Talk:Blades of Light and Shadow, Book 1 Choices/@comment-45313304-20200430234554/@comment-37484301-20200501002140

that's your choice? we don't know if we'll gain more xp with the ring later or have some sort of acknowledgement later. it could be like chapter 2 where you forgo max hp there to get max hp in chapter 7.

keep in mind though that you probably don't need the max hp to "win". usually PB games have 3 ranges for good ending / average ending / bad ending, like TH:M -where less than 2000 was bad / 2100-4700 was average / more than 4800 was good). so even if the max is 15000, you most likely would get a good ending at 13000 for example. considering the xp difference between species, the range is probably more than 2000 (since right now the difference between orc and elf max is about 1000?) and they aren't going to give elves a good ending and not let orcs have a good ending too