Outlaw Rogue Midnight Talents Guide

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When it comes to the class tree, there are some alternative utility nodes that you can grab, but the default setup should grab a lot of the great QoL and defensive options.

Shiv only acts as a Soothe, which is useful in some dungeons but useless in others. It can be dropped for either Shadowrunner for more QoL, or something like Sanguine Vial for a bit of added healing during dungeon trash.

You could also go Improved Wound Poison and swap between Instant and Wound Poison for dungeons with mobs that heal.

When it comes to the damage options, it’s fairly set in stone. Thistle Tea helps majorly with energy, and Supercharger, alongside Forced Induction and Deeper Stratagem, offer big damage gains.

The nature of how Outlaw Rogue does its AoE damage through Blade Flurry means the talent setup looks extremely similar for both single target and AoE. Both builds use the core shell of key talents, including Blade Rush, Ace Up Your Sleeve, Keep It Rolling, Killing Spree, and Preparation.

For dungeons we drop Sleight Of Hand, and Summarily Dispatched for Dancing Steel and Grand Melee for a higher target cap, and more duration on Blade Flurry.

Outlaws’ Apex Talent, Gravedigger, is broken down into 3 talents.

First, if the buff effect from Between The Eyes has a 45% chance to apply 2 stacks instead of 1.

The second talent is that whenever Dispatch at 5 or more combo points, an additional damage proc will happen.

For the final talent, every time you Dispatch you build a stack of bullets. Whenever you reach 6 bullets, your next Between The Eyes consumes the bullets, costs 0 energy, generates 6 combo points, and has no cooldown.

Overall, it’s an very strong set of talents that fuels the spec in a big way.

Midnight made an effort to sand down a lot of the rough edges of our Hero Talents when it came to Tricksters invasive playstyle, and Fatebounds RNG heavy nature.

Trickster now has a hero talent point that allows Pistol Shot to generate Unseen Blade, which solves many of the annoying optimizations around Opportunity procs clashing with the spec's desired playstyle. Fatebound’s capstone no longer requires 7 matching faces and now procs after any 7 flips. The buff was also changed to a 15-second duration that buffs all coin buffs, making it significantly more consistent overall.

Going into Season 1, the best overall Hero Talent for all content is Trickster.

Fatebound

Fatebound is a hero talent that offers a passive set of damage increases to the baseline Outlaw Rotation.

The main gimmick of the tree is that every time you cast a finisher, you flip a coin, and every 7 coins you flip, you trigger Lucky Coin and gain an agility buff, and strengthen the power of your coins for a duration. All of this happens automatically and doesn’t interfere with the base rotation.

Additionally, the tree is full of passives to generate more resources with talents like Rush To The Inevitable, Destiny Defined, and Deal Fate.

Tricksters

Trickster is a hero talent focused on using Killing Spree to build stacks of a buff which lets you fire off an enhanced version of Dispatch; Coup De Grace.

Additionally, there are 2 other small passives in this hero talent. One being Fazed, which is just a debuff applied to the target, causing it to take more damage, and Flawless Form, a buff that just gives you finisher damage.