September News/Discussion

[Taelas]

It is still a miss. It is not a resist. Blizzard has very specifically stated this on its page about how spells work that there is always a 1% miss, even Blizzard does not call it a resist. At one time, the game listed two types of resist for spells, white and yellow. White was a miss, but was labelled as resist. Yellow was an actual resist roll that the mob made and truely resisted the spell. Just because it doesn't say miss, doesn't mean it's not a miss.

Here's links about how spell casting works:

Spell Hit

Blizzard DOES call it a resist. There's no 'miss' on spells in-game. For whatever reason, they decided to call it 'resist' rather than 'miss'. Yes, for all intents and purposes, it's the same as a miss for a physical attack (with the exception that you can't get below 1% with spells). It is still not CALLED miss.
Why you insist on repeating this ad nauseam I do not understand. This will be my last post on this subject.


I believe weapon skill actually does play a part in PvP -- something to do with lowering your crit chance, I think? I haven't researched it, I simply stumbled across an article on it a few months back.