What is the difference between wounds and %health?

[repzik27]

What is the difference between wounds and health percent?
Does having more wounds mean more health? If so what is the difference between that and just increased health percent?
Is it better to have more wounds or more health percent?

[NeverLucky]

increased health% is more Health, Wounds are the segments of your HP bar that fill up with corruption every time you go down, in other words having more wounds lets you get picked up more often in a fight before you die to corruption

[Chape]

Wounds is the number of times you can be downed before being captured.
Health is health, lose it all, you get wounded, get backup, one wound becomes corrupted.
Taking corruption damage (Like a tox exploder going off in your face) can also add corruption to wounds, degrading health and reducing the number of times you can be downed before capture.

[MaddRave]

Likewise wounds will effect the amount of health taken away from grimores on pickup.

[M.T. Fish]

Wounds are the individual bars. When you get downed and revived you lose a wound bar that can only be replenished by fully dying and being rescued or a medicae station.

Health percentage is your total health points. It also likely affects the value of each wound bar so having a high health buff and no wound buff might actually be detrimental.

It's also worth noting certain attacks and grimoires cause "corruption" which sort of cause wound build up and reduce how much you can heal from packs.

[HoboOfSerenity]

Amount of wounds does not increase health and more health does not increase amount of wounds.

Wounds are basically "times you can get downed before you get instakilled". If you have 3 wounds, then you can get downed twice, assuming you don't have corruption beyond any of the wounds. The third time, you die. Two wounds, one down and then instakill. Etc etc. Amount of wounds you have also reduce the amount of max health lost when you get revived and now have a corrupted wound that reduces max HP, if you have 2 owunds and 100 HP, well it reduced your max hp by 50. If you have 4 wounds then one corrupted wound reduces your max hp by 25.