Hit and Spell Hit rating is a crucial stat for any serious raider as it reduces the chance to miss with your attack. The following guide is to assist you in understanding the hit cap for both melee and spellcasters depending on class and talent specs:
Spell Hit26.232 HR is worth 1% HitInitial spell hit is 17%, which is 446 HR.
This drops to 14% (368) with 3% talents, which most caster classes have, or 13% (342) for a Balance Druid with Balance of Power.
Mages:
Arcane Focus,
PrecisionWarlocks:
SuppressionPriests:
Shadow FocusShamans:
Elemental PrecisionThis drops again to 11% (289) with 3% hit raid buffs (
Imp Faerie Fire from Balance Druids, and
Misery from Shadow Priests).
This drops again to 10% (263) including the Draenei racial (
Heroic Presence)
For Night Elf Balance Druids, who get a 4% talent instead of 3%, this means they only need 9% (236) to hit cap, if grouped with a Draenei, and specced into Imp FF.
Melee HitMelee's a little more complicated. It works out to be
32.79 HR per 1% of hit.
Standard (White damage) melee single wield hit is 8% (263) (So 1h and shield, 2h)
Standard (White damage) melee dual wield hit is 28% (886) (2 1h, or DW 2h with
Titans Grip)
However special attacks (Yellow damage) with dual wield, have only an 8% cap.
So:
Initial melee hit is 8% (263), both single and dual wield, for yellow damage
That goes down to 5% (164) with specific talents below:
Death Knights:
Nerves of Cold SteelHunters:
Focused AimWarriors:
PrecisionThat drops again to 4% (132) for all those classes with a Draenei in party.
With increased talents in other classes, we also have:
3% (99) for a
Rogue with 5/5 Precision.
2% (66) For a
Rogue with 5/5 Precision and a Draenei in party.
2% (66) For an
Enhancement Shaman with 3/3 in Dual Wield Specialisation.
1% (33) for
Enhancement Shaman with their own racial (Alliance only) and 3/3 Dual Wield Specialisation.
I've also been informed that a Rogues Poison's work from the spell cap. I've done a little research on this and it looks like Poisons need 14% (368HR), after accounting for 5/5 Precision, or 13% (342) after Heroic Presence. However similar to spellcasters, poisons will benefit from Misery/IFF, which will lower the poison cap to 11% (289) without Heroic Presence, and 10% (263) with a Draenei in party. Once a Rogue hits this, they'll be capped for both poisons and yellow damage, but white damage will still be uncapped, similar to most dual wield classes.
(Thanks to Dragaei, who let me know poisons used a separate amount.)
Hope this guide will come in handy for you raiders, and eliminate any confusion over hit caps.
Since the launch of the 10man Zul'Aman instance, the Bear Mount have been a sought after land mount for everyone. Obtaining it is another story altogether as it requires clearing the first 4 bosses within 45mins which includes the trash as well. Even with a well geared group this is still a daunting task which is why the Bear Mount is still as elusive as ever.
The following boss fight tactics are based on the current PTR, the final release may vary to a certain extend.
The purpose of this guide is to provide players with a base-line understanding of what heroic dungeons are, why they are important and, most importantly, how to get groups to run them.
Deadly Boss Mods provides boss mods for all raid bosses with status bars for all timers. You can also use its API to write your own boss mods.
Once again this post is very much due to the contribution of Mithan. God bless his soul for all the hard work he has put in to make this info available to us all.
