Outlaw Rogue Raid Guide

Welcome to the Outlaw Rogue Raid guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.0! This guide covers everything you need to know to understand your character! Are you starting out and leveling up from 70? Check out the leveling guide!

Outlaw RogueRaid

Single-Target

Average

AoE

Average

Utility

Average

Survivability

Excellent

Mobility

Excellent

Tier Set

• 2-Set: Your Sinister Strike, Pistol Shot, and Ambush have a 20% chance to Ethereal Rampage, dealing 15% increased damage as Shadow.
• 4-Set: Ethereal Rampage additionally increases the damage of your next Between the Eyes by 6%, stacking up to 3 times.

This tier is pretty badly tuned and using random offpieces is almost better in the ST setup.

Single-Target

Multi-Target

For multitarget, your rotation barely changes, but there are a few things to note

• Blade Flurry cleaves from around your character, so always try to position yourself closer to mobs when possible.
• Keeping Blade Flurry active is the highest priority with 2 or more targets.
• When you have Deft Maneuvers talented, you use your Blade Flurry as the highest priority builder at 5 or more targets

Stealth Windows

• You have to maximize your Between the Eyes casts throughout your pull and thus have to make the most out of your Subterfuge Window. The safest way of doing this is only using Between the Eyes in your Subterfuge window. However, you can maximize the usage of your Between the Eyes casts and use it outside of your Subterfuge if
  • Your Adrenaline Rush has 45 seconds or more on cooldown.
  • Your Vanish is at 0 stacks and has more than 45 seconds cooldown.

Adrenaline Rush Usage

• This is your "Big" cooldown. It reduces your Global Cooldown through haste, down to 0.8 during its duration. It increases energy, energy regeneration, and fills your combo points with Improved Adrenaline Rush. These are the things you are going to feel when you press it.
• Generally, you use it as soon as it's ready, but there are some rules you can utilize to maximize the uptime.
  • If your Adrenaline Rush is about to expire, and you have Vanish ready, but you are not at full Combo Points, you can press it even at lower combo points just to extend Adrenaline Rush.
  • Only use your Vanish charges to extend Adrenaline Rush and never outside of it.
  • With Adrenaline Rush being the ability that makes your spec work, it's important that you do not waste it needlessly. Only use/refresh it when you know you are staying on the boss for a good time period. Make sure you are going to have uptime on boss or adds.
  • To hit the threshold for the global cooldown cap, Hidden Opportunity builds require 9%~ haste, while Keep it Rolling builds require 19%~. As always make sure to use raidbots to come up with the best stat weights for your character

Roll the Bones

• Always use Roll the Bones with 1 buff if Loaded Dice is active.
• With the KIR Build, use Keep It Rolling if you have 4 buffs or more and Broadside is one of them.
  • After Keep it Rolling is active, your buffs are "saved" and cannot be rerolled away. While they are active, and when you get your next Loaded Dice, use Roll the Bones to try and get extra buffs. Only do this when your current buffs are at ~39s or less as you can roll the same buffs again.
• Ideally always reroll before your Subterfuge window if your buffs are about to drop, the only time not to is when True Bearing is active as Hidden Opportunity build or Broadside as Keep it Rolling Build.

Pistol Shot

You only want to use this ability when you have an Opportunity proc active, but even so, there are a few rules to follow.

With Hidden Opportunity

• Only use Pistol Shot when
  • Ambush is not available from Audacity.
  • Subterfuge is not active.
• During your Subterfuge, when you have Broadside active, use Pistol Shot at 1 Combo Point or less, or if you are low on energy and can't use Ambush.

With Keep it Rolling

1. If Broadside is active, use Pistol Shot at 1 Combo Point or less or at max stacks of Opportunity.
2. If Broadside is not active, use Pistol Shot at 3 Combo Points or less or at max stacks of Opportunity.

Understanding Mechanics

Rotational min-maxing is just one aspect of mastering a specialization, but there are numerous other key mechanics that influence your performance. Use the following guides to improve them.

• Pandemic
• Spell Queue Window
• Stat Diminishing Returns

The following tips are mainly applicable to Heroic Bosses. Mythic tips are released after our progression concludes.

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Understand your secondary stat priority and the tertiary stats needed for optimal performance during Raid boss fights as an Outlaw Rogue. For more detailed information, visit the Stats and Attributes guide.

Assuming you have 9%~ haste with Hidden Opportunity Build, or 19%~ Haste with Keep It Rolling Build.

• All secondary stats are affected by diminishing returns. Click here to learn more!

Tertiary

• Avoidance - Great stat to reduce the damage intake of "Area of Effect" abilities.
• Leech - Provides additional healing through damage dealing.
• Speed - Niche tertiary that can be very useful and has been proven useful in the past. Makes playing certain mechanics a lot easier.

Trinkets

Below you can find active and passive alternatives to our recommended trinkets. Do note that some trinkets are better than others depending on the raid boss.

