Regenerating Health, your thoughts.... Options

[Lady Saga]

Hello all. I am Lady Saga, and I'd like to talk about Skyrim's health regeneration.

This is one of those topics that attracted a lot of controversy last summer when we all got the official Tweet from Pete. It's Pete that sends the Tweets for Bethesda, right? Or did I get that wrong?

Anyways, first time I heard about it, I was doubtful. But the main reasons I like it are the following

(1). It's not as fast as everyone assumed it would be. During combat especially, it moves too slow to make a difference. Healing spells and sometimes LOTS of potions are still necessary.

(2). Automatic regeneration allows me to spend even more time with my characters.

In Oblivion, we waited an hour to get back to full health, assuming our character didn't heal up. What happens during this hour? Is the PC sleeping? Meditating? Reading a book? Sitting off in a corner, paranoid as hell, waiting for another enemy to show up?

But in Skyrim, I'm finding myself waiting less and less. I much prefer to spend that hour with my character. Whether he or she is walking along the road taking in some air after a bandit raid, sitting at a table eating some apples, or whatever, the roleplay is non-stop, and during this roleplay my character is healing up.

If it's assumed (in Oblivion, DnD, and other games where we wait to heal) that during the time we wait, a natural healing process is taking place, why should we not get to witness this natural healing process?


Thank you.

[SubRosa]

I always turn it off with a console command. I prefer to heal my characters myself. The are plenty of healing potions to be found in the game, and it is easy enough to create your own once you know what to look for. Besides, they give you a healing spell to start with. I prefer to use that and raise my Restoration skill at the same time. Otherwise it feels like all of my characters are Wolverine, and have some mutant healing power.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Feb 28 2012, 08:20 PM