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Death Trap Rogue | Ultimate Flash Shadow Ambush 💀

Rogue

Season 8

By Sagittarian

Updated on Sep 30, 2025

Sep 30, 2025

Build Overview

⚡ Sagi's here, Diablo Partner & Mobalytics Creator.

Death Trap Rogue is the strongest and fastest Rogue build right now. Pure meta. You vanish with Concealment, crit + vuln + overpower, and erase the screen with Death Trap.

🧨 Grenade chain-reactions from Surprise, Trickster, Opportunist and Artful Initiative = insane AOE.

☠️ Death Trap, Poison Trap, Shadow Imbuement & Caltrops = massive non-phys burst.

Exposure resets cooldowns and stacks up to +100% trap damage.

🏆 Reached #2 World Rogue Speedrun (3'08 Pit 100) using the Speedfarm variant.

Trap. Vanish. Boom. Repeat.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Fastest Rogue build – insane damage and mobility
Feels amazing – vanish, crits, resets, grenades nonstop
Clears everything – Pits, Hordes, Bosses, Open World
Near-immortal

Requires high-end gear and Masterwork investment

Build Variants

Meta Endgame | All Content Speed

Meta Endgame - Pit Push

This is the strongest and fastest Rogue build for absolutely everything: Speedfarm, XP, Pit 79-100 clears, boss farming, Helltides/Hordes, world content, and even leaderboard speedruns.

No weakness. Insane mobility, cooldown resets, and trap synergy create a nonstop loop of Crits, Explosions, and Control.

You vanish, trap, detonate, and repeat — with Poison Trap, Shadow Imbuement, Caltrops and Exposure stacking trap damage to +100%.

🔥 My personal build used to reach Top #2 World Rogue Speedrun.

💥 Perfect as your main rogue endgame setup — no swap needed until ultra push.

Assigned Skills

Meta Endgame | All Content Speed

Meta Endgame - Pit Push

Primary

Secondary

Specialization

- 🕳️ Death Trap is your core burst tool. It pulls, shreds, and with Supreme + Prime, it double-hits and amps all trap damage.

- ☠️ Poison Trap is your next multiplier — drop it right before melt elites or bosses.

- 👣 Caltrops apply a scaling damage multiplier on trapped enemies. Core to maximize burst windows.

- 💨 Dash for mobility and instant positioning.

- 👤 Concealment grants stealth, guaranteed crit, vul, and unstoppable — key to your vanish > burst loop.

- 🩸 Shadow Imbuement infects enemies for huge non-phys AoE, especially when paired with traps and designed to be used with Eldritch Bounty.

- 📌 Specialization: Preparation — casting Death Trap resets all cooldowns and grants DR, letting you loop again.

Aspect & Uniques

Meta Endgame | All Content Speed

Meta Endgame - Pit Push

HelmHeir of Perdition

Chest armorScoundrel's Leathers

GlovesOpportunist's Aspect

PantsEyes in the Dark

BootsBeastfall Boots

AmuletBanished Lord's Talisman

Ring 1Trickster's Aspect

Ring 2Aspect of Surprise

Dual wield weapon 1Doombringer

Dual wield weapon 2Aspect of Artful Initiative

Ranged weaponAspect of Apogeic Furor

💠 Mythic & Uniques:
• Doombringer adds Maximum life multiplier! And also DR, and healing on hit.
• Heir of Perdition insane x60% more damage and nice stats boost.
• Scoundrel's Leathers makes all traps Core and autospawns Death Trap.
• Eyes in the Dark boosts Death Trap damage and lets it re-arm.
• Beastfall Boots converts Ultimate into insane Core burst.
• Banished Lord’s Talisman guarantees Overpower on Core Skill.

🌀 Aspects:
• Opportunist, Surprise, Trickster, Artful Initiative trigger grenade barrages for massive AOE.
• Apogeic Furor scales Ultimate power!

