This Is The Best Diablo 4 Rogue Build For All Players

Rogue is a versatile class in Diablo 4 apt at ranged and close-quarter combat. However, just like any other class, the right build matters a lot. With the right skills and resources, the class becomes even more powerful. The question that arises is, which is the best Diablo 4 rogue build? Below, I will answer that in great detail.

Before I share with you the exact build, it's time to look at its overview and purpose.

Overview

The build I am sharing with you below is based on melee weapons. The advantage of this build is the high AOE damage it offers and also high mobility. Not only that, there is little learning curve involved, which ensures you can attain and master this build easily, irrespective of your experience in the game.

Popularly, the build is known as the Flurry Rogue Build. Another reason this build is a good choice is because it's possible to unlock this skill early in the game, which means even if you are starting from scratch, attaining this build isn't an issue.

The skills breakdown covered below makes it easy to understand how to allocate skill points as you are leveling up.

Note: It's not necessary to follow the blueprint below exactly, especially the Legendary items, as you need to spend a fair bit of time procuring these.

Skills Breakdown

The skill setup for this build is as follows:

Puncture (Basic skill)

Flurry (Core skill)

Shadow Step

Dark Shroud

Poison Trap

Poison Imbuement

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1. Puncture (Basic Skill)

Puncture is a great basic skill as it can cause significant damage to enemies in short-range combat. Besides that, every 3rd time you cast it, it slows enemies down by 20% for the next 2 seconds. Of course, there are upgrades as well, like:

Upgrade 1 is Enhanced Puncture, in which energy goes up by 2 when you damage a Crowd Controlled enemy.

Upgrade 2 is Fundamental Puncture, in which you can throw 3 blades, with each one inflicting 35% of base damage. If you manage to hit the same enemy with two blades, you make them vulnerable for 2 seconds.

High attack speed, the ability to make enemies vulnerable, and the resultant energy it can provide make it a useful basic skill. Add to that the quick speed which it facilitates while attacking, and it becomes even more useful. With such high attack speed, you can quickly gain combo points, which will help you with your other skills.

2. Flurry (Core Skill)

Flurry not only causes a decent amount of damage but also gives you a chance to stun the enemies and gain an Attack speed bonus. The basic premise of this skill is simple: it allows you to stab and slash enemies in the front 4 times. With each attack, you gain combo points, which increase the damage and eventually also provide you with Attack Speed bonus as follows:

1 Point results in 15% damage & speed bonus.

2 Points result in 30% damage & speed bonus.

3 points result in 45% damage & speed bonus.

Apart from this, there are the upgrades which are as follows:

Upgrade 1 known as Enhanced Flurry heals you by 1% up to 12% per cast if you damage a Crowd Controlled or Vulnerable enemy.

Upgrade 2 known as Improved Flurry makes all enemies hit by a particular cast Vulnerable for 3 seconds if the Flurry hits at least 1 Vulnerable enemy in that instance.

Flurry is a core skill in this build because it comes in handy in making the enemies vulnerable and provides bonus damage, which helps take down enemies faster.

You can also combine the use of Puncture and Flurry. Make enemies Vulnerable with Puncture and after that use Flurry to make more enemies vulnerable (Improved Flurry). Sure enough, you need the upgrades for that, but they aren't that difficult to achieve.

When dealing with hordes of enemies, the Enhanced Flurry also comes in handy in healing yourself. Whether you want to slay more enemies or heal yourself, Flurry comes in handy in both cases, which is why it is a core skill in this build.

Additional Flurry Tip: Completing Forsaken Quarry Dungeon in Fractured Peaks is vital to make this build more powerful. Completing it provides you with Encircling Blades Aspect, which you need to turn into imbue into an item like Amulet, which will help you get a circular AoE for Flurry, which causes extra damage.

