Defensive Regen
Tier 1Defensive Regen is a Tier 1 Spirit Charm in VV: Ultimatum that grants 25% more reiatsu from parries while reducing your base reiatsu regeneration by 35%.
Defensive Regen moves your reiatsu income from passive to earned - "Wait for your chance..." You regenerate 25% more reiatsu from parries, while your base reiatsu regeneration is reduced by 35%. The charm effectively asks whether your resource bar should fill on a timer or on your reads.
For an active parry player, the exchange is profitable: each successful parry pays out a quarter more resource, and in parry-heavy matchups the income can outpace what the lost passive tick would have provided. For anyone else - ranged players who rarely parry, passive defenders who block instead - it is a 35% resource tax with no compensating revenue.
It is a natural companion to the parry-reward family (Await The Opening, Blazing Spirit) and to Curtain Call, whose removal of passive reiatsu regen makes parry income one of the few remaining ways to hold the 100% reiatsu threshold - though no combinations are formally documented. Defensive Regen weighs 1 wt. and lists no level requirement in the documented tooltip; its source is not documented.
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| Tier | Tier 1 |
| Weight | 1 wt. |
FAQ
Is Defensive Regen a net gain?
Only for frequent parriers - the 25% bonus on parry-based reiatsu must outweigh the 35% cut to your base regeneration, which it does in parry-heavy play and does not in passive play.
How do you get Defensive Regen?
Its source is not documented in current community documentation; no zone, boss, or vendor is listed.