cursive ice
Basically what the title says: If you have restriction cord equipped and grey health filling the top part of your health bar, regenerating will eat into that grey health as if you'd regenerated it, but does not give you more health (because you can't go above 50% with restriction cord). Effectively, this results in your grey health draining at your regeneration rate.
I've tested with a few different sources of regen (although not exhaustively), with the following findings:
- With no regen equipped, grey health drains at what appears the default regen rate of .2/s
- Bloodstream increases the rate of drain based on the amount of regen.
- Dread font also increases the rate of drain
- Generating band (with shielded heart used) does not increase the rate of drain
- Regrowth does not increase the rate of drain
- Health regeneration fragments and prisms do increase the rate of drain
- Endaira's endless loop does increase the rate of drain (and also seemingly doesn't require me to be sprinting, which may be a separate bug)
- Reserve boosting gem and fae shaman ring do not increase the rate of drain
- Stream coupler + using a skill does not increase the rate of drain
I'm sure I could have tested other things but these are the ones I thought of. It seems that sources of grey health regen (unsurprisingly) increase the rate of drain, but normal healing sometimes does and sometimes does not. I also tested with the "Unbreakable" legendary prism, and that does not prevent the grey health from draining.
It's not entirely clear to me whether this interaction is intended or not, but from my perspective it would be nice to allow grey health builds to use restriction cord without worrying about excess regen eating into grey health at the top of the bar.
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