Outlaw Rogue DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Shadowlands 9.2

The Best in Slot list on this page 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.

Due to the large amount of possible item combinations and the randomness to the gearing process, using a BiS list for the best possible gear will more often than not lead to bad gearing decisions. We strongly recommend using Raidbots instead, to sim the items you actually have available to you, in order to find the best combination of gear for your character. Raidbots also allows you to sim all the different choices you might see in your Great Vault, allowing you to quickly choose the one with the biggest DPS upgrade for you.

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.

Patch 9.2 re-introduces Tier-Set bonuses to the game once again. For Outlaw Rogues, the bonuses are Outlaw Rogue 2-Piece and Outlaw Rogue 4-Piece. These significantly buff the damage output during our cooldown windows.

There are five set bonus pieces available in total. They cover the Helmet, Shoulder, Chest, Gloves and Pants slots. These items do not drop directly for you, but instead drop as tokens which you have to trade in for the corresponding piece. These tokens are shared amongst a few other other classes, and any player who has already equipped a tier-set item of similar or higher ilvl will be able to trade the token away to another player.

Rogues use the Zenith Tier token, which is shared with Warriors and Monks. These tokens are acquired from the 6th to 11th boss within the new raid, Sepulcher of the First Ones.

As it is vital to gain access to the 4-piece bonus as soon as possible and trading them is impossible without already having a tier-item equipped on the same slot already, you will be using the first 4 pieces you can get your hands on. As we move further into the patch, you might be able to have more choices as to which piece to use and replace. We highly recommend using Raidbots to figure out when to replace or pass on an item that might be an upgrade to you.

Later into Patch 9.2 you will be able to use the Creation Catalyst to upgrade any item to become a tier-set item. While the ideal use of this is not yet clear, you will be using Cosmic Flux to upgrade these once the Catalyst becomes usable, so make sure to get as many of this new currency as possible.

You will also have a small chance for each of your Great Vault options to become a tier-piece instead. As such it is recommended to get all 9 slots in your Great Vault filled, as even a low item level PvP item changing into a tier piece will be more beneficial than having to go without a bonus for another week or two. The item-level of this will always be corresponding to the slot it filled in your Great Vault.

Patch 9.2 eventually allows us to use two legendary powers. The ability to use a second Legendary will be unlocked after finishing Chapter 7 of the new Quest Campaign, by granting you Unity. Initially this will always go on your belt, but you will later be able to craft it onto any slot of your choosing. This bonus will change whenever you change your Covenant to provide the corresponding power, so unless you want a different selection of secondary stats for a different covenant or spec, you will only ever need to have one of these.

Unity will always grant you the Legendary power associated with your Covenant ability. These are Resounding Clarity, Deathspike, Toxic Onslaught and Obedience. It will be available on your belt only initially, but you can recraft it onto any slot you prefer later on.

As it takes a while for you to be able to equip two Legendaries, you will start out in Patch 9.2 by just using a single legendary for a while. If you are playing as Necrolord or Night Fae you will want to play Celerity. Kyrian and Venthyr will instead want to play their Covenant Legendaries, Resounding Clarity and Obedience. The ideal slot for this might change depending on what gear you have available yourself, so make sure to use Raidbots to sim yourself for the best possible option.

Once you have unlocked the ability to use two legendaries, it is highly recommended to switch to Venthyr or Kyrian for raiding. You will want to play Invigorating Shadowdust as your second legendary next to Unity as it will further contribute to the already high cooldown reduction that makes Outlaw the spec it is. You can also choose to just play Celerity still if the rotational gameplay is too demanding for you, until you feel more comfortable playing the high CDR legendary combination.

For Mythic+ Necrolord is still a solid alternative, and you will want to play Celerity and Unity in every dungeon.

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.

There are some significant changes to the gearing process in Shadowlands:

• Warforging and Titanforging are no more;
• Corruption no longer exists;
• Valor Points allow you to upgrade items you acquired from dungeons and Mythic+;
• 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 Sepulcher of the First Ones, there are a few avenues available to you to prepare as best as you can.

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 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.

Valor Points can be acquired by completing Covenant Callings or finishing Mythic+ dungeons. They can be used to upgrade the item level of any item you received in a dungeon. The maximum item level that you can upgrade an item to, is limited by your success in timing Mythic+ Keystones. As such, you will need to achieve the Shadowlands Keystone Conqueror: Season Two or Shadowlands Keystone Master: Season Two achievements to unlock further upgrade ranks.

