Gloomfire said:
So what exactly is the Mage hit cap?
It's dependant on several things, but the base spell miss chance is 17% against a skull level (raid boss) mob. This is
446 hit rating, assuming you have absolutely no buffs and are all alone without a group.
However, spec and raid composition alter that somewhat:
* You can obtain 3% hit from Frost Tier-2 talent Precision.
* You can obtain 3% hit to Arcane spells from Tier-1 Arcane talen Arcane Focus (this is useless to a FFB Mage, of course)
* The debuff from a Shadow Priest's Misery talent or Moonkin's Improved FF increases your spell hit to that target by 3%.
* An Alliance party that includes a Draenai in the group gains 1% passive hit from Heroic Presence.
If you managed to get all four of these (de)buffs, which if you are specced Arcane and in a raid group, is not difficult at all to obtain, you need 184 hit rating to hit the cap. Because you may or may not be Arcane and may or many not have some of these talents it becomes more difficult to say exactly what it is for you without seeing it.
Here's a chart (left side is your miss chance, right side if spell hit cap based on that hit cap. Subtract the percentage you gain from the above four buffs/debuffs that you have access to from 17 to get your miss chance)
Miss Spell Hit Required
1% 26.23
2% 52.46
3% 78.70
4% 104.93
5% 131.16
6% 157.39
7% 183.62
8% 209.86
9% 236.09
10% 262.32
11% 288.55
12% 314.78
13% 341.02
14% 367.25
15% 393.48
16% 419.71
17% 445.94
