Precision is one of the core [[attributes]] for [[characters]] in [[Diablo III]]. It governs the chance of making a [[critical hit]] when your a character attacks.

<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.<br>- - 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>

Originally, Precision was part of [[Dexterity]] which governed your a character's chance to [[Critical hit|critically strike hit]] a target, and so doing more damage. Dexterity also influenced your increased the character's chance to dodge an attack and lowered the character's chance that your character will be of being interrupted by getting hit.

*Higher Dexterity lowered Lowered chance you will be of being interrupted by getting hit.