Hunters, AotH, and Maintainance

[Kevin]

My poor twin gnome warrior does not have dual wield yet and will frequently have 5+ misses in a row (this is not including parries/dodges/blocks) even with her one handed maces being maxed. 

There was actually a statistical analysis done by someone on the WoW forums (and not just the normal "I swear I miss more!  Look!" posts).  He used a naked warrior with maxed unarmed skill, no talent points placed and was level 40-something.  There was a 8-9% miss rate rather than the base 5% that blizzard says is there for those with maxed weapon skills.  Now, if only I could dig up that post, I'd be happy.  If I find it, I'll edit in the URL here.
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To add to that I've used several of the mods that parse the combat log on the fly and calculate mis rates, actual DPS, number of crits, etc. I have done some limited testing with the DPS monitor that cosmos includeds with maxed weapon skill against mobs 1 and 2 below me as well as even level mobs. The 3 trials on 2 levels below me had a 6% average miss rate. The 2 trials on the mobs 1 level below were 6.6%. The 3 trials on even level mobs averaged out to 7.1% miss rate. This was with a dagger on a warrior (and dagger was maxed) while wearing a shield. Screenshots of the combat logs on the limited tests were sent to Blizzard.

In the big warrior info dump that was done awhile ago the devs said it was a planned base miss of 5% for maxed weapon skill against an even level mob. That is not what I was getting and it is not generally what my percieved miss rate is either. The reply Treesh was talking about is in that same thread, which should be linked in a thread somewhere here on the lounge that I haven't searched for yet.