Outlaw Rogue DPS Mythic+ Tips — Midnight Season 1

This is the higher-performing AoE/Dungeon build for Outlaw, playing Fatebound. It does great sustained AoE damage, although it sacrifices a bit of single-target to do so, and sports a higher ceiling than the equivalent Trickster build. You may also want to play this build on any raid boss with regular add spawns or permanent cleave opportunities.

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This is the lower-performing AoE/Dungeon build for Outlaw, playing Trickster. It does great sustained AoE damage, although it sacrifices a bit of single-target to do so, and sports a slightly lower ceiling than the equivalent Fatebound build.

Be sure to use the 'Export Talents' button to import our build ingame!

Early into Midnight, you will be sitting at very low Crit and Haste, and this may lead to some struggles to get a smooth rotation going. The below build is tailor-made for this environment, and will be replaced by the Fatebound build once you reach higher levels of gear again. But, until then, it is a better choice, especially if you have very low crit.

It is also a great build for early Delve spamming, so if you plan on grabbing some gear from Delve, this is the build you want!

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Kick is your, well, "kick". You will interrupt your targeted enemy or, when using a Focus-Macro, the target you set up as your focus.

This macro will kick your focus target if you have one and your target if you have no focus target. We recommend keeping both the macro and a regular kick cast on your bars, as you may have multiple targets to interrupt, and the macro always prioritizes the focus target.

To quickly set a focus target in hectic scenarios, we also recommend a Focus Mouseover macro or setting the "Focus Target" hotkey in the game's keybinding settings.

Make sure that your UI shows your Focus Target's casts clearly so that you are always able to kick it on cooldown or in coordination with the rest of your group.

Sap and Blind can be useful to hard-crowd control multiple mobs in a single trash pack. You can also use it right before the tank is pulling, as Blackjack applies a damage reduction debuff to the target when Sap breaks.

Vanish can be used to Cheap Shot enemies, stunning them thanks to Subterfuge. Only use this as a last resort, as you want to use Vanish as a DPS cooldown.

With Airborne Irritant and Blackjack talented, Blind turns into a low-cooldown single-target disrupt that also drastically reduces tank damage taken for a short period.

Gouge (if talented) 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.

Blind is not part of our DPS kit, but still has some interesting use-cases in Mythic+ that may not be immediately apparent. While Sap allows a player to safely pass a CC-ed creature without getting into combat, a blinded enemy will walk around confused and still get into combat with the first player that gets close to it. Once the Blind debuff ends, it will engage said player. It will not, however, get into combat with any other player that gets close to it.

You can still make great use of Blind to pass enemies by abusing the fact that only one player gets into combat with it. The best and easiest way to do this, is to ensure that after blinding the target, you get close enough to enter combat with it, and then you and your entire group can pass the enemy. Once you are far enough away from it, you can safely Vanish, drop combat, and skip the enemy.

This is particularly useful in situations where an entire pack of enemy is in your way that you would like to skip, but one or two enemies are too close to pass by without body-pulling them. As a Rogue, you can Sap one, and then use the above trick for the other, allowing you to skip past enemies that would either detect you if you were to use Shroud of Concealment, or if Shroud is on cooldown.

Shroud of Concealment projects AoE Stealth around you. It is important to note, however, that in the current expansion, there is a much greater number of enemies who can detect through Stealth or Invisibility, whom you will need to be on the lookout for.

Distract helps set up Shroud-skips and keeps patrolling trash packs in place for 10 seconds. Make sure to force enemies to look away from you to allow you to stealth past them.

Feint, Cloak of Shadows, Evasion, Crimson Vial and Cheat Death form a very powerful set of defensive cooldowns and are one of the biggest reasons for Rogue's strength in Mythic+.

Tricks of the Trade is not exceptionally great normally. However, any kind of support that helps your tank keep aggro on all enemies is encouraged. Sadly it is a choice-node with Blackjack.

Shiv can be used to dispel Enrage effects. Keep in mind that this means you will not be able to use Shiv for DPS.

Numbing Poison and Atrophic Poison are both useful in Mythic+, but with the heavier emphasis on trash mobs, Numbing Poison is likely to win out on Fortified, with Atrophic gaining more value on Tyrannical weeks. Communicate with your tank and healer which ones are preferable.