STAFF Showdown: Mercurial Blow Vs Precise Strike! Who takes home the Prom Queen?

In one corner you have Mercurial Blow, 3 sec recharge, 1 sec Cast, Can slot an Achilles proc. In th other you have Precise Strike, 6 sec Rec, 1.18 cast, stuns?.

Unfortuntately I don't have access to the damage numbers...

Which is the better choice? Only one of them can take my build to the prom.

From the sounds of your post, you already sound pretty in favor of Mercurial blow. I wasn't sure on taking the stun myself.

I am certain precise Strike has better DPS with its similar cast time. but I don't know how much difference the Achilles would make on Mercurial blow in regard to overall DPS.

I'd say it depends on your secondary. If you could stack the stun, say from Oppressive Gloom, that would be useful. OTOH, the Achilles proc could be pretty darn useful too.

My answers is:

"Don't be Silly! You take Both of them!"

Be Well.
Fireheart

I have them both on my test scrapper, but I will say that MB's 3 sec recharge and 1 sec cast is VERY nice early on when you don't have many attacks.

I will probably ditch PS for a pool power as it is already unnecessary to my attack chain at 22.

It is an easy question for me. Keep Mercurial Blow because it'll be the one I'm forced to take as a tanker!

What's the total chain you want to run minus those?

Mercurial Blow recharges and animates so quickly that early game my attack chain has been

MB - Guarded Spin - MB - Eye of the Storm. This can be done on a Scrapper/Brute by level 6. Before you even have Staff Mastery.

In my experience, I don't see a point to Precise Strike unless you need another place to put Kinetic Combat for softcap.