I have full access to hit gear and I have 273 with not a single 10+hit gem. Even if that is a test that must be an expensive one, but I doubt it is. The difference between 270-280 hit - 305 hit is very small as far as a DPS inc as far as I've seen. This also brings me to my next little topic. Come 2.3, when we don't have CP, I think hit will become even less effective (Hemo wise). Sure you still want to hit as much as possible and, and you still want SS procs and other things of that nature, but CP being gone is a huge reason for me to lower my hit a bit in exchange for other stats.

Everything seems pretty right in this quote except the word "Very"

I spent a bit of money to raise my +hit a bit for 2.3 without sacrificing too much AP with my gear level. I only have kara and Gruul on farm, and the gear you saw in that armory was for 2.3 raiding. Does anyone think there is something wrong with my 337 hit for 2.3? I usually do 1agi = 1.15 hit = 2 ap - for max RAID DPS... as long as im below the cap (2.3 cap prep)

I don't know if this is old news here, but: Hemorrhage is now 132-133% weapon damage, up from 125%. They patched last night.

You sure that's not just the 4/5 T6 talking? Since that's been known for a couple of weeks.

You're right, my mistake. I didn't remember it changing my tooltips last time I logged in. Oh well!

I would like some feedback on this too, currently i am fist/sword spec Mainhanding Talon of the Phoenix and offhand S2 sword. I'm considering changing to hemo in 2.3 but dont know which direction to go.
Fist/sword doesnt seem viable for hemo (is it?) so i need to know if there is much difference between going fist/fist or sword/sword, or to stay fist/sword.

I'd also be very interested on some feedback regarding this. I might be being somewhat dense and/or stupid, but I'm not able to see where the 4-5% crit from fist spec would be worse than the 8% increased attack power (although, my attack power is only around 1650 currently). Currently, I plan to spec 11/27/23 with 4/5 fist spec and 2/2 WE. Am I misguided in my math (or just not factoring in something that I should be) or would this actually end up being better than the extra 8% attack power?

I'm not a spreed sheet whiz, but I can't see how 8% AP (168 roughly for me) is better than WE 2/2 and 4/5 Sword Spec. Sword spec I think comes out to be 3-4% of my damage on most fights, I don't know how that translates into AP, but add that 3-4% with WE and together those are 2 pretty strong talents. I dunno, I think AP after a certain amount loses its effectiveness per point, but again I'm no spreed sheet whiz.

Damage scales linear to your AP, so far no hardcap has been found, every X points of AP is always worth Y damage, so no, it never loses effectiveness. The only reason not to go for more AP is to bring other stats on par, not because AP becomes less effective. More AP is always better, as long as your hit doesn't suffer and drop below a workable tresshold.

Crit relies on these two, there is a huge difference between critting with 1500 AP or critting with 500 AP. And misses won't crit anyway. But, crit relies slightly more on hitting then on AP. Dagger rogues hit faster, so they sometimes rely a bit more on AP again, to improve their base damage and thus their crits, even if they'd occasionally miss.

Haste takes this even further, it depends very much on the previous three: AP, hit and crit. You can deck out a rogue with tons of haste modifiers, but if he doesn't have much damage to deal from AP in the first place, never crits, or worst of all, never actually hits, then you could try to get his warglave to 1 second speed, but it'd be useless. You'll also already want some crit rate before bothering with this. You're increasing your attackspeed, but crit just is a lot easier to get, you don't want to drop 5% chance in critting to increase your attackspeed by 2% You'd basically drop in DPS by somewhere between 2 and 3 percent.

It's just that at some point, some stat may hardly increase anymore, while another is plenty available. In such a case, you might benefit from dropping one stat by 1 or 2 percent, to raise another by a good amount like 5%. And AP is exactly one of the things where that's the case. In BT for example, it raises only marginally, while there's a lot of haste laying around.

Not exactly. The speed of attacks doesn't have any effect on the overall sustained white damage you do. There's no difference in comparing daggers versus swords in regard to the importance of the stats. (However, the difference in weapon specialization talents does change this somewhat.)

Hit chance and crit chance are NOT directly coupled (i.e., improving one does not make the other more valuable).

I shiv Mind Numb onto healers on Solarian?

I shiv Mind Numb onto the casters in Mag's lair?

I imagine any other healer that isnt immune to mind numb and heals/casts something nasty will get a shiv, too.