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Outlaw Rogue DPS Starter Guide - Shadowlands 9.2
By JustGuy
Last updated
2022/02/22 at 2:15 AM
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Welcome to our Outlaw Rogue starter guide, which covers everything you need to start playing a new character in Shadowlands. While our other guide pages go into more individual detail, this simple starter guide covers all the basics in one place, whether you're a new Outlaw Rogue, a returning player to Shadowlands, hardcore, or casual alike, it's the best place to get a beginners overview on the class. Included are basic talent builds, simplified rotations, stats, legendary recommendations, and more to get you started as quickly as possible.
Please keep in mind that this page is meant to get players started quickly as an introduction, and does not contain much in the way of detailed explanations, mechanics, competitive options, gearing, simulation comparisons, or nuance. For more in-depth information, including all those optimizations and more, check out the complete Outlaw Rogue Guide pages linked in the navigation on the left-hand side of the page, and if you're leveling up in Shadowlands, you can take a look at our
leveling tips
.
Overview
NEW
NEW Patch 9.2 Changes
Best Covenant
NEW Tier Set Bonus
Gear
Talent Builds
Legendaries
Conduits
Kyrian
Necrolord
Night Fae
Venthyr
Pre-Patch
Starter Guide
Rotation, Priority, and Abilities
Advanced Concepts
Stats
Consumables
Macros & Addons
WeakAuras
Common Terms
NEW Castle Nathria Tips
NEW Sepulcher Tips
Mythic+
Common Questions
Mage Tower
Twisting Corridors
NEW Simulations
About the Author
Hey my name is ForeverGuy or just Guy, I'm the current guide writer for
Outlaw Rogue
. I raid mythic on Mal'Ganis but a lot of my time is spent in the
Rogue Discord
helping people out with their rotation, and general theory crafting and just talking with regulars. I've worked on previous guides in the past and I've helped optimize Outlaw for Simulationcraft in both the gear, talents, and APL. Feel free to message me about any questions you have about rogue, I'm usually around for anything just find me in Ravenholdt, my discord is guy#4019. I stream progression whenever the raid comes out, so feel free to give me a follow on
Twitch
, or follow me on
Twitter
if you like the guides.
Best Covenants for Outlaw Rogues
If you want to min-max your Covenant pick, here is a summary of how the Covenants look in Raids and Mythic+ content. You can click on each Covenant to go to their corresponding guide page. That said, each Covenant's best options are generally close enough that, similar to races, you should not feel bad for choosing whatever Covenant you prefer.
Best Outlaw Rogue Covenants and Soulbinds for Raid
Single Legendary
Double Legendary
Kyrian
Mikanikos
Kyrian
Mikanikos
Venthyr
Nadjia
Venthyr
Nadjia
Best Outlaw Rogues Covenants and Soulbinds for Mythic+
Single Legendary
Double Legendary
Kyrian
Mikanikos
Kyrian
Mikanikos
Necrolord
Plague Deviser Marileth
Necrolord
Plague Deviser Marileth
Keep in mind that this guide focuses primarily on a DPS throughput perspective. Every Covenant has a lot of utility and survivability options and if you have good reason to go for those over min-maxing damage, then please do so. The purpose of this guide is not to tell you what to pick but only give a comment on where some strengths lie. Furthermore, we are mostly looking at the fully unlocked Covenants. In the early game of the expansion, things can fluctuate as you unlock more and more soulbinds, soulbind traits, and conduit slots.
Best Outlaw Rogue Covenant
Kyrian Outlaw Rogue GuideNecrolord Outlaw Rogue Guide
Night Fae Outlaw Rogue GuideVenthyr Outlaw Rogue Guide
Best Outlaw Rogue Legendaries
Best Single Legendaries for Outlaw Rogues
Raid Legendary
:
Celerity
Mythic+ Legendary
:
Celerity
Best Double Legendaries for Outlaw Rogues
Raid Legendaries
:
Invigorating Shadowdust
with
Resounding Clarity
or
Obedience
Mythic+ Legendaries
:
Invigorating Shadowdust
with
Resounding Clarity
or
Celerity
with
Deathspike
Outlaw Rogue Legendaries Guide
Best Outlaw Rogue Talents
This Outlaw Rogue build is a good general setup that will get you started in dungeons and raids without further optimization.
