Second Wind is a terrible ability and either needs redesigned or outright removed.

[Lyth]

Just necroing this to point out that 6.3 brought about Hyper Potions. Stronger than Second Wind at half the cooldown. A potion is better than a Role Action.

This just comes down to the type of content that you're doing. Healing potions generally aren't available in raid content because they share a recast timer with your tincture. There have been a couple of week one scenarios over the past two tiers (P7S Forbidden Fruit 4, P10S Wings 2) where I've found that combining a personal defensive with the self healing from Second Wind actually makes the difference between being alive or dead. You generally need a bigger arena with the group spread out, and there being less time for a healer to react with targeted heals. Likewise, in solo content like Deep Dungeons it's generally not 'one or the other', as you make use of everything you have to stay alive.

Perhaps what is actually needed instead is a rework of the potion system. More modern games replace the stacks of 99 potions that clog up your inventory with a Dark Souls system of flask charges. You could very easily have a potion action with 5 charges to use in a given fight, with the charges resetting out of combat only. The nomenclature could sync with content level, if you want to keep the traditional aesthetic.

If you had a self-heal potion 'general action' on charges that doesn't interact with your chosen damage buff tincture, it would be a good replacement for the Second Wind role action.

[Duskane]

Second wind is fine,
if it was better you would just complain about it like "I can't believe they gave Melees equilibrium is SE trying to kill healers??!?!!??!"

[Ilyn]

Honestly they should make it like other Second Winds in rpgs I've played in that you can only use it ONCE when you're engaged but make it a pretty substantial heal (maybe 50-75%) and then maybe a 1 or 2 minute cooldown once you're out of combat .

[sindriiisgaming]

1) It barely heals for 10% of the user's max HP, often less than that (6-8%). Potency based heals on non healers don't heal for much.

2) It has an insane 120s CD. It heals for far too little for the cooldown. 7% max HP every 2 minutes is ridiculous.

Second Wind at lvl 90 (non crit) heals for ~8000 (which equates to 4000 a minute), which is about what the level 70 HQ potion heals for (3600 health per minute).

When I say Second Wind is weak, that's one of the points I mean. At level 90, tt's equivalent to a level 70 potion (per minute heal.)

Possible solutions:

1) Easiest solution, give all physical based DPS Bloodbath and call it a day. Let DPS heal themselves based on the damage they do, not a potency metric that doesn't meld well with their role.

2) Remove Second Wind from melee and redesign it for physical ranged. If you're going to keep the potency based healing, make it a regen.

500 potency, 12-18s duration (adjust duration for balance).

Edit:

CBU3 has added a new health potion "Hyper Potion" that Restores up to 25% of HP (11000 points max) with a 1m 15s CD making Second Wind even more useless.

Second has saved my life especially when bloodbath is on cool down. The real crime is caster and ranger dps not having any heals but melee can light-tank. Especially rpr which I main because it has regen

[Asako]

It's an emergency move that can save your life in a pinch. Saved many runs in savage with it. The point of the long cooldown is you're not really meant to spam it on CD. The move is fine as it is.

[Sebazy]

It brings definite value when optimising in Savage etc.

One would argue that it probably shouldn't given how there's not enough healing to keep healers remotely occupied even at this stage of the endgame though =/

[Genisay]

I agree that it feels pretty poor at higher lvls when your HP pool is so much larger, but I have still used it to fish my own bacon from the fryer on multiple occasions.
It's actually pretty useful if you are playing Bard and you cast Nature's Minne before Second Wind to get an extra 15% on it.

[Genisay]

I have actually light tanked on my Bard though. XD But I do it through out ranging instead of trying to stand toe-to-toe with enemies.

[Jeeqbit]

Second Chance and Bloodbath are good and make it possible to tank stuff on DPS in many cases if a tank dies, plus it was buffed recently. Ranged Physical can make up for lack of Bloodbath by being able to kite easier, or to use their damage reductions.

[ReynTime]

If all you care about is what has a guaranteed use in raids, just remove it from your hotbar.

Second wind is handy for simpler content dps can solo or duo like FATEs, or solo MSQ duties if they failed to avoid getting hit by mechanics. Also gives a minor leeway if for whatever reason no healer can help you for the moment.

Stop asking for the game's combat to become worse.