Thursday, February 5, 2009

A Hidden Secret Rating!

On my way to Stormwind I uncovered something I wish to share. Something so hidden, so secret (by Blizzard) that many of the up and coming level 80 DPS'ers have no idea it even exists. Yes, friends, I'm talking about the Secret Hit rating.

Here's how it works. As DPS we all know that we have to stack our respective skill sets in order to do massive number attacks on the things before us that must die. Whatever your class is, there's a balancing act to address when it comes to what you should stack and how.

One of these things to stack, though it should be at the bottom of your list really since it provides no large numbers that I can think of, is Hit Rating. This little number is Blizzard's way of making sure our numbers don't go too high so the tanks can do their jobs and such.

But what no one knows is that it's linked to a stat that isn't shown on equipment at all! The Secret Hit rating, which for sake of ease, I'll refer to as S-hit rating from now on.

And here's how it works out. For every point in hit rating you get, up to your hit cap, your S-hit rating goes DOWN as a DPS. The less hit rating you have, the higher your S-hit rating. So essentially, it's in all DPS' best interest to stop stacking hit rating completely. It's a win-win situation that Blizz really doesn't want us to know about. We'll have larger numbers when we hit, and a massive S-hit rating that isn't even showing up. And all DPS knows it's about the big numbers.

In the end it comes down to this question, fellow DPS'ers. Do you want to DPS with Hit or do you want to do S-hit damage instead? It's not really a question when you get down to it, eh?

So that's it in a nutshell. I may or may not be around to make more blogs as I've unveiled probably one of the biggest secrets in Blizzard history. Aside from their shameless copying of Boon jokes that they put the name of Chuck Norris in instead. Stealing from me to give to Chuck Norris, really? Like he isn't made of money after all of his Bowflex commercials.