Glyph of Taunt and Misery reduce that down to 6% spell hit (which is 4.8% melee hit, 158 hit rating). This behavior can vary … Taunt will direct the target's attention from whoever it is on, onto the caster of taunt. Hit rating will not garentee taunt to land but I’d definitely not recommend spell hit. Hello, so I didn't manage to make it to 60 when WoW was first released but have tanked consistently since BC until 8.0.1. I believe you will find taunt counts as a spell. Hit refers to physical damage that occurs as a result of an attack made with melee or ranged weapons. I am planning on leveling a Warrior to tank the classic content and I'm having some trouble understanding what gear is appropriate. So even if you were melee hit capped (263 hit rating at level 80), Taunt's chance to miss was still 9%. Assuming you are warriors you will have taunt, challenging shout and mocking blow to cycle between. Taunt is a spell and uses spell hit which is 25% more generous than melee hit with regard to rating conversion. It is unusable while silenced and for naxx there is a reason the 4 set is recommended for the 4 horsemen. The base chance to miss with maximum weapon skill against an opponent of equal level is 5% for two handed and 24% for dual wield. . Prior to this, Taunt is treated as a spell. Threat vs Aggro Aggro* is defined as the condition of a particular mob** attacking a particular player, whereas threat is defined as the numerical value that each player generates through items, spells, damage, casting beneficial buffs and removing harmful debuffs during an encounter which the mob(s) will use to determine which player(s) to attack. Threat wise, this seems to put the warrior at the top of the list, but will not keep it there. It could't be cast when silenced and it had a 17% chance to miss raid bosses (in contrast to the 8% chance to miss boss mobs for melee attacks). Hit Rating and Tanks - Classic WoW question. Usually, a warrior, though druid bears have a similar spell. You will need 17% spell hit to become taunt capped against a boss.