Diablo 4 Rogue BuildPoison Twisting Blades

Unique Items

No Unique items are used on this build.

Paragon Board Stat Requirements

• Dex: 605

Stat Requirements

• Poison Imbuement Lasts for 5-6 Casts Tempering Affix

Affix Replacements

• Amulet: Ranks to Exploit can be replaced with Ranks to Malice or Ranks to Deadly Venom.
• Daggers: Damage over Time can be replaced with any relevant damage affix.

Puncture

Puncture is integral to this build and fulfills many needs:

• It heals us constantly through Siphoning Strikes.
• It procs Umbrous Aspect, allowing us to have better access to Dark Shroud the most important defensive tool in Rogue's arsenal.
• Most importantly, it is the fastest Basic Skill to build up Combo Points.

Core Skills

Twisting Blades is used for its incredible single-target damage. We can mitigate its AoE damage weakness by using Death Trap.

Agility Skills

Dash is used in the midgame version for more mobility.

Shadow Step is our Unstoppable skill.

Caltrops essentially functions as a huge damage multiplier through the Enhanced Caltrops Passive.

Subterfuge Skills

Dark Shroud is used passively through the Umbrous Aspect and therefore does not need to be placed on our Skill Bar. Dark Shroud is an insanely powerful defensive skill in Season 4 because of it's parabolic scaling.

Imbuement Skills

Poison Imbuement is used because it is the best way to amplify your DPS. The Pits will have a high DPS requirement andPoison Imbuement helps meet it.

Ultimate Skills

Death Trap is used to group enemies which is very important for Pits pushing.

Armor

As of Season 4, it's much easier to reach the Armor cap. Once you hit 9230 you are done.

Don't hesitate to grab extra Armor nodes on the Paragon Board to hit the cap when your gear is not optimal.

Resistances

The recipe to cap Resistance is explained earlier in the guide, below the gear on each variant.

Remember, if your gear is not ideal, don't worry about it and look to cap your Resistances/Armor any way you can.

Max Resistances are 70% and up to 85% with enough + Max Resistances. Remember that WT4 gives you a penalty of 50%. This means you need to get to 120% to soft cap your Resistances.

How it Works

Dark Shroud is used passively through the Umbrous Aspect and therefore does not need to be placed on our Skill Bar. Dark Shroud is an insanely powerful defensive skill in Season 4 because of its parabolic scaling. This means that it gets stronger the more we invest in it.

Level 1 Dark Shroud provides 40% DR at 5 stacks. Level 5 Dark Shroud provides 48% DR at 5 stacks. 1 - (1-48%)/(1-40%) = 13.33% effective DR increase. Level 15 Dark Shroud provides 68% DR at 5 stacks. 1 - (1-68%)/(1-48%) = 39.5% effective DR increase. Level 19 Dark Shroud provides 76% DR at 5 stacks. 1 - (1-76%)/(1-68%) = 25% effective DR increase.

As you can see, the more we increase our Dark Shroud level the stronger each level gets. Going from 1 to 5 is equivalent to adding a 13.33% DR affix while going from 15 to 19 is equivalent to adding a 25% DR affix.

Although this guide shows the most optimal gear setup, it's not easy to acquire and generally compromises must be made. For that reason, it's important to understand how the different affixes rank in terms of Masterworking priority.

Breakpoint Affixes

These affixes and their exact Masterworking values are used to reach specific breakpoints.

• Armor
• All Resistances
• Attack Speed
• X Imbuement Lasts for X Casts
• Ranks to X Passive

Maximum Priority Affixes

These should be 3x Masterworking at all costs as they are incredibly powerful affixes.

• Ranks to Dark Shroud
• Ranks to Twisting Blades
• Ranks to Poison Imbuement

High Priority Affixes

These should ideally be 3x Masterworking but are not an absolute necessity.

• Dodge on (Boots, Legs)
• Lucky Hit Chance (Gloves)
• Critical Hit Chance (Gloves)
• Cooldown Reduction

Medium Priority Affixes

These should ideally be 2x Masterworking, although exceptions exist when other affixes of the same priority level or higher co-exist on the item.

• Close Quarter Combat: Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies
• Precision: Critical Damage
• Victimize: Vulnerable Damage

Low Priority Affixes

These are mostly interchangeable 1x Masterworking affixes.

• Maximum Life
• Dexterity
• Movement Speed

05/09/2024

• S4 tentative changes

11/03/2023

• Added Shako
• Added Tibault + Condemn
• Removed Penitent Greaves
• Removed Umbrous
• Changed stat priority on boots and amulet
• Removed Frigid Finesse and Dark Shroud -> Siphoning Strikes + Exploit
• Have made the Paragon Board way more defensive to account for having to use Tibault's Will

10/30/2023

• Added Asheara's back after Attack Speed testing

10/23/2023

• Changed skill tree slightly to account for Andariel's Visage.

10/21/2023

• Considerably changed the Paragon Board because Core/Cutthroat were stealth nerfed.
• Gearing was also changed for that reason.
• Decided to drop Poison Trap despite the synergy with X'Fal because it just didn't feel that great to use.

10/20/2023

• Edited written sections to account for changes to the build
• Added Cowl back to the helm slot
• Added X´Fal, very strong because it scales
• Removed Asheara because we already hit attack speed cap
• Paragon Board change to account for wrong Res calculations (forgot to halve int resistance) and for X'fal inclusion.
• Skill Tree change to account for Poison Trap inclusion.

10/19/2023

• Changed Paragon Board
• Removed Metamorphosis for Accursed Touch
• Removed Tibault's (stats too bad)
• Added Penitent Greaves and Noxious Ice
• Added item swaps to Bossing section