When the World of Warcraft: Dragonflight Pre-Patch was dropped on October 25, 2022, it came with a massive overhaul of the talent system. There are now more options and talent combinations than there ever have been, even compared to WoW Classic. The Outlaw Rogue has seen so many great choices available, it can be hard to determine what the best talents are.

Best Overall Talent Build for Outlaw Rogues in WoW: Dragonflight

Luckily, Dragonflight comes with a "Starter Build" you can use if you'd like to simply have the game assign you talents to start with. This build is available if you open your talent UI and choose "Starter Build" in the bottom left corner.

You will need to fill out both the Rogue Class Talent Tree and the Outlaw Specialization Talent Tree when choosing talents for your Rogue in WoW Dragonflight. The Rogue Class tree represents a tree that all rogues can use regardless of their specialization. The Outlaw tree will be specific to the Outlaw specialization and only active when you have that specialization chosen. For the most part, we recommend the same talents in the Rogue Class tree for all specializations.

In this guide, we will go over what we recommend as the best overall talent choices for the Outlaw Rogue's damage output. As new data and DPS Rankings are gathered, we will add in additional talent builds with specific targets such as a Meta Raid Talent Build for maximum raid DPS, and PvP talent builds as well.

Dragonflight Rogue Class Talent Build

The following is repeated from the Assassination Rogue Talent Build Guide. We offer the same narrative as we have made the same choices for the Rogue Class Tree.

We won't go over every choice in these trees, but we will highlight some key choices and why they are chosen. The beginning of the tree covers some of the main abilities you want to make sure you have in both PvE and PvP settings including Blind, Sap, Cloak of Shadows, Evasion, and Tricks of the Trade. Shadowstep is also chosen as it is incredibly useful and let's face it, downright fun to use.

Some other key choices for the Rogue Class Tree we like are:

• Fleet Footed - The increased movement speed is also useful both in combat, out of combat, and in between pulls in raid.
• Cheat Death - Every rogue knows Cheat Death, and it can be incredibly useful to survive a heavy attack and get away or be healed in the meantime back up to full health.
• Subterfuge - This will allow you to use stealth abilities for 3 seconds after breaking stealth. Make sure to use this to your advantage when opening an attack.
• Acrobatic Strikes - This will allow you to be a bit farther away from your target and still hit them. This can be very useful in raid situations where the enemy needs to be moved around the room, so you can make sure you land all of your blows.
• Leeching Poison - This will add more survivability to your build to have some sustained health back as you pump out damage.
• Cold Blood - You can use this whenever it is off cooldown to ensure a critical hit on your next ability
• Marked for Death - An essential part of the Rogue build. As the cooldown resets when the target dies, you can use this on every enemy you fight.
• Echoing Reprimand - This is a brand new talent we are seeing for the first time. Choosing this coupled with Resounding Clarity, you will be able to turn 4 combo points into super-charged damage sources. The finisher move will then burst even harder due to the effects of this talent.

This Dragonflight Rogue Class Build leaves out mostly talents that involve stuns and crowd control. The idea here is to give you the best damage output, but it also notably missing Find Weakness and Shadow Dance near the bottom of the talent tree. While venturing down the right path to obtain these would seem to be a wise choice, we believe that the center of the tree is more important to the build and will result in better damage and use overall.

Dragonflight Rogue Outlaw Tree Talent Build

Major Selections:

The following Outlaw Rogue talent build is a great all-round build for players to start with. With so many options, there are many alterations ot this build you can make to your liking. This specific build focuses around some important and historic skills such as Adrenaline Rush, Roll the Bones, Between the Eyes, and Pistol Shot.

Dreadblades is taken over Killing Spree as fun to use and powerful attack. You also take any Blade Flurry talents here to help with AoE damage when needed, as well as some enhances to Slice and Dice.

Not Selected:

Notable talents left off the table are utility-type talents such as Grappling Hook. There are other powerful talents left off like Blade Rush and Triple Threat, but we believe the opportunities in the middle and right-side of the tree are more important for synergy.

Finally, at the bottom right of the Talent Menu there a,re three optional talents. These are Talents used in PvP and don't have any effect on raid DPS.

Stay tuned for more WoW Dragonflight content as we'll be adding more content and guides just like we've done with our WotLK Classic Directory!