I'm new to posting in these forums, although I read them often for all classes. My question pertains specifically to weapon specialization and expertise.

Since a human gets 3 expertise for sword/mace, how should I stack my expertise to get cap if my off-hand is neither? I understand that if I simply cap for my main hand (mace), I will leave my off-hand (dagger) short of cap. Do you simply go for the non-specialized cap to get both hands where they need to be? Is there a split difference somewhere? Right now, I have stacked to the 781 for non-specialized, but I would like to put those points elsewhere if I don't need to get that high.

Again, sorry if this is noobish. I'm sure it is.

EDIT: Seems I found the answer that the EP drops low enough that it is not worth capping the non-specialized hand. At this point, please let me know if my "found answer" is not right.

Just logged into the 4.0.6 PTR and can confirm that RED now requires at least two red gems.

What are the PPM rates for our various poisons?

IP and WP are both normalized around 1.4 weapon speed with a base 20% (8.57 PPM) and 50% (21.43 PPM) to proc respectively. The rest of the poisons have a flat % chance to proc found on their tooltips.

IP and WP used to be 20% and 50% respectively. A while back they converted it to a PPM such that autoattacking with a weapon of any speed would give the same number of poison procs per unit time. When they did so they selected the proc rate such that a 1.4 speed weapon would still proc at 20% and 50% (respectively). This resulted in PPM values of 8.57 and 21.43.

In short: the observation about a 1.4 speed weapon is designed to motivate why the PPM values are so odd.

IP and WP were originally a flat 20% and 50% chance to proc. Now that they are normalized to a 1.4 speed weapon, the % chance to proc increases with slower weapon speeds and decreases with faster weapon speeds while maintaining the same PPM.

Double post.

As a new and low-level combat rogue my entire focus has been doing as much damage as possible. However, I frequently pull agro off my tanks.
Q: Is this my problem or the tank's problem?
Q2: The only tools I seem to have to undo agro kill dps - run-away (too late when under attack), stop attacking or vanish. Are there other options before Feint is available? Do stuns - Blind, Distract, Kidney Shot, Gouge – affect agro?
Q3: Does poison damage contribute to agro or is that non-specific damage?
Q4: Should I just not worry about it, make friends with the healer and bash away?

Being the only rogue in our 25mans at the moment i had the luxury of picking up 2 Uhn'agh Fash's and I was wondering if there had been any discussion on using 2 1.4 speed daggers pre execute phase then switching back to 1.8/1.4 at 35%

While its true that MH speed matters less above 35%, its also true that MH *damage* matters less above 35%, so the situation doesn't really change that much. The fast dagger might only need to be 1.5 tiers better instead of 2, but in practice that works out to the same thing, so... still generally not a good idea.

The triple proc on Hurricane isn't a bug. Since Hurricane can proc on melee dmg or spell casting, you can get three simultaneous buffs if it procs off both melee weapons and one our spell effects (the spell effects I've seen proc it are poisons and Recuperate ticks, but I'm sure there are others).

The Cataclysm mechanics testing thread explains Hurricane's proc behavior in a little more depth (e.g. procs off spells act differently depending on whether a melee proc is active or not)

I can't speak for anyone else but I chose fluid death first because it appears I will not be upgrading out of that during this tier of content (ranked #2, just below heroic prestor's for assassination). While two pieces would probably be the best value per valor point, the penny-pincher in me says I'd be better served buying things that don't drop in Baradin Hold until I no longer have a choice.