The guide does say 'at 7.5% you will no longer be dodged' and 'at 15% you will no longer be parried' but that's always been the case; mobs have always had twice the parry chance as they do dodge - hence making the soft/hard expertise points.
Elitest Jerks has been dead for ages and still has Cata guides. Tankspot is...all over the place so I have no idea what guide you're suggesting I read.
End result is I still can't find any mention that anything changed outside of this thread. I'd really love to find some documentation (Blizzard source would be best) that the first 7.5% of expertise does nothing to effect a mobs chance to parry as people have claimed. So if anyone can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it
Edit - I guess I can just afk on a dummy and get my answer that way.
Last edited by Famine; 2012-11-27 at 10:54 PM.
You can do this verification yourself.
Open your character sheet. Look at your Dodge / Parry chance vs. level 93 mob. Start stripping off your Expertise gear.
Notice that level 93 enemy Parry does not budge up or down from its flat 7.5% value unless and until you equip enough Expertise to move your Dodge reduction % above 7.5%.
Seriously? I realize EJ is a ghost town, but a few are still there.
http://elitistjerks.com/f81/t131083-...ction_warrior/ it's new and up to date, did not take more than a second after opening the warrior forum.
http://www.tankspot.com/showthread.p...-Warrior-Guide - again, not all over the place. Click Tanking, then click the only stickied [warrior] thread.
If you want a blue source, go find the 5.0 patch notes. That's when it all changed.