If you're focusing on Dex then dual daggers is obviously the best weapon setup, as Dex increases dagger damage but doesn't increase damage from fullsize weapons. The best dagger is The Rose's Thorn; good choices for your second dagger include Duncan's Dagger (best choice imo) or a Crow Dagger.
As for talent paths, rogues have a lot of viable options, and often find themselves without enough points to get everything that's worth having. Here's the ones that are most worthwhile imo:
Momentum--Absolutely essential as it's basically a straight-up 40% DPS increase. You should get this ASAP, meaning you also need to get its two precursor talents and Expert Combat Training ASAP.
Combat Movement + Coup de Grace--These two will give you more opportunities to backstab, which is something you want to be doing as often as possible. Coup de Grace in particular synergizes excellently with Dirty Fighting.
Riposte--Useful mainly because it's a stun, it can be used in combination with Dirty Fighting to keep an enemy locked down. I'd get Coup de Grace first since it makes stunning talents so much more powerful.
Stealth--Combat Stealth is a good self-preservation talent; if you find too many enemies attacking your rogue, you can just stealth and sit tight for a few seconds and you'll drop from all their threat tables. However, since you said you expect your rogue to be off-tanking anyways (and indeed, a Dex rogue should be able to accumulate an impressive defense score), self-preservation talents may not be very important for you. At least two ranks in stealth are advisable if you want to use any traps, though, and Master Stealth will help greatly in setting them without being detected (but from what I've gathered most people ignore traps).
Lockpicking talents--Utility of these is self-evident. If you have another rogue in the party who is focusing on Cunning these can be skipped. If you need your main char to open locks, though, then keep in mind that you need 30 Cunning + all 4 ranks in this to open every lock in the game. You'll be able to open the vast majority with only three ranks in this tree, though, so it's not unreasonable to skip the fourth rank and miss a couple things in exchange for an extra talent point somewhere else.
As for specs, they all have their own individual utility. A rogue who expects to be doing some tanking might want to take Duelist since Dueling mode + Keen Defense does exactly what it sounds like (boosts your defense), but any spec is perfectly viable. Even if you don't focus on Cunning, by using Cun-boosting gear to pre-buff before you activate Song of Courage, you can get your Cunning into the low 30's and gain about 5 attack, 5 crit chance and 3 damage for the whole party from the ability, so even Bard is a viable choice (though it's obviously much more attractive for a character who invests primarily in Cunning).
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