spell hit on touch by the light?

[Minnerva]

tanking tree gives you touch by the light, gives you 6% spell hit, why if all of our offensive tanking spells use melee hit?

[lythac]

Taunts still uses spell hit.

The Glyph of Righteous Defense got changed, without the 6% spell hit from TbtL we wouldn't be able to get hit cap on taunt for fights it is required without giving up too much avoidance/sta.

Least I'm pretty sure taunts haven't been changed.

[Grehn|Skipjack]

I believe Holy Wrath and Exorcism are on Spell hit also.

[theckhd]

I believe Holy Wrath and Exorcism are on Spell hit also.

And Consecration.

[Awyndel]

Well we would need 11% to cap taunt then. Not something I'm really interested in.

But I am going to be less worried about reforging slightly over the hit cap.

[HammU]

Well we would need 11% to cap taunt then. Not something I'm really interested in.

But I am going to be less worried about reforging slightly over the hit cap.

Actually, if you're at 8% melee hit you will be at about 11% cast hit, since those two dont scale the same way. I can't give you any exact numbers atm, but you definitively will reach the hitcap for your casts, if you're melee hitcapped.

greets

[Awyndel]

Hmm, seems you're right. They scale different. 8.3% melee, 9.7% spell. Still nowhere near the cap though.

[lythac]

Misery and Improved Faerie Fire Still look to increase spell hit chance by 3%. If you don't happen to raid with either a Shadow Priest or Boomkin -

Hopefully a hunter pet can do it as well.

6% from TbtL isn't meant to make capping taunt a given, it just makes it accessible for the one or two fights you might need it by swapping in a couple of hit pieces at the expense of expertise/avoidance/mastery.

Edit - See Kysen's post below

[KysenMurrin]

They may still be in Wowhead's database, but the talents aren't in the talent trees, so you're not gonna se them anywhere in game. 3% hit debuffs are gone.

[Kihra]

Has someone actually tested that taunts are still spell hit? I thought that was something they wanted to change.

[lythac]

News from yesterday -

Protection

* Touched by the Light now increases spell hit by 8%, up from 6%.

Rating per 1% Hit - 120.109
Rating per 1% Spell Hit - 102.446

Spell hit cap rating = (17-8)*102.446 = 922
Melee hit cap rating = 8*120.109 = 960

Melee hit cap will give spell hit cap now.

EJ - Combat Ratings at level 85 (Cataclysm)

[HammU]

Hmm, seems you're right. They scale different. 8.3% melee, 9.7% spell. Still nowhere near the cap though.

Oh, didn't notice that, but it's good to see they changed hat. thx lythac for the infos.

[Gamingdevil]

Hmm, seems you're right. They scale different. 8.3% melee, 9.7% spell. Still nowhere near the cap though.

Oh, didn't notice that, but it's good to see they changed hat. thx lythac for the infos.

I'm pretty sure spell hit has always scaled faster than melee hit.

[Awyndel]

I dont know if taunt is still on the spell hit. It would be pretty unfair to other tanks if we could hit cap them that easily.

[Iliketomoveit]

I dont know if taunt is still on the spell hit. It would be pretty unfair to other tanks if we could hit cap them that easily.

Yup it looks like paladins are the only tanks now who have all taunts using the spell-hit:

Druid
Growl / Challenging Roar School:Physical

Death Knight
Dark Command School:Physical Death Grip School:Shadow

Warrior
Taunt / Challenging Shout School:Physical

Paladin
Hand of Reckoning / Righteous Defense School:Holy