I just timed it, it has a ten second duration, not three.

Don't forget other healing effects also contribute during this period too (like natural regen + items etc).

it really is broken but i dont care its awesome it can heal a 5k health 6k mana tb i played earlier...when it should only heal 3k of each, hp and mp.

Eh. Unless you've got a nice Oak or QoT on your team, it means you're going to have to run away to get it to work. That usually means I get to cap the flag. And that usually means that flag gets locked. I win in the end.

I don't buy it. Better things to get with my gold.

You should not be able to move while using the heart of life.  And it should not be taking up a consumable slot, it should be in a normal item slot.

That should fix it.

Heart is obviously at its worst if you're trying to win a quick scuffle over a flag, and it'll get locked if you lose.  However, there are lots of other situations where heart is definitely a life-saver.  One of the most important is to quickly recharge after a tough fight.  I'll often chase off one demigod, and may only have a few seconds before backup arrives.  Being able to go from no mana and half health to full mana and health before that happens is well worth the cost.

One of my favourite ways to use heart is in the middle of battle.  Use a stun or activate something like a wand of speed to move out of attack range, then use the heart.  Even if you don't recharge to full health and mana, you'll still get a lot of juice out of it.  A close battle can often be decided if you have enough mana to use a powerful ability one extra time, and a good in-combat application of heart is the perfect way to do this.  The thing recharges so fast that even if you fail it's not a big deal.

Its fine, its not broken. At best its a portable regeneration crystal. Whats so overpowered about it? I don't think its broken either there are times when i've used it unhassled and not regen'd to my maximum mana?

And at 4.5k gold, it better be damn useful.

No, it heals 3000. As it's supposed to be.

well /thread

time to stop whining because he just proved it was fine

Wait a minute.

There's a distinction between consumable slots and item slots?

I'm not familiar with this.

Do you mean the distinction between slots for items bought in the game and the favor item slot?

Actually... if you can use it, it will be in the consumable slots. I don't think anything goes into the consumable slots that can't be used.

I also think HoL has either been fixed or has a bug when used with other items or on certain DGs. I really don't buy it often anymore. I know that I've gone from like 100/100 to 6k/6k with it before though.

The behavior seemed to basically be that unless I was hit, it was going to fill me up and top me off as though it was the crystal.

Well, it should be changed, but don't decrase it's health/mana regen.  It just needs greater restrictions (and perhaps take a little longer), like not being able to move like someone said above.  Alternately, maybe greately reduced armor and slow when in use or every hit is a critical/2x + slow when it's being used.  Basically, it should be high risk/high reward.