Outlaw Rogue DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

With the release of the Midnight Pre-Patch, all items have been squished to a much more reasonable level.

The Crest upgrade system that was introduced in Dragonflight remains, and is a useful way to upgrade even lower-item level gear to higher versions that can be quite useful in your journey. 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

2.1.

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 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	The Dawnbreaker
Offhand Weapon	Zephyrous Sail Carver	The Dawnbreaker
Helm	Hood of the Sudden Eclipse	Revival Catalyst, or Forgeweaver Araz in Manaforge Omega
Neck	Bloodstained Memento	Priory of the Sacred Flame
Shoulder	Smokemantle of the Sudden Eclipse	Revival Catalyst, or The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Versatility	Reshii Wraps
Chest	Tactical Vest of the Sudden Eclipse	Revival Catalyst, or Fractillus in Manaforge Omega
Bracers	Bindings of Lost Essence	Soulbinder Naazindhri
Gloves	Deathgrips of the Sudden Eclipse	Revival Catalyst, or Soulbinder Naazindhri in Manaforge Omega
Belt	Venza's Powderbelt	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Legs	Pants of the Sudden Eclipse	Revival Catalyst, or Loom’ithar in Manaforge Omega
Boots	Interloper's Reinforced Sandals	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Ring #1	Ring of Earthen Craftsmanship with Crit/Vers and Elemental Focusing Lens	Crafted by Jewelcrafting
Ring #2	Ring of Earthen Craftsmanship with Crit/Vers and Elemental Focusing Lens	Crafted by Jewelcrafting
Trinket #1	Sigil of the Cosmic Hunt	The Soul Hunters in Manaforge Omega
Trinket #2	Astral Antenna	Nexus King Salhadaar in Manaforge Omega

2.2.

Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Outlaw Rogue

This list contains the highest DPS setup with farmable gear from Pre-Patch 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	The Dawnbreaker
Offhand Weapon	Zephyrous Sail Carver	The Dawnbreaker
Helm	Hood of the Sudden Eclipse	Revival Catalyst
Neck	Bloodstained Memento	Priory of the Sacred Flame
Shoulder	Smokemantle of the Sudden Eclipse	Revival Catalyst
Cloak	Reshii Wraps with Versatility	Reshii Wraps
Chest	Tactical Vest of the Sudden Eclipse	Revival Catalyst
Bracers	Scheming Assailer's Bands	The Dawnbreaker
Gloves	Deathgrips of the Sudden Eclipse	Revival Catalyst
Belt	Venza's Powderbelt	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Legs	Pants of the Sudden Eclipse	Revival Catalyst
Boots	Geezle's Zapstep Boots	Operation: Floodgate
Ring #1	Signet of Collapsing Stars	Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Ring #2	Devout Zealot's Ring	The Dawnbreaker
Trinket #1	Ara-Kara Sacbrood	Eco-Dome Al'dani
Trinket #2	Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker	Operation: Floodgate

2.3.

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

When leveling, Outlaw may feel somewhat cumbersome due to its sustained damage profile. This can be particularly frustrating against enemies with higher health, and since it is a high uptime spec you may not go into the fight with all your CDs ready either. One way to counter-act this, is by running trinkets that can help deal with the leveling environment.

You will therefore want to try and grab two passive trinkets, that just add more damage whenever they procs. Where other classes might want a stat-boosting trinket to go with their cooldowns, our cooldowns don't really increase our DPS like they do for other classes, so any extra damage helps.

We therefore recommend trying to grab a Astral Antenna as its bonus is very potent, but doesn't last very long. Sigil of the Cosmic Hunt works in a pinch, adding some AoE damage.

Soulbreaker's Sigil, Automatic Footbomb Dispenser, and Incorporeal Warpclaw are all solid alternatives, adding some much additional burst damage to our otherwise very flat damage profile.

There are a number of good trinkets available for Outlaw Rogue in Pre-Patch, 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.

Since the Turbo Boost event began in Patch 11.2.5, you can once more acquire specific items from Manaforge Omega and Mythic+ Trinkets through the Puzzling Cartel Chip. You will be able to buy a total of three items with Cartel Chips, but you can only buy items from bosses that you already killed, i.e. in order to buy a Mythic Unyielding Netherprism, you would have to have killed Mythic Fractillus at least once. For more information on how this system works and where to buy your items, check out our dedicated Puzzling Cartel Chip section!

We have compiled a list of high-value items that you should prioritize with your Cartel Chips as Outlaw Rogue. This list is not exhaustive or in order of priority, and you are best served simming yourself for optimal results as the best pick will depend on the gear you already have available.

• Ergospheric Cudgel – Our best Mainhand weapon. Very high priority if you do not yet have a crafted weapon. Since this can only be bought once you have taken down Dimensius, you might want to go for another Mythic Main hand weapon instead.
• Sigil of the Cosmic Hunt – One of our best trinkets, grab this if you don't have two good ones yet.
• Astral Antenna – One of our best trinkets, grab this if you don't have two good ones yet.
• Interloper's Reinforced Sandals – The boots to go along with your Reshii Wraps. One of the best items to get, due to how coveted it is across all leather classes.

With the release of 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 Pre-Patch.

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.