sure, you can reach hit cap if you focus only on hit rating gear…but your rap, crit, armor pen, and stam are all going to suffer.

If I put on all of my +hit gear, I can get to over 350 at the moment. There’s a ton, perhaps even an excess, of hit on Hunter gear. All of it is good solid Northrend gear, too, no silly gimmick gear.

It’s not getting hit-capped that’s the problem… it’s getting gear that’s not swimming in hit.

dont forget that brk preaches balance. sure, you can reach hit cap if you focus only on hit rating gear…but your rap, crit, armor pen, and stam are all going to suffer. you might not miss any shots, but the ones that do hit…well, you might as well be using a slingshot.

if you think back to what your gear was like before stepping foot into kara for the first, it was probably relatively low on the hit cap then as well. balance your stats properly and know that as you progress through content, so will your overall dps. youll achieve gear with more hit rating, more crit, more armor pen. there would be little point to advance through end game content if a player could maximize their damage dealing statistics before they were even done leveling to cap…

Let’s just make this simple.

At Level 80 the caps seem to be now:
Base Hit Caps
vs. Level 80 mob: 5.0%, 163.95 HR
vs. Level 81 mob: 5.5%, 180.35 HR
vs. Level 82 mob: 6.0%, 196.74 HR
vs. Level 83 mob: 8.0%, 262.32 HR

there really doesnt need to be much more discussion than this. well done.

I’ve only had opportunity to run 2 heroics thus far so my gear still needs alot of improvement but I was wondering stat wise what I should work on. Using mosly quest reward blues because instances don’t like to drop anything remotely hunter related (1 epic drop I’m using are the leather legs from heroic gun) Using nessingway 4000 and engineering goggles and working on getting the lw cape crafted.

http://elitistjerks.com/f74/t37714-hit_rating/

Basically, as Brigwyn posts, it seems to be 8% now, not 9%. Also worth noting is, apparently, your hit rating is rounded *down* before it makes it to your pet, so 7.99% hit rating for you mean 7% for your pet. Lastly, recent exhaustive testing shows Focused Aim (which grants you hit rating) doesn’t transfer to your pet, making it a very disappointing talent for BM hunters.

But, BRK – why aren’t you running Naxx/Obsidian Sanctum/Eye of Eternity/Vault of Archavon? You’re plenty geared, it’s a load of fun, and there are tons of great loots to be had, even in 10 man

At Level 80 the caps seem to be now:
Base Hit Caps
vs. Level 80 mob: 5.0%, 163.95 HR
vs. Level 81 mob: 5.5%, 180.35 HR
vs. Level 82 mob: 6.0%, 196.74 HR
vs. Level 83 mob: 8.0%, 262.32 HR
Note: Bolded is the current level that BRK is talking about.

Raiders will gear for Raid level mobs, but note BRK is talking about running heroics and gearing appropriatly. Also, by gearing for the mob, your not Overcapped and can think of other gearing strategies like maybe stacking Crit.

Look at the big picture before debating the strategy.

In what ways is WWS back? Does it parse Four Horsemen and Malygos now properly?

Don’t know if you know this, but the boys up at elitistjerks are doing extensive testing, and for the moment it looks like the hitrating fomula has changed. Don’t know how exactly, but it looks like the hit cap is not at 9%, but at 8%. They’ve got numerous WWS reports of people running Naxx with a hit rating around 263 without missing a single shot.

Maybe something to check out on your hitrating experimenting