Originally Posted by Mooks

I've noticed a disturbing trend when looking through the profiles of the best fury warriors on many different servers: hit rating above 250 and crit % below 26%.. In zerker.

For the longest time I looked at these profiles and agreed. "You can't hit, you can't crit" I kept thinking to myself. But the fact of the matter is that with the glancing blow change, the crit cap is no longer an issue. Attack from the back like a reasonable dpser, and the crit cap will be 100 -24.6 -5.6 -5.6 -25= 39.2%, without any hit at all!

So the question is this: with the crit cap essentially a non-issue, how do we value hit % against crit%. I believe that any hit rating past 5% (8% with precision), the point where it stops affecting your special attacks, is somewhat of a waste. The reason for this is twofold:

1. Hit % past this point only affects your white damage.

2. As gear improves further, the fraction of our dps that is white will decrease. More heroic strikes as a result of more and more rage.

Even using the gear of a fairly baseline dps warrior, such as myself, we see that about 50% of his damage is yellow, and 50% is white. Since hit rating only affects the white portion of this damage, we can tentatively say that 15.8 hit rating equals a .5% increase to dps. And since crit rating affects both the white and yellow portions of this damage, we can say that 22.1 crit rating equals a 1% increase to dps.

Both of these percentages ignore the benefit that increased damage, and thus increased rage, can give a warrior, but since that benefit is the same in both cases it is irrelevant for comparison.

By this logic, 31.6 hit rating is approximately equivalent to 22.1 crit rating, even though the stats are itemized in a 1/1 ratio. This says to me that past that initial 8% with precision, crit rating is by far the superior stat. Would love to hear some feedback on this, agreement or disagreement.