...not to mention, I actually hope they buff dodge instead.. sigh blizzard.

Exactly. The philosophy behind Monk class has always been agility/speed. Kinda like Assassin back in D2.

Dodge doesn't protect you from plague and thunderstorm.
I think arcane sentry too.

My DH has been the only character I've played since DIII and safe to say, these are the list of things we can and cannot dodge:

Dodge-able
- Physical attacks (Melee and Ranged)
- Frozen, during its burst
- Thunderstorm
- Mortar
- Electrified

Not Dodge-able
- Desecrator ticks
- Frozen ticks
- Frozen Pulse ticks
- Orbiter ticks
- Jailer (per hit)
- Fire Chain (per hit)
- Plagued ticks
- Poison Enchanted ticks
- Arcane Enchanted ticks
- Reflect Damage

On a sidenote: Champion packs of 6 with Illusionist and Nightmarish is overpowered as heck. Throughout the whole 3 minutes of battle with them, I spent 2 minutes+ running away involuntarily from the Nightmare effect, which the Illusions also have >_>

afaik thunderstorm are dodgeable since they aren't DOT ticks

all act 4 physical attacks should be dodgeable
act 2 spinning dudes should also be dodgeable.

similar to Rift guardian fire maiden's (lol cant remember name) spinning attack except hers are WAY TOO FREQUENT and it even BYPASSES NDE (near death experience) because the damage is done via high amount of hits (eg: nde proc on 1 hit, but the subsequent 5 hits or something just straight up kills you anyways) so if you fail to dodge at least 70% of the attacks (assuming you didn't move out by then) then you're dead.

At least, I don't notice any dodge working for me as I keep track of how much my HP drops per tick of skills and attacks by mobs.
Yes, since Thunderstorm ticks for about 1 per second, it was easy to observe the damage. And I've seen my character's 'dodge' message when a melee-type champion pack used thunderstorm from far away to hit me.
Sledgehands' mighty arm stomp attacks are dodge-able, just not as frequent as we would have noticed it.

Backlash is a bad way to determine if you dodge or not la
Some attacks don't "connect " and it'll not proc,  not sure if it's intended or bug.

But the gist is simple : receive an attack,  see if you take damage or not /seeing the word "dodge " popping on your character and /or your character performs a dodging animation