This is what im interested in lower over time heal or remove heal from bandages and make potions the standard healing and you can maybe have some low hp short time pots or high hp long time pots. and magic stays more or less the same with burst heals.less heals also massively favors the ganker, giving the person who gets jumped a lot less chance to recover. maybe you consider that the fault of the gankee, not paying attention to their surroundsings, but i think it happens to all of us now and again, you cant be uber vigilant forever.
also consider: hotpots
I think rather than discussing simply bandaids, this should be a broader conversation about combat healing in general (which some have brought the conversation around to already so thats good).
if bandaids are made to be channelled and require you to be stationary for the duration, theres certainly situations where you can get a couple ticks off even with people chasing you.
some would consider it a nerf and perhaps it is, but maybe pots should be less rare to compensate. Back in the day, potions were generally too expensive to bother to stock up on. partially because bandages were cheap and plentiful, partially because it took a ton of gathering to make them and noone really wanted to bother.
if low grade potions were cheap and plentiful (still player crafted but inexpensive to stock up on and bring with you as a matter of course) then your total combat healing wouldnt take much of a hit.
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The attackers gets a surprise advantage and predicting your enemies actions more important. Both teamwork or solo skill will be more important. Bows will be more useful, as you cant just stand there out healing it on your own. Alchemist will be a more useful profession. With bows having more of a advantage due to lower healing, shields and top tier armor will be more useful.
There is probably even more advantages, doing it this way than i have thought of.
Would be nice if you guys can come up with good or bad things with this. If there is a lack of reason for why not to change it this way. Then i think we can go ahead and inform SV about our thoughts on the matter.