Fast-paced, combo-heavy, and versatile villains sneak through the background Diablo IV while unleashing a storm of poisons and shadow magic. Rogues are universal in their gameplay, instead being able to get close to each other or keep a decent distance with bows or crossbows. But what’s the best way to go when building in your rogue? Diablo IV?
Diablo IV features a branching skill tree that allows you to experiment with different builds, and rogues have a versatile playstyle that allows you to play a long-range or close-range playstyle. This guide will cover three different builds for your Rogue: the Penetrating Shot ranged build, the Flurry build, and the Deathtrap build.
1: Penetrating Shot rogue build – Level 1 – 15
Your Penetrating Shot build always starts with your “base” skill, essentially what you use between cooldowns of your “core” skill. Start leveling Powerful Arrow Capability. Every 3 shots with a powerful arrow makes enemies vulnerable, and you can enhance this ability with Improved powerful arrow and basic powerful arrow for additional damage.
After that, you can start building your “core” skill, and your entire build will revolve around that skill. Penetrating shot Fires an arrow that pierces enemies in a row. When fighting large groups of mobs, this can mean a lot of AoE damage. After spending five points here, we get these Improved Penetrating Shot and Improved Penetrating Shot.
Don’t neglect that Weapon Mastery passive, which can increase your damage immensely.
Penetrating Shot rogue build: Levels 16 – 50
After completing the Rogue Class quest, be sure to invest a point hyphenfollowed by Improved dash (increases critical damage taken by enemies hit by this ability) and one of these Methodical sprint or disciplined sprint. Dash is our movement ability that increases our movement and causes some debuffs. Get the passives convulsion, exploitation and wickedness.
The rogue specializes in imbued skills that allow you to add an effect to your core skill. The most important influence is poisoningfollowed by shadow penetration. Improve Poison Penetration up to Mixed venom penetration. We want that too precision penetration here passive.
We’ll actually ignore the ultimate ability, but we want to pick up some passive abilities here. Grasp Adrenaline, haste, innovation and momentum. Get for your key passive Precision.
2: Flurry Rogue Build: Levels 1-15
Flurry is a reliable melee build for the rogue, allowing you to slash nearby enemies with a barrage of blades and daggers. We start with Invigorating Blow regenerate and grab for the energy Basic revitalizing punch.
Grab our “core” skill here, the excitement, and put five dots here. From here we take the upgrade path that leads to Improved Flurry. Since this is a melee build, we want to invest in some passive abilities for defense and movement speed. All passives here Sturdy, sucking punches and stuttering step are important to take.
As with Penetrating Shot, we want that too Weapon Mastery passive for additional damage.
Flurry Rogue Build: Levels 16 – 50
After completing the rogue class quest, we want to start preparing our imbuements to boost Flurry’s potential. But first, let’s explore our movement skills. Instead of Dash we get Shadow step and work your way to the methodical shadow step for some crowd control. Don’t forget to improve weapon mastery here and consider getting it too shocking.
The Subtlety skills weren’t as useful for the Penetrating Shot rogue, but they are a necessity for the Flurry rogue. Dark Shroud is preferred as it also offers some damage reduction, but you can opt for that as well concealment. Pick up exploitation and malice Here.
for your donations, poison Skill remains the top priority, up to Poisoning. Make sure you get the passive skills here that improve poison damage. Deadly poison, debilitating toxins, and alchemical advantage. We will want precision penetration if possible.
Access Ultimate in the skill tree Adrenaline, haste, innovation and momentum. Choose Momentum as your key passive.
3: Poison Trap Villain Build: Levels 1-15
The idea behind the Poison Trap build is to turn your enemies into goo while investing in traps as the main source of damage. This is a fun rogue build based on the trapper fantasy. We want to start with Puncture and incorporate into Fundamental Puncture for our basic competence.
Now that we’re relying on traps for the majority of our damage, we still need a core ability to use while traps are on cooldown. Building Penetrating shot can draw on Poison Trap’s group potential. Built-in Improved Penetrating Shot. We can skip Weapon Mastery since most of our damage comes from traps.
Poison Trap Rogue Build: Levels 16 – 50
The best movement skill to learn here is hyphenup to Disciplined sprint. The next tree is where our build starts to shine. level up Poison Trap and build up to Subverting Poison Trap. Build either smoke grenade or camouflage, to undermining grenade or camouflage. Pick up exploitation, malice and agility As always. Enter three points Deadly poison.
get that deathtrap ultimate up to Highest Fatality. Make sure you get the maximum from here trap mastery and also pick up innervation. Our key passive will be Exposure. You can choose to upgrade your remaining points Penetrating shot with a poisoning to deal even more poison damage.
Rogue class quest and combo points
After reaching level 15 you will have access to the Rogue class quest: “Rogue: True Potential”. This is a significantly shorter class quest than some of the others in the game, requiring you to find an NPC named Bakira in a dungeon far away. In this dungeon you have to fight against the ghost of Bakira. After completing this quest you will gain access to combo points.
combo points are a unique specialization that allow you to gain points after using your basic skill. After you earn points, your core competency will consume those points to trigger bonus effects. For example, consume three combo points with your Penetrating shot increases damage and lucky hit chance.
Diablo IV The build possibilities and playstyles are endless, and Rogue is no exception. These builds are just one of many and just a small glimpse into the many different possible builds you can create for rogues. The rogue has numerous other core skills that you can incorporate. So be sure to experiment and find the build that best suits you and your playstyle.
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