I have bountiful chi with might (rank 3). To me it sucks. It only seems to offer negilable heals. Given it's cost me a power and 3 advantages, i could probably invest better elsewhere. Am I playing it wtrong in some way?

Thanks

You're likely expecting more out of it than what it really is: more survivability. The best way to think of BCR is not as a heal, but as more effective HP for you to throw around. It can be maintained indefinitely and costs almost nothing. As long as you have the HP to not get spiked down, it will improve your survivability and ability to outlast your opponents by that much more. What it doesn't do is save your bacon when you're sitting at 20% HP and you need to get out of the red ASAP. Resurgence and Palliate are both much better for that.

As for whether you should keep it or not, it depends on how you're finding playing the character. Do you often find yourself in the red with the need for an immediate HP boost? Pick up Resurgence. Do you need solid, consistent healing over time to help to mitigate more damage? Take BCR.

Another consideration for a higher powered heal is Bionic Shielding. At Rank 3, it should restore approximately 50% of your health, assuming all 5 charges get used. It also has a shorter cooldown than Resurgence and does not trigger the Active Defenses shared cooldown. It does take a little more anticipation to use, though, since it doesn't all come at once like Resurgence.

Good points. The answer is, as a melee char, It's probably the latter. But I already have resurgence.
When I'm in a fight and am surrounded, or recieving hiots from all sides, the hp i'm recieving from bountiful don't cover the incoming damage at all.
And if im not in that situation, I don't really need it. I guess, unless as I say I'm playing it qwrong somehow, that i'm answering my own question. Although, are you saying I should turn it on BEFORE a fight?

[quote=GammaBreaker]Another consideration for a higher powered heal is Bionic Shielding. QUOTE]

The problem for me with bionic shielding is concept. It's too far away from this alts "supermanish" persona. (I know I know..)

Oh, I understand you. I'm big on functional-concept builds myself. Your choices are going to get limited pretty quickly, if you already have Resurgence though.

I use BCR on both of my melee characters, and it gets the job done up until about level 28 or so, when you really start needing that "big heal" like Resurgence or Bionic Shielding. Just put it on an easily tappable key and run it constantly during combat, and it will counteract a significant amount of damage. I only take it to rank 2 though, because I take the Resurgent Reiki advantage to remove the damage debuff (since I'm constantly running it, after all).

I haven't tried the Celestial tap-heal though. I hear it's pretty solid, but costly.

The effect is pretty subtle. If you're attacking and you use it, there's no real animation to it, and all it does is make your character model shiny while it's active. You could easily play it off as a "second wind" or something similar.

I think BCR users would better served if it scaled off a different stat than PRE. It would be great if it actually scaled with one of the suggested SS of MA, IE: Str/Dex

Resurgent Reiki is a must have if your at all concerned with your dps as BCR will probably be running most of the time while in combat.

I'm with you...if you have CON super-statted, BCR bites.

However, on my Dex/Ego melee character (don't ask), it's great -- he has very few HP already (relatively speaking), so BCR makes a big contribution. I assume that is its intended purpose -- to complement Lightning Reflexes for a glass cannon melee character.

Honestly, you'd probably see more survivability from dropping BCR and picking up additional defenses or some crowd control. Besides Resurgence (which you have), there are very few heals available for a high-CON melee character. You could always pick up unbreakable for a second active defense.

Got unbreakable.
It's nice but isn't what I'm looking for.

Everyione is confirming what I thought, that with my particular might based alt, BCR doesn't cut it.
Guess I'll have to go shopping.
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