First Trinket alternatives

• Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg
  • Pretty decent alternative but you have to keep and eye on it and use it when appropriate.
• Dead-Eye Spyglass
  • A good crit trinket alternative but you have to attack one target to get the full benefit.
• Bottled Flayedwing Toxin
  • Passive single target trinket that you have to use every hour, similar to poisons.
• Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj
  • Fairly close to the previous trinket, and doesn't require you to hit the same target. A bit rng with what stat you end up getting.
• Treacherous Transmitter
  • This can potential be a pretty decent trinket if you don't mind playing the minigame.

Embellishments

1. Duskthread Lining x2

Remaining Sparks

• Crafted items are 636 item level and regular items are 636 on max item level, therefore, it's not beneficial to equip crafted items outside of your 2x embellishments unless you don't have access to other high item level gear on that slot.

Simcraft

To find the best combination of gear available to you or identify the best possible upgrades, visit our Simcraft guide to learn how to utilize Simcraft easily and effectively.

• Phials
  • Flask of Tempered Versatility
• Food
  • Feast of the Divine Day
• Combat Potion
  • Tempered Potion
• Health Potion
  • Algari Healing Potion -- a big burst of healing
• Weapon Oil
  • Ironclaw Whetstone
• Augment Rune
  • Crystallized Augment Rune
• Sockets
  • Quick Ruby
  • Deadly Sapphire
  • Culminating Blasphemite -- Unique, use one of each gem color to enhance your Culminating Blasphemite.
    • Quick Sapphire
    • Versatile Emerald
• Running a sim is advised for optimal stats.

Enchantments

For min-maxing an Outlaw Rogue in raiding, different racial traits can provide a tremendous benefit to your character. If this is not your top goal, picking a race that fits your style works just as well.

• Stoneform -- Dwarf
  • Dispels Magic and Bleed debuffs. Has been useful in the past on some bosses with Bleeds.
• Brawn -- Tauren
  • Similar to Dwarf in terms of DPS, but you don't get to have Stoneform.
• Rocket Jump -- Goblin
  • Do a small jump in the direction your character is facing.
  • While you're in the Rocket Jump animation you are placed on a global cooldown until your character lands.
• Berserking -- Troll
  • Fairly weak DPS racial on a 3min cooldown.
  • Reduce the duration of movement-impairing effects by 20%. This was only useful once in the recent history of progression raiding but is still worth noting.
• Blood Fury -- Orc
  • 20% reduced stun duration on you which can be useful in some situations.
• Spatial Rift -- Void Elf
  • Spawn a shadow traveling into your facing direction, and activate it again to teleport to it.
  • Maximum range of 100 yards.
• Combat Analysis -- Mechagnome
  • Fairly strong passive trait that scales with level, hence why it's so strong now

Recommendation

In general, it's safe to say that if you care about min-maxing your DPS, you should go with the highest DPS racial. That being said, the story is a bit different if it's about progression raiding. Some help out massively to speed up the progression on certain bosses. Notably, Dwarf with their Stoneform helped out on Tindral Sageswift and Fyrakk the Blazing in the latest Race to World First by having easy access to dispelling yourself at crucial points of the fights mentioned.

Discover recommended macros for Outlaw Rogues during Raid encounters and watch a quick video guide on creating simple macros for your character.

Macro Import Guide Video

Mouseover Macros

Sets a market when you mouseover a mob. This is great for letting you teammates know what you are planning on using your Kick on.

/focus [@mouseover][]
/run SetRaidTarget("mouseover",6)

Shadowstep on your mouseover target

#showtooltip Shadowstep
/cast [@mouseover] Shadowstep

Mouseover Kick if you prefer that over focus target.

#showtooltip Kick
/cast [target=mouseover] Kick

Grappling Hook on Cursor

#showtooltip Grappling Hook
/cast [@cursor] Grappling Hook

Focus Macros

Shadowstep Kick on your focus mob. This macro is used as a "ranged" Kick.

/cleartarget
/cast [@focus] Shadowstep
/cast [@focus] Kick
/targetlasttarget

Kick your focus target

#Showtooltip Kick
/cast [target=focus] Kick

Cast Gouge on your focus

#showtooltipGouge
/cast [target=focus] Gouge

Focus Kidney Shot for extra CC

#showtooltip Kidney Shot
/cast [@focus] Kidney Shot

Focus Cheap Shot

#showtooltip Cheap Shot
/cast [@focus] Cheap Shot

Utility Macros

On this macro you can replace the names with the tanks in your group to make using Tricks of the Trade much easier.

#showtooltip Tricks of the Trade
/cast [@Meeresdh] Tricks of the Trade
/cast [@Meeresmana] Tricks of the Trade
/cast [@Méèrès] Tricks of the Trade

Alternative Tricks of the Trade macro that requires https://wago.io/8xGN251mS/ to work.

#showtooltip Tricks of the Trade
/click AutoTankMisdirect leftbutton 1
/click AutoTankMisdirect

Below, you see a screenshot of the author's User Interface for their Outlaw Rogue, outlining which addons are used and how they are utilized in Raids to make your life easier.

