Weapon skill affecting Hit in a questionable way

[sinusei]

Can anyone confirm the statements listed in http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Weapon_skill are also valid on Nostalrius:

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If your weapon skill is LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO the mob's Defense skill (the mob's level * 5)
    The base chance for your attack to miss the mob:
        If the difference between the mob's Defense Skill and your Weapon Skill is less than or equal to 10 then the formula for calculating your base miss chance against that mob is: 5% + (Defense Skill - Weapon Skill)*.1%
        If the difference between the mob's Defense Skill and your Weapon Skill is greater than 10, then the formula for calculating your base miss chance against that mob is: 6% + (Defense Skill - Weapon Skill - 10)*.4%


These statements essentially say that by adding the first 5 weapon skill you also reduce your miss chance by 2%.
This would mean 300 -> 305 yields a much greater DPS benefit than 305 -> 310 against bosses.

[Undertanker]

That is correct. You get less that one more hit from 305 - 310. But still.helps with white hit glancing blows

[sinusei]

Thank you.

[justclassic]

Can anyone confirm the statements listed in http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Weapon_skill are also valid on Nostalrius:

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If your weapon skill is LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO the mob's Defense skill (the mob's level * 5)
    The base chance for your attack to miss the mob:
        If the difference between the mob's Defense Skill and your Weapon Skill is less than or equal to 10 then the formula for calculating your base miss chance against that mob is: 5% + (Defense Skill - Weapon Skill)*.1%
        If the difference between the mob's Defense Skill and your Weapon Skill is greater than 10, then the formula for calculating your base miss chance against that mob is: 6% + (Defense Skill - Weapon Skill - 10)*.4%


These statements essentially say that by adding the first 5 weapon skill you also reduce your miss chance by 2%.
This would mean 300 -> 305 yields a much greater DPS benefit than 305 -> 310 against bosses.

I can't tell you how it works on nost as I never saw any code but what you linked is not how it worked in vanilla.

If you want to use wowwiki as a source make sure to use old posts from vanilla, they are much more accurate than those from later expansion if we talk about vanilla content.

http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Weapon_skill?oldid=382309

[Stalk]

I can't tell you how it works on nost as I never saw any code but what you linked is not how it worked in vanilla.

Exactly... it worked the following way:

When a player or other mob attacks a mob, the change in miss chance is 0.2% per rating difference if that rating difference is 11 or more. If the rating difference is 10 or less then the change in miss chance is 0.1% per point.

Source: http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Miss?oldid=347939