Those 5 rogues you have found are not very typical. I see a lot of dual wielders (fury warriors and rogues) which run around with > 200 hit rating on their gear.
This 24 miss chance also only applies for white damage (that are
those autoattacks from both weapons).
Special attacks only need the normal 5 (against even level mobs) or 9 (against bosses at level 70).
So why would anyone dualwield? Have you ever compared the DPS of a typical 1h weapon and a two hand weapon?.
A 1h weapon has a lot more than half the DPS of a 2h weapon.
Also both weapons get their damage increased from your melee attack power and things like that. Of course the different classes talents make dual wielding very attractive for them. Rogues plainly have no alternative as they cannot use 2h weapons. (But don't be sad for them, they are the top DPS class for single target dps unless they get smashed by the boss).-Hunter FAQ
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This is not a post about whether dual or 2H is better. I know it depends on stats, 2H gives higher stats (typically) while dual gives flexibility. But what I'm wondering is, what is the ideal dual
weild combo to shoot for? The sticky lists recommended epic, non-raid gear but only lists 2H'ers. Are there any end-gamer dual wielders out there?
On a slightly off topic note, I was looking into how Hit Rating works and learned that at maximum weapon skill vs a raid boss, there's a 5 miss rate with a 2H weapon and I'd need a hit rating of 142 to eliminate that. But the article said that with dual wielders, the miss chance goes up to 24 with a corresopnding increase in HR. Now granted with us, that's not a huge issue since we stay at range (though if I need to wing clip to get back to range, I want more than a 3 in 4 chance of hitting). Anyway,
with that type of disparity, why would ANY class want to dual wield? We don't have any 70 rogues in my guild, so I poked around the Armory a bit and of the 5 lvl 70 rogues I found, the highest
hit rating was 67 which doesn't even come close to ensuring a 2H hit, let alone dual weild. -Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
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