Why bring MNK to anything anymore?

[Odowla]

Most MNK videos I see, they are using mercy stroke.

I mean 1 mercy in a 4 minute parse is like, you can do it once in t10 in less than 4 minutes.. so...

[Ephier]

I mean 1 mercy in a 4 minute parse is like, you can do it once in t10 in less than 4 minutes.. so...

Spike damage on openers skews parses, especially if it crit. Most NIN videos I have seen exclude assassinate entirely. Also, its more like 2~3 mercy strokes. You are giving an example of one fight where that is applicable. T11, no mercy stroke til add phase, T12 no mercy stroke until add phase (unless you are on bennu's but not sure why you would put melee on bennu if you have 2 ranged, given your setup is like this), T13 no mercy stroke until p2.


In the video below the MNK crits a mercy stroke and you can see the spike DPS he got from it. It occurs between 0:20 and 0:23.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVnFWIo1B6E


It's also not really about being able to use it within the first 4 minutes, It's more a matter of using it within the first 30 seconds. Openers play a HUGE part on final DPS in dummy parses.