Diablo 4 Rogue BuildPoison Twisting Blades

We take Piranhado to group up enemies, which is always useful.

Decay Augmentation, not only makes us execute enemies when they reach a certain Damage over Time threshold but, in combination with Voice of the Stars, also makes our Shadow Clown do 39% more damage.

Breath of the Coven provides an incredible amount of Attack Speed which scales our damage very strongly because of Twisting Blades' Impale damage bonus. To max it out we use Aura of Misfortune, Hex of Flames and Decay Augmentation.

Soul Harvest is an incredibly overpowered Witchcraft Power that provides an unbalanced amount of % Dexterity increase.

Vulture Talon essentially gives us 50% more DPS as all the damage we do is in the form of DoTs.

Lastly, Dust Stone adds some more damage.

We use Tam, which is our best source of Offering, combined with Vex to buff all our Skill Ranks by 3. This is especially good in this build because we benefit from ranks to Shadow Clone, Twisting Blades and Poison Imbuement.

Our second set of Runes is Igni, our second best source of Offering, combined with Mot to provide us with free Dark Shroud without wasting an Aspect or a Skill Bar slot.

Early on when we are struggling to keep our Energy up we will use Poc with Lum to generate Energy as we spend it.

To explain what Attack Speed Breakpoints are we first need to understand how the game works.

• The server operates at a fixed 60 FPS, irrespective of your ingame FPS.
• Because casts can only take a discrete amount of frames to go off this leads to the existence of breakpoints.
• A cast can't take between X.01 and X.99 frames. For example, Attack Speed values that should lead to a cast speed between 20.01 to 20.1 will all lead to 21 frames.
• Because the server runs at 60 FPS we can find our real cast speed by calculating 60/Frames. For example, if your Heartseeker cast takes 15 frames, that translates to 60/15 = 4 attacks per second.

This Sheet lets you calculate your Attack Speed Breakpoint for various skills.

Something to keep in mind is that two Masterworking crits on an affix are worth the same as Greater Affix.

In this particular build we aim for the 11 Frame (138.3% Attack Speed) Breakpoint.

Alchemical Admixture requires us to attack with 3 different elements to get activated, we achieve this by making Rain of Arrows cast Poison, Shadow and Cold Imbuement.

This makes our Poison Imbuement do [x]40% more damage. This multiplier also scales with 20% of our total amount of Damage with Poison, Cold and Shadow. This last part has some hidden implications:

• [+]Non-Physical Damage counts for triple the amount for Alchemical Admixture.
• [x]Non-Physical Damage and [x]Poison Damage double dip by buffing our Poison Damage and also our Tooltip Values.

01/23/2025

• Changed Clone to RoA since CLone is bugged.

01/19/2025

• S7 Update

10/03/2024

• S6 Update

08/06/2024

• S5 Update

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