Poster: Morvisha at 3/15/2006 9:07:24 AM PST
Subject: What does "chance to hit with spells" mean? |
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I picked up a staff in a Warlock quest that gives me an additional 1% chance to hit with spells. The problem is, I didn't know spells ever missed. Sure, I've seen my Hunter miss with arrows/bullets (always at the *worse* possible time, of course), but I've never seen one of my Warlock's spells actually *miss". Someone told me that it actually was referring to decreasing the chance that your spells would be resisted, and another person said it was the same as increased crit chance. I am sure the latter is wrong, since crit chance is worded differently, and I have no reason to believe the former is true, at least it could be worded more clearly.
Would someone provide me with the definitive answer on this please?
Thanks.....C. Acord
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Poster: Tseric at 3/15/2006 9:13:12 AM PST
Subject: Re: What does "chance to hit with spells" mea |
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Every spell school has a base 4% chance to be resisted fully. Most(all, except Holy) spell schools have resistances which can increase the chance of partial or full resists. The "chance to hit with spells" decreases the chance of a full resist.
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Poster: Tseric at 3/15/2006 9:24:14 AM PST
Subject: Re: What does "chance to hit with spells" mea |
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Q u o t e:
Either it's changed within the last patch (haven't played in a while, don't have time to check right now) or you are wrong. It's a relatively simple matter to verify that Onyxia (and I'm sure there are others) has holy resistance: ANY partial resist on holy smite (and she manages that often enough) implies resistance stat, as that is the only way to get partial resist. (not the same as SoComm tho, which can also gain partial resist by weapon skill vs defensive skill and an analogous system to the "glancing" physical blows)
I was referring more to resistances as applied on player items. Holy is the only school that does not have + resist as an item stat ;)
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