@Diablo today continued their recent, “meh”-inducing habit of answering basic game questions that are (no doubt) often asked by newcomers to the game, but aren’t of any use to those of us who have been following along for a while.
It’s a pity (as debated at great length starting around post 50 in this mega-thread) that Blizzard’s corporate PR policy doesn’t permit their game sites, official twitter feeds, or CM forum posts to link out to fansites, since it would certainly save Bashiok and his fellows a lot of time and effort re-explaining the same basic game features over and over again. Today’s example comes from @Diablo, with a question on health globes that’s been answered on our wiki page since the day that feature was unveiled.
When a health globe drops, the entire party can see it, right?—AcidReign
Correct. And they apply to all friendly nearby people, even NPCs.—Diablo
Update: Click through for some discussion of how health orbs share their bonus in the Arena, with a nice little sequence of this demonstrated from the Blizzcon 2010 Arena gameplay movie.
Health Orbs in the Arena
Spurred by SavalBork’s question in the comments, I took at look at the
In these shots you can see some desynch; the green hit point healing shows up several frames before the Witch Doctor actually grabs the orb. This delay/desynch between the displayed hit point change and the events on screen might be a contributing factor to the continuing mystery of just what
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