Merciful Strike

Merciful Strike

4m Range
Fast
Melee Skill
Skill Type: Harmful, Strike
A powerful attack that can only be used on opponents under 20% health.
... (Main-hand) Damage
Cost: [269 at Level 160] Power
Adds 2 to Fervour
• Cooldown: 10s

General Information

Class: Champion

Level: 24

Effects

This skill can only be used on enemies below 20% health.

Skill Interactions

This skill is classified as a Strike Skill. This classification is unique to Champions, and is relevant for several traits.

Trait Interactions

• The trait  Merciful Minded in the Berserker trait tree makes Strike Skills have up to a 15% chance to reset the active cooldown of this skill and apply Merciful Minded to the Champion, which temporarily removes the health threshold for this skill.
• The trait  Quick with a Blade in the Martial Champion trait tree makes this skill restore the Champion's Morale, but increases the power cost by 200%.
• Specializing in The Berserker trait tree makes this skill apply a stack of Emboldened Blades, increasing the critical chance of the next  Remorseless Strike up to 5 times.
• The set bonus  Emboldened Blades Increase makes Emboldened Blades additionally increase  Remorseless Strike's Damage and Critical Multiplier.
• The set bonus  Precise Strikes in the Berserker trait makes this skill apply or tier up Precise Strikes on the Champion, up to 5 stacks, and upon Critical Hits, generates 1 Fervour.
• The trait  Deep Strikes in the Berserker trait tree makes this skill apply Deep Strikes to the enemy target upon Critical hit.
• The trait  Vicious Strikes in the Berserker trait tree increases the critical chance of this skill by up to 10%.
• The trait  Strong Armed Swings in the Berserker trait tree increases the damage of this skill by up to 10%.
• The trait  Deadly Strikes in the Berserker trait tree increases the critical multiplier of this skill by up to 25%.
• The set bonus  Renewing Strikes in the Berserker trait tree makes this skill have a 15% chance to restore 3% of your maximum Morale.

Tracery Interactions

• Merciful Strike Damage increases the damage of this skill by up to 38.5%.

Armour Set Interactions

Lower-level Armour Sets
Level 150
Equipping 2 pieces of the Umbari Armour of the Lion armour set acquired from the Depths of Mâkhda Khorbo Raid increases the damage of this skill by 5%. Equipping 4 pieces of the Umbari Armour of the Lion armour set replaces this skill with  Punishing Blow. Equipping both pieces of the Insignia of the Shagâni Warrior jewellery set acquired from the Legacy of Morgoth Instance Cluster increases the damage of this skill by 3%.

Tactical Information

This skill is a core damage skill for Champions, especially in Red-line when Merciful Minded is traited. Prioritize using this skill whenever it comes off cooldown.