3. Shadow Step

The best thing about Shadow Step is that it makes you Unstoppable and helps you stab your victim from behind by moving through the shadows. Once you do so, your speed increases by 50%. The 2 upgrades in this case include:

Upgrade 1, known as Enhanced Shadow Step, boosts your Critical Strike Chance by 8% for 3 seconds if you damage an enemy using this skill.

Upgrade 2, known as Methodical Shadow Step, immobilizes your enemy for 2 seconds if you damage them using Shadow Step.

Since this build is based on melee weapons, any skill that improves your mobility speed is a plus, and this is where Shadow Step comes into the picture. Since you become Unstoppable because of this skill, you need not worry about being Crowd Controlled enemies either.

4. Dark Shroud

How about some added protection?

Dark Shroud offers exactly that by surrounding yourself with 5 protective shadows, each of which provides you with an 8% damage reduction in case of a direct hit, but with every direct hit, it does cost 1 shadow.

Upgrade 1, known as Enhanced Dark Shroud, reduces the probability of the shadow being spent by 10%.

Upgrade 2, known as Subverting Dark Shroud, increases Movement Speed by 4% for every active shadow around you.

With this skill, it's possible to bulk up the defenses. So whenever the cooldown timer runs out, use this skill to move faster and suffer less damage.

5. Poison Trap

How about a skill that causes passive damage?

Poison trap allows you to establish a trap that arms after 1.25 seconds. Whenever an enemy comes near it, it suffers X poison damage for 9 seconds. Poison damage is inflicted on any enemy within its range. The best thing is you can place 4 traps at a time.

Upgrade 1 known as Enhanced Poison Trap, knocks down enemies for 1.5 seconds on activation.

Upgrade 2, known as Countering Poison Trap, reduces imbuement skill cooldown with a probability of 30%.

This skill comes in handy because it helps you inflict some damage passively on enemies and can also damage multiple enemies as long as they are within range.

6. Poison Imbuement

The difference between a poison trap and imbuement is that the latter inflicts your weapons with lethal poison. Next 2 times you use that weapon, you can inflict poison damage for 5 seconds in addition to 100% of the base damage of that weapon. Upgrades include:

Upgrade 1 known as Enhanced Poison Imbuement increases the Poison damage duration by 1 second.

Upgrade 2 known as Blended Poison Imbuement ensured 75% higher poison damage is dealt in Critical Strikes.

I recommend this skill to make the Flurry attack even more powerful and ensure it causes more damage until a few seconds after the attack.

Rogue Passive Skills Breakdown

Passive skills are so useful because you don't have to do anything to use them. Once you unlock them, the passive skill is always in motion, which helps you inflict damage on enemies without doing anything. For Rogues, the most powerful passive skills include:

1.Siphoning Strikes

The skill heals you by up to 3% (depending on rank) every time you critically strike an enemy in close range.

2. Stutter Step

Stutter Step is a core passive skill that can increase your movement speed up to 15% when you critically strike an enemy. The effect lasts for 4 seconds.

3. Weapon Mastery

Depending on the weapon type, this passive helps you get damage bonus.

4. Concussive

Once you knock down or knock back an enemy, this passive provides you up to 12% Critical Strike Chance for 3 seconds.

5. Exploit

Helps you inflict 18% more damage on healthy and injured enemies.

6. Malice

Vulnerable enemies, when attacked, suffer 9% extra damage.

7. Trap Mastery

Above, I recommended Poison Trap as a skill. This passive amplifies the damage it causes by boosting Crit Chance by 12% against Crowd Controlled and Vulnerable enemies.

8. Haste

Haste adds 15% to your movement speed if you are at or above 50% maximum energy. Below that, it adds 15% to your Attack Speed.

9. Momentum

Hit a Stunned enemy, Dazed enemy, or Frozen enemy with Momentum Cutthroat skills, and this passive provides you momentum for 8 seconds.

Rogue Specialization

A unique class mechanic for Rogues is called Specialization. It allows you to choose 3 passive bonuses to improve your play style. The good news is that you can easily change your Specialization even amidst the action. For this build, I will recommend you go with Combo Points Specialization.

