Originally Posted by
Morthengel
High hit rating will eliminate glancing blows and misses....
Originally Posted by
Morthengel
(You know your chance to miss is linked to glancing blows right? You have a rogue.)
Eh, no. It's literally impossible to remove (or even
affect) glancing blows. WoW's attack table is a
precedence system, and glancing blows, very simply, takes precedence over critical hits and normal hits. It has nothing to do with your chance to miss. Zip, zada, zilch.
The precedence system works in this order:
Miss
Dodge
Parry
Glancing blow (players and pets vs. mobs only)
Block
Crushing blow (mobs only)
Crit
Hit
That order is from Blizzard, by the way, so you may consider it accurate.
As an aside, hit rating works by reducing your chance to miss, not by increasing your chance to hit, though that is usually the end effect. You can also increase your critical hits, however, if your crit strike rating is high enough to be pushed off the table.
In theory, it could be possible to remove glancing blows from the attack table but that would require you to attack with a weapon that you have so little skill in that your chance to miss, and the mob's chance to parry and dodge, would be increased dramatically--but then you wouldn't hit at all.
The current glancing blows mechanics do not allow them to be reduced in any effective manner.