Talk:Mettle/@comment-75.110.144.46-20130515151758/@comment-71.180.133.206-20140225023647

I have this skill and I use it on both Mages and Fighters. It is good for either, your own character or a pawn. I look for pawns with Bastion and Mettle. They're near impossible to fully kill.

Each time you take damage, you lose immediate life and you lose maximum available life until you rest at an Inn or use a healing item. You can train your pawns to use healing items, but this gets expensive fast.

With this perk the maximum recoverable life is almost always near 100%, unless the pawn actually dies. Both myself and my pawn can lose 90% of our lives and still have 95% recoverable by a simple High/Grand Anodyne. Since I got this perk I almost never actually use healing items because Bastion prevents most physical damage and Mettle allows me to heal near completely. Combine this with the auto-healing from my pawns armor and/or the auto-healing from hired pawns, you will never need a potion except in dire emergency.