Quote Originally Posted by Launched View Post
Yeah, obviously Mercy Stroke because it actually does damage.
That's looking at the skill inside a bubble of only the tanks dps. If you head on over to fflogs and look at the #1 drk for brute justice it's easy to see why. Brute justice offers almost ideal circumstances for using mercy stroke, with lots of different things to kill spaced out fairly regularly so you can use mercy stoke almost throughout the whole fight instead of the last 20%. The top drk used mercy stroke 6 times (the equivalent to spending over 7.5 minutes in last 20% over a 12 minute fight) for a total of about 6.5k damage. Had the drk used bloodbath off cd and been able to get the whm only 3 more stone III over 8 uses, due to mp efficiency and gcd usage, the damage return would have been higher.( stoneIII 3*2.4k =7.2k).