Well, at least the character sheet on PTR says so. With 2 WeX and [Shoulderpads of the Stranger], it says my expertise is 12 and my chance to be dodged is reduced by 3%. Of course it could be wrong, but as long as not proved otherwise, I'd go with the character sheet.

I'm going to see if I can gather enough expertise rating to do such a test.
Against level 70 and a presumed 5% dodge rate, with 2 WeX, you'd need a rating to match 2.5% dodge.
If partial counts towards it, 40 additional rating would be enough (40/(2.5*82/52)*0.25= 2.537%), and if not, you'd need 48 additional rating (48/(2.5*82/52)*0.25= 3.044%).
It depends on a 5% dodge rate of course.

Easier would be testing against a blasted land mob, but unfortunately they're level 57, so if weapon skill still does give 0.1% anti dodge against lower level enemies, you won't see any dodges against mobs under level 61.

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Bah, blatant bullshit.
It's not 48 expertise rating, as the steps are 0.25%.
I have to think about another way to test this.

Hm, I see no way of testing it besides statistical analysis.

The problem is that between two points of expertise rating, the difference is never larger than 0.2488% in dodge, when comparing not truncated to truncated (this value being 67 expertise rating).
Therefore there is never the case when a non truncated formula would see no dodges against a mob, whereas a truncated formula would produce dodges.

The only option then would be to gather thousands of thousands of swings, and to look for a statistical mismatch. Something I certainly do not plan to do anymore right now.

Therefore, without such testing, I'll just stick to the character sheet.

I'd like some answers here as well. I have a rogue in my raid group that has run some numbers with his combat dagger build and says that GoA + IP will actually do more damage than WF. I'm trying to crunch some numbers myself, but if anyone here already has I'd love to see them.

GoA + IP/DP has always done (slightly) more damage with dagger based builds when taken in a vacuum, and with the nerf it's not that surprising that it happens for swords too.

The issue is that warriors benefit a lot more from windfury than GoA due to rage mechanics (plus agi isn't a great stat for them), and the tiny dps gained from going from wf to goa/ip is nothing compared to what you gain from battle shout.

"Ruthlessness
Slice and Dice still triggers this talent. No change, just stating to silence the confusion about this. Unconfirmed if this is intended or not."

Some rogue posted this on our guild forum.

I believe that little snippit about Ruthlessness about melee finishers was to further emphasize it no longer working with Deadly Throw, which is a ranged finisher.

Would be great of course to see blue confirming on that, good to know however it got tested. Thanks

Technically one can be out of melee range of a mob to do SnD...

But yea we are talking about blizzard and we've seen patchnotes before that are somewhat diffuse... so id be surprised if SnD stopped proccing ruthlessness.

It used to be possible to use CPs when your target was dead, but sadly that got nerfed.
The only real option would be to have CPs be attached to the rogue himself.

There have been some hints about it, but can't seem to find them again.

Slice and Dice has a 100yrd range so it shouldn't be a melee finisher. Anyway, lets hope blizzard keeps it unlogical as this.

When are you planning to update this spreasheet? I am really eager to see comparisons between S3 - BT weps as well as executioner/mongoose, now that we got some actual data on it.

I am thinking of going fist-sword (both s3 weapons) over my current Infamy/Savagery swords and i would like to have some info on this