Quote Originally Posted by gbprime View Post
Not really. I do not constest that it is useful, but if you don't augment it with other sources of healing, you're going to be running off to the next encounter with half hitpoints on everyone. As previously posted, you can save the feat and start stocking up on Healing Belts and lesser vigor wands, accomplishing the same thing for a few thousand gold instead of a feat.

So yes, it's a useful feat, no doubt. But indispensible? No.
Except this opinion is based on metagame considerations. Not everyone has access to exactly the magic items they want any time they might have the gold to buy them. Many DMs have a different take on things and don't just let you wander down to the local Ye Olde Wal*Marte and clean out the magitech isle.

A few thousand gold? Our 7th level group *might* be able to scrape that up between all of them if they pooled everything, but I doubt it. Massive piles of cash don't make much sense in most situations despite what books might say, and we rarely find them. Not every game lets you play e-bay for just the right combo of magic items.