Addons

• MRT -- Notes, Raid cooldowns, and more
  • Helpful addon for Raiders, especially for Raid leaders and officers.
• ElvUI -- Full User Interface replacement
  • A user interface designed around user-friendliness with extra features that are not included in the standard UI.
  • Alternatively, you can also use Shadowed Unit Frames (SUF) and an action bar addon of your choice or of course the stock UI.
• BigWigs -- Generic Boss Mod
  • BigWigs is a boss encounter add-on. It consists of many individual encounter scripts, or boss modules; mini add-ons that are designed to trigger alert messages, timer bars, sounds, and so forth, for one specific Raid encounter.
• WeakAuras -- Jack of all trades
  • WeakAuras is a powerful and flexible framework that allows the display of highly customizable graphics on World of Warcraft's user interface to indicate buffs, debuffs, and other relevant information. This addon was created to be a lightweight replacement for Power Auras but has since introduced more functionalities while remaining efficient and easy to use.
• Plater -- Advanced Nameplates
  • Plater is a nameplate addon with an extraordinary amount of settings, out of the box debuff tracking, threat coloring, and support for scripting similar to WeakAuras and wago.io + the WeakAuras-Companion for Mod/Script/Profile updates.
• Details -- In-depth Damage Meter
  • Most powerful, reliable, handsome, damage meter.

WeakAuras

All public Echo Raid WeakAuras are available to download in-game through Echo Raid Tools.

Patch 11.0.2

• Cloaked in Shadows now creates an absorb for 18% of maximum health (was 30%).
• Soothing Darkness now heals for 15% maximum health over its duration (was 24%).
• Recuperator now triggers every 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
• Gouge cooldown has been increased to 25 seconds (was 20 seconds).
• Kidney Shot cooldown has been increased to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds).
• Kidney Shot duration has been increased to a maximum of 8 seconds (was 6 seconds maximum). Does not affect PvP combat.
  • Developer's note: We're intending to increase the impact of Kidney Shot in solo and dungeon content as its opportunity cost is higher than similar stuns due to costing combo points. In PvP, we feel the control Rogues bring relative to others has become problematic alongside new tools gained in Dragonflight and The War Within, so we're increasing its cooldown to bring it in line with similar abilities.
• All ability damage increased by 21%.
• Auto-attack damage increased by 20%.
• Sinister Strike damage increased by 10%.
• Pistol Shot damage increased by 10%.
• Blade Flurry initial damage increased by 50%.
• Killing Spree damage increased by 8%.
• Sleight of Hand additional chance for Roll the Bones to grant multiple effects increased to 15% (was 10%).
• Count the Odds chance to grant a Roll the Bones effect increased to 15% (was 10%).
• Combat Potency now increases Energy regeneration by 30% (was 25%).
• Ace Up Your Sleeve now grants 5 combo points when triggered (was 4). This change does not affect PvP combat.

Patch 11.0

• All talent trees have had many talents move locations or have had their pathing updated.
• New Talent: Shadowheart – Leech increased by 3% while Stealthed.
• Acrobatic Strikes has been redesigned – Auto-attacks increase auto-attack damage and movement speed by 1% for 3 seconds, stacking up to 10%.
• Cut to the Chase is now learned at level 18 (was an Assassination talent) and now triggers from Envenom/Dispatch/Eviscerate.
• Cut to the Chase is now learned at level 18 (was an Assassination talent) and now triggers from Envenom/Dispatch/Eviscerate.
• Cut to the Chase is now learned at level 18 (was an Assassination talent) and now triggers from Envenom/Dispatch/Eviscerate.
• Cut to the Chase is now learned at level 18 (was an Assassination talent) and now triggers from Envenom/Dispatch/Eviscerate.
• Shadow Dance moved from the Class talent tree to Subtlety talent tree.
• Nightstalker has been removed.
• Mastery: Main Gauche damage increased by 24%.
• All ability damage increased by 20%.
• Ace Up Your Sleeve now grants 4 combo points when triggered (was 5).
• Adrenaline Rush has been updated:
  • No longer increases global cooldown recovery rate by 25% while active.
  • Now increases global cooldown recovery rate equal to your Haste while active, up to 25%.
  • Now increases Energy regeneration by 50% (was 60%).
• Count the Odds effect now has base chance 10% (was 8%) and duration 8 seconds (was 5 seconds), but no longer doubled while Stealthed.
• Underhanded Upper Hand no longer affects Slice and Dice duration and no longer grants 3 seconds of Subterfuge duration (Stealth ability use).
• Crackshot's Dispatch effectiveness reduced to 50% (was 75%).
• Thief's Versatility now increases Versatility by 3% (was 4%).
• Blade Flurry radius increased to 8 yards (was melee range).
• Sepsis has been removed.

Q: Why is my damage so low?

A: One of the most common mistakes as an Outlaw Rogue is simply not pressing globals as soon as possible. Outlaw is a very high APM spec, and due to abilities like Restless Blades and True Bearing, simply having uptime and using abilities is important. Building muscle memory with the spec, either by playing a lot of Mythic+, or hitting the dummy fixes that.

Credits

Written By: Perfecto

Reviewed By: Kush