When you use this Specialization, your basic skills will generate Combo points. These combo points can help you boost your skills in different ways. For example, they can increase the damage caused by Flurry up to 45% and also improve the Attack Speed bonus up to 105% for 3 seconds.

Using different skills, you can gather up to 3 combo points, which will help you maximize any skill's benefit.

Rogue Skillpoints Distribution

Table below covers how to spend points which you gain on climbing the levels and also from Renown.

Levels	Skill	Purpose
2	Puncture	Activates the basic skill
3	Enhanced Puncture	Activates Upgrade 1 which provides energy
4	Flurry	Activates the core skill
5	Enhanced Flurry	Activates Enhanced Flurry which provides healing
6	Improved Flurry	Upgrades Flurry & increases chances of making enemies Vulnerable
7	Fundamental Puncture	Increases Puncture damage
8	Shadow Step	Activates Shadow Step
9	Flurry tier 2	Makes Vulnerable more effective
10	Flurry tier 3	Makes Vulnerable more effective
11	Flurry tier 4	Makes Vulnerable more effective
12	Flurry tier 5	Makes Vulnerable more effective
13	Poison Trap	Activates the skill
14	Enhanced Poison Trap	Upgrades the skill to knock down enemies
15	Dark Shroud	Activates Dark Shroud
16	Enhanced Dark Shroud	Upgrades skill to reduce shadow consumption probability
17	Subverting Dark Shroud	Upgrades skill to provide more Movement Speed
18	Poison Imbuement	Helps you gain the skill
19	Enhanced Poison Imbuement	Upgrades skill to increase damage duration
20	Blended Poison Imbuement	Upgrades skill to cause more damage
21	Countering Poison Trap	Probability to reset cooldown timer
22	Exploit	Activates the passive skill
23	Exploit tier 2	Enhances damage
24	Exploit tier 3	Enhances damage
25	Malice	Activates the skill
26	Malice tier 2	Upgrades skill to cause more damage to Vulnerables
27	Malice tier 3	Upgrades skill to cause more damage to Vulnerables
28	Deadly Venom (Imbuement Passive)	Increases Poison damage
29	Alchemical Advantage (Imbuement Passive)	Increases attack speed
30	Debilitating Toxins (Imbuement Passive)	Reduces damage caused by Poison enemies
31	Debilitating Toxins tier 2	Further reduces damage caused
32	Debilitating Toxins tier 3	Further reduces damage caused
33	Poison Imbuement tier 2	Increases damage caused by Poison imbued in weapons
34	Poison Imbuement tier 3	Increases damage caused by Poison imbued in weapons
35	Momentum (Key Passive)	Activates passive to increase speed
36	Enhanced Shadow Step	Boosts Critical Strike Chance
37	Methodical Shadow Step	Immobilizes enemies when hit
38	Adrenaline Rush (Ultimate Passive)	Boosts Energy Regeneration
39	Haste (ultimate Passive)	Boosts Movement Speed
40	Haste tier 2	Boosts Movement Speed further
41	Haste tier 3	Boosts Movement Speed
42	Trap Mastery (Ultimate Passive)	Activates passive which increases Crit Chance
43	Trap Mastery tier 2	Further boosts Crit Chance
44	Trap Mastery tier 3	Further boosts Crit Chance
45	Sturdy (Core Passive)	Reduces damage caused by enemies in short-range combat
46	Siphoning Strikes (Core Passive)	Activates passive to provide healing
47	Siphoning Strikes tier 2	Boosts the healing
48	Siphoning Strikes tier 3	Boosts the healing
49	Concussive (Agility Passive)	Activates passive to boost Crit Chance
Renown	Concussive tier 2	Further boosts Crit Chance
Renown	Concussive tier 3	Further boosts Crit Chance
Renown	Poison Imbuement tier 4	Boosts Poison Damage caused by weapons
Renown	Poison Imbuement tier 5	Boosts Poison Damage caused by weapons
Renown	Weapon Mastery (Agility Passive)	Activates passive to ensure weapons cause more damage
Renown	Weapon Mastery tier 2	Boosts weapon damage
Renown	Weapon Mastery tier 3	Boosts weapon damage
Renown	Stutter Step (Core Passive)	Activates passive to gain Movement Speed
Renown	Stutter Step tier 2	Boosts Movement Speed
Renown	Stutter Step tier 3	Boosts Movement Speed

