Rogue spec for solo content?

So I have a couple of low-ilvl alts (380-400 -ish) mostly for professions and other utility. I mostly do just world content (solo quests) with them. These alts include a retri paladin, fury warrior, and outlaw rogue.

My outlaw feels… feeble compared to retri and fury. I can’t do big pulls with the outlaw (unlike ret/fury who just explode any number of normal quest mobs the moment they pop CDs), and his single target feels lacking as well.

Is there some good talent/rotation combo that would bring outlaw closer to my plate dudes? Or would some other rogue spec serve me better in solo content at low gear level?

Honestly I don’t think you’re going to get to the same solo level on a rogue as you are with the ret and warrior.

for Mining and herbalism - since vanilla wow rogue is king.
Stealth and sap , no killing / aggroing mobs of any kind.
In dragonflight its maybe less of an issue as with previous expansions due to looting whilst mounted - but still there are occasions where i can sap a mob then loot or simply stealth into a cave.
I have 2 rogues - always have since vanilla for this reason.
For other professions that require killing lots of mobs then rogue is probably the most squishy and not the best.

edit: my comment was mailny for professions but stealth is still king for most solo content because you get to kill way less mobs because of stealth.

You are likely not really using the Rogue Toolkit as well as you could. You should be in Stealth as much as possible, you should be using CC all the time. You should be using your Defensive Cooldowns as much as possible.

Rogues, in general, aren’t designed for Mass Pulls, though they can deal with those too, to an extent. However, Stealth allows you to bypass Enemies, to sneak past them and get to your objective, so you actually have get to make an active choice of when and what to pull, unlike the other, Non-Stealth Classes.

A typical way for Rogues to do a Kill Quest is to sneak past the Mobs and Patrols, CC the bodyguards and then kill the Boss by attacking from Stealth. After that, you sneak back to safety, like a ghost. It’s a different mindset, a different approach to problem solving. Instead of just hitting things until you win, you approach things sideways.

For Solo Content, all Specs do just fine. At the moment Outlaw and Subtlety are doing more damage than Assassination, with less trouble. If you aren’t doing Group Content, you have more flexibility with Talent Choices, but going with the “Easy Mode” Talents on Icy Veins, you’ll do just fine.

You’ll want to look into some Macros, to make it easier to use certain abilities, like Sap, Blind, Distract, Gouge or your Stuns. Basically, any CC ability, or anything that has a target reticle to it, Macros will make using the much easier, faster. This will also help with changing how you think about those abilities, and you are likely to use them much more.

Have fun!

Yeah, stealth and sap are useful for sure and I use those a lot. I also love grappling hook which is one of the reasons I’d prefer to stay outlaw.

For ore farming, stealth/sap doesn’t really offer much advantages over the plate dudes. Warr/pala can switch to prot spec, become completely immune to daze dismounts, and safely mine ore while mounted regardless of if some nearby trash gets aggroed. Rogue cannot, he can get dismounted. Only if there’s a juicy deposit deep in some cave does stealth/sap/sprint become the better utility for gathering.

Many quests involve simply killing x number of enemy y, and that is achieved via dps not via stealth or cc. For example, there are weekly quests for profession knowledge that require killing stuff and, furthermore, there are random profession knowledge drops from certain types of enemies.

Ah well, it’s not like my rogue is struggling with the quest mobs. He just kills them quite a bit slower than my retri/warr…

This is true for ground mounts only and unfortunately true for the previous few expansions.
Was a point in wow history where caves were the best places to farm, the last of which which springs to mind was pandaria. I could mine and herb this 1 cave, SAP any mobs and by the time I went through there was already respawn.
The 1st of which was actually blackrock depths where I noticed whilst solo farming the barman shanker there was easily accessible dark iron ore which is where my 2nd farm rogue came into play.
Another place of note was the caves of silithus for arcanite crystal farming.
On a side note I vote for Blackrock becoming a M+ dungeon. The barman shanker to my knowledge is the only dagger still in wow with a speed of 2.
Edit: Looks like they changed it at some point to 1.8

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Gear usually pads alot of the issues of playing rogue in world content and pulling big like a monkey, I recall outlaw in BFA felt really good though with new talents etc I’m not sure how it would hold up and it would vary depending on level, assa feels more than fine on AOE when you get indiscriminate carnage or just some gear so you don’t flat line on energy in 3 buttons.

Sub is -eh- since it requires a little set up on your pull and your a 1 button pony as most of your aoe will come from secret technique being maximised with the right inputs in the right order.

Don’t expect to kill any mobs as any of the specs which are meant for multiple players unless you are geared like nuts.

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