Corpse Eater vs Regeneration skills

[rijackson741]

I have thought about going for taunt myself. I want one level of cleave and one level of corpse eater first though.

[ace]

Don't take corpse eater if you have regeneration. it's not much effective with just one skill point.

[rijackson741]

You may be right. One HP per kill does not do much for me at this point.

[Tomcat]

Perhaps CE is more worthwhile if you take it early, when HP are more precious. But then it's really best when you are regularly fighting multiple monsters, which happens more later on, at least currently. So unless we get more swarming monsters at lower levels, when is it worthwhile at all? Anyone have a strategy where CE is vital, not just a few bonus HP?

[rijackson741]

Every level of Re requires a level of IF, so CE could be useful if you only take IF 1, and can only get Re 1. If you are whacking dung flies it would give you a lot of HP back.

I have Shadow regeneration and Re 2 though, so I get back 3 HP per round when I'm not in combat, and 1 HP per round when I am. I've also got a RoL, so I could add 3 HP per kill and 0-3 HP per hit to that. So maybe spending a skill point on CE is not worth it.

[Capeditiea]

CE helped me greatly. This onetime, i was all chilling, and needed a specific item, turns out it got me for six poison damage, so i sat there all dying. then realized if i just kill one monster i can survive... the task was tedious. but finally and thank the shadow, i survivedand hid int the bushes across the bridge. :3

[Zukero]

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[Duke]

"Regeneration vs. Corpse Eater - simple answer: if you use a slow killing but very sturdy HP and BC type build then you'll want Regeneration whereas for a high offense player with AC and AD as primary stats Corpse Eater tends to be better for you. It all boils down to how fast you kill monsters though." quote from Fiernaq

Stole this from our good buddy Fiernaq. He had a few posts about this topic and his quote above sums it up pretty. CE works when you are mowing thru things and don't want to stand around waiting for yourself to heal. Really good early on, but then again, so is Regen. So, it really depends on your play style. To me, if you get RoL or other items that give you HP on kill, then having move CE just improves on that. I've never taken CE myself, usually take 1 or 2 Regen.

[Zukero]

I have CE2, but no Regen because I don't have IF because my build was already level 40 when skills were introduced. I like CE, but if I we're to start over today, it'd be a whole different story.

[rijackson741]

my build was already level 40 when skills were introduced.

. I did not realize there was such a time.