Outlaw Rogue PvP Talents and Builds (Dragonflight / Patch 10.0.7)
Choosing the right PvP and PvE talents is a prerequisite to proper performance in PvP. This guide goes through the various talent choices available to you as an Outlaw Rogue and gives you the best combinations you can take.
This page is part of our Outlaw Rogue PvP Guide.
Talent Choices for Outlaw Rogues
Rogue Tree
Mandatory Talents
Blind,
Sap,
Cloak of Shadows,
Evasion, and
Shadowstep
are core abilities that you need to pick to play the class. These abilities are your CC, defensive
cooldowns, and mobility.
Elusivenessis a powerful talent that allows you to have a lot of damage mitigation in
combination with the talent
Float Like a Butterfly.
Cheat Death is also a great option
in specific match-ups, such as when facing Rogue/Mage.
Find Weakness and
Shadow Dance are great ways to enhance your damage. Find Weakness
reduces the armor of the target, increasing all your damage since every ability Outlaw has deals Physical
damage, and Shadow Dance gives access to
Ambush, which is one of the main damaging spells
of this build. It also enables you to CC a bit more with
Cheap Shot.
Important Talents
Gouge is a handy ability to have. You can still use it to set up CC on a target with no DoTs
or interrupt casts when you don't have your
Kick. You can even use
it on your target when the stun DR is a few seconds away from fading so that the target can't move and pre-use an
ability before your Kidney Shot.
Deeper Stratagem is a great pick for Outlaw, as multiple talents focus on finisher damage. Also since
Outlaw sometimes randomly generates Combo points. A higher cap makes it easier not to waste any, increasing
overall damage.
Outlaw Tree
Mandatory Talents
Combat Potency and
Fatal Flourish are what allow Outlaw to regenerate energy. They are a must-have.
Grappling Hook, alongside the Shadowstep from the Rogue Tree, gives you very high mobility.
Restless Blades allows you to reduce the cooldown of most of your abilities for every Combo Point spent. It is a must-have.
Roll the Bones gives you combat buffs that greatly enhance your effectiveness in combat. It is a must-have, as
the spec is built around these buffs.
Adrenaline Rush is your main burst cooldown and, therefore, a must-have.
Float Like a Butterfly is key whenever facing a melee DPS or a Hunter. This will allow you to reset the
cooldown of your Evasion through
Restless Blades, making you extremely durable.
Hidden Opportunity and
Audacity are key talents as they are the ones that allow
Ambush
to be useable outside of Stealth and deal serious damage.
Important Talents
Blinding Powder reduces the cooldown of your
Blind by 30s, allowing you to have it more often
than enemy trinkets. This greatly helps to land kills.
Devious Stratagem is a great pick for Outlaw, as multiple talents focus on finisher damage. Also since
Outlaw sometimes randomly generates Combo points. A higher cap makes it easier not to waste any, increasing
overall damage.
Greenskin's Wickers increases your burst damage. It can be deadly when paired with your other
abilities that buff your damage on your goes.
PvP Talents for Outlaw Rogues
You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents; each has uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. The top three choices are the most useful but can be replaced with other PvP talents depending on your team's goal.
Mandatory PvP Talents
Enduring Brawler is a mighty talent. It gives you a lot more
damage by increasing the chance for
Sinister Strike to hit an additional
time by up to 15%. That means you will have a 50% chance for Sinister Strike to
hit an additional time, dealing twice the damage, giving you two Combo Points
instead of one, and giving you an
Opportunity proc. This, in turn, will
allow your next
Pistol Shot to deal double damage at half cost.
Situational PvP Talents
Dismantle is a strong PvP talent that allows you to disarm an enemy
for 6 seconds every 45 seconds. Disarming an enemy can delay their next kill
attempt or stop it entirely if they have pulled the trigger. It is a great
pick against Warrior, Rogue, and Marksmanship Hunter. It is also
helpful against other Hunter specs. However, they can still use many threatening
abilities while disarmed, and the same goes for Retribution Paladin and Death Knight.
One thing to note is that you can use Dismantle offensively against Death Knight
and Warrior, as being disarmed prevents the use of
Death Strike and
Die by the Sword.
Smoke Bomb creates a smoke cloud around you. Enemy players who are
outside the cloud will not be able to target anyone inside it. This talent
is strong for multiple reasons. Firstly, it can help you land a kill by
stunning a target when they have no trinket. By using Smoke Bomb right after
a stun, you will prevent the healer from saving their teammate. Secondly, you
can use it defensively to save yourself or an ally from a lethal cast
about to go off, such as
Greater Pyroblast. And lastly, you can use it
to prevent incoming crowd control on you or your team if such crowd control
would result in you losing a game, such as a
Polymorph or
Repentance on your healer when they have no trinket, and you are low on
health.
Take Your Cut is a decent pick. Giving 15% Haste to your team now
and then is powerful. You may pick this when you need better options.
Thick as Thieves is a very situational PvP talent that can sometimes
surprise the enemy team if you play with a teammate with high burst damage, such
as a Night Fae Restoration Shaman in 2v2. By giving 15% more damage to
your ally on their burst, you can land a kill if the enemy team has already used
their defensives on your cooldowns. Alternatively, you can force
defensives with the burst of your teammate, further amplified by Thick as
Thieves. Then your cooldowns will close the game. The downside of this
talent is that it requires you to spend a point on
Tricks of the Trade,
something that is rarely done in most Rogue Trees.
Maneuverability is a powerful PvP talent versus teams with
multiple slows. You can take this so you can maximize your uptime on your
target. It also removes any root on you when you use it so that you may escape
a Frost Nova or a Steel Trap with it as well.
Control is King is a talent that will make your opener, and your goes
with
Kidney Shot a bit more bursty. This would be a decent option when
playing double DPS comps, but that is not the strong point of Outlaw at the
moment.
You will always pick Enduring Brawler. The second and third slots will be
Dismantle
if you are against melee DPS that relies on a weapon,
Maneuverability, if you need a root breaker,
or
Smoke Bomb otherwise. You can consider
Take Your Cut if you have a spare slot, but it will
rarely happen.
Changelog
- 21 Mar. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.0.7.
- 25 Jan. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.0.5.
- 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
- 28 Jul. 2022: Reviewed for Shadowlands Season 4.
- 01 Jul. 2022: Changed T1 Talent.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 23 Feb. 2022: Updated for Patch 9.2.
- 10 Nov. 2021: Already up to date with Patch 9.1.5.
- 25 Jul. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1.
- 27 Mar. 2021: No updates needed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 29 Nov. 2020: Removed outdated Traits and Essences.
- 04 Nov. 2020: Updated Talent Table.
- Updated Tiers 3, 6, and 7 Regular Talents.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 16 Feb. 2020: Updated Talent Table.
- Updated Tier 7 Regular Talent.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 20 Jan. 2020: This page was checked for Patch 8.3 and no update was deemed necessary.
- 05 Jan. 2020: Page added.
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