[dps Warrior] Hit is hugely overrated - Page 6

Axodry · 09/05/07, 1:38 PM

I have limited knowledge due to the extent of how far my guild has progressed, but are there many adds out there like Hellfire Channeler - NPCs - World of Warcraft (Hellfire Channelers) in Mag's lair that are ?? with respect to lvl. That said, wouldn't the amount of hit needed effectively go up for these?

Karakas · 09/05/07, 1:40 PM

Originally Posted by lightstrike

As a "hobbyist" rogue (when I play my alt) I got quite confused when some rogues said in this thread that Combat Potency and Dragonspine Trophy are the reasons +hit is superior to +crit... However, the Combat Potency tooltip clearly states that it procs of *any* successful attack...
Intuitively, this would of course include crits, right? Is there any crit chance penalty for the offhand that is not there for hit chance? What am I missing?

Increasing your crit% does not replace your miss% in your hit table. It instead replaces the hit%.

Let's say you have:

10% miss
30% crit
60% hit
which is 90% "hit + crit"

Increasing your crit by 5% gives you:

10% miss
35% crit
55% hit
which is 90% "hit + crit" still

While increasing your hit by 5% gives you:

5% miss
30% crit
65% hit
which is now 95% "hit + crit"

Now obviously this is over-simplified, but this is essentially how it works. For rogues and combat potency, all they care about is that total "hit + crit"%, so increasing crit will not increase the amount of CP procs that you get.

Grymm · 09/05/07, 1:45 PM

Combat potency is a huge benefit to rogues as every 3 procs is more than 1 sinister strike. Combat rogues would use 5 dps offhands if they could get something in a .2 speed. More energy = more moves = more combo points = more moves. If every fifth offhand hit triggered victory rush, you might be more inclined to get +hit. The comparison of warrior +hit value and rogue +hit value are not very valid.