How To Improve As Outlaw Rogue — Shadowlands Pre-Patch 9.0.1

Since all of Outlaw's damage is tied to resources, it is important to waste as little of them as possible. You should make sure you do not find yourself being Energy capped or casting Combo Point generating abilities when at maximum Combo Points.

Another big downfall is not using some of the temporary buffs to adjust your rotation: if you get Ruthless Precision you need to start using Between the Eyes, or making sure you consume your Opportunity procs with Pistol Shot. While those things might not seem big, they add up quickly.

The only requirement for using Adrenaline Rush you have >1 second to Energy cap.

Due to changes in Battle for Azeroth, it is no longer possible to have 100% uptime on Blade Flurry, due to this it is now much more important to manage those changes well. As such, one of the most important things is to know when you will be dealing with adds, or if it is constant AoE, if you are going to be getting more targets at some point. Because you want to get maximum damage gain from Blade Flurry you want to cover high enemy number count with as much uptime as possible, and use other accordingly. For example, if you are fighting 3 enemies, but know that 10 seconds from now 5 more enemies will spawn, you would want to pool your Blade Flurry charges, so that you can guarantee longest uptime for that segment (however, if those enemies die very quickly, you might not need to pool as much).

It is impossible to correctly play and optimize a Outlaw Rogue without using Raidbots to sim your own character, there are simply too many variables involved to intuitively figure out what gear to wear and so on without simming it first. Generally speaking, a simulation should be the first and final say in the gear you end up wearing for any given situation.

On top of this, simming is now very easy with no need to understand SimulationCraft APLs or installation yourself. All you will need is the in-game SimulationCraft AddOn, and the Raidbots website. Below you can find a video on how to sim your own character using the website.

When it comes to identifying and improving your mistakes, we strongly recommend the website WoWAnalyzer — it will analyze your logs and give you a report detailing how you did on the problems above and more.