bruising spirit and its upgrades

[Splintered]

Hi, I'm relatively new to the bruiser who is currently lvl 26 on venekor (pvp). My question is I just got my bruising spirit master 1, which is 291 mitigation for 3 minutes. My question though is it cost me 44 health every 6 seconds, which, when you think about it is alot since at 26 I only have 2445 total health. So lets use a 1 minute pvp battle as an example, it would cost me 440 health to have that ability up, and because of the deminishing curves, only increases my mitigation from 39% to 47%. So from those out there who could answer this, when soloing, do you find youself using it in pvp and pve?

[TheWorm]

I can't attest to PVP play as I play on Unrest, but I find this useful in many situations.  While tanking anything of equal or higher level it helps the healers out by making your health "less spikey."  Of course, meaning that you don't get hit as hard which dwarfs the small life drain.  I rarely use this while soloing, as I'm in full fabled, the extra mit doesn't really make up for the 2% a tick life drain.  I DO use this while training through zones.  ie SOS and whatnot.  Hope that helps

[Thoral]

I can't attest to PvP either, but in PvE, this ability is almost always used only when you have a healer, and when you are facing hard-hitting mobs.  If you can solo something, then it probably isn't hitting you hard enough to justify using Bruising Spirit.

[Splintered]

thanks for your input guys.. yeah, i really wish they would lower the health cost a bit, the lvl 32 monk burning spirit doesn't even cost close to how much bruising spirit does. 2% total life every 6 seconds!!

[Zelkova]

<cite>Splintered wrote:</cite><blockquote>thanks for your input guys.. yeah, i really wish they would lower the health cost a bit, the lvl 32 monk burning spirit doesn't even cost close to how much bruising spirit does. 2% total life every 6 seconds!! </blockquote> 1% every 3 seconds!!!! for monks. Come on, now. It's the same... I'm not on PvP either but I have found uses for this in duels, if that means anything. It's tough to stand up to hard-hitting melee classes without it running, and intermediate stance just doesn't cut it. At least this was the case pre-EOF, I don't think I've tried it once after.