why dont people cross class awareness?

[Brannigan]

Consider Awareness to be a 5% chance to block 33% damage from an auto attack. Unless paired with Raw Intuition, you shouldn't care about it much. Paladins are stuck with it (and a trait to enhance the badness) but you don't need to subject yourself to it as a Dark Knight. Maybe pick it up if the devs make another fight that has auto crits.

[rawker]

What if SE bumps boss crit rates? I guess the non-believers will start using Awareness.

[dspguy]

Awareness got a bad rap in 2.X since (if I recall), only a few raid bosses actually crit (probably because a crit-ting tankbuster = death from RNG). I think ravensbeak could crit? Maybe? Anyway, because of the lack of raid bosses that crit, few people ever used it. And people got used to the safety net of other abilities (like flash). The main reason I think most people carried flash along was that it:
1. gave you something to do during pacification - GCD going to waste anyway
2. Had a few corner cases where you could hit two adds that spawn too far to hit with OP, but could stand in middle and flash


And that really sums up everything good about flash. Awareness suddenly has a great use though. Raw Intuition is fantastic, even if it did _nothing_ because of the free abandon/wrath stack. Before I realized that awareness nullified the negative side of RI, I'd just pop it and click-off the buff. The stack was all I wanted. But w/ awareness? 20% physical damage down is pretty sweet. Especially if used during a part of a fight where you know the majority of damage is physical, 20% damage down is fantastic, with no risk of crits.

You just need to be aware that the CD on awareness doesn't line up with RI. If you are using RI for the mitigation, be careful if you pop it on CD since awareness won't be up. If you are using it for the stack, pop and click off.

[Galgarion]

Warriors....just go watch Xeno's Guide 3.0 to Warrior tanking...doesn't everyone know by now. That is all you need from one of the very best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUXck-0vh5k

It's a good video, but I think a tank who can figure things out for himself is better off in the long run.