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Both awakenings are pretty trivial. If I remember correctly a counter drain crit goes for about 9k damage and 10k for the second counter (XE, but I'll look at the numbers later).
Add to that 10% damage and you get an additional 900 and 1k damage. In the long run it's pretty much useless.
Same goes for cooldown, that 5 second downtime isn't going to affect much when you can just block, but I often look at the timer to see when I can use it and quite often I use it the moment it goes off cd, especially during Neam's phases.
