Warrior Cross Class skills

[Cap75]

Sounds like I shouldn't pass up Awareness. Second Wind sounds rather awesome on paper. Not so much in practice?

[Maelwys]

Sounds like I shouldn't pass up Awareness. Second Wind sounds rather awesome on paper. Not so much in practice?

Second Wind just doesn't scale very well in parties and has a long cooldown.
It's not that it's not helpful, just that other stuff is usually more useful.

Mantra (as Bixby says) is also worth a mention - it's the one cross class skill that my WAR still doesn't have available. It can actually be quite helpful in certain fights, not so much as a method of saving YOU, but as a method for buffing AoE healing spikes on the party in things like T2 or T4 enrage... or even Titan EM's AoE phases. Though it's only a 5% buff to healing, it applies to your entire party. Whether or not it's more useful than the other skills? Debatable.

WAR actually has it quite nice - there are a lot of cross class skills to choose from that can be considered helpful depending on the situation; but only Provoke is mandatory.
(Personally I'd put Convalescence in second place with a considerable margin over any of the remaining skills though!!)