Mercy Stroke

[Rhad]

Please do something else with it. We don't use it for dmg.

You can have fun with it. Make it a curse that if the target dies within 2 or 5 seconds you get the heal. You can even remove the damage or make it a brief dot with just a couple of seconds and if the target dies while the dot is going you get healed.

[Vactus]

I use it for DMG. It's off GCD so it's not even a problem to add to rotation.

[Rhad]

I use it for DMG. It's off GCD so it's not even a problem to add to rotation.

I meant to address the healing component. More often than not you will use Mercy Stroke and the target will die a second later or a split second before you trigger the ability.

Yeh I use it in rotation the once in a blue moon it's up like I would brutal swing if I don't need stuns but it really is a waste of space at end game but I do remember using from lvl1-40 if I was soloing and in a tight spot. Gotta remember its not just endgame people playing the game. But I do agree a debuff would be better than the kill shot.

It is great for soloing, I used it myself, but trickier to use in a dungeon.

[Nathan061111]

Yeh I use it in rotation the once in a blue moon it's up like I would brutal swing if I don't need stuns but it really is a waste of space at end game but I do remember using from lvl1-40 if I was soloing and in a tight spot. Gotta remember its not just endgame people playing the game. But I do agree a debuff would be better than the kill shot.

[Seidaku]

I just use it for dmg and dont even try or care to use it for the heal. Waste of time to save it and hope for the right moment.

They should increase the dmg from it however to make it actually good. I would say easily change the heal off of it since that is just stupid and make it a nice 500 potency attack.
I have yet to see a time on any mob or boss where you can use it more than twice, probably 95% of the time it is a single use ability, so it is not overpowered by any means.
Also it is a shared skill with melee dps so it should be useful to them rather than some stupid fluff that they can choose to simply ignore.

[Vactus]

True enough.

[Amyas]

I get two or three successful uses of it in a wp run on trash mobs. They should either buff the damage it does, or give it a bleeding debuff for about 20 secs with the same hp restoration if it dies while the debuff is active, whether you're the one to kill it or not. That said its free dps when you can use it, and if you're lucky may take a tiny load off your healer I guess.

[Gooner_iBluAirJGR]

I get two or three successful uses of it in a wp run on trash mobs. They should either buff the damage it does, or give it a bleeding debuff for about 20 secs with the same hp restoration if it dies while the debuff is active, whether you're the one to kill it or not. That said its free dps when you can use it, and if you're lucky may take a tiny load off your healer I guess.

This guy is smart. <3

[Maqaqa]

give it a bleeding debuff for about 20 secs with the same hp restoration if it dies while the debuff is active, whether you're the one to kill it or not.

I like this.
In its current state Mercy Stroke is like a minigame you can play in WP: lets see if i can make it work on next pull! Damn the BLM got the kill once again >.< no heals for me!

[Grembo]

It's fine as it is apart from the lengthy cooldown.

I've posted this elsewhere but you should try and macro mercy stroke to each party of your enmity rotation with a small delay on it, like this all you have to do is spot an enemy with low enough hp and tab target or click them and boom the enemy dies and you get the healing bonus.

Works fine on my PLD, WAR and MNK even in end game.