Outlaw Rogue Beginner Friendly Guide | Dragonflight 10.2.5

Hey! Welcome to my first guide video on Outlaw Rogue!
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00:00 - Intro
00:10 - Build and gearing
00:56 - Talents
03:20 - Skills
07:17 - Rotation
While this may not be the most comprehensive guide out there to absolutely maximise the classes potential, it should hopefully provide a good start at getting your head around the playstyle. I will be uploading more in the coming weeks to look at squeezing out as much DPS as possible.
I use ElvUi with Naowh's profile and Weak Aura Pack which you need to be subbed to his Twith to access, but I have included a free alternative below
Let me know what you think in the comments and don't forget to like and subscribe if you found it useful!
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Talents:
My standard M+ BQQAcWb37Z8KXj8LlE1rTPXfsBAEkQkEIJhESkkkkmkElkIlkAAAAAAg0KRCSSUIpkWAAAAIJA
Keep it Rollin' (KiR) alternative build (video coming soon)
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Roll the Bones WA: wago.io/Pd53s_NPU
Afenar free WA: wago.io/Afenar_Rogue
⌨️MACROS⌨️
#showtooltip between the eyes
/cast ghostly strike
/cast between the eyes
#showtooltip Dispatch
/cast Ghostly Strike
/cast Dispatch

[@bugjuice32086]

Thx for the video just used my war within upgrade on a rouge! Useful information 😊

[@Squirrely_G]

Thanks! I did the same with my upgrade 😆

[@ugurcoskun8509]

Amazing, simple, informative

[@Squirrely_G]

Thank you! Glad you like it!

[@LivingLikeGaryYT]

Thanks man you earned my sub! I’ve been really needing help playing outlaw rogue. I’d love to learn from you ❤

[@Squirrely_G]

Thank you, really appreciate it! 🤘

[@theninjanew911]

Loved the guide! My rogue just hit 70 and I was struggling to maintain buff up-times alongside burst windows alongside combo point dumps. Definitely need to rework my UI to better highlight buffs and procs too, thanks for calling that out.

[@Squirrely_G]

Hey! Thanks and glad it helped! I've only been playing WoW for around a year and sorting out my UI and getting a good set of WeakAura's was THE biggest thing that helped me out too.

[@theninjanew911]

Can you talk a bit about acrobatic strikes vs. a point (or more) in lethality? Between the flat +% crit and the bonus crit damage, it seems like a can't-miss talent but not many specs seem to value it.

[@Squirrely_G]

@@theninjanew911 to get the full benefit of Lethality, you'd need 2 points into it so you'd need to drop another talent on top of acrobatic strikes and it only noticeably buffs combo builders. There's much more value in buffing combo spenders elsewhere in the trees. Increasing melee attacks by 3yrds sounds negligible but it seriously makes a difference, I forgot I switched it out and I thought my mouse was busted because I was missing so many attacks and dropping DPS 🤣

[@RVKZ_]

great guide man!

[@Squirrely_G]

Thank you! 🤟

[@mrj5361]

Sweet guide! I do find myself quite energy starved, though. But I am in the early gearing stage, so I'm wondering if there's anything specific that'll cause energy to be very limited?

[@Squirrely_G]

Hey, thanks! Energy can be a bit rough to manage at lower gear level. Getting some more haste pieces can help until higher geared. The biggest improvement I noticed when starting out was making sure to utilise the opportunity procs for pistol shot to generate combo points as it does so at half the cost and not spamming skills too quick, particularly finishers. Only using finishing moves at 6 or more combo points out of stealth/vanish/shadow dance and at 5 or more in those windows. It's also fine to slow down the rotation a little when running low and wait for regen, better than running dry and being able to do nothing!

[@mrj5361]

@@Squirrely_G legendary advice thanks

[@maxiarmitano2571]

Hey dude new rogue player here, ty for all your data!! ♥

[@Squirrely_G]

Have fun, this class is a blast!

[@kayokrya]

Great guide, I'm just 70 and didn't know how to rotate well. Squirrel, can you tell me what appearance you use on your weapons? Thank you!

[@Squirrely_G]

Thank you! It is Larodar's Moonblade with netherflame illusion www.wowhead.com/item=207790/larodars-moonblade

[@thrycemin]

Awesome guide. I re-rolled a rouge after seeing the rework. Also what is that add-on that shows text?

[@Squirrely_G]

Thank you! Which text do you mean?

[@thrycemin]

@@Squirrely_GIt was showing "sneaky sneak" It looked like a reminder of some kind.

[@Squirrely_G]

@thrycemin ah sorry 😆 it's part of the WeakAura I use from Naowh. It's says 'STEALTHED' normally, I just edited it. Nice visual reminder in the noise that is WoW UI that I'm going into a crackshot window

[@Fox250R]

Hey great video. 480 outlaw here. I only do mythics 20ish mostly and my AOE does pretty good but my single target is horrible. What talent tree would you suggest for me? Thank you 🙏

[@Squirrely_G]

Hey, thanks!! What talents are you currently using? If AOE is good, ST should also be good as the only thing we change rotation wise is not using Blade Flurry off cooldown. I only find ST lacking when I mess up the opening or I'm messing up Subterfuge windows so I lose some Between The Eyes damage. The talent build I linked in the description is great for AOE and ST and I still use that mostly, but you can try the Keep it Rollin' build as well which has higher ST potential while still putting out strong AOE BQQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAElEEJhkkESIRSSolkElkItkAAAAAAAtWSCHIJRBKpFAAAARCA

[@Fox250R]

@@Squirrely_GI’m currently using yours. Maybe I’m just not doing my opener correctly? I dunno 🤷

[@Squirrely_G]

It could be, the opener is a pretty big bulk of damage. It could just be general rotation, Outlaw is one of the least forgiving specs. A 'good' rotation can see me parsing around 230k and as low as 130k with a bad opener and scuffed rotation. If you're already pumping +20s though you must be doing something right 🤟

[@willlawlor2398]

Thoughts on Echoing Reprimand? Why do I see so many website builds running it?

[@Squirrely_G]

It is a higher overall damage potential but needs a little management and attention when rotating as it can lead to being energy starved as you're popping finishers a lot more frequently. I am finishing up a guide on that build today all being well and it will be up ASAP

[@bomorris4759]

what is that weak auras that is tracking all your abilities? I like how slim it is.

[@Squirrely_G]

Hey, that is one of Naowh’s UI WeakAuras. You get access to it from subscribing to his twitch channel

[@zylle1993]

Elusivesness vs cheat death? Opinions?

[@Squirrely_G]

Both are really strong, I prefer elusiveness so you can make use more frequently but cheat death is powerful for not getting one shot or depleting in higher keys. I tend to switch to cheat death in PUGs though 😂

[@SinisteRs_Gaming]

What is your ability WA?

[@Squirrely_G]

It's from Naowh on Twitch, you need to be subbed to his channel to get it though

[@SinisteRs_Gaming]

@@Squirrely_G thanks!