Health regeneration

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Health regeneration in Guild Wars is represented by the arrows or pips beside your characters current health on his/her Health Bar. For each pip of regeneration, your character receives 2 health per second.

Keep in mind that regeneration caps at +10 and degeneration at -10. So being under the effects of 3 skills giving you +4 regeneration will net you a total of +10 regeneration. However, if you are hexed for another -3 regeneration, the -3 is calculated before the cap is applied, so you will end up with +9 regeneration.

Skills do not count Health regeneration as healing (neither health degeneration as damage).

Contents 1 Automatic regeneration 2 Related skills 2.1 Warrior 2.2 Ranger 2.3 Monk 2.4 Necromancer 2.5 Elementalist 2.6 Assassin 2.7 Ritualist 2.8 Paragon 2.9 Dervish 2.10 Norn rank 2.11 Deldrimor rank 3 Equivalent healing for given regen rate and duration 4 Related articles

[edit] Automatic regeneration

Both playing characters and most NPCs will receive health regeneration when not in active combat. Players are considered 'not in active combat', while not currently losing health nor attacking or activating skills on enemies. A few examples are:

• Any skills which sacrifice health will end automatic regeneration.
• Carrying a weapon with a vampiric property will prevent automatic regeneration if no other effect counteracts the health loss. If any other effect brings health regeneration to 0 or more (i.e.: Fount Of Maguuma), the automatic health regeneration may start.
• Activating healing skills that target yourself will not interfere with automatic regeneration.
• Effects that increase health regeneration can offset conditions that cause health degeneration. If the balance of all such conditions is +0 or better, you will gain automatic regeneration.
• Receiving non-zero damage, or attacking or activating a skill that targets an enemy will end automatic regeneration.

This means that characters can stay in the middle of a combat, attacked by many enemies, and still gain the automatic health regeneration as long as they do not take damage and do not activate skills that affect enemies.

For playing characters, automatic health regeneration begins with 1 pip of regeneration after a few seconds and will increase every few seconds to a max of 7 pips of regeneration (i.e. 14 health per second). This adds to any existing regeneration, so a character with a any other effect granting +3 health regeneration can get up to +10 just by not engaging in active combat.

For NPCs, regeneration exists in an per-case basis. Some NPCs have innate regeneration, others gain regeneration when passive like players do, others depend solely on skills to gain Health regeneration, while others doesn't have any kind of regeneration at all.

[edit] Related skills

[edit] Warrior "I Will Avenge You!" "I Will Survive!"	[edit] Ranger Melandru's Resilience Never Rampage Alone Symbiotic Bond Troll Unguent	[edit] Monk Healing Breeze Mending Restful Breeze Shield of Regeneration Succor Watchful Healing Watchful Spirit
[edit] Necromancer Blood Bond Blood Renewal Hexer's Vigor Life Siphon Life Transfer Vampiric Spirit Verata's Sacrifice Well of Blood Well of Power	[edit] Elementalist Energy Boon	[edit] Assassin Feigned Neutrality Shadow Refuge Shadow Sanctuary Shroud of Distress
[edit] Ritualist Recuperation Resilient Was Xiko Resilient Weapon Signet of Creation (PvP) Weapon of Warding	[edit] Paragon Mending Refrain "Never Surrender!"	[edit] Dervish Conviction (PvP) Mystic Regeneration Vow of Piety
[edit] Norn rank Feel No Pain	[edit] Deldrimor rank "By Ural's Hammer!"

[edit] Equivalent healing for given regen rate and duration

This table shows how much total healing a health regeneration of a certain duration and magnitude will provide.

	Health gained with given regeneration
Duration	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5	+6	+7	+8	+9	+10
1 sec.	2	4	6	8	10	12	14	16	18	20
2	4	8	12	16	20	24	28	32	36	40
3	6	12	18	24	30	36	42	48	54	60
4	8	16	24	32	40	48	56	64	72	80
5	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100
6	12	24	36	48	60	72	84	96	108	120
7	14	28	42	56	70	84	98	112	126	140
8	16	32	48	64	80	96	112	128	144	160
9	18	36	54	72	90	108	126	144	162	180
10	20	40	60	80	100	120	140	160	180	200
11	22	44	66	88	110	132	154	176	198	220
12	24	48	72	96	120	144	168	192	216	240
15	30	60	90	120	150	180	210	240	270	300
18	36	72	108	144	180	216	252	288	324	360
20	40	80	120	160	200	240	280	320	360	400
25	50	100	150	200	250	300	350	400	450	500

[edit] Related articles

• Health degeneration