I'm not understanding the logic behind reaching the hit cap.
At the moment my mage is at 1502 hit rating, with a 2.34% chance to miss on a level 88 mob.
To me, that sounds like a very small number of spells will actually miss. And as a fire mage, trading crit for hit seems like a poor choice for DPS.
Am I missing something?

I've been looking at which offpiece to wear and was wondering what other people were considering? Myself I was thinking about wearing the 4pc T11 tank with the T11 DPS pants as they have hit/mastery.

He did say "slightly behind" in your quote, though keep in mind you can "kind of" sync the proc with cooldowns (trinkets initially as well).

Glad this thread is going, I've been reading it and applying everything to anywhere I've struggled with so far. I've only done heroics and Argaloth (2 healing with myself and a priest) so far.

For this content I feel like mana regen has been more important than throughput so far. But I've taken a semi-balanced approach to stats so far. Any gear without spirit I have reforged spirit onto it, usually at the expense of haste or mastery. I've found that crit just feels right more than mastery. When chain healing the raid on Argaloth, even at around 50% levels non-crits just don't seem to have much effect. I know mastery + crits will be ideal, but at the current gear levels the mana return from crit + throughput "feels" better.

Edit: Cyfir thanks for the spreadsheet, data models like this are awesome for me.

It's not 5 points in my mind considering that the 3 points for Archangel are taken from Inner Sanctum. While being undeniably a good talent it doesn't have much to do with efficiency.

The remaining 2 points for Atonement are a larger investment since they're taken from either Veiled Shadows/Darkness/Inspiration.

Taking Atonement doesn't lock you into a completely different healing style, you can still GH/ToT spam just as you would with your build but you have the option of adding in Smite whenever it makes sense. There are plenty of situations where it can be quite good.

I see what you're saying and it makes sense.

However, using smite five times to take full advantage of Archangel.. Well, is the mana return worth doing that? Smite would effectively replace Heal, but I believed the whole purpose of the GH build was to completely remove that lower-tiered heal to minimize your mana use.

So first of all, you're only smiting when your tank is not in need of a big heal, as a "filler" spell. You can only use archangel every 30 seconds anyway, so you don't need to think of it as your main heal. I basically smite only when Penance, Inner Focus, and Rapture are on Cooldown, the tank is above 70% or so, and no dps are in need of heals.

I understand when you are using it. I just don't feel like the returns are worth it.

Maybe once my gear is better and I'm able to keep a certain percentage of my mana during a boss fight / trash pulls then it may be worth looking into.

However, I do see how the GH/Smite build will probably end up being the build to use at 85.

Edit: I could also see how much Crit would play a part in this build. Not only proccing the bubbles from GH crits but increasing the chance of a much larger heal off of attonement.

/thinking

Ye, rake is stealth "nerfed" (fixed), My dps is a lot lower than it was yesterday when running hc's...pretty big nerf if you ask me can't keep up with hunters and warlocks anymore, even on a stand still fight I do 2 - 3k dps less.

Guys, anybody knows stat values for frost spec?

Given that Hurricane procs off both melee damage _and_ spell damage and Landslide only procs on melee (unless I'm now mistaken), why is Landslide still the forerunner choice for Assassination Rogues?