How are you going to gem and forge your gear

have any of you tried the new raid dummy. Im guessing he is level 85 and every shot i gave him MISSED. my hit cap is junk now. What IS the new hit cap...and how will we all obtain it. Are you going to re-gem and chant / forge for mooooore hit so u can at least hit your target, but lose alot in other specs. I mean, we HAVE to do them new dungeons to get the new gear that we need. (which i hate cuz I only got to enjoy my full set of bad ass gear and super hits for less than a year) ... so what ya gonna do ? just sacrafice now to get all the hit right away. I mean HIT is the first spec to cap.
Raid dummies are lvl 88. Hit cap should still be 17% for first raid tier, I guess. I'm unaware of how much this is in terms of lvl85 hit rating, so I'll just wait to ding 85 and check how much hit is needed for 1% and do the math. Considering I probably wont be using my t10 and ICC gear at 85, most hit will come from quests and dungeon gear at first, proper reforging and gemming.

And hit is not a spec, it's a stat.
Way I figure, it'll be gem int, forge hit.

Int+mastery gems for socket bonuses, int+hit gem(s) for meta. Then we'll play with sims balancing mastery/haste/crit EPs via reforging after capping hit.

Gems I see as being changed very infrequently, in lieu of reforging's capabilities.
Of course you missed it, you're 8 levels below the boss. Just wait until you get to 85, you'll need way less hit to hit a boss than you do now.
I think the hit cap at 85 is somwhere near 1760 if I remember correctly.
i'll probably end up gemming/forging the same way i'm geared/forged now.
yea I think Im gonna just casually quest and do dungeons till I get to 85, then try to do heroics and raids. And gem for HIT first...then int...crit.. mastery ..then haste. as a fire mage. ...sound about right?
did i hear someone say that there is a gem now for INT/mastery!!!??? sounds great.
Believe it or not, int is better than hit at 85.

int > hit > crit > haste > mastery for fire.
I'm going to stay arcane.
Gem for int and hit.
Reforge all my haste and some crit into mastery.

IMO haste and crit have been rendered completely useless.
at 85 the spell hit cap will remain 17%; however, the amount of rating to achieve this 17% at 85 is highly infalted, and requires around 1700 hit rating.
since u mention caps...i never get a strait answer. WHAT WILL ALL THE CAPS BE FOR A MAGE... (fire mainly)
isnt it nuts that were all gonna be wearing green gear again...haha all mis matched. till we get to 85 for a while and get raid gear. o fun. =(
Since you asked in all caps, please read the following thread carefully as it most likely answers all of your questions plus many more that you haven't even thought of yet:

http://elitistjerks.com/f75/t106009-cataclysm_mage_resources/

There are not any hard "caps" for anything but Hit Rating, which does not vary between specs. I wouldn't worry too much about soft caps as a fresh 85. It will be quite a while before we bump up against those.

I'm going to stay arcane.
Gem for int and hit.
Reforge all my haste and some crit into mastery.

IMO haste and crit have been rendered completely useless.

The last posts I read on the EJ forums on the issue of stats for arcane seems to indicate that:

Intellect > Haste > Mastery > Crit

You would be better off reforging that crit into haste if your gear doesn't already have it and the rest into mastery.
I never got into any raids on Beta. So it seemed the little benefit I got from haste was worthless in dungeons.

But, I could see on longer fights where haste could be of some use. Like on 5min+ fights.

Ill have to hop on over to EJ and check it out. Thanks for the heads up.
i thought that for a FIRE mage.. it was int...hit...then crit...haste...mastery like, crit is so imporant for a fire mage i guess?