Outlaw Rogue DPS Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within (11.2)

With the release of Season 3 of The War Within, the gear treadmill begins anew once more.

The War Within once again uses the Crest upgrade system that was introduced in Dragonflight. We recommend that you check out our dedicated page for more information on this gear upgrade system if you are not yet familiar with it:

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BiS Gear for Outlaw Rogue

Overall BiS List Mythic+ Gear BiS List Raid Gear BiS List

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BiS List for Outlaw Rogue

This list contains the highest DPS setup from all sources for Outlaw Rogue. Keep in mind that there are many other setups that perform within the margin of error, so this list is not the end-all-be-all list where any item that is not listed, is far behind this selection.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. Depending on your previous Great Vault choices and the gear you have available to yourself, your BiS gear might look different than this list in some spots.

In some non-Tier slots, a max ilvl Craft (720) will technically be optimal since you can customize the secondary stats to your liking. Your mileage here may vary.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Mainhand Weapon	Your highest ilvl mainhand. Best choice: Zephyrous Sail Carver (723)	The Dawnbreaker
Offhand Weapon	Zephyrous Sail Carver (723)	The Dawnbreaker
Helm	Hood of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Forgeweaver Araz in Manaforge Omega
Neck	Bloodstained Memento (723)	Priory of the Sacred Flame
Shoulder	Smokemantle of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Versatility (730)	Reshii Wraps
Chest	Tactical Vest of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Fractillus in Manaforge Omega
Bracers	Rune-Branded Armbands with Versatility/Crit and Writhing Armor Banding (720)	Crafted by Leatherworking
Gloves	Deathgrips of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Soulbinder Naazindhri in Manaforge Omega
Belt	Venza's Powderbelt (723)	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Legs	Pants of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Loom’ithar in Manaforge Omega
Boots	Interloper's Reinforced Sandals (723)	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Ring #1	Ring of Earthen Craftsmanship with Crit/Vers and Elemental Focusing Lens (720)	Crafted by Jewelcrafting
Ring #2	Ring of Earthen Craftsmanship with Crit/Vers and Elemental Focusing Lens (720)	Crafted by Jewelcrafting
Trinket #1	Sigil of the Cosmic Hunt(723)	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Trinket #2	Astral Antenna (723)	Nexus King Salhadaar in Manaforge Omega

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Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Outlaw Rogue

This list contains the highest DPS setup with farmable gear from Season 3 Mythic+ Dungeons.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. Depending on your previous Great Vault choices and the gear you have available to yourself, your BiS gear might look different than this list in some spots.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Mainhand Weapon	Your highest ilvl mainhand. Best choice: Zephyrous Sail Carver (710)	The Dawnbreaker
Offhand Weapon	Zephyrous Sail Carver (710)	The Dawnbreaker
Helm	Hood of the Sudden Eclipse (710)	Revival Catalyst
Neck	Bloodstained Memento (710)	Priory of the Sacred Flame
Shoulder	Smokemantle of the Sudden Eclipse (710)	Revival Catalyst
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Versatility (730)	Reshii Wraps
Chest	Tactical Vest of the Sudden Eclipse (710)	Revival Catalyst
Bracers	Scheming Assailer's Bands (710)	The Dawnbreaker
Gloves	Deathgrips of the Sudden Eclipse (710)	Revival Catalyst
Belt	Venza's Powderbelt (710)	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Legs	Pants of the Sudden Eclipse (710)	Revival Catalyst
Boots	Geezle's Zapstep Boots (710)	Operation: Floodgate
Ring #1	Signet of Collapsing Stars (710)	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Ring #2	Devout Zealot's Ring (710)	The Dawnbreaker
Trinket #1	Ara-Kara Sacbrood (710)	Eco-Dome Al'dani
Trinket #2	Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker (710)	Operation: Floodgate

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Raid Gear BiS List for Outlaw Rogue

