Awareness

So i noticed that they changed the tooltip on Awareness skill from

"Reduces the chance of suffering critical damage by 25%."
to
"Nullifies chance of suffering critical damage."

So is it still the same chance or did it receive a buff?

I haven't really had time to test it but I had been wondering myself... anyone know?

You won't be hit by Critical hits is all. Very useful.

It's useless in the coil though.

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Originally Posted by Ismael

You won't be hit by Critical hits is all. Very useful.

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yes, this was assumed to be the case but it affected your ability to be critically healed. is that still the case?

its fixed, you can receive crits heals now too, winner winner

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Originally Posted by Tiggy

It's useless in the coil though.

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This.

Right now, the only things that can crit you in content-appropriate gear (or overgeared) are trash packs in dungeons. Awareness is worthless on anything that matters. :(

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Originally Posted by Lyndoggy_Dog

its fixed, you can receive crits heals now too, winner winner

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chicken dinner. Thank you ^^

Enemy Autoattacks can Crit, their spells and abilities can't.
Awareness is actually worth using now whenever you're in danger of taking a big nasty hit of damage, and taking an unlucky autoattack hit at the same time might push you over your limit.
I tend to pop it alongside Bulwark, which is also "Chance based" mitigation.

Since you can't see when a Crit "Doesn't happen" you can't really tell when it's working, but its a little extra insurance for normalising incoming damage.

Awareness is reaaaaaaaaaaaal bad, even in its fixed state. At least it doesn't punish you for wanting to see the neat animation anymore.

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Originally Posted by Maelwys

I tend to pop it alongside Sentinel, which is also "Chance based" mitigation.

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How is a flat 40% reduction in incoming damage chance based? Unless you mean like... its possible to use it and it wear out before something big hits you.. but that's just down to knowing the boss rotations well enough.

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Originally Posted by PiedPiper

How is a flat 40% reduction in incoming damage chance based? Unless you mean like... its possible to use it and it wear out before something big hits you.. but that's just down to knowing the boss rotations well enough.

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Pretty sure he means Bulwark, which increases Block chance.

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Originally Posted by Kitru

Pretty sure he means Bulwark, which increases Block chance.

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That. Apologies.
Posting from work, and had a Friday Brain Derp :)

Incidentally, I've been looking rather lustfully at the new Onion Shield's stats. When I get one I *may* end up taking it over the Allagan Round Shield, need to see how the extra Block chance stacks up.

EX Titan, and EX Ifrit are both relevant pieces of content that can chunk you with a crit auto attack. Awareness has a pretty amazing duration, and can be kept up for almost a whole duration of "tanking" in these bosses before you swap. Had a tank get downed by crit auto attack + 1 stack mountain buster on EX Titan the other day. Was pretty funny.

So it is confirmed that it DOES allow critical heals to occur now? Any proof or info on this claim? Because I would finally love to start using it instead of when the healers are dead and I am hoping to stay alive long enough for the boss to die haha.

So for coil its better to have Featherfoot instead of Awareness ?

Sadly paladins cant use featherfoot.

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Originally Posted by Sunah

So it is confirmed that it DOES allow critical heals to occur now? Any proof or info on this claim? Because I would finally love to start using it instead of when the healers are dead and I am hoping to stay alive long enough for the boss to die haha.

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Yes you can be critial heal now.
Wish they put those things on patch notes >_>

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Originally Posted by Menta

Wish they put those things on patch notes >_>

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They did. It was in the bug fixes section.