raiding decisions regarding hit rating.Follow

Armory has you at 3.55% hit. Hit cap is 9%. 9% - 3%(surefooted) - 3.55% = 2.45% below cap.

Level engineering, the helm adds a nice chunk to hit. As I've said 3 times now, hit has become the most important stat for basically every dps class in the game (whether melee or caster). So short answer, until you're at cap, yes its worth it to lose a little AP for hit, if you're going into raids.

I have an additional question though... why tank imp hunter mark (which is more often useless than not, if anyone else has it, or you don't have many melee in the raid) and not take combat experience, which increases your AP, Crit, Mana, and Mana regen all for 2 talent points. Not only that, wouldn't it also increase the int you get which would then increase your AP even more with careful aim?

Well, this isn't actually strictly true. More accurately, "hit is the most important stat for every DPS class until it stops effecting 100% of their attacks"; for Rogues it's huge the entire way, but for other classes where Hit continues to have effect past the special-attack cap (DW Fury Warriors, Enhance Shaman) it's generally inferior to other stats.

With that said, as a Hunter up until you reach the cap Hit is about 40% better than any other stat. It is, in fact, huge; if you want to justify it to yourself, just translate the 20 Hit Rating into 28 Crit Rating and figure out if you'd wear the item or not.

I used to have a really hard time remembering hunter's mark, but there are a few ways to make sure that it's always up. I bind hunter's mark to my 1 button, because I have pet attack bound to alt 1 (ctrl just isn't very natural, imo). This allows me to just send in my pet, and hit hunter's mark almost at the same time. I also added the line /cast hunter's mark to my trinket macro, since HM has a 2 minute duration, and most trinkets have a 2 minute cooldown. Also, if you use the UI mod Xperl, you can set your Debuffs to be twice as large as other Debuffs, so it's easier to notice when it's either not there, or about to wear off.

Okay, back on topic. I believe that the highest level trash in Kara is level 72, which you only need 6% hit for. So you're fine for the trash mobs. However the bosses do need 9%. If you're within 20 points of 95, I suggest taking along some Spicy Hot Talbuk for boss fights.

It shouldn't take you very long to get a few pieces with hit rating on it. You can easily get another 15-20 hit by either grinding arenas or getting that last little bit of honor hold rep to get the rep polearm.

And at least enchant your gloves, chest and boots. They're well worth it. Even Savagery on your weapon would be worth it.

So what is the hit cap for a BM huunter. I keep reading that you need to cap...but what is the actual number to get?

since 1% hit is technically something stupid like 15.77 points, it's argued that it's somewhere between 142 and 144. Honestly, even if you're at around 135-140, you're okay. 0.5% chance to miss a raid boss is nothing to cry about.

THERE IS NO ESCAPE

oh yes, there is - it is sitting in the top left corner of my keyboard ;]

well until the next patch an easy way to get 3-350 arena points weekly, even with 10 losses is to abandon, and reform your 5v5 every week, u will start back at 1500 rating. My guild has a team of alts that we do this on, if you get 10 people, its like 20g per week.

yeah that sounds slightly painful. Do you get more arena points a week from more matchs? I still haven't figured it out completely. I have only been in an arena team actually doing it for 3 weeks now. (if that)

It seems like My first set of arena points were not far off my second set... when I won 11 out of 19 the first time through... the second week I only won 2 out of 10 as we didn't have our healer... otherwise preocupied. Or is it just because the points were not split up as much amongst the team?

MY first weak everyone but 1 person had done 10 arena matches. the second week... only 3 people did our 10 matches and said hell with it.

Ok so if my teams rating goes into the dirt does that mean I should get a different team in order to maintain a decent amount of points?

This team... that prolly won't happen... We always get the unlucky meeting of groups with full s3 gear with mabye the exception of the shoulders. It seems the team either hires a S3 to help raise their rating or... they intentionally lowered their rating to get some easy wins...

After reading about it doesn't matter if you win or lose... then I am going to believe the prior is true.

LOL like the arena team "strippin for epics"?

Thanks ItsaGaAs. now i wont feel so bad wearing a little extra hit gear.