Health Pack Stock

M C K

So I have around 160 health packs and I don't know how to feel about it. I never really had a strategy for using them or letting them sit, but my general guideline has been "forget about them, suddenly see I have a ton, resolve to never have under XXX". The first time I noticed them, I had over 50, so 50 was my floor...of course I've been largely ignoring them, and that's how I got here. I burned a few in the last PvP because I thought I had a shot at a higher tier, but otherwise I haven't really used many overall.

I'm interested in how many health packs everyone holds on to at a given time. Do you have the same strategy? What's your floor? Do you care? Is this normal?

Unknown

M C K wrote:

So I have around 160 health packs and I don't know how to feel about it. I never really had a strategy for using them or letting them sit, but my general guideline has been "forget about them, suddenly see I have a ton, resolve to never have under XXX". The first time I noticed them, I had over 50, so 50 was my floor...of course I've been largely ignoring them, and that's how I got here. I burned a few in the last PvP because I thought I had a shot at a higher tier, but otherwise I haven't really used many overall.

I'm interested in how many health packs everyone holds on to at a given time. Do you have the same strategy? What's your floor? Do you care? Is this normal?

I did the same as you until I realized that health packs regenerate up to a stock of 5. So most people hold about 5

Unknown

I personally dont see much value in stockpiling a bunch of health packs, just because, to me, if i dont plan on using it, then its pretty much useless to me. Health packs help me climb up the ranks but eventually, in pvp, the bombardment of player attacks hinders me more than the need for health packs. So 5 is enough for me. 10 or so would be great per event.

Roswulf

Hopefully this is part of the improved tutorial- it is in no way obvious or intuitive that health packs regenerate.

M C K

Hmmmmm...you're right about that not being very intuitive. I only realized they regenerated about 4 seconds ago, when I read these replies. Now I know how to feel, and I feel like A&E is going to do a story about me.

simonsez

M C K wrote:

I'm interested in how many health packs everyone holds on to at a given time

During a Heroic PvE, usually zero

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gamar wrote:

M C K wrote:

So I have around 160 health packs and I don't know how to feel about it. I never really had a strategy for using them or letting them sit, but my general guideline has been "forget about them, suddenly see I have a ton, resolve to never have under XXX". The first time I noticed them, I had over 50, so 50 was my floor...of course I've been largely ignoring them, and that's how I got here. I burned a few in the last PvP because I thought I had a shot at a higher tier, but otherwise I haven't really used many overall.

I'm interested in how many health packs everyone holds on to at a given time. Do you have the same strategy? What's your floor? Do you care? Is this normal?

I did the same as you until I realized that health packs regenerate up to a stock of 5. So most people hold about 5

Yup. I had about 30 until I found out they regenerated, which I found out from the forum. The game doesn't really tell you this, at least not clearly.

AXP_isme

Same story as Ben Grimm. On the plus side I don't feel so bad about it knowing I wasn't the only person stockpiling them...

SnowcaTT

Same here, I went up to 85 or so thinking: these will fully heal, I'll wait on them and use them when I get good 3*'s! Whoops. Now I always have between zero and five.

Phaserhawk

stock piles would help you in a sustained PvE push, and in the first grind of PvP, other than that there's not much use. Just a small roster awareness, quick logging in to heal a guy before your health pack stock reaches 5 and stops.

Nellobee

0-5, with an occasional spike to 8.

GothicKratos

When I stopped playing events for about a month I had amassed about 30 of them but I quickly ate them through playing PvP.

snlf25

I would pay pretty serious HP to be able to increase my max health pack storage. Say 5 extra slots for 2500 points? Just a thought.

rednailz

snlf25 wrote:

I would pay pretty serious HP to be able to increase my max health pack storage. Say 5 extra slots for 2500 points? Just a thought.

I think it would mess up the structure of the entire game, especially in PVP. Since you can't buy your way to the top with shields you could buy your way to the top with health packs. super late start, very very long grind and then shield.

For PvE i would imagine top 10 placesment scores would doubel or triple. never underestimate the amount of money people dump into this game.

snlf25

I can't really comment on that since I never get more than ~600 points in a PvP but could it change it that much increasing the max storage by 5 or so? Seems like the whales will still need to buy quite a few packs. I don't mean to suggest purchasing unlimited storage of course. The guys it would really help are transitioning players like me.

Is your name a Conan the Barbarian reference?

Unknown

Ever since true healing they should have upgraded the max to 8. 2-5 chars worn down by chip damage and 1-2 unlucky team wipes is about right for a "free" play session imo. 10 packs would make it rare that anyone needs to buy packs, but 5 packs means sometimes ONE bad cascade forces you to choose between money and placement

M C K

I'm glad people are as surprised as I am about the health pack regeneration. Definitely something for D3 to consider communicating more clearly.

And no, my name isn't a Conan The Barbarian reference, sadly. I'm built slightly smaller.

Unknown

I have 38 health packs and only use a them during the last hour of select PvPs

Unknown

it's rare that i even have 5 health packs. i'm always in need of healing a character, so there's no use for them sitting at 5 when they regenerate.