This list contains the highest DPS setup, only using gear from the Manaforge Omega Raid.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. Depending on your previous Great Vault choices and the gear you have available to yourself, your BiS gear might look different than this list in some spots.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Mainhand Weapon	Your highest ilvl weapon. Best choice: Ergospheric Cudgel (723)	Dimensius The All Devouring
Offhand Weapon	Ergospheric Cudgel (723)	Dimensius The All Devouring
Helm	Hood of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Forgeweaver Araz
Neck	Chrysalis of Sundered Souls (723)	Soulbinder Naazindhri
Shoulder	Smokemantle of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or The Soul Hunters
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Versatility(730)	Reshii Wraps
Chest	Tactical Vest of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst or Fractillus
Bracers	Bindings of Lost Essence (723)	Soulbinder Naazindhri
Gloves	Deathgrips of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Soulbinder Naazindhri
Belt	Reaper's Dreadbelt (701)	Nexus King Salhadaar
Legs	Pants of the Sudden Eclipse (723)	Revival Catalyst, or Loom’ithar
Boots	Interloper's Reinforced Sandals (723)	The Soul Hunters
Ring #1	Logic Gate: Alpha (723)	Plexus Sentinel
Ring #2	Band of the Shattered Soul (723)	Dimensius The All Devouring
Trinket #1	Sigil of the Cosmic Hunt (723)	Forgeweaver Araz
Trinket #2	Astral Antenna (723)	Loom’ithar

There are a number of good trinkets available for Outlaw Rogue in Season 3, from a variety of different sources. Two stand out as the go-to choices here, if you can acquire them:

• Sigil of the Cosmic Hunt - A very strong passive trinket that provides regular damage every time it procs.
• Astral Antenna - A very strong DPS trinket with a Crit stat proc that can stack.

The above two trinkets are the ones you want to aim for, but there are some strong alternatives that you can farm more reliably until you grab those two raid trinkets.

• Ara-Kara Sacbrood - A good DPS trinket with a useful passive proc that you can get from Mythic+.
• Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker - Another good option from Mythic+.
• Incorporeal Warpclaw - A solid damage proc trinket from the new dungeon, farmable in Mythic+.
• Unyielding Netherprism - One of the few alternatives that you can acquire from Raid.

In Patch 11.2, you can acquire a new artifact cloak, the Reshii Wraps. This cloak is mostly used in the open-world, and you can find more information on how to acquire the cloak, as well as all the neat little secrets you can find with it on our Reshii Wraps section!

Tailoring can craft sockets for the cloak which will grant it a set of secondary stats of your choosing. We will want to either grab a Pure Dexterous Fiber for Versatility, or Pure Precise Fiber for Critical Strike. Which gem is best for you generally depends on which stat you have less off at the moment.

You can also acquire a set of boots inside Manaforge Omega which further boosts the proc-effect of your cloak, the Interloper's Reinforced Sandals, which drop from The Soul Hunters, an entirely optional boss inside the new raid. These new boots are best in slot for us, even at lower itemlevels, but the exact threshold will heavily depend on your alternative options. Make sure to sim yourself to find out whether a Normal or Heroic version of the boots outperforms your current boots!

Dimensius The All Devouring can drop a ring, the Band of the Shattered Soul, which causes the proc of your cloak to also reduce Cosmic damage taken by 50%, up to a certain amount of damage absorbed. This effect has no DPS benefits whatsoever, and while it is a nice bonus to have, our class kit makes us so tanky already that we would rather play a ring that offers higher DPS instead, leaving the ring for some of the squishier classes.

With all the different layers of gearing currently available to players, it is impossible to cover all edge cases and individual recommendations in a guide. We therefore highly recommend simming your own character by using Raidbots. This website allows for precise and individualized recommendations that consider your exact talents, gear, trinket, and all the other layers of gearing that the game has to offer. Learning to use this tool is essential to maximizing your potential, as it is the only reliable way to get information on which piece of gear, enchant, gem, or trinket is the best for your character.

The Droptimizer feature from Raidbots lets you identify which dungeons and Raid Bosses offer the highest DPS upgrades to you. It simulates all of the potential upgrades in a raid or a dungeon and lists the bosses/dungeons by rank order of how much DPS you can expect to gain from each of the items it drops. We have a guide for it that you can access using the link below.

