Outlaw Rogue DPS Mythic+ Tips — Shadowlands 9.2.5

The playstyle of Outlaw in Mythic+ is almost exactly the same as your regular single-target rotation. As almost all of your damage cleaves onto additional targets whenever Blade Flurry is active, maintaining a high uptime on Blade Flurry without wasting it when enemies are about to die is key to performing well as Outlaw. As such, there are no major gameplay changes, and your stat priority, rotational priorities, as well as Legendary and Covenant benefits stay the same for Mythic+.

If you are unfamiliar with Mythic+ and its associated general mechanics, you can read more about it on our Shadowlands Mythic+ Season 2 page below.

While at this stage many groups do different pulls due to different compositions or preferences, some of the shroud skips in dungeons are still more common than others. As such, the most popular skips have been compiled on Shroud of Concealment Mythic+ guide for Rogues with diagrams showing each of the skips.

Greenskin's Wickers is the best Legendary for your consistently-high damage output for any Covenant. You can choose to continue using a single-target heavy build, with Concealed Blunderbuss for Venthyr and Invigorating Shadowdust for Kyrian.

There is no Covenant that drastically outperforms all the others in Mythic+. While there are certain benefits to individual Soulbinds or Covenant abilities, they are all highly situational and their impact is ultimately very small. DPS differences are usually within a margin of 2-4% and can shift based on whether your group needs more AoE or single-target damage.

For your Conduits you will want to play the following setup:

• Potency: Count the Odds and Sleight of Hand.
• Finesse: Quick Decisions and Fade to Nothing.
• Endurance: Recuperator and Cloaked in Shadows.

Kyrian Outlaw Rogues should be playing Reverberation as their second Potency Conduit. If you choose to play Venthyr, Triple Threat will be a slightly better choice for your AoE/cleave damage output.

For more information on each individual Covenant and a general recommendation, you can head over to our dedicated Covenant section to find out more about each individual covenant.

For the most part, Outlaw Rogue's rotation is the same as referred in the Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities page.

Outlaw currently serves as more of a utility/support spec and is very sought after for its ability to disrupt enemies by utilizing Gouge and Kidney Shot. Since your entire single-target output will be spread on all nearby targets the moment you use Blade Flurry, the rotational gameplay does not change all that much. Good use of your disruptive abilities is the key to excelling as an Outlaw Rogue and learning when to use Combo Points on Kidney Shot because an important cast needs to be interrupted soon can be beneficial for the group, at the detriment of lowering your overall DPS a bit. This sacrifice is well worth it, however, whenever it allows the rest of the group to focus on other things while you do the heavy lifting on disrupts and interrupts.

Learning and communicating which abilities you will have to disrupt and how to achieve this most efficiently will be key to fulfilling your duties while also maintaining a high overall DPS that is still one of the strongest in the game. While DPS is not your main priority, knowing when you are free to use resources for DPS instead of holding onto them to use on disrupting abilities is a learning process that differs from dungeon to dungeon and from pull to pull. Always remember that it is better to do a little bit less DPS than to miss an important disrupt that could potentially wipe your group.

• Gouge can be used to disrupt enemies from casting otherwise uninterruptible spells. This requires you to stand in front of the enemy, but can be used in many situations to keep enemies from using some of their most lethal abilities. Many of these abilities go on cooldown once used, so disrupting them with Gouge, Kidney Shot or Blind will keep these mobs from re-casting these abilities for a while.
• Sap and Blind can be useful to hard crowd control multiple mobs in a single trash pack.
• Shroud of Concealment grants you AoE Stealth in a large radius. However, there are a lot more "see through stealth" enemies compared to previous expansions, so you need to know ahead of time if you can actually stealth past the packs you intend to skip.
• Feint, Cheat Death, Cloak of Shadows, Evasion, and Vanish make up an exceptionally strong combination of defensive abilities. While Vanish does not provide direct defensive value, you can use it to avoid a number of targeted casts, by waiting until the cast starts to Vanish.
• Tricks of the Trade greatly helps with Threat management.
• Shiv can be used to dispell enrage effects

Below are the suggested talents for Mythic+. These talents are recommended for all groups and keys at the current time.

