Is There Ever a Time to Use "Blessing of Life"?

[Chaoz]

I'm starting to think I should just save the tree events for using their healing later, because the drawback of the Blessing is so intense that the pretty small increase to HP doesn't seem worth it, I've lost a couple of runs because my HP got halved because "oh im at full HP and doing really well, I think I can afford it" then I proceed to get curbstomped in 10 minutes.

[ZirzoR]

Most people go for the max HP if they're doing good, you simply just have to play it safe and leech some life for the next few rooms to get back to full and have patience.

Rogue legacy 2 is not a game that rewards fast and reckless gameplay, you're supposed to take your time, not get hit and get as much stuff as possible before dying, I learnt that the hard way, I had to slow down and not try and be so fancy with my moves and stuff and just play it regularly.

There is no timer in the game and it rewards you if you dont die, so either the evasion skill has to go up with the speed, or the speed has to go down to match your evasion skill.

[fuchsohnehalstuch]

In the beginning of the game you really lack healing, making blessing of life a very risky choice. Later on max hp is a bit more of a problem while you have a lot of healing. Taking the blessing of life will pay off mroe easily.

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stack lifesteal runes and these become a no brainer.

[ElOhTeeBee]

If you have the relic that blocks damage every six kills, the damage block works on the HP cost.

[Tetsuya_Kurogane]

Set House Rules, 50 % damage, before picking it up. Do not work if you do it inside the room. Do a come out, switch, come in.
I find it very taxing, but with enough point in item healing (Intelligence plus gastronomy perk) a piece of chicken or pizza will heal you right up. They game me 300-600 HP back now.

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Originally posted by Tetsuya_Kurogane:

Set House Rules, 50 % damage, before picking it up.

yuck

[ZirzoR]

Originally posted by <:):

Originally posted by Tetsuya_Kurogane:

Set House Rules, 50 % damage, before picking it up.

yuck

Might aswell be cheating, lol

Nasty, straightup eww.

[phadin]

My method is to head for the tree in the study first, grab the fruit of life, then head through the first couple of biomes to regain the HP... maybe grab another fruit along the way if I end up doing well getting food to pop. Then I'll head off towards Sun Tower, which is my current stage.

[Someone]

99% times i pick extra max hp
its good for long run

[Stanis23]

Max HP is better pretty much.
You have various ways to recover later to really need the emergency heal.

Even more so when you can stack a bunch of max life boost then tank your resolve for many relics and still have a decent amount oh HP.

[Chaoz]

Guess I'm just not far enough in the game to have effective healing, thanks you guys for the info

[Grijm]

You get full hp when you enter boss room, usually i pick the max hp up and rush for the boss

[ZirzoR]

Originally posted by Grijm:

You get full hp when you enter boss room, usually i pick the max hp up and rush for the boss

Except that you need the upgrades to get full HP at the boss, which you have.

[Grijm]

Yeah, aim for that upgrade, always worth it

[Kyresti]

Got a couple house rule haters I see.

But like, the blessing is super useful (if risky early-game). Temporary damage for long-term buffing. I think I've only taken the heal once, and that was because I was stuck in the dry lake.