Quote Originally Posted by Paikis View Post
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.
Quote Originally Posted by Kitru View Post
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.
Sounds like trying to pick the least rotten apple at the bottom of the barrel.. Lol