Level	Choices
15	✗ Weaponmaster	✓ Quick Draw	✗ Ghostly Strike
25	✓ Acrobatic Strikes	? Retractable Hook	✗ Hit and Run
30	✗ Vigor	? Deeper Stratagem	? Marked for Death
35	✗ Iron Stomach	✓ Cheat Death	? Elusiveness
40	✓ Dirty Tricks	✗ Blinding Powder	? Prey on the Weak
45	✗ Loaded Dice	✓ Alacrity	✗ Dreadblades
50	✓ Dancing Steel	✓ Blade Rush	? Killing Spree

The choice between Blade Rush and Dancing Steel depends on your Covenant choice. As a Necrolord player Dancing Steel is the best choice, while Kyrian Rogues will want to play Blade Rush instead. Venthyr can play both depending on whether you prefer higher single-target or AoE damage.

Killing Spree has a higher DPS potential than Blade Rush on low-target cleave for Kyrian but comes at the risk of potentially dying to a cleave or ground effect while you use this ability.

Marked for Death is the best choice for Kyrian Rogues, while Necrolord and Venthyr will be playing Deeper Stratagem.

There are now three weekly affixes and one seasonal affix. The first affix is available instantly at levels two and three, the second affix starts at level four, the third affix is enabled at level seven, and finally the seasonal affix is at level ten.

There is not much to say about Fortified and Tyrannical. The most important part is to ensure that you have all your single-target cooldowns ready whenever you fight any boss. You can choose to play a more single-target Covenant or build for Tyrannical keys.

• Bolstering is fairly easy to manage as Outlaw, since you can easily swap targets, and you do same cleave to all targets. This makes it easy to keep mob Health even.
• Bursting debuff can be cleared off with Cloak of Shadows and prevent future applications for its duration. Due to this it is best to wait until a few enemies have died before using it.
• Sap and Blind are useful tools to keep Inspired enemies controlled during Inspiring weeks.
• Using Pistol Shot can help to kite the adds that fixate you during Spiteful weeks.

• Quaking damage can be reduced by Feint, which will help your healers.
• Blade Flurry will not hit the Explosive Orbs from Explosive, but hitting the Orbs themselves will allow your Blade Flurry to hit all surrounding non-orb targets, so you need to make sure you are targeting them directly. Running Vigor instead of Deeper Stratagem can be helpful to not get overwhelmed with Explosive Orbs if you catch yourself running out of Energy too often.
• Storming can be avoided by using Cloak of Shadows.

As you venture into Mythic Keystone Levels of Level 10 and higher in Season 3, you will occasionally encounter enemy trash and bosses that are surrounded by three Relics - Urh, Vy, and Wo. These all buff the enemies they are spawned with with different effects. Once you have killed your first Relic, you will spawn an Automa which will have a few abilities which are easily dealt with. Killing the Automa will grant the entire group a buff. The type of buff you will get depends on the Automa you killed, which in turn corresponds to the first Relic you killed.

Groups will have different priorities depending on the pull, Boss and situation you find yourself in during the Dungeon. None of these buffs significantly alter our gameplay choices, and it will be a group decision which ones to priotize and kill.

Whenever the Legion Timewalking is active, you will be able to venture into a specific set of Legion dungeons that have pre-set affix combinations, as well as a new Affix called Infernal. It functions similarly to the current seasonal Affix of Tormented, as you will find Infernal Beacons that you can interact with. These Beacons are close to regular dungeon bosses, and engaging the boss without triggering the beacon first will force you to fight both at the same time.

Clicking a beacon will spawn one of multiple Legion Commanders, and all of them have their own individual mechanics that require you to deal with soaking mechanics as well as a constant stream of smaller adds that can quickly overwhelm the tank if the corresponding Commander is still alive.

If you would like to learn more about these seasonal affixes or any others, please consult our Mythic+ Affix Guide below.