Hunter DPS Attributes and Stat Guide - WoW Classic

By Sh3rro Updated: 2025/03/20

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Strength determines the physical power of your character. A high strength improves your attack power. Strength is also a determining factor in how much damage you block if you use a shield. Rogues and hunters only use a partial value of strength to determine their power. - World of Warcraft Game Manual, 2004

For a Level 60 Hunter:

1 Strength = 1 Melee Attack Power

Agility

Agility improves your armor rating, your chance to dodge an attack, and your chance to score a critical hit with a melee or ranged attack, thus dealing increased damage. Rogues and Hunters also use agility, in combination with strength, to determine their attack power. - World of Warcraft Game Manual, 2004

Rogue

Agility increases the chance of a critical hit with melee and ranged attacks. The amount of the increase is dependent on both class and level. For most level 60 character classes, approximately 20 points of Agility will increase your critical hit chance by approximately 1%. Rogues require 29 Agility for an additional 1% critical hit chance, and Hunters require 53 Agility for an additional 1% critical hit chance, but both of these classes also gain attack power from agility, and the items available to them typically have much higher amounts of Agility.

Agility increases the chance to dodge an attack. The amount increased is dependant on both class and level. For most level 60 character classes, approximately 20 points of AGI will increase your chance to dodge by approximately 1%. Rogues only require 14.5 AGI for an additional 1% dodge chance. Hunters require 26.5 AGI for an additional 1% dodge chance, but Hunters typically have a high amount of agility, as well as an Aspect spell that further increases their chance to dodge attacks.

For a Level 60 Hunter:

53 Agility = 106 Ranged Attack Power, 1% Crit Chance, 2% Dodge

Stamina

Stamina affects your hit points, no matter what class you play. However, characters designed to absorb damage, such as warriors and paladins, gain more benefit from stamina than classes who have other capabilities, such as rogues and druids, who in turn gain more benefit than pure spellcasters, such as mages. - World of Warcraft Game Manual, 2004

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For a Level 60 Hunter:

1 Stamina = 10 Health

Intellect

Intelligence improves your mana reserves. Intelligence has no bearing on non-spellcasting classes. - World of Warcraft Game Manual, 2004

Arcane ShotVolleySpirit

Spirit determines the regeneration rate for your health and mana. A high spirit results in much faster regeneration, while a low spirit gives you reduced regeneration. - World of Warcraft Game Manual, 2004

HunterSecondary StatsWeapon SkillDefense SkillHunter

Chance to Miss decreases by 0.04%.

Chance for a Critical Hit increases by 0.04%.

Target's chance to Block decreases by 0.04%.

Target's chance to (Melee Only)Parry decreases by 0.04%.

Target's chance to (Melee Only)Dodge decreases by 0.04%.

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There is some code in 1.12 that explicitly adds a modifier that causes the first 1% of +hit gained from talents or gear to be ignored against monsters with more than 10 Defense Skill above the attacking player’s Weapon Skill.

This means that the so-called “hit cap” is in effect 9% rather than 8% for a player with 300 Weapon Skill fighting a level 63 monster with a Defense Skill of 315.

For a Level 60 Hunter:

5% Hit Rating = PvP Ability Hit Cap

9% Hit Rating = PvE Ability Hit Cap

Crit Chance200%Mortal ShotsLethal ShotsStat Priority

9% Hit Rating

Agility

Stamina

Intellect

Spirit

Strength

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Comments

Comment by Jossex

Regarding Intellect:

it will increase your spell power slightly

Where do you get this from? Intellect increases Spell Power for zero classes in Classic WoW. I don't see any Talent that increases your Spell Power based on Intellect either. You quoted a Blizzard post that does not mention Spell Power, but only Mana.

Comment by Scuttlefrog

Do some abilities like wingclip have an inherent extra chance to miss? How long does pet have to stop attacking to leave combat in pvp and how far away can you have it "stay"? Does pet entering combat break night elf out of shadowmeld? Thanks.

Comment by NeVeRLiFt

Hitcap for hunters is 8.6%, since we can't get that we aim for 9% (300 weapon skill vs a level 63 boss requires 9% hit.)*. THIS IS MANDATORY, no matter what happens you need 9% hit over everything. - Reason, we are based on burst dps and we shoot once every few seconds not like rogues or warriors who are always hitting.

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If you miss one shot you are losing unbelievable amounts of DPS, also without the 9% hit you have a chance to miss your tranq shot and this has far more serious ramifications.

Comment by yougonogo

one thing missing. agl 1 = ap 2 ranged on hunter.
and if you run survival take in account the +15% to agl when you are looking at swapping gear most times you will get more with the agl over the ap on that spec. and crit has a soft cap but will still go up just slower.
I found that as survival if it is just a few more raw ap on a peace of gear go with the agl one tell your crit hits 30% at that point your dps will go off the chart but this is a harder spec to use in raid do to having to be able to use traps and control range at the same time. most will go mark and get into raid just for true shot in a group with wars and rogs but do half the dps. and remember to control your pet.
also all of these guides are missing one big thing for dps bosses can not dodge, perry or block from the back. so if you can flank them do so.

Comment by Highone

For a Level 60 Hunter:
53 Agility = 106 Ranged Attack Power, 1% Crit Chance, 1% Dodge

That part is slightly wrong on dodge.

Earlier in the blue post writes:

Hunters require 26.5 AGI for an additional 1% dodge

Therefore, 53 AGI is 2% dodge for a lvl60 hunter.

Comment by Novat

Quote from the ''guide'':

''For Hunters, there is a point where the DPS benefits of Critical Strike chance start to diminish at a stronger rate though which is around the 24-25% mark. This is known as the Soft-Cap. Since you will most likely have Lethal Shots that Soft-Cap will only be 19-20%. Once you reach the Soft-Cap the DPS increase will become less, so it's more beneficial from a pure damage standpoint to start taking attack power upgrades over agility if the agility items provide less attack power.''

This is by far the stupidest *!@# i've ever read.

Comment by Asheyy

For what reason do hunter's receive diminishing returns on critical strike chance? I would've thought that because the attack tables don't have Glancing Blows, Dodges or Parrys like melee attacks that there would be much more hit rolls that could be converted into crit rolls. And considering the Mortal Shots talent that crit would be an incredibly important stat well beyond 25%.

Hunter DPS Attributes and Stat Guide - WoW Classic

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