Bugged Hit Rating on 2H Sword, good for DK

[tomit12]

Found an interesting item where the hit rating on it is bugged, parses for more dps on my DK so might as well take advantage of it.

I was doing Free at Last - Quest - World of Warcraft <--- this quest and I chose the Liberator's Blade (Liberator's Blade - Item - World of Warcraft) as my reward. At the time I was using Axe of Frozen Death (Axe of Frozen Death - Item - World of Warcraft). When I switched from the Axe to the Liberator's Blade, I went from 182 to 282 hit rating. My skill on both weapons was capped, so I found this odd, since my net gain should have only been 36 hit rating.

When I logged out and logged back in I lost 64 hit rating. Unequipped the sword and re-equipping it gave me back the 64 hit rating.

I have tons of hit rating gear and wasn't able to get anything like this to happen, only using the Liberator's Blade, and my DPS on Recount reflects that the hit rating does take effect.

TLDR: The Liberator's Blade (Liberator's Blade - Item - World of Warcraft) from the quest Free At Last (Free at Last - Quest - World of Warcraft) appears to be giving about double its stated hit rating.

Here is a pic of me with my original Axe of Frozen Death:



And here is one with the Liberator's Blade equipped:



Hope this helps someone out there.

[Heftydogg]

Pretty neat, although I only see that much hit useful at end-game. I don't think you'll need that much for any mobs you're going to be hitting while questing. Maybe to eliminate the variable of the armor, if you unequip all of your hit gear and equip the sword, does it still double it's rating?

I would go with the axe for questing just cause of it's stats, but that's a pretty neat trick, so +rep

[MMOtoaster]

Nice found, +rep to you!

[Gbyrd]

yeah remember that when you level your hit rating is going to go down due to scaling so you my lose some of those stats nice find.

[blackfang500]

Nice find, and regardless of how much more important it is end-game, hit rating is a very good stat, its just not vital until you raid.

[Cintx]

nice, +rep

[jubhub1013]

Looks nice

+Rep

[Lextazzz]

nice find+Rep