You can find out more about this new upgrade system on our dedicated Valor Point page.

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 at 0 Renown.

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.

In 9.2, PvP items will have a lower item level in any non-PvP scenario. Due to this change, they will be much less useful in PvE content, but can still be used to fill slots where you have not yet received higher item level 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.

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.

The Droptimizer feature from Raidbots lets you identify which dungeons and Raid Bosses you should spend your Bonus Rolls on. 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 bonus rolling on it. We have a guide for it that you can access using the link below.

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.

Patch 9.1 added a new type of socket, Domination Sockets, to the game. Items with these sockets, as well as the corresponding Shards, will only drop from bosses in the raid Sanctum of Domination and the World Boss in the Maw. They are available on 5 different pieces: Helmet, Shoulders, Chest, Gloves, and Boots. You will want to avoid crafting or will have to re-craft a Legendary if it covers any of these slots.

With Patch 9.2 none of the bonuses provided by the domination sockets or the bonuses will be active outside of the Maw, Korthia and Torghast.

Chests, Shoulders, and Helmets, as well as Legs, Gloves and Boots will provide a special bonus when three Shards of the same type are socketed into your gear. In order to gain the benefit of three Frost Shards, the best DPS option, you will need shoulders with a Domination Socket and bonus, or legs which will only provide the set bonus.

The Domination Shards will drop within the Sanctum of Domination as well and they can be switched without being destroyed once you have bought the Soulfire Chisel from Bonesmith Heirmir in Korthia. They can also be upgraded to higher ranks with the new currency Stygian Ember that drops from any raid encounter and a few select trash mobs in SoD.

Your best in slot setup will look something like this:

1. Shard of Kyr as one of your three Frost shards.
2. Shard of Cor as one of your three Frost shards.
3. Shard of Tel as one of your three Frost shards.
4. Shard of Dyz as one of your extra shards.
5. Shard of Bek as one of your extra shards.

You will want to socket all three Frost Shards as soon as possible to benefit from the set bonus Winds of Winter. The set bonus will only be active if you have shoulders or legs with a Domination Set effect equipped. Any additional sockets should be slotted with Shard of Dyz and Shard of Bek for a very minor DPS increase. All the other Blood Shards do not have any DPS benefit at all, and Shard of Zed performs worse than the other 2 options.

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.

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.

The list below shows the best piece of gear for each individual slot that can be acquired in dungeons before Sepulcher of the First Ones 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.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Vicious Surge Faceguard	Oryphrion in Spires of Ascension
Necklace	Sin Stained Pendant	Halkias, the Sin-Stained Goliath in Halls of Atonement
Shoulders	Far Traveler's Shoulderpads	Dealer Xy'exa in De Other Side
Chest	Rainshadow Hauberk	Ingra Maloch in Mists of Tirna Scithe
Cloak	Blighted Margrave's Cloak	Margrave Stradama in Plaguefall
Wrists	Risen Monstrosity Cuffs	Amarth, The Harvester in The Necrotic Wake
Gloves	Gloves of Haunting Fixation	High Adjudicator Aleez in Halls of Atonement
Belt	Sapgorger Belt	Tred'ova in Mists of Tirna Scithe
Legs	Abyssal Disharmony Breeches	Ventunax in Spires of Ascension
Boots	Viscera-Stitched Footpads	Blightbone in The Necrotic Wake
Ring #1	Stitchflesh's Misplaced Signet	Blightbone in The Necrotic Wake
Ring #2	Ritual Commander's Ring	Nalthor the Rimebinder in The Necrotic Wake
Weapon #1	Gorebound Predator's Gavel	Xav the Unfallen in Theater of Pain
Weapon #2	Gorebound Predator's Gavel	Xav the Unfallen in Theater of Pain
Trinket #1	Phial of Putrefaction	Doctor Ickus in Plaguefall
Trinket #2	Infinitely Divisible Ooze	Margrave Stradama in Plaguefall

Assuming equal item levels:

1. Phial of Putrefaction
2. Decanter of Anima-Charged Winds
3. Infinitely Divisible Ooze
4. Bottled Flayedwing Toxin
5. Blood-Spattered Scale
6. Overcharged Anima Battery