Rogue Paragon board And Glyph breakdown

The best way to utilize any build to its maximum is to choose and use the paragon boards correctly. Below, I will cover which paragon boards you should choose and how to progress through them.

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1. Starting Board

The starting board is the same for all rogues, and you don't have much of a choice with it. The best path forward is to progress through the right side of the board till you reach the Glyph socket, unlock the Glyph slot, and place the Closer Glyph.

Thereafter, move towards unlocking the Lawless and Skillfull nodes. The next step is to unlock the Dexterity Node and Magic node, which falls within the Glyph range, to gain 5% extra damage. Then, head towards the exit node and pick the Deadly Ambush board next.

2. Deadly Ambush Board

I recommend this board because of the close placement of Legendary, Rare, and Magic Nodes. It means you boost your skills pretty quickly. The best way to reach the Glyph slot is to rotate the board until the socket is in the middle.

Move upwards and unlock nodes like the Trapper node and the Deadly Ambush node, and then move towards the Glyph slot to unlock it. As highlighted above, place the Exploit Glyph in the slot and after that move towards the Engineering and Cunning nodes. Before exiting this board, move towards the Strength, Magic, and Spring-Loaded Node. The next board you should pick is the Cheap Shot Board.

3. Cheap Shot Board

Cheap Shot Board can help you increase the damage output if Crowded Controlled Enemies are nearby. Before unlocking any nodes, rotate the board so that the Glyph socket is slightly towards the right.

Thereafter, progress towards the safeguard node, and in between, you can unlock the 2 consecutive Dexterity nodes. The order to follow now is Cheap Shot Node, Oppress Node, Glyph Socket (Combat Glyph), Devious Nodes, Intelligence Node, Magic Node, and then head to the exit. The next board you should attach is the Tricks of the Trade Board.

4. Tricks of the Trade Board

Tricks of the Trade Board is unique as in this board, the Marksman and Cutthroat skills boost damage boost each other which leads to damage amplification. Before you chart a path on this board, rotate it so that the Glyph is on the left-hand side bottom. Next, you have to unlock the Havoc node, followed by Critical Strike and Physical Damage magic nodes.

Continue moving upwards to unlock the Glyph socket and place the Ambush Glyph. Next up is the focused Node and thereafter, the Magic Nodes to increase the damage, followed by Lawless Node, Magic Nodes, and Strength Nodes in the vicinity of the Glyph.

Brawler Node is the last one you should unlock before exiting from the board to the No Witnesses Board.

5. No Witnesses Board

Rotate the board until the Glyph socket is just left to the center and then progress towards unlocking it. Once unlocked, place the Turf Glyph in it. Thereafter, unlock the Training Node, followed by Strength and Maximum Life Magic nodes. Progress towards the Knowledge Node thereafter, followed by Damage and Intelligence Magic Nodes. The rest of the points should be devoted to Strength nodes in the vicinity of the Glyph.

Rogue Legendary Gear

Many players don't necessarily pay attention to the Legendary Gear within the loot; when it comes to this build, there are a few items you should watch out for. They aren't necessary, but they make the build even more powerful.

Accelerating Aspect

Accelerating Aspect boosts Attack Speed after a Critical Strike on an enemy with a core skill. The boost is 25% for 5 seconds.

Smiting Aspect

Smiting Aspect increases the Critical Strike capability against injured enemies and can boost the Crowd Control duration if you are healthy.

