MrDizzy wrote:I do rest up to full HP/MP after every fight. I thought everyone did. It seems the prudent thing to do. If you don't do that, what do you do? Only rest up to 80% or something? Not rest at all?
BTW, I also struggle for food when playing spriggan due to the inability to eat chunks.
Besides the first few levels, I very rarely rest to full unless there is a specific reason why. It is pretty difficult to give you an exact when, where, and why breakdown because it just comes with practice. The gist is that you evaluate factors such as what % of life you are currently at against what % of the current level you have already cleared, against how strong is your character (based on luck with gear, etc.) against the level of difficulty of the level or branch you're in.
Gnolls are often fairly stealthy since they don't go out of their way to pay for armour skill and stealth (or anything). This affords you a bit more leeway because if you do encounter something too tough to handle before your health has regenerated enough, you can often decide to take one step back and rest before proceeding to the encounter.
One more nice thing about gnolls, in particular, is that they can use necromancy spells such as regeneration for the non-extended portion of the game, and then switch to Zin or TSO for the extended half without having "wasted" experience points. Regeneration isn't a spell you need to cast and then rest, but just cast it and go autoexplore.
Finally, I want to point out that high AC is very good in saving food because you don't need to rest as much if you take less damage. Regeneration items pair well with high AC. For a melee character, a regeneration amulet can work almost like a gourmand to conserve on food because once again, it cuts down the amount of time to bounce back to full health. Regeneration items are very, very good.
If you're resting to full mana in addition to full health, I'd say you should reduce the amount of spell casting you are doing. More ideal is to balance your health and mana such that if you spent some mana, but you're at full health, use melee and take some damage to conserve mana. Conversely, if your health is trashed, but mana is full, then burn mana more quickly to conserve health. You're more efficient if you're replenishing both at once, and if you can time it so that they both recharge to full at the same time roughly.
Monday, 1st April 2019, 21:32 
