Due to the nature of fights in vanilla and the gear available to you at this level of play , I'd say going for hit rating at a pre-raid gear level is premature and you would most likely suffer alot "stats" wise , you could for example use the satyrs bow that offers some hit rating that doesn't require you to sacrifice a huge amount of stats , but in the end you want to get def/stam/str as much as possible so that when you do end up raiding you arent squishy , hit rating only really became a very important stat during late tbc , during vanilla for atleast the first 2 tiers there wasnt much hit gear you could get that wouldn't reck the other stats that you are trying to aquire.