Realization on Hit Rating.

[Feider]

I just thought I would share this.

I had only looked up hit cap numbers for my solo mage awhile ago This number for a draenei mage is 342 for raid bosses. I had never looked up the cap for heroics. The cap is TINY! I had no idea. That same mage needs only 53 hit rating to be capped for heroics.

I was just shocked because I assumed the number would have been much higher. I'm tempted to drop some rating now on my boxing team for other stats but I guess I'll still aim for raid cap just in case.

Just wanted to share how incredibly low that numbers are if you plan to only run heroics.

[Whowantstoknow]

Yes there really is.

You need 6% spell hit to have a 100% hit rate vs lvl 82 mobs. You need 17% spell hit against lvl 83 mobs.

As draenai mages already have 4% hit (assuming not arcane here as they have 7%) You only need 2% hit which is 26.23*2 = 52.46 hit rating (rounded up to 53)

vs lvl 83 you would need 13% from gear so 26.23*13 = 341.02 (rounds up to 342)

[Feider]

Yes, I realize that a Draenei mage (frostfire) has a few +hit talents (Heroic Presence:1% and Precision:3%). I was just using it as an example of the difference in hit needed from lvl 82 to lvl 83 mobs. It turns out it's around a 288ish hit rating difference.

Yes there really is.

You need 6% spell hit to have a 100% hit rate vs lvl 82 mobs. You need 17% spell hit against lvl 83 mobs.

As draenai mages already have 4% hit (assuming not arcane here as they have 7%) You only need 2% hit which is 26.23*2 = 52.46 hit rating (rounded up to 53)

vs lvl 83 you would need 13% from gear so 26.23*13 = 341.02 (rounds up to 342)

Yup, that's how I figure also. I'm at work so I cannot link the wowwiki/spellhit page that goes through all the math.

[Bovidae]

For months I have carried extra gear for my 'Heroic' set, which dumped +hit for things like crit and SP. I used this and found a modest decrease in the amount of time heroics took to complete.

I even took this 1 step further, and said "Hey, raid trash is only level 82, too!" So I started wearing this set for trash as well.

But the realization came; that for the miniscule improvement I was observing was completely wiped out by that one time I didnt change back to my full hit gear, and only saw miss miss miss on my logs.

Maybe you'll have better luck than me, and your theories are accurate, but I failed when I tried to implement them.