These are some of the items you should prioritize on upgrading as high as possible early into the season:

• Your Mainhand weapon.
• Powerful trinkets like Eye of Kezan or Zee's Thug Hotline
• Items with a high stat budget (Helmet, Chest, Legs) and two good secondary stats.
• Embellished or other items with damaging procs.

These are not the only items worth upgrading, of course. They simply offer the highest DPS gain early into the tier when your upgrade currency is limited.

Professions are a great way to gear up with your optimal secondary stats, as generating specific secondary stat combinations is now possible when adding special items to the crafting process. With the heavily reworked crafting system in The War Within, exploring the new professions will help you gear up throughout the expansion, as you will be able to craft some Mythic Raid item-level pieces further down the line.

This tier in particular does not have many Crit+Vers items available. Instead many of the items you have to wear will either give you too much Haste or even have Mastery, by far our worst secondary stat. Crafting items is a good alternative to get the best secondary stats, even if it comes at a slight itemlevel loss.

If you want to find out more about professions, make sure to check out our The War Within Profession guide!

As your ability to craft items will be time-gated in the initial stages of The War Within, we highly recommend getting a Main Hand weapon as soon as possible, unless you can reliably get one elsewhere. Once you have a good weapon, work on Embellished Items next, and then craft whichever pieces you do not have high-item-level versions of yet.

Up to two of your crafted items can be Embellished. This is a similar concept as Unique-Equipped, as you can only wear two items that have the Embellished status. Some crafted items, many of which have powerful procs or beneficial effects by default, are considered Embellished. You can also add Embellishments from a variety of professions to any crafted item, adding the effect to this item either when creating it or at a later stage.

As there is a lot of competition for Embellishments, you will have to pick and choose the two strongest ones for your overall DPS output. Most of them provide very similar DPS benefits, even if the effects are entirely different. The two best choices for this are:

• Elemental Focusing Lens is the go-to option due to being embellished onto rings and necklaces. This season does not offer a good variety of Crit/Vers/Haste rings, so crafting them with this embellishment is a good option.
• Two Duskthread Lining items. Versatility gives extra survivability and is our best secondary stat, so crafting Gloves, Bracers, or Belt with these can work well.

It is recommended to sim yourself to find out what works best, and if you also play the other 2 Rogue specs, you might want to pick Embellishments that work well for all of them.

You can add sockets to your necklace and rings by using a Magnificent Jeweler's Setting on them. This will allow you to get up to six sockets on your gear.

You can also add sockets to Helmets, Belts, Bracers, Necks and Rings with the S.A.D. consumable that you can get if you do not select any of the choices in your Great Vault. 6 of these Great Vault tokens can be traded in for a S.A.D. that allows you to add a socket to any piece of gear you acquired in Season 3.

Which gems and enchants to use heavily depends on your current stat priority. As previously mentioned, this priority can shift and change whenever you acquire new gear, so simming yourself to figure out the best use of your newly acquired socket is highly recommended. The general rule is to prioritize Versatility and Critical Strike on as many pieces of gear as possible, and prioritizing those stats for any consumables as well.

If given a choice, try to prioritize the Helmet, Shoulder, Chest, and Legs slots for this. However, getting the Gloves to complete one of the bonuses is still better than any other gearing choice.

Since Patch 11.1.7 players are able to acquire a new belt from Delves, the Durable Information Securing Container. While this belt is not BiS for us once we acquire higher item-level gear from Season 3 Mythic+ dungeons or the new Manaforge Omega raid, it is worth using until you acquire a new belt of roughly the same itemlevel as your DISC belt. Your mileage here may vary, so make sure to sim yourself to figure out if the belt you just looted can replace the DISC!

For more information on how to acquire the belt until you get a better one, make sure to check out our dedicated Delves section.

The belt has minor powers attached to it. Switching the bonuses and procs is very simple. Once unlocked, you can right-click the item to quickly swap to a different bonus. Depending on the type of content you will be doing, you will want to pick the following bonuses:

• For Raid/Single-Target: Charged Bolts
• For Mythic+: Charged Bolts
• For World Content/Delves: Charged Bolts