For alternative builds and comments on each talent, check out the guide page for our talents.
Outlaw Rogue Talents Guide
Outlaw Rogue Stat Priority
Outlaw Rogues get Agility through Item Level. It's often best to equip your highest item level piece in all slots, with the exception of rings, which do not contain primary stats. Find out more about how stats work, including sample stat weights and scaling plots in the Stats Guide, or get an overview of gear to look for from dungeons and raids in the Outlaw Rogue Gear Guide.
Versatility
Critical Strike
Haste
Mastery
Critical Strike
: Chance to deal double damage with your attacks.
Haste
: Increases attack speed and energy regeneration.
Mastery
: Increases the damage of your
Main Gauche
off hand attack that can proc from main hand attacks.
Versatility
: Increases all damage done and reduces damage taken.
Outlaw Rogue Stats Guide
Outlaw Rogue Enchants
With enchants for your gear and consumables, you can further enhance your throughput. Here is a quick summary of notable enchants.
Weapons:
Enchant Weapon - Celestial Guidance
and
Enchant Weapon - Sinful Revelation
(make sure to take two different enchants)
Cloak:
Enchant Cloak - Fortified Avoidance
/
Enchant Cloak - Fortified Leech
/
Enchant Cloak - Fortified Speed
/
Enchant Cloak - Soul Vitality
Chest:
Enchant Chest - Eternal Stats
Boots:
Enchant Boots - Eternal Agility
Rings:
Enchant Ring - Tenet of Versatility
Outlaw Rogue Enchants Guide
Best Outlaw Rogue Rotation
This is a typical Outlaw Rogue DPS rotation, using the talents recommended above. More optimized rotations and notes on on cooldown use can be found in the Outlaw Rogue Rotation Guide.
Make sure your poisons are up and not going to run out during the fight.
Be in
Stealth
.
Use
Roll the Bones
about 1 second before the pull.
Open with
Ambush
.
Pop
Adrenaline Rush
.
Use
Flagellation
(Venthyr) on cooldown before a finisher.
Use
Adrenaline Rush
on cooldown.
Maintain
Roll the Bones
when your active buffs are about to run out. You can reroll as early as possible if you only got a single buff that is not
Broadside
or
True Bearing
.
Use
Blade Flurry
against multiple targets.
Use
Marked for Death
(if talented) at or below one combo point, or if the target is about to die. Try to snipe low health enemies to get as many cooldown resets as possible.
Use
Ghostly Strike
like a builder on cooldown.
Use
Blade Rush
on cooldown. If you can expect to benefit from
Blade Flurry
in the next 20 seconds, then hold it for that.
Use
Vanish
and
Ambush
if you have room for the combo points and no
Skull and Crossbones
buff.
(Only a minor gain, so this can be optional if you want Vanish as a defensive.)
Use your
Potion
with
Adrenaline Rush
when possible.
Use
Serrated Bone Spike
(Necrolord) on targets that do not have the DoT ticking on them.
Other than that, you can use it to avoid capping on 3 charges (trying to keep 2 ready for incoming new targets) or to fish for the
Lead by Example
buff if you have the Emeni soulbind.
Use
Sepsis
(Night Fae) on cooldown.
Use
Echoing Reprimand
(Kyrian) on cooldown.
Use finisher abilities when you have the maximum amount of combo points or would overcap on combo points with your next builder.
Maintain
Slice and Dice
.
Use
Between the Eyes
on cooldown.
Use
Dispatch
.
Use
Ambush
when available through
Stealth
or
Sepsis
(Night Fae).
Use
Pistol Shot
when you have
Opportunity
procs.
Use
Sinister Strike
.
Outlaw Rogue Rotation Guide
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