All Paladins and Healers PLEASE Read!!! Awareness BUG

[Swordthane13]

I made a Topic in the Bug Report section of the forums you all should take a look at and read as all of you should know Awareness Nullify s the chances of sustaining critical damage for 25 Seconds.

After many hours of testing with multiple healers Awareness does not only stop critical damage but also prevents the paladins from getting critical heals for the 25 seconds awareness is up.
I personally tested it with a whitemage and a sch.
The Sch having higher crit chance then the White-mage.

The SCH Could not crit me for 25 seconds at all but could crit me with-in 25 seconds multiple times when Awareness was not up.

The WhiteMage has a Spell that can proc to grantee Crit with cure III With awareness up it does not crit the paladin what so ever.
Again please test this for your self and make a post on the In Game bug sections of the forums.

Swordthane
Ethereal Knights
Adamantoise

[DartFx]

Good find.

[Zoomie]

Yeah this sucks and its been going on for a while now. I used to use a foresight/awareness macro but have taken awareness out of my arsenal of cooldowns entirely at this point.

[Leiron]

It would be hilarious if they said "Working as intended" because th tooltip should have been written as "prevents all crit healing/ crit damage taken."

[MithrasInvictus]

Yup. That got me killed trying to retain control of a situation in WP. What an absolutely useless ability. I'm not going to try to nullify critical damage if I'll just end up dying when a critical heal lands on me for zero.

[Zoomie]

Yup. That got me killed trying to retain control of a situation in WP. What an absolutely useless ability. I'm not going to try to nullify critical damage if I'll just end up dying when a critical heal lands on me for zero.

It doesn't make you "immune" to the effect of whatever crit. It simply makes all incoming effects non-crit.

[Garnatian]

Eh, even if it weren't bugged (probably is) it still has it's uses when the crit chance of damage is higher than the crit chance of heals, i.e. multiple mobs.

[Swordthane13]

Would Running Awareness with convalescence help off balance? You would not get your crits still but you would get your higher heals.