Finesse weapon

[Atalius]

When using a whip and making a trip combat manuever would one use Athletics (STR) or would you replace the STR with DEX when making the Athletics roll?

[Bardarok]

Since Trip is an attack (has the attack tag) it is your choice as is normal for attacks with finesse weapons.

[dmerceless]

Could anyone please tell me where in the book does it say that you can use Dex for Athletics in maneuvers with a finesse weapon? I have heard of it multiple times, but the finesse property talks about attack rolls only. To my knowledge, Trip, Disarm, etc. are skill checks, not attack rolls.

[Bardarok]

Trip, disarm, etc. are attack rolls because they have the attack trait.

Glossary: p. 420 (nice) specifically calls out shove as an example of something which is not a Strike but is an attack.

[Edge93]

So while the book doesn't quite clearly allow this in the same way that PF1 does, there was a tweet somewhere by someone in the Dev team clarifying that it IS intended for finesse weapons with maneuver traits to allow substituting Dex for Str on that maneuver.