It’s one thing to be casual and therefore not have all the best gear. It’s quite another to blatantly disregard established facts about your class against a mountain of evidence to the contrary.

One of those “Rate the hunter above you” threads popped up in the forums… A guy responded and put a disclaimer for his toon…

He said he wasn’t convinced that a bunch of hit was needed. He had 100 hit. /facepalm

Facts and evidence outweigh your feelings… Elitistjerks does all the testing you need, but if you need more convincing that hit is important, take the following.

Just for poops and giggles, let’s do some math. This is hit capped… note that there’s some pet misses due to me not being gear-capped, but having the hit talent. For the purposes of this discussion, let’s just talk about the shots themselves. I am since then gear-capped.

He’s at 100 hit, which is about 3 percent. We need 8 percent to cap, so he’s 5 short. Look at the explosive shots on that chart. Averaging 1900 dmg per, with roughly 600 of them, that would mean he would have missed 30, for total damage of about 57,000 damage.

Autoshots, he would have missed about 40, for about 58,800 damage. Steadies, he would have missed about 18k worth of damage, and kill shots, he would have missed out on one for an average of 5k damage.

That’s over 130k missed damage, and that’s not counting multishots, or the pet misses that would come with it. The pet alone would lose out on roughly 80k of damage.

The point is, don’t use recount to “test” established facts about your class, then post to the forums your “findings.” Recount’s not accurate. Do yourself, and your class, a favor and don’t be an idiot. You don’t have to have BiS in every slot, but you dang well should know what the stat priorities are, and you CERTAINLY shouldn’t ignore established, tested, proven fact.