Hello, Outlaw is a beloved spec by many. You guys did a wonderful job in introducing something new to WoW giving us a Gunslinger style rogue, and it’s really starting to feel like we are moving towards this Gunslinger feel with the rework to killing spree. And this is a great path!
However we seem to have lost the path of improving the class/spec as a whole and especially in pvp. I think we pruned a little too much from things like Enduring Brawler, Take Your Cut, unnecessary nerfs like energy regeneration, and defensiveness from Preemptive Maneuvers. I have some suggested changes here for these things and a few others that just make sense.
To fix Outlaws spec tree is easier than we think. We need to get rid of talent nodes that hog up all our points like Fan the Hammer, Take em By Surprise, Combat Potency, Hit and Run, and Loaded Dice this is naming big offenders. Fan the Hammer and Take em By Surprise should be 1 point nodes to free up precious points. And things like Combat Potency and Thief’s Versatility should be baseline. Loaded Dice should be combined with Sleight of Hand. Audacity and Hidden Opportunity should be combined together. And to replace some of these talents we can reintroduce Enduring Brawler and Take Your Cut back to Outlaws in the spec tree.
Doing this to the spec tree will vastly improve QoL for Outlaws decision making in building their spec.
However the class tree for Rogue needs help too. I’d suggest getting rid of Improved Sprint and making it baseline or turning it into a root breaking effect. Fleet Footed should be baseline. Get rid of useless leeching talents and making Subterfuge, Vigor, Alacrity, and Lethality 1 point nodes will free up points as well. Making Vigor more accessible would help too.
And finally, I’ll end with Hero Talents of Trickster and Outlaw as a whole for buffs needed to be on par with everyone else. Coup de Grace should hit twice as hard as it’s hitting now. This is one of our greatest hero talents, why would it hit soft?? Between the Eyes and Pistol Shot need to hit 50% harder in pvp combat. The damage these two are doing as of now it’s watered down. Buffing Coup de Grace by 100% and buffing Between the Eyes and Pistol Shot by 50% is a good starting point to making Outlaw par in The War Within. Also changing Cloud Cover into a throwable Smoke Bomb for Line of Sight would make Trickster an actual good Hero Spec and would complete it as a whole.
All of these changes are excellent in improving Outlaw and Trickster as a whole and I thank you for reading this and I certainly hope you consider it!
Thank you.
-Ban