Wait a minute, you do? Huh. I never noticed.

Source?

Sharts of life

In japanese myth the soul is stored in the rectum, checks out

This is bonus healing on top of your Estus, not your main source of healing. There's nothing wrong with the design, the most common lifegem gives the least amount of HP. That's only logical. In fact you could argue lifegems along with the other large amount of items that can heal you make it a bit too easy to regen HP in DS2.

Are you stupid?

You SHOULD be thanking them, because the slow healing is actually an incredibly useful feature, that practically makes them cheap. An example I saw was that you can pop one or two at full health, then open a mimic chest, and you'll survive instead of being killed because the mimic's chomp does multiple hits and the life gems will heal you between the hits.

Using the life gems at full health can also be useful at surviving mobs if you expect to get hit a few times, and will even make it so you might not even need to use an estus after getting hit.

Thats the ****ing point

a shame it breaks the balance of conserving healing as one can easealy have 99 at any time

Just pop 2, I'm sure they stack.

I think i saw to many people dying on YT while popping 1 or 2 life gems, even if they stack if the enemy/boss surpass you healing rate, you are dead.

Then these morons complain that healing is slow lol

even if it is slow it still makes estus completely unnescessary and just breaks the balance and difficulty of trying to conserve it

They should've limited their numbers. With how good they are, resource management and tough exploration is basically nonexistent once you can purchase them infinitely. Also you must have some unbelievably low vigour to lose 2/3 of your hp. I don't think even Fume Knight can do that to most