Aspect of the Crowded Sage

The Aspect of the Crowded Sage provides passive healing dependent on the number of enemies nearby. The limit to healing is 605 life per second. Needless to say, unlike the above 2, this one is defensive.

Codex of Power

The Codex of Power I will recommend below can be unlocked by completing respective dungeons. After that, visit the Occultist to get them imprinted on the gear. Keep in mind that it's best not to get them imprinted while leveling up since you are likely to replace the weapons as you level up.

Aspect of Encircling Blades

The best way to obtain this is to complete the Forsaken Quarry in Fractured Peaks. The benefit includes 15% more damage and the ability to cause flurry damage circularly. As for imprinting, you can do that on gloves, rings, amulets, and weapons.

Aspect of the Expectant

Use Basic skill to attack an enemy, and the next Core Skill attack yields 10% more damage up to 30%. Complete Underroot in Scosglen to attain this codex. You can imprint this on gloves, rings, amulets, and weapons.

Edgemaster's Offensive Aspect

Head to the Oldstones in Scosglen to unlock this aspect which provides 20% increased damage on your Primary Resource. The benefit is maximized when you have full Primary Resource.

Rapid Aspect

Rapid Aspect requires you to complete Buried Halls in Dry Steppes and increase Attack speed by 30%.

Aspect of Disobedience

It increases armor by 4 seconds when you inflict damage on enemies. Maximum stacking is up to 50%. You need to complete Halls of Damned in Kehjistan to gain this enhancement.

Ghostwalker Aspect

Ghostwalker Aspect increases Movement Speed by 25% when you are unstoppable and even for 4 seconds after that. Complete Broken Bulwark in Scosglen to gain this enhancement.

Suitable Gear Type For Best Diablo 4 Rogue Build

Rather than recommending exact equipment, I will cover the attributes you should look out for while selecting equipment and a couple of examples. This will allow you to choose the best equipment from the many choices available.

Melee Weapons

While selecting among them, ensure you choose daggers that can cause Vulnerable Damage, can buff up Core Skill Damage, and are good at close-quarter combat.

Ranged weapons

Crossbows that can enhance your Core Skill and Vulnerable damage are best.

Helms

Ensure to go with the one that enhances health, provides armor, and reduces the cooldown time.

Chest Armour

Something like a Runic Set is a good option. Choose an armor that provides maximum Damage reduction, Armor, and, of course, Life.

Gloves

Gloves like Grasp of Shadow are a great option since they offer a bonus in the form of Lucky Hit. The aim here is to choose something which can increase the Flurry Rank.

Pants

The primary criteria for choosing pants should be damage reduction, and the secondary should be armor. Plenty of options are available to fulfill these requirements.

Boots

Something like the Penitent Greaves is a good option since these boosts cause chill damage to enemies following you because of the icy trail they leave behind. Of course, additional factors like Movement Speed and Energy Cost Reduction should also be looked at.

Amulets

Word of Hakan is arguably the most effective Amulet since it significantly increases the damage caused by Rain of Arrows. Usually, when selecting an Amulet, ensure it offers Increased Damage and Cooldown Reduction.

Rings

Always prefer a ring that offers increased damage. Additionally, if it offers higher Crit Chance and Crit Damage, that's a bonus.

FAQs

Which Specialization for Rogue Diablo 4?

Combo points is undoubtedly the best Specialization for Rogue. This Specialization is so effective because it helps improve Core Skills and inflict more damage.

Is Flurry build viable Diablo 4?

Flurry is a viable build for Rogues in Diablo 4 as it offers high DPS and ensures high survivability.

What is the best aspect for the flurry build?

Encircling Blades is the best aspect as it enhances the Flurry damage.

Is Rogue fun in Diablo 4?

Rogue is an excellent option for solo players, and with this build, you can enjoy high sheer damage it can cause, which certainly makes it fun.

Wrapping it up

So, instead of avoiding Rogue, simply opt for this build, and you won't have a problem slaying enemies and picking up excellent loot in the game.

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