Skill Tree

Meta Endgame | All Content Speed

Meta Endgame - Pit Push

Available

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Spent59 (12)

Leveling Path

This tree turns the Rogue into a burst trap assassin built around Concealment, Caltrops, Poison Trap, and Death Trap. Every node maximizes non-physical, crit, overpower, and trap damage multipliers.

You vanish to trigger Subverting Concealment (auto crit + vuln). Exposure passives ensure cooldown resets help + stacking trap damage.

Caltrops, death trap, Dash will also trigger stun grenade Aspects while we are spending energy. Shadow Imbuement boosts damage in addition of Eldritch Bounty (speedfarm version).

⚡ Precision, speed, and methodical trap placement & rotation make this the strongest Rogue burst setup of Season.

Paragon Board

Meta Endgame | All Content Speed

Meta Endgame - Pit Push

This board maximizes Trap Skill & Ultimate Damage, Vulnerable, Crit, Imbue, and Overpower multipliers. Each rare node is selected to scale your burst and CDR uptime.

Two options here on board swaps

💥 Exploit Weakness, stacking +25% damage vs Vulnerable targets, then you'll have to play withouth shadow imbuement and take dark shroud.
🧪 Eldritch Bounty, boosting Shadow Imbue damage by 30% and resistance. (The one I used for speedfarm even push variant)

Mercenary

Meta Endgame | All Content Speed

Meta Endgame - Pit Push

How it Plays

🌀 Gameplay Loop

The core idea: chain spam Death Trap and Concealment (every ~0.5s) for massive crits, Overpower bursts, and resets via Exposure + gear. You vanish → trap → repeat — the screen melts.

💨 Speedfarm Loop

Don’t overthink trap setups — just dash through, spam Death Trap, and Shadow Imbue every 8s to trigger multiplier and Eldritch Bounty.
Use Poison Trap + Caltrops on elites/bosses only if necessary.
Don’t forget to activate Unstable Elixirs for extra multiplier (stronger with mobs nearby).

🔥 Maximum DPS Rotation

Poison Trap → triggers non-phys multiplier.
Then → Caltrops → ramps +5%/sec (don’t overwrite too early).
At ~8–9s → refresh Shadow Imbuement → re-cast Poison Trap → then Caltrops 1s later.
Spam Death Trap & Concealment in between for resets and huge bursts.
⚠️ Adds Smoke Grenade from the start and in rotation when you're Caltrops are at 45% more Damage! Sustain Unstable Elixirs + Cooldowns reset = permanent death loop (and if you play with shadow imbuement, don't forget to refresh also every 8s.

How it Works

❓ F.A.Q
💬 Endgame video coming soon!

❓ Wich Important caps?
💬Aim for:
• 150+ Max Energy for Overpower triggers with Banished Lord.
• Death Trap Cooldown → below 10 seconds with gear + Exposure procs.
• 73.5%+ Attack Speed total (if you can) - Credit and Thank to Sanctum for his amazing Frame calculator to help:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18nLEzwPjL5KpFi07SeIrRwRYMYuHc4T-Z9H_owKRv3Q/edit?gid=1533622185#gid=1533622185

❓ What is the best setup for runes?
💬 It depend of your variant and your situation.
The best set up possible is:
• Zan + Xan for more crit overpower.
• Yul + Qax for insane boost of damage (need lucky hit ressource on weapon for this one)
• Poc + Jah for best mobility.

Alternatives:
• Mot: For free Dark Shroud.
• Xal: For more HP.
• Ohm: For war Cry.

❓ Wich boss powers?
💬 It will depend of your activites and drop, if you're lucky follow the Boss Powers section or feel free to adapt yourself and choose what you can, and what you want.
For example : Urviar can be a good option to reduce cooldown early

❓ Wich Elixirs & incense?
💬 Elixir of fortune, Song of the moutain, Queen supreme

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💬 This section will be updated based on the most common questions and player feedback.

If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to reach out on Discord or in the video comments — your input helps improve the guide for everyone!