Dual Wield and + Hit

Just a few weeks ago, I decided to dust off my shaman and get him going again. At level 20, the new patch of WoW gives you tremendous bonuses to grind from a riding mount to Relic gear to XP reduction on pre-60 levels. IMHO the most beneficial things to have while levelling are the 2 piece Relic Armor, a Relic weapon, and a high level "buddy".

I took the Enhancement tree to spec before level 80 and the dps has been really great lately. The combat is very intense and visceral, instead of casting 3 dots and fear or Pyroblast and Fireburst. Totem layout and mana recovery being your biggest steady state issues. Afterwards, it's gearing up correctly. The first big hurdle is level 40 = Dual wield.

By level 30, you get your windfury weapon enchant and your windfury totem. Lava Lash is a talent that gives 100% of your offhand weapon damage instantly every 8 seconds. If your offhand is enchanted with Flametongue, you get 125%. I have a slow offhand weapon and was using the PvP Relic dagger. My dps at level 40 was a respectable 69 dps. Getting a slow mainhand works GREAT with Windfury effects. I got a second Relic Mass of McGowan. I enchanted it with Crusader and jumped up to 96 DPS.

Now my only problem is that I'm missing everything I'm attacking. Missing horribly. Nothing could be worse on scrolling combat text and my Recount than Miss, Miss, Miss, Hit, Miss, Miss, Glancing Blow, Miss, Miss. Wow Dual wield sucks. Maybe I sucked. Time to fix things!

I swapped some gear around and got more +hit. Getting more +hit is actually VERY difficult at lower levels. Nothing has gem slots. The first few talent points after Dual Wield must be placed into your three "Accuracy" talents that give +hit. Re-spec if you haven't done this already. Looking at the DPS charts = Pro hint. DPS charts are entirely for YOUR benefit. I don't like to link charts. They're for me to see the fight. Even on my hunter rocking more than 6k DPS on some fights... it's just not cool. So, looking closely, my dps chart gave me a 25% miss chance against level 42-44 mobs at Level 40. The opponents are higher level. They naturally dodge and parry more. It's an uphill battle. I'm probably killing them more with Lightning shield than my own weapon / spell damage. I have to fix that.

Take your +hit talents. Get the +hit necklace made from Jewelcrafting ( Lev 39 crafted item). Hunt down any +hit items. I wound up getting the Mail legs from Marudon, the DPS ring from Princess Theladras, and some +8 hit mail gloves from the AH. All this trimmed my miss percentage to below 10% and my dps from 96 to 250. What a huge jump!