User blog comment:Dettles/How common is Haki in the New World?/@comment-5640399-20130423223115

To answer your first and probably most prominent question, I don't think Haki is overly common, remember Rayleigh said that although Haki EXISTS in all living things, most people could train for there entire lives and never awaken it. Rayleigh says "The act of not doubting, that is power." This is how he describes Haki. It's more than being strong, it's believeing you are strong enough. Most people will flinch away from the sword, will lose out to their fight or flight instincts, and this will stop them developing Haki. Secondly, about the marines and pirates we saw who fainted from Luffy's Haki in Marineford, the only two of them whose identities we know for sure were Mr. 3 and Django, neither what you could call powerful figures, although a few other pirates were also seen to pass out, but not all WB's men can be Commander level or even close. I guess every crew has their Usopp :) Finally, about Brownbeard, you have to remember that to get to the NW, all you hae to do is sail past all the islands in paradise and then past FI, you don't have to stop at every Government facility and Shichibukai's base on the way and start a fight, that's just the way Luffy does things. The pirates in Sabondy who joined up with the Fake Strawhats were all potential NW pirates, but none of them apart from Caribou were really anything special.