Diablo 4 Rogue BuildTwisting Blades - Dash Junkie

Uniques

• Harlequin Crest can be replaced by Might.
• Tibault's Will this item can be replaced with Umbrous and moving 2 points from Second Wind and 1 point from Malice to Dark Shroud to grab movement speed.
• Condemantion this item can be replaced by Rapid

Aspects

• No mandatory aspect

Paragon Board Stat Requirements

• Str: 530
• Int: 530

Basic Skills

We use Puncture because it's the best Basic Skill to apply Lucky Hit. On top of that it provides us with Vulnerable, which, while nerfed, still gives us [x]20% damage. Lastly, Puncture is the Marksman Skill we use for Umbrous and Close Quarter Combat.

Core Skills

We use Twisting Blades in this build for various reasons: not only is it overall the strongest Core Skill in terms of AoE damage, single target damage and crowd control.

Flurry is an alternative Core Skill you could use but the power level of the build would suffer quite significantly.

X:1 Rotation means we use X Basic Skills for every 1 Core Skill. For example, 1:1 Puncture -> TB means we alternate bewteen using Puncture and Twisting Blades.

Agility Skills

In this build we use Dash, Caltrops and Shadow Step.

Dash is overall a very strong mobility ability that lets you dash across the length of your screen. We further increase Dash's strength with the inclusion of Quickening Fog, which drops a Smoke Grenade at the end of our Dash and lowers its cooldown when we daze enemies with a Smoke Grenade.

Caltrops synergizes very nicely with Methodical Dash to lower Dash's cooldown and also increases the damage we deal to enemies who stand on top of it, which helps against Bosses.

Shadow Step is a mobility skill that is also the best source of Unstoppable for Rogues. Due to its low cooldown with the Disciplined Shadow Step modifier it's perfect to maintain Tibault's Will's [x]20-40% damage buff and to gain 50 Energy on use.

Subterfuge Skills

We use Smoke Grenade in this build.

Smoke Grenade is a very strong skill that allows us to daze enemies on-demand and get a [x]25% damage buff against any enemy dazed by it. All talent points taken that buff Smoke Grenade work with Quickening Fog. This synergizes perfectly with Dash.

Imbuement Skills

We do not use an Imbuement Skill in this build.

Ultimate Skills

We do not use an Ultimate Skill in this build.

Armor

As of Season 2 it's much easier to reach the Armor cap so we no longer have to stack + Armor% on every slot.

You need roughly 7600 Armor to cap with a maxed Disobedience on your amulet and 9500 when the aspect is on an armor slot.

This means you need 2 Armor% affixes when you have Disobedience on an armor slot and 1 affix when it's on your amulet.

Resistances

As of Season 2 the Resistance cap is 70% and up to 85% with +15% Maximum Resistance. This is now a very strong stat for damage mitigation.

In my opinion, the most important overall resistance is Poison because it's very prevalent and unavoidable.

In order to cap your Resistances you need 1x Resistance Affix of 4 different Resistances while the rest can be gemmed.

Once you have very high item level jewelry you can do the following to cap Resistances:

• Two rings that give the same Elemental Resistance
• One Elemental Resistance affix on piece of gear
• Gem the remaining three Elements.

Example:

• Penitent Greaves 60% Cold
• Rings 2x 12% Shadow
• Gems 30% Poison, Fire and Lightning
• Intellect 15% All
• Jewlery 28.5% + 2x 12% All
• Paragon Board 28.5% All
• WT4 Penalty -50%

Totals: All: 46 Fire: 30 + 46 = 76 Cold 60 + 46 = 106 Lighting 30 + 46 = 76 Poison 30 + 46 = 76 Shadow 24 + 46 = 70

Close Quarter Combat

When we attack an enemy with a Marksman Skill we get a 10% Attack Speed buff. In this build we use Puncture.

When we attack an enemy Cutthroat Skill we get another 10% Attack Speed buff. In this build we use Twisting Blades.

Once both buffs are active for a total of 20% Attack Speed, we now gain [x]40% of our Damage vs. Crowd Controlled Enemies as multiplicative damage. Since we can get over 400% Damage vs. CC this means we effectively double our damage against crowd-controlled enemies.

This build, like all non-poison builds, can struggle with killing Bosses efficiently. A thing you can do to alleviate this, if survivability is not a problem, is to do an amulet swap before engaging.

Amulet Swap:

• Inner Calm
• Weapon Mastery
• % Dexterity
• % Cooldown
• % Energy Cost Reduction

Vampiric Powers are the Season 2 mechanic.

• Metamorphosis grants us Unstoppable when we evade and applies Vampiric Curse to monsters along our path. This synergizes incredibly well with Tibualt's Will which increases damage by [x]40%.
• Hemomancy because it is a screen wide aoe clear on this build.
• Hectic further reduces the cooldown of Dash and the rest of our skills.
• Ravenous because all Rogue builds regularly are at the Movement Speed cap or very close to it this power is essentially 40% Attack Speed.
• Undying because it provides incredible healing.

Placement Order

1. Place Closer
2. Ignore the Glyph in the second board until you have a level 15 Devious.
3. Place Control on the third board.
4. Place Chip on the fourth board.
5. Place Pride on the fifth board.
6. Place Turf on the sixth board.

Leveling Order

Level 15 1. Devious 2. Control 3. Closer 4. Pride 5. Turf 6. Chip

Level 21 1. Control 2. Devious 3. Pride 4. Chip 5. Closer 6. Turf

11/04/2023

• Changed Gear, Skill Tree and Paragon Board to account for Tibault + Condemn
• Added old build to variations
• Added Hemomancy

10/21/2023

• Changed some skill points, removed dodge
• Added Shako
• Removed Attack Speed Dodge on Gloves

10/20/2023

• Removed Tibault's
• Fixed Vampiric Powers

If you wish to play a lower mobility, higher damage version of the build play this.

Old version of Dash Junkie without Tibault Condemn