Redirect Attack does not seem to imply it is a maneuver using your weapon, so no, it does not appear you could use your dex modifier instead of your strength. You would need to pick up the feat Acrobatic Maneuvers.
Though, I'm honestly not sure where your version of that ability is coming from.
The Rogue talent redirect attack is as follows:
Redirect Attack (Ex): Once per day, when a rogue with this talent is hit with a melee attack, she can redirect the attack to strike at an adjacent creature with a free action. The creature targeted must be within melee reach of the attack that hit the rogue, and the creature that made the attack against the rogue must make a new attack roll against the new target.
It doesn't involve you as a player doing anything.
Edit: Found the feat Redirect Attack in Melee Tactics Toolbox
But no, you wouldn't get to use weapon finesse on it. Combat Maneuver Bonus normally only applies strength, and only in the case of maneuvers that use weapons can you apply the bonus from weapons such as weapon finesse or weapon enhancement bonus. Since nothing in the ability implies it is performed with a weapon, I see no reason to allow it to be used with dex.
This is up to the GM.
I've done this before. IRL. It's fairly standard stuff in Aikido. It involves moving out of the attack (which uses your legs and body, not your weapon), checking your opponent's weapon (fist, knife, whatever - this uses your hand) then redirecting your opponent's attack (which uses uses your hand) Though a lot of Aikido training includes using a jo to perform the same exact techniques, so whatever you do with your hands in Aikido can be done with a jo, so by extension into Pathfinder, any weapon.
Therefore as a GM, I would rule that you don't use your weapon (or Weapon Finesse) on the CMB vs. CMD check but you DO use it on the CMB vs. AC check. Since it's one roll, this means applying two sets of modifiers, which is a little extra work; I'd have the player write both modifiers next tot he ability and apply them separately.
As for game balance, it seems very fair. The opponents probably have lower CMD scores than AC (well, for any opponent that actually wears armor). So using weapon modifiers against CMD turns it into auto-success (too easy) but not using them against AC could be auto-fail (too hard).
I'm sure not every GM would agree with this.
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Redirect Attack does not seem to imply it is a maneuver using your weapon, so no, it does not appear you could use your dex modifier instead of your strength. You would need to pick up the feat Acrobatic Maneuvers.
Though, I'm honestly not sure where your version of that ability is coming from.
The Rogue talent redirect attack is as follows:
Redirect Attack (Ex): Once per day, when a rogue with this talent is hit with a melee attack, she can redirect the attack to strike at an adjacent creature with a free action. The creature targeted must be within melee reach of the attack that hit the rogue, and the creature that made the attack against the rogue must make a new attack roll against the new target.It doesn't involve you as a player doing anything.
Edit: Found the feat Redirect Attack in Melee Tactics Toolbox
Agile Maneuvers not Acrobatic Maneuvers :)
Agile Maneuvers not Acrobatic Maneuvers :)
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That's true. But do ANY of the combat maneuvers that allow you to substitute DEX explicitly state you're using a weapon for the maneuver? Isn't it intentionally left out so a character could complete the maneuver armed or unarmed? Do trip or disarm expressly dictate you need to be using a weapon?
Anyway, thanks for your answer! My version of the feat comes from the Pathfinder Player Companion: Melee Tactics Toolbox.
Yes, the developers have explicitly stated you can use a weapon to perform Trip, Disarm, and Sunder combat maneuvers.
I would probably allow it.
There are plenty of scenes in swashbuckler and pirate films where the hero diverts an enemy's thrust just past him and into another enemy with his rapier/cutlass.
It's like a combination of Parry with Redirect Attack using a weapon.
That said, nothing in the feat allows for the substitution without taking Agile Manuevers.
I think that if this gets noticed it could result in the same sort of ruling that was made on the original version of Crane Style feat that allowed you to deflect 1 melee attack a round being combined with anything that was activated on a miss, and then they created a the hit, miss by deflection, and actually missed classing to tell us that those abilities weren't activated by the deflection.