it's job. So let's say you want to get 300 of that 1,700 back.

300 (life of 1,700 loss) / 3.91 Life rep/Second = 76.72 (Actual calculated Number - 76.72634271099744)
That is 77 seconds (1 Min 27 Sec) before you get back that 300 life of 1,700

So in a way, 40 life rep WOULD help in that scenario case, but 300 of that 1,700 life is 77 Seconds (1 Min 27 Sec) before you get some life back.

For a druid, it's just personal preferance I guess, Also, the way you play (Offensive or Defensive) will affect if you should use Life Rep or Not.

Thanks man, was waiting for somebody to ask a question. If you have any further questions you can always PM me or post here, thanks again Nick.

I disagree on one point.
Barbarians will benefit from replenish in some cases.
If you are in a long winded BVB matchup with open wounds bleeding you out it helps you enough to be the last man standing.
Other than that good job

40 rep on a wolf is actually a very good thing to have around when it comes to specified match-ups (Bowas and Sorcs come to mind here).

With the Bowa match-up, for instance, there will be intervals where you will want to distance yourself from the zons' multi/ga range and wait for opportunities to pressure...

...meanwhile allowing yourself that much more life to survive the next volley of arrows.

Just my two cents in accordance with my play style.

Noted for both.

II. The Reason for Replenish Life:

take this part off and you have an useful post

Nice life for windy

yep

this.



this part made me rage a little on the inside.
has nothing to do with the weaponblock, nor should any defwhore trapper have high claw block. hoto sins rep fine as well, has nothing to do with weaponblock.
its about defensive gameplay, and forcing the opponent to come to you by telling them "I'm gonna rep to full if you don't stop me" with your gameplay.

simple flowchart:
does your character benefit from defensive play?
do you not die from being stomped on once?
might your duels take longer than 5 minutes sometimes?
can you figure rep into your setup without losing anything?

if you answered yes to all, you may want to get your rep up to the gm cap.

Bump

Life replenish can be argued to benefit every character. . .

Also, your argument bases is based off of quick 1v1 duels.
If you have ever experienced duels over 3 minutes, or team duels, you would realize life replenish is crucial.

This post was edited by Kanister on Nov 8 2012 08:48pm