How to heal.

[76561197988072846]

I know that some potions heal you, but those are so scarce. Food doesn't seem to heal at all, and it really, really, really should. Is there a mod that makes food heal? I would really like that. The combat is kinda janky, there's no indication when to block, really. So there's hardly any finesse or ability involved in the combat. You mostly just mash the attack key until the enemy dies, while losing most of your health at the same time.

[tannim]

I believe the raise shield button will block, but you need a shield.

Food does heal, but not very much in general and it is as likely to be poisoned or cursed as not for no real reason.

[mistersneak]

The best way to keep your health up is not to lose much of it. You will slowly and passively regenerate health all the time if Hunger is on, which is enough to sustain you unless your approach to combat is too reckless. Don't worry, most players are reckless in melee because they're not used to the dynamic of the game yet.

Food only heals if Hunger is turned off (you can turn off Hunger in the Misc Settings menu). Food's only job in standard play is to keep you from starving to death. If you are approaching combat carefully and with skill, you'll usually not take any damage, or you'll take one hit - unless you're rushing through (and not gaining enough levels or equipment) and/or you've underestimated the power of your enemy.

You'll need to get better at combat, because combat will not be successful if you are simply mashing the button while trading health.
Use the fully-charged up melee attack. Initiate, get the first hit before they strike you. Then, either swiftly dispatch them if you can, or time your blocks. Enemies attack at a regular rhythm that is predictable once you learn it.
Control your engagements. Run away from enemies by turning around and getting distance from them. Get out of their sight and hide in the dark if you're not ready to fight them yet. Don't carry too much junk, it'll make you too slow.
Also you don't need a shield to block, you can use torches to block as well, they just don't offer an AC bonus when you are not blocking as Shields do.

Many players just haven't mastered melee combat tactics in Barony, which is understandable because it's different than other games. But if you give it the time it needs, you'll find it is much more skill based than simply clicking while trading health. That's how you die in melee.

[󠀡󠀡]

> There's blocking with shields.
> There's a range in which enemies attack you. There's also timing to which they actually attack.
>> You can definitely exploit this.
> Healing occurs within time, or potions, or the healing spell.

I can joker with fist pretty much without getting majorly destroyed.

[fishwizard17]

yeah solo runs can tremendously easy once you get it down, there are games where i have reached lvl 10 before gnome mines just by killing the rooms full of spiders for quick exp and using lots a magic.

plus i have played quite a bit of barony even before the cursed edition update, just use everything that is available to you there are plenty of lvl up quick schemes and strategies to employ.

some of the more cheesy ones are

- circle a fountain or sink with a powerful enemy they will turn for a second chasing you, hit them and run around it again.
- wait one minute for all the enemies to trigger boulder traps/spike traps
- cast cold/slow spells then used ranged then cast cold/slow again repeat
- side to side strafe seems to confuse the ai if your a fair distance away great to dodge magic
- stand over pits/water/lava and shoot powerful enemies to death