Quote Originally Posted by Paikis View Post
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.
And, for those situations in which you have to build a bit of a cushion, you can just wail on it with a BB combo. The Spiny Plume isn't so fragile that it can't take some enmity generation to the face, and, honestly, it tends to be the best thing for it since you want it to be able to kill it quickly.

If Mantra or Awareness contribute to your success... I don't even know what to say to that.
They'll contribute more than Flash will, which is, admittedly, a *really* low bar, but that's all that it takes to justify taking them instead of Flash. Given the amount of raid damage that goes out in the Ex primals, I've actually found Mantra to be pretty valuable. It's a lot like Foresight: you don't really notice it, but it has an impact.