WoW: The Burning Crusade revamps combat rating system

If you were the first to learn about the new combat ratings system in WoW: The Burning Crusade forums, we won’t wonder if you’re just as perplexed as we are. After all, Blizzard seemed to have messed up the level 60 and level 70 differences in the combat stats that it now looked far complex for anyone to get the hang of. Yet, we agree with a commenter who said that your gear will have to get replaced in order to keep your stats up. If not, Blizzard would have to increase the bonuses on higher level gear just so everyone would find them valuable enough to acquire.

Here’s a rundown of the specific points of the rating system for level 60:

• Weapon Skill Rating: 2.5 rating grants 1 weapon skill
• Hit Rating: 10 rating grants 1% hit chance
• Spell Hit Rating: 8 rating grants 1% spell hit chance
• Critical Strike Rating: 14 rating grants 1% critical strike chance
• Spell Critical Strike Rating: 14 rating grants 1% spell critical strike chance
• Haste Rating: 10 rating 1% haste
• Spell Haste Rating: 10 rating grants 1% spell haste
• Defense Skill Rating: 1.5 rating grants 1 defense skill (And for every 25 defense, you gain 1% dodge, 1% parry, 1% block chance,  1% decreased chance to be hit, 1% decreased chance to be critically hit.)
• Dodge Rating: 12 rating grants 1% dodge
• Parry Rating: 20 rating grants 1% parry
• Block Rating: 5 rating grants 1% block chance
• Resilience Rating: 25 rating grants 1% resilience (Which reduces your chance to be critically hit by 1% and reduces the damage of criticals by 2%)

Learn about the level 70 rating system after the jump!

If you were the first to learn about the new combat ratings system in WoW: The Burning Crusade forums, we won’t wonder if you’re just as perplexed. After all, Blizzard seemed to have messed up the level 60 and level 70 differences in the combat stats that it now looked far complex for anyone to get the hang of. Yet, we agree to one commenter has said that your gear will have to get replaced in order to keep your stats up. If not, Blizzard would have to increase the bonuses on higher level gear just so everyone would find them valuable enough to acquire.

Here’s a rundown of the specific points of the rating system for level 60:

• Weapon Skill Rating: 2.5 rating grants 1 weapon skill
• Hit Rating: 10 rating grants 1% hit chance
• Spell Hit Rating: 8 rating grants 1% spell hit chance
• Critical Strike Rating: 14 rating grants 1% critical strike chance
• Spell Critical Strike Rating: 14 rating grants 1% spell critical strike chance
• Haste Rating: 10 rating 1% haste
• Spell Haste Rating: 10 rating grants 1% spell haste
• Defense Skill Rating: 1.5 rating grants 1 defense skill (And for every 25 defense, you gain 1% dodge, 1% parry, 1% block chance,  1% decreased chance to be hit, 1% decreased chance to be critically hit.)
• Dodge Rating: 12 rating grants 1% dodge
• Parry Rating: 20 rating grants 1% parry
• Block Rating: 5 rating grants 1% block chance
• Resilience Rating: 25 rating grants 1% resilience (Which reduces your chance to be critically hit by 1% and reduces the damage  of criticals by 2%)

For level 70, the rating system looks like this:

• Weapon Skill Rating: 3.9 rating grants 1 weapon skill
• Hit Rating: 15.8 rating grants 1% hit chance
• Spell Hit Rating: 12.6 rating grants 1% spell hit chance
• Critical Strike Rating: 22.1 rating grants 1% critical strike chance
• Spell Critical Strike Rating: 22.1 rating grants 1% spell critical strike chance
• Haste Rating: 15.8 rating grants 1% haste
• Spell Haste Rating: 15.8 rating grants 1% spell haste
• Defense Skill Rating: 2.4 rating grants 1 defense skill
• Dodge Rating: 18.9 rating grants 1% dodge
• Block Rating: 7.9 rating grants 1% block chance
• Parry Rating: 31.5 rating grants 1% parry
• Resilience Rating: 39.4 rating grants 1% less chance of being struck by any type of critical strike, and 2% less damage taken from critical strikes

Some of your questions may have been answered, but we’re pretty sure there are more questions that are left unanswered. We’ll be bringing you more updates as they come, so stay tuned.