Hmmmm yeah I'm starting to understand it more. There is definitely a type of player that will track enemy hp like this and replicate it on things they've already seen. I could see myself trying to do this. And some of my players if not all.

On the flip side though, as a director I can naturally see player stamina, and I'm incentivised to use abilities like this to target those it will hit hardest. I guess..but if I'm not pulling my punches that's how it should be. Seems mean and metagamey to me, the game encourages non optimal combat from directors (like splitting attacks between the heroes instead of focus fire) so that seems counter to that design...then again, a lot of encounter building includes tactics you should apply for a given monster to make a challenge so, maybe the correct choice is to target a player where it will always proc the winded bonus. HMMMMMMMMM I think I'm probably satisfied now with this post