Diablo 4: BEST Rogue Build [Skills & Playstyle]

This guide to the best rogue build in Diablo 4 focuses mainly on AOE damage through explosions, and it is a blast to play. If you like obliterating their targets through sheer explosions and firepower, this build is for you.

Before I begin, here’s the build summary for Rogue in Diablo 4:

Best Rogue Build 

As I said before, this build focuses mainly on dealing with AOE damage.

So, here are my recommended skills you need for it:

Skills

There are both offensive and defensive skills in Diablo 4 that benefit the Rogue build/class in various ways. For this build, we will be focusing on the following skills to maximize its potential.

Blade Shift

• From the Basic Skill Tree, I chose the Blade Shift.
• Players can stab the enemy for 15% damage at Rank 1 with this skill.
• To further increase the effectiveness of this skill, I recommend that you pick Enhanced Blade Shift in addition to Primary Blade Shift.
• After attacking, players will be able to Shift, allowing them to move freely through enemies for 3 seconds.
• There are also several different benefits.

Twisting Blades

• I decided to go with Twisting Blades for the Core Skill due to its utility and synergy with the rest of the build.
• With this skill, players can impale an enemy for 50% damage, and after 1.5 seconds, the blades return to you, dealing an additional 79% damage to the enemies.
• In addition, enemies attacked with this skill will take 8% more damage while impaled.

Sturdy

• Staying in the Core Skill Tree, I recommend the Sturdy skill.
• It grants a 4% close damage reduction at Rank 1.

Siphoning Strikes

• This skill heals you for 3% of your maximum HP when critically attacking close enemies at Rank 3.

Dash

• With this skill, players dash forward and slash enemies for 37% damage at Rank 1.

Concussive

• Thanks to this skill, when you knock down or knock back an enemy, you gain a 5% increased Critical Strike chance against them at Rank 1. This effect lasts for 3 seconds.

Trick Attacks

• When you critically strike a Dazed enemy, they are knocked down for half a second at Rank 1.

Poison Trap

• For the Subterfuge Skill, I went with Poison Trap due to its unique nature of dealing with single targets and AOE damage.
• It places a trap that arms after 1.25 seconds and activates when an enemy moves within its range.
• It deals a massive 344% Poison Damage to all the enemies in its radius over 9 seconds at Rank 1.

Exploit

• It is a straightforward damage boost with an increased 6% damage to Healthy and Injured enemies at Rank 1.

Shadow Imbuement

• For the Imbuement Skill Tree, the main skill I used for the Rogue Build is the Shadow Imbuement Skill.
• When this skill is active, you imbue your weapons with decaying shadows. 
• The enemies you infect will explode on death and deal 40% damage to all surrounding enemies at Rank 1.
• If the infection debuff wears off before the enemy dies, 40% damage will be dealt to that enemy only at Rank 1.
• I recommend going with Enhanced Shadow Imbuement and Mixed Shadow Imbuement for the modifiers.

Precision Imbuement

• While this skill is active, Imbued skills gain an additional 15% Critical Hit chance.

Shadow Clone

• With this skill, players create a duplicate of themselves that deals insane amounts of damage for 15 seconds at Rank 1.
• The shadow clone deals 60% of the player’s damage.
• The cooldown for this ultimate is 60 seconds, so you can use it fairly often.

Codex Of Power

The Codex Of Power is the crafting system in Diablo 4. Players may create aspects that are used to enhance their equipment.

Here are the aspects that I will recommend for this build:

The Offensive aspects are as follows:

• Aspect Of Imitated Imbuement
• Aspect Of Unstable Imbuements
• Bladedancer’s Aspect
• Shadowslicer Aspect

The Defensive aspects of the Rogue Build are as follows:

• Aspect Of Uncanny Treachery
• Escape Artist’s Aspect
• Cheat’s Aspect

Here is the Utility aspect:

• Aspect Of Explosive Verve

Here is the Resource aspect for this build:

• Energizing Aspect

This Rogue build shines at dealing with multiple enemies at once and excels at crowd control. Clump up all the mobs together and then rip through them with Shadow Imbuement, Twisting Blades, and Dash. Admittedly, this rogue build isn’t the best single-target build in Diablo 4.

But that shortcoming is made up for by the Ultimate Skill, allowing you to deal respectable single-target damage as well. If you want to learn more about the rogue build, then be sure to check this out.

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