Quote Originally Posted by Mattelot View Post
I felt that Warrior gave the smoothest transition however, there are skills from both you will want. By the time you get your cross-action skills, you will be fine just picking up Drk and going with it. I did and did just fine. As a matter of fact, I notice that I play better than 90% of the Drks in DF and some of them have other tanks at 60 and Drk is my only 60 tank. Don't let elitist trolls discourage you.

Awareness is not required. It can help mostly for my Warrior but I've never been in a situation where I thought "wow, I'm glad I had that!"
Given that you are a healer main(well, at least last time I checked...), it's understandable that you've missed the previous points in the endgame where a Tank has to face an enemy that crits 100% or nearly 100% of the time. Back in 2.X there was an add in T11 that had a 100% crit rate and Shiva EX buffed her crit rate when wielding a bow. M1S currently has an add with a 100% crit rate as well. I dunno about stuff after this, as I entered this raid tier a few months late XD

This doesn't even include the auxiliary utility of combining Awareness with abilities that increase Block/Parry. A Crit cannot be blocked or parried so keeping them away ensures that they're able to proc! This of course, as the RNGish elements of Tanking tend to do, especially shines in large pulls.

It's true that Awareness usually isn't a "mwahaha I now take no damage!" cooldown, but it does provide some peace of mind. Even when it isn't a special situation, steadying the rate of incoming damage is legitimately useful.