Selfcare: is it worth it?

It's too slow on its own and being able to heal yourself quickly enough (self care+botany knowledge) isn't worth 2 perk slots in my opinion.

I use selfcare because I like to be chased and I want the chases to be longer. If you want a quicker game, short chases and genrush while injured then you should be better without selfcare.

Try Iron Will instead of Self Care. Thats what I did and this is so much better.

I use SC because I'm bad. If I was good I would be using Adrenaline instead.

Yes SC is still very much meta perk but if you don't want to take it you can replace it with yellow med-kit with more charges which is better then taking SC. But when we talk about not taking any items then SC is still one if not the best pek in the game.

People claim that it's bad since it takes longer to heal with it but don't listen to them, they are the kind of players who always take good medkit and then claim how then don't rely on SC but in reality they have no idea how much harder the game gets if you can't heal whenever and you don't have SWF buddies with coms to compensate for it.

It's only worth taking if you have Botany Knowledge as-well, but then 2 perks to heal yourself when you can just take a medkit into the trial with you seems moot.

Depends - SC is still okay to me (but I use it with botany if I do use it - which is both amazing when you have a medkit as well). The important thing many SC users do not understand is there is a time to SC and a time not to SC. Sometimes you need to act now - and that may involve doing so injured, not later once you have healed yourself to full.

Even after the oh so atrocious healing adjustment , Its still better than getting healed by others.

Obviously it's more useful for people who juke a killer instead of stalling until hooked.

Pharmacy>Self Care. It's quicker to find a chest, search it with Pharmacy, and heal with that medkit than it is to self care.

I tend to bring a medkit, then find one with Pharmacy. You can always hide the medkit in a safe spot for later so you don't have to worry about someone else looting the chest.

Bond is a way better Self Care.

Also, Pharmacy.

I play solo and run Self-care consistently.

Here's my reasoning: You can't always rely on randoms. Yes, you're supposed to be working as a team, but many players are out to win. I've encountered some petty teammates, so I choose to be able to heal myself if I need to.

Secondly, some teammates refuse to heal you because they want to get gens popped. I get it, really. If we worked in that gen and popped it and then you decide to heal me, it's too risky. Bitter Murmur exists and killers often go to gen pops to investigate if not in a chase. Me being injured puts me at a disadvantage because the killer will go for the injured one. Some players also just refuse to heal others in general because they focus on gens, chests, totems, etc.

If I find a med kit or survivor who will heal me (and we won't even get into survivors who miss skill checks and regress your healing progress then run away), great! I prefer that as opposed to having myself. I tend to play in a stealthy manner because chases aren't my strongest suit. This means I'm usually one of the last people alive. If the one other remaining teammate is being chased and about to be hooked, me being able to heal myself is imminent. Crying out, groaning, leaving blood trails....it's doing nothing but removing my ability to evade the killer when they have their sole attention on finding me. Not being able to heal up in that last stage is life or death. I'll always run Self-care because it's critical to my game play style.

If you're playing solo, yes. Despite what people may say, it's still a perk that allows for infinite, self-sustaining heals.

Yea I don't like SC

I bring self care because survivors keep unhooking me and running away to a corner to try healing me. I'm not running to the corner with you while the killer is gonna end up finding me. BUT I bring Self Care WITH a Med kit WITH Botany Knowledge. Now I can heal others faster(especially with We'll Make it as well), and I can heal myself faster, and I can keep my medkit throughout most of the game. I think people forget the secondary use of Self-Care honestly. I mean I get that some people would rather get gens done for an Adrenaline pop, but my teams generally don't do gens and farm me off the hook, or leave me to get stage 2 and then wait until the killer is chasing them to unhook me, so I'd rather not be the first one hooked. Self-Care with a med-kit helps with that. My med-kits also generally have considerably increased healing speeds and extra charges added to them. That + the 53% healing efficiency still keeps my med-kit going strong and if I pallet stun a killer, and he leaves that pallet to try to mind game me with it, I can generally get my heal off and waste more of the killer's time.

Medkits are WAY faster and also effectively allow for an extra perk. So just bring those instead.

Bring a medkit ffs. It's way faster.