Originally posted by FissionChips:

I haven't bothered with them, but, do they drink pots in turn? If so they could be a quick way to regen and buff without filling the quickbar with pots. Otherwise yeah they're useless.

Yeah, they do; that info did come up in the search I did and it did work that way when I used it; I just was not at all pleased with the delay to equip it while in battle. I tend to wait longer than I should to drink healing/stamina when fighting stuff that's tough, so that delay almost killed me.