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

[Deceptus]

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.

[Mika_Zahard]

It can heal for much more, specially if it crits. Its often the difference between life and death in emergencies.

[Deceptus]

It can heal for much more, specially if it crits. Its often the difference between life and death in emergencies.

It can't heal more than 50% of baseline when it crits (that's they way crits work)

[Kes13a]

It can't heal more than 50% of baseline when it crits (that's they way crits work)

so let me get this straight...

your signature says "give healers something to do" which would be, I dont know.. healing... and yet you want to buff an ability so you dont have to heal?

yeah, we get it, you just want to dps more...

[Tlachtga]

so let me get this straight...

your signature says "give healers something to do" which would be, I dont know.. healing... and yet you want to buff an ability so you dont have to heal?

yeah, we get it, you just want to dps more...

what a baffling conclusion to reach. so focussed on sticking it to OP you forgot to make sense.

there's no "dpsing more" . we aren't in Heavensward anymore. there's no choice between "healing or dmg", its always "dmg + healing ogcd" in 95% of the content.

[Derio]

Honestly just make it a flat 15% of your maximum hp and call it a day.

[VictorSpoils]

Honestly just make it a flat 15% of your maximum hp and call it a day.

It already is. This would just be a nerf in ARR content where it heals more than that.

[Restonance]

Just because it's useless in normals doesn't mean it needs to be changed.

[Latarma]

Monk get the trait that makes second wind even better if i remember right. so other melees don't get that we get the base from of second wind.

[Mikey_R]

Monk get the trait that makes second wind even better if i remember right. so other melees don't get that we get the base from of second wind.

Just to correct this, they haven't had the trait since SB when the role actions were introduced and, to go on from that, no job has any traits that directly affect Role Actions.