Quote Originally Posted by Kitru View Post
That's no use on the Spiny Plume. When Spiny Plume spawns, it picks someone and dumps something like 100k enmity on them. The only way to get the Spiny to look at you with with Provoke.
And when the person picked is a healer, you WILL need to do more than just Provoke it. Granted this happens only rarely, but I have lost the spiny to the other tank a couple times... god knows why, but it happens.

Quote Originally Posted by Kitru View Post
Because the resource it consumes is the CC slot. You're taking Flash for redundant enmity and arbitrary Pacification filler as if either of those matters when you could be taking abilities that actually *will* contribute to success. Mantra and Awareness are both going to do more for you than Flash will. It doesn't matter whether Flash uses MP or not because, even if it cost literally nothing instead of practically nothing, it still wouldn't contribute as much as either of those CDs.
If Mantra or Awareness contribute to your success... I don't even know what to say to that. Mantra is a joke. 5% more healing is practically nothing. It is literally not worth using except as a throw-away ability that you use on cooldown. Awareness has minor utility for preventing crits after spikes, but again it shouldn't be saving your bacon, and you'll never know if it did. having said that, Awareness is a good contender for the 5th CC slot just because all the other options are so lack luster.