why dont people cross class awareness?

[ErzaScarlet77]

its amazing on big pulls and especially for warrior, it negates the auto crit from raw intuition

[Paikis]

Um, they do?

[SpookyGhost]

You have 3 mandatory skills in all situations:

1. Convalescence
2. Internal Release
3. Provoke

So, you've got 2 other spaces to fill. The 3 best choices are Second Wind, Awareness, and Flash. In 4mans and A2/A2S, you want Flash + Awareness. In places you don't need Flash (Ravana, A1/A1S, A3/A3S, and A4/A4S) you take SW + Awareness.

Basically, there's no reason not to take Awareness. Flash can be optional in 4mans/A2/A2S, but it's a good safety net to have just in case. Second Wind is half an Equilibrium that you can use in Deliverance, which is really good for a lot of things. Mantra is also an option, but usually not that great. Everything else is garbage.

[RecklessLion]

I haven't leveled up PLD to that state. I've heard it's amazing and works wonders against Shiva. Maybe I'll consider it. Still playing with builds and arranging stats and all.

[ErzaScarlet77]

oh good. some people in my ls was mad at me cuz a newbie WAR asked what to cc and they suggested mantra over awareness like wtf???

[RecklessLion]

I heard mantra was a waste. Not a good enough was the reason.

[Kumori_Kumo]

they suggested mantra over awareness like wtf???

... I mean maybe if you're OTing for a raid with some harsh heal checks, like Odin when he was new?
Otherwise, yeah. Awareness is just, way better. It's the leveling Gladiator to 34 that's the hard part.

[Brian_]

I don't think Awareness is worth taking in some situations.

As someone already stated, your CC skills depends on the fight for Warrior since you have a lot of viable choices. It's a luxury you should enjoy because other classes don't really have a choice.

Ravana is a mix since your job description varies depending on your role. If you're just OTing while full time DPSing outside of soaking Blindings, then I would take Second Wind and Mantra. Mantra helps healers during the stomp phases and SW helps when used after a lot of the mechanics just to help healers out. If you're MTing, then Flash is probably worth taking since you can spam it for aggro generation during seeing phases.

If you're pure DPSing, Awareness is not really worth it since you're just popping Raw Intuition for the stack it gives you and you shouldn't be getting randomly crit by stuff. At least Mantra helps healers a tiny bit.

[SpookyGhost]

The biggest problem I have with Mantra is... it's 5%. Obviously if you're absolutely never tanking anything (like Ravana OT), then it's better than Awareness which would be completely useless (don't think the cleave can crit). But in any fight where you're actually tanking a thing for any period of time, Awareness is better, especially in fights where you're only tanking for a short period since you're getting more use out of Awareness.

Also Flash is pretty garbage even for MTing Ravana. The aggro it generates is minimal and unless you're on the verge of losing aggro, the aggro you generated won't matter.

[Whiston]

Personally if I don't need flash, I usually will take mantra and rarely ever awareness.

Awareness is like a 15 second super parry. Sure it's great when it works, but the odds of taking critical damage in that 15 second period is usually pretty slim, except in the obvious situations where crits are likely.
When you take mantra, although it's only 5% increased healing, at least it's guaranteed to do something.