Outlaw Rogue PvP Guide — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0.1)

Outlaw Rogues have strong sustained damage, excellent crowd control tools, and multiple ways to reduce the cooldown of key abilities, such as Blind or Vanish, allowing them to de-sync their offensive abilities from the enemy defensive toolkit and trinkets. It will be almost impossible for the enemy team to know when the Outlaw Rogue will next have their powerful cooldowns available, making it very hard to counter them and allowing the Outlaw Rogue to land a kill. Outlaw Rogues are also much tankier than other specializations, especially versus other melees, giving them more time to find a kill.

Strengths

• Great control.
• Great sustained damage.
• Excellent mobility.
• Excellent utility.
• Very durable.

Weaknesses

• Very prone to dying in stuns.
• RNG related burst.
• Reliant on luck regarding Roll the Bones and multiple procs.
• Suffers greatly from loss of uptime because of Restless Blades.

• New talents/spells: Cold Blooded Killer, Swift Slasher, Toxic Stiletto, Quick Fingers, Deep Cuts, Danger Sense, Find an Opening, Menacing Rush, Zero In, and Dragon-Bone Dice. Dragon-Bone Dice strengthens the buffs you get from Roll the Bones.
• Removed talents/spells: Cold Blood, Float Like a Butterfly, Greenskin's Wickers, Riposte, and Underhanded Upper Hand have all been removed.
• Changed talent/spells:
  • Supercharger now triggers after activating Adrenaline Rush.
  • Between the Eyes deals damage and increases your damage dealt, up to 40%.
  • Roll the Bones - you roll dice to get a chance at 1 in 4 buffs ( One of a Kind, Double Trouble, Triple Threat, or Jackpot). You can only have one buff active at a time.
  • Precision Shot gives Between the Eyes and Pistol Shot a 10 yard range and increases their damage.
  • Restless Blades on longer reduces the cooldown of Vanish.
  • Murder renamed to Crescendo of Violence.
• PvP Talent Changes: no notable PvP talent changes.