Outlaw Rogue DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Shadowlands 9.0.2
On this page, you will find the best gear and best in slot items for your Outlaw Rogue in World of Warcraft Shadowlands 9.0.2.
If you were looking for WoW Classic content, please refer to our Classic DPS Rogue gear and best in slot.
Foreword
This Best in Slot list represents the best combination of gear obtainable from regular dungeons in Shadowlands and serves as a guideline for characters that have just hit Level 60. Because not everyone is a Mythic raider, PvP Gladiator, or clears Mythic+15 every week, this list is more of a guideline for the best pieces to keep an eye out when clearing Heroic and Mythic dungeons, and we recommend using Raidbots to sim the items you actually have available to you in order to find your best combination of gear, as well as which items to choose from your selection within the Great Vault.
Gearing a Outlaw Rogue
This section will cover everything you need to know about equipping your character correctly.
If you have a new piece of gear that you need gems and enchants advice for, you can find everything you need on our dedicated page below.
Gearing your Outlaw Rogue
There are some significant changes to the gearing process in Shadowlands:
- Warforging and Titanforging are no more;
- Corruption no longer exists;
- Crafted items can now be acquired with specific stats;
- World quest item level rewards no longer exclusively scale with your characters item level, but also your Renown level;
- Socket slots can only proc onto specific pieces of gear.
As you try to gear up before the release of Castle Nathria, there are a few avenues available to you to prepare as best as you can.
World Quests and Covenant-Specific Gear
World quest rewards scale with both your item level, as well as the Renown level you hold with your Covenant. That means that even if your average item level does not increase, you will eventually be offered better rewards for completing a World Quest as you gain more Renown with your Covenant.
Covenant gear can be acquired at certain reputation levels with your Covenant. These can be bought from your Covenant's Quartermaster.
Professions and Crafted Gear
Professions serve as a great way to gear up with your optimal secondary
stats, as it is now possible to generate specific secondary stat combinations
when adding special items to the crafting process. For example, a leather belt
crafted with Missive of Critical Strike and
Missive of Haste will
always generate a leather belt with those two secondary stats present. Combined
with the
Crafter's Mark II, you will be able to craft high-level items with
perfect stats much more frequently.
Dungeon Gear
During the first two weeks, you will be able to do dungeons on Normal, Heroic and Mythic. The item level rewards for these are 158, 171 and 184 respectively. You can repeatedly clear Heroic dungeons by queuing up for them with the Dungeon Finder. You can also clear specific dungeons on both Heroic and Mythic once a week with a group of your choosing. While you cannot receive loot from a dungeon twice, you can repeatedly receive loot from Heroic dungeons, as long as you use the Dungeon Finder.
Honor and Conquest Gear
Honor is now a seasonal currency that can be used to buy
items. This currency is also used to upgrade these PvP items to higher item
level. While some of the higher item level upgrades are locked behind higher
Renown levels, you will be able to upgrade these to up to item level 184 before
Castle Nathria opens.
In order to receive Honor, you simply have to partake in any
PvP activity, whether it is fighting in arenas or battlegrounds, or finishing
PvP-related world quests or killing hostile players.
Conquest will function in the exact same way once the first
PvP season of Shadowlands has started.
Legendary Powers and Items
One of the main features of Shadowlands is the return of legendary items. These are items imbued with legendary powers that you can find all over the world. In order to craft these, you will first have to find a legendary essence that you will then need to bring to the Runecarver inside Torghast, Tower of the Damned. For more information on this process, a list of legendary powers as well as where to acquire individual legendary powers you should check out our dedicated guides.
The Importance of "Simming Yourself" as a Outlaw Rogue
With all the different layers of gearing that are currently available to players it pretty much 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 highly specific and individualized recommendations that take into account 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.
What Gear Do I Farm/Bonus Roll/Chase After?
When identifying what gear you should be aiming after, we recommend using RaidBots' Droptimizer feature. It requires the SimulationCraft Addon. Once you have the addon installed, write "/simc" into the chat in-game, and copy-pasting the contents into the RaidBots Droptimizer.
Simply select the raid and difficulty you are interested in, and RaidBots will take a while to figure out where you should spend your bonus rolls, and more.
General Simulations
We generally recommend simming yourself. You can find out more on how to do that on our dedicated simulations page. As more testing and improvements are available, you will also be able to find generalized versions of simulations in the dedicated sections.
Adding Sockets to Gear
Shadowlands adds Spatial Realignment Apparatus as a reward from
Stygia. You can buy the item off of Ve'nari. These can only be
applied to a small selection of equipment slots, however.
Stats
Which gems 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. For general information on the stat priority for Outlaw Rogues, you can take a look at our stat priority section of this guide.
Outlaw Rogue BiS Legendary Power
You should try to acquire the Celerity legendary power and
craft it onto the shoulder or ring slot, ideally with a Haste and Versatility
missive. Which slot is better for you is dependent on the gear that you already
own, and thus it is recommended to sim yourself to figure out the most efficient
piece of gear to craft this legendary power on.
Alternatively, you can craft Mark of the Master Assassin on a Ring as it
is useful for all three specializations, albeit significantly worse than
Celerity for Outlaw.
For more information on what legendary powers are the best for Outlaw and their situational benefits, you can head over to our dedicated legendary section of this guide.
Outlaw Rogue BiS pre-raiding Gear
The list below shows the best piece of gear for each individual slot that can be acquired in dungeons before Castle Nathria opens. It does not take into account any items from other sources. Furthermore, the below pieces are considered ideal for raiding, and not necessarily for doing dungeons or other types of content.
Dungeon Trinket List for Outlaw Rogue
Assuming equal item levels:
Phial of Putrefaction
Decanter of Anima-Charged Winds
Bottled Flayedwing Toxin
Blood-Spattered Scale
Infinitely Divisible Ooze
Overcharged Anima Battery
Changelog
- 15 Jan. 2021: Rewrote gear disclaimer.
- 07 Dec. 2020: Added new trinket recommendation.
- 02 Dec. 2020: Updated legendary slot recommendation.
- 26 Nov. 2020: Updated with newest trinket simulation results.
- 23 Nov. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands.
- 12 Oct. 2020: Page updated for the Shadowlands pre-patch.
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This guide has been written and reviewed by Seliathan, who has been playing Rogue since the first day of Classic. He currently raids in Familiar with Drama, and is one of the foremost Mythic+ Rogue players. You can often find him streaming on Twitch, or follow him on his personal Discord server.
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