My Outlaw Rogue “Cheese” Guide:
Take Iron Stomach Talent
Take Retractable Hook
Take the following Anima Powers:
Restless Onyx Geodes - Grappling Hook causes you to gain 15 seconds of Cloak of Shadows, Evasion, Feint or Crimson Vial. I believe you can only get one per exploration, but I could be wrong.
Slippery Wraithcoil x3 (As many as you can, honestly, but 3 is good) - Grappling Hook is reduced by 6 seconds and it generates 1 combo point.
Crimson Vial (3 is the maximum you need but it’s honestly just for spamming it faster so any amount works) - Crimson Vial’s cooldown reduced by 10 seconds.
Obleron Endurance (As many as you can) - Increases maximum health by 15%.
And, of course, any and all huge damage increase buffs like Jack of All Trades and any stat-increasing ones. Just focus on getting the ones I mentioned and then loading yourself up on damage animas.
What this does:
Makes you literally invincible for all fights due to just consistently spamming Grapple Hook every 1-3 seconds or just weaving one in every time your Restless Blades passive resets Grapple Hook. It is extremely easy to get all the buffs rolling on you at once by just grapple hooking very fast next to you and gaining a powerful defensive for 15 seconds.
You’re not losing out on damage, either, because getting more of the Slippery Wraithcoils gives you combo points for doing Grapple Hook so you’re weaving in Dispatches/SnD/BtE/Cheap Shots or whatever you so please as if you were using Sinister Strike. With 3-4 Slippery animas, I was getting full combo points every time I did one grapple hook.
I was able to solo all the Layer 8 Floors of previous Torghast levels pre-nerfs with this build. The bosses, even with huge amounts of stacks of that anti-cc and damage buff, were rarely if ever able to touch me. And when they did, I took only a small chunk of damage due to stacking the Maximum Health buff.
Who knew having bare-permanent defensive buffs while having as much if not more health than a tank would trivialize something?
Tip:
-Clear the entire floor of every level. As you can see, we need ALL the Phantasma and Animas we can get, so this requires us to full clear floors. It might seem like a hassle and you want to just stealth past everything, but getting this stuff is very important and will make your life easier. Also, it gets ridiculously easier each level every time you full clear with the build I mentioned. Takes me like 20-30 minutes tops to clear a Layer 8 now.
Have fun, my fellow Outlaw rogues.