{{stub|Precision is one of the core [[attributes]] for [[characters]] in [[Diablo III]]. It governs the other chance of making a [[attributecritical hit]] when your character attacks. All attributes have changed since their original conception. [[Bashiok]]made an announcement[http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=27795769376&pageNo=1&sid=3000#0] pages about these changes on the Battle.net forums on December 20, 2010: <blockquote>'''Precision: Increases crit chance'''<br>- This will be tuned to be comparable in power to Attack increases for the most part.<br>- So why have Precision? Mainly so we can play into it with affixes, runes, and traits. Linking effects to crits gives us another hook for designing skills and gives the player options to create ‘crit builds’ that play different than normal attack builds. Examples of the kind of crit effects we 'could' do (not saying we are, these are examples):<br>- - Cleave crits cause monsters to explode and do damage to those around them.- - Lifesteal could be an ‘on crit only’ affix.<br>- This is a more finesse stat, and we’re fine with that. Most people will want Attack by default, but they won’t mind getting precision.<br>- This stat has no secondary effect.</blockquote> More details on exactly how Precision will work in Diablo III are not been created yet}}known. What is known is that attribute points are not assigned by the player; they are auto-assigned. See the relevant [[Attributes#No Customizable Attributes|section]] in the attributes article. ===History===Originally, Precision was part of [[Dexterity]] which governed your chance to critically strike a target, and so doing more damage. Dexterity also influenced your chance to dodge an attack and lowered the chance that your character will be interrupted by getting hit. '''1 point of Dexterity gave:''' (based on [[classes|Class]])*+x% [[Critical hit|Critical Strike]] Chance*+x% Dodge Chance*Higher Dexterity lowered chance you will be interrupted by getting hit.
