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Hit Chance is a very Important stat in WoW forever and it is used by almost all classes with the exception of healers as heals can’t miss.
Your Hit Chance has a huge impact on your DPS (for DPS players) and you ability to generate and maintain threat (for Tanks). However, the system is quite complicated, so in this guide we've broken down how it all works.
How Hit Chance Works In WoW Forever
Put simply, your Hit Chance increases the chance that your spells, abilities and auto-attacks will hit the target. You can also think of it another way: your Hit Chance reduces the chance that your spells, abilities and auto-attacks will miss the target.
Your chance to hit depends on your character level and the level of the enemy you are attacking. The higher the level enemy, the higher the chance you will miss an attack.
Don't Miss This: Missed attacks deal 0 damage.
Your chance to miss is also different depending on if you are using an attack or a spell. In WoW Forever Hit Chance was changed to affect everything, so Hit Chance will affect both spells and attacks.
How Hit Chance Works: Spells
Hitting a target the same level as you with a spell requires a 4% Hit Chance to ensure you never miss. This increases if the enemy is a higher level than you. Raid bosses or skull level targets are classed as 3 levels higher than you, so the amount of Hit Chance needed increases to 17%.
How Hit Chance Works: Melee & Ranged Attacks
Melee attacks work a little differently to spells; you will need 5% Hit Chance to not miss a target of the same level as you, or 8% to never miss a raid boss, however, this is not the only factor at play.
Weapon Skill will affect your ability to hit a target. The higher your Weapon Skill the less likely you are to miss. Using a weapon you are unskilled in will result in a lot more misses. You can always check how much more likely you are to miss in the skills tab of your character sheet.
Dual Wielding requires 24% Hit Chance to never miss with both weapons.
Note: We suspect that even with the Hit Chance cap there will still be a 1% chance to miss, as we've seen before, but we are unable to test this currently.
Glancing Blows
Weapon Skill will also affect whether or not you get Glancing Blows. A Glancing Blow deals reduced damage to a target depending on your weapon skill, you can always check your chance to deal a glancing blow and how much less damage it will deal in the skill tab of your character sheet.
Hit Caps in WoW Forever
The table below shows the amount of hit you need for spells and attacks in WoW Forever for your attacks to not miss. This is assuming you have a maxed weapon skill.
| Attack Type | Same Level | Raid Boss |
| Spell | 4% | 17% |
| Attack | 5% | 8% |
| Dual Wield | 24% | 29% |
How To Reach Hit Cap In WoW Forever (By Class)
Most Classes will have to improve their Hit Chance using gear, for example Stormgard Hood from the quest Ground to Keep in Arathi Highlands provides +0.5% Hit Chance. Most of the gear with Hit Chance is only available from Level 50 and higher.
We have outlined talents that can improve a character's hit chance below.
Druid
Druid have access to the Nature’s Reach talent in the Balance tree, which increases your hit chance by 2% per point.
Hunter
Hunters can gain 1% hit chance per point in SureFooted in the Survival tree. They can also place 2 points in Survival Tactics to get 10% additional hit chance with Traps.
Mage
Mage have Elemental Precision in the frost tree which increases the Hit Chance of Fire and Frost spells by 1% per point. There is also Arcane Focus in the Arcane tree that increase Hit Chance by 1% per point for Arcane Spells.
Paladin
Holy has access to Precision, which increases Hit Chance by up to 3%, and Divine Precision which increases Holy Spells hit chance by 6% per point for a total of 18%, although this is too far down the tree for other specs to make use of it.
Priest
Priests can spec Holy Precision which improves your Hit Chance with holy spells by 6% per point for a total of 18%.
Rogue
Rogue have Precision in the combat tree, which increases Hit Chance by 1% per point for a total of 3%.
Shaman
Shaman has Tidal Focus in the Restoration Tree which grants 1% Hit Chance per point for a total of 5%.
Shaman can also cast Nature's Guidance which increase Hit Chance by 3%.
Warlock
Warlock has Suppression at the start of the Affliction tree providing 1% hit per point for a total of 5%.
Warrior
Warrior has access to Furious Precision which increases your chance to hit with your Off-hand by 4%/7%/10%.
Overall Hit Chance is probably one of the most important stats for doing consistent damage in WoW Forever, as missing a hit deals no damage.
If you don’t want to miss out on other great WoW Forever content make sure to check out more of our WoW Forever guides.
