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Diablo 4 Build

Twisting Blades

presentationRogue
Season 11
Boss Killer
Pit Pusher
End Game
Creator
M1PY
By M1PY
Updated on Dec 21, 2025
Dec 21, 2025

Build Overview

The Twisting Blades Rogue Build Guide teaches you about Gear, Skills, Paragon, Playstyle & Seasonal Mechanics in Diablo 4.

Twisting Blades is back! But only for Pit Pushing or Boss Farming! If you want to play this builds outside of Pits for Speedfarming, you are likely to have a bad time. Due to lack of accessible mobility, low area of effect and required ramp up time, this is a build exclusively designed for Pit Pushing and Bosses.

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If you are not level 60 yet, make sure to check out the Twisting Blades Leveling Guide instead.

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Great Single Target DPS
  • Incredible Defense
  • Oldschool Playstyle
  • Requires Button Spamming
  • Immobile
  • Low Area of Effect

Build Variants

Assigned Skills

Primary
5
5
Secondary
1
1
1
1
Specialization

However, you can drop Caltrops for Dash and Smoke Grenade for Shadow Step to go a bit faster. CirJah is also an option.

Aspect & Uniques

HelmHeir of Perdition
Chest armorShroud of False Death
GlovesAspect of Elemental Fate
PantsUmbrous Aspect
BootsSlice and Dice Aspect
AmuletAspect of Corruption
Ring 1Conceited Aspect
Ring 2Ring of Starless Skies
Dual wield weapon 1Aspect of Creeping Death
Dual wield weapon 2Aspect of Contamination
Ranged weaponBladedancer's Aspect
  • Mythic Prio: Ring of Starless Skies > Heir of Perdition > Shroud of False Death
  • Aim to get 100% Chance for Twisting Blades to Hit Twice

Skill Tree

Available0 (0)
Spent59 (12)

Paragon Board

Divine Gifts

Andariel
CorruptedEssence of Anguish
PurifiedEssence of Screams
Azmodan
CorruptedEssence of Hellfire
PurifiedEssence of Sin
Belial
CorruptedEssence of Shadows
PurifiedEssence of Lies
Duriel
CorruptedEssence of Pain
PurifiedEssence of Squalor

In Season 11 the Divine Gifts do not offer any player power increase. Instead they make some activities more challenging and increase their rewards in different ways. As there are only two choices per slot, we focus on maximizing the defensive bonuses.

Mercenary

How it Plays

  • Pull Mobs with Death Trap
  • Cast Smoke Grenade, Caltrops and Poison Trap
  • Activate Poison Imbuement
  • Re-activate immediately once off Cooldown
  • Use Death Trap to reset the cooldown if necessary
  • Spam Twisting Blades

How it Works

Elixirs and Incense

It's important to run Elixirs and Incenses at all times. Not only because they increase your Experience gain but also because they provide very strong combat boosts.

For Elixirs you will use Elixir of Resourcefulness for Maximum Energy, which will increase your Beastfall Boots Damage Multiplier.

For Incenses you will use Spiral Morning for Dexterity, Song of the Mountain for Armor and Soothing Spices for All Resistances and more Armor.

Attack Speed Breakpoints

Because the game's server operates in frames (images), Skills can only be cast in a whole number of frames. This means, for example, that you can't cast a Skill in 10.2 frames. To extend this example further, that means that all Attack Speed values that lead to a cast time of 10.01 to 10.99 frames would mean you end up casting at 11 frames, effectively wasting all Attack Speed gains from 11 frames to 10.01.

In order to avoid wasting Attack Speed, you can calculate the Attack Speed Breakpoints for your skills using THIS SHEET.

You might be wondering how frames translate into actual Cast Speed. Because the server runs at 60 frames per second the way we translate frames into Cast Speed is with the formula: 60 / Frames = Casts per Second.

Masterworking and Tempering Explained

If you want to learn more about Masterworking and Tempering, check out our Masterworking and Tempering Guide.

FAQ

Why are we not scaling Twisting Blades Damage?

Our main damage comes from Poison Imbuement and effects that multiplicatively buff Twisting Blades other than Bladedancer's Aspect do not result in a damage increase. Poison Imbuement only calculates from Twisting Blades Base Damage which can only be increased by +Core Skill Ranks. Therefore, we are mostly using global damage buffs or Poison Damage and Imbuement scalers.

Changelog

11th of December 2025

  • Updated for Season 11 - Patch 2.5.0

7th of October 2025

  • Updated for Patch 2.4.1

23rd of September 2025

  • Guide fully updated for Season 10 - Infernal Chaos

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