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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4069835" data-attributes="member: 710">I think the basic theory is still fine, but it's not considering the entire picture. Basically, Healing Surges are limited per day and are one of the most important healing sources. It's the only one that can bring back a significant portion of your hit points. You need this power to recover after a strong blow or after combat has ended.Triggering it is is probably always combined with a high opportunity cost during an encounter. Making a heal check (usually taking a round worth of actions) or spending a fullround action doing nothing to regain it.There is also room for weaker healing effects. Their opportunity cost is lesser - they force you decide between two different encounter powers, but each has still a notable second effect. This kind of healing basically counters "normal" damage - like from an on-going effect or just damage from typical attacks. It doesn't really allow you to recover from strong damage, but it's at least reducing the effective damage taken per round.</blockquote>