Diablo 4 Gold

Rogue was nerfed a bit in Season 8, but Boss Powers have added new possibilities to Rogue builds. Twisting Blades Rogue builds were endgame builds in Season 7, and with skills that use poison, they can deal very heavy damage to single enemies.

In Season 8, Boss Powers can increase core skills and deal a lot of poison damage to enemies, so Twisting Blades Rogue Build may become a very good build in Season 8.

Pros And Cons

Pros

• Can clear enemies at a fast pace
• High single-target burst damage
• Fast movement speed, can quickly pass through dungeons
• Easy to learn

Cons

• Very gear-dependent affixes
• Small attack range
• Gear-dependent, without Rakanoth’s Wake and Shroud of Khanduras, Rogue becomes very fragile

Twisting Blades Rogue Build was only average in Season 7. He has high single-target damage, but has trouble dealing with groups of monsters. So he will be slow to complete Season quests and farm gold.

But Season 8 requires farming bosses, and Twisting Blades Rogue Build allows you to deal with bosses efficiently, which may be an advantage.

Skills

Primary Skills

• Twisting Blades (Rank 5): Pierce the enemy with your blade, dealing 70% damage and increasing the damage you deal to this enemy over 3s for 3 seconds. The blade returns in 1.5s and deals 112% damage to the enemy.
• Caltrop (Rank 1): Create a Caltrop trap that slows enemies by 50% for 7s and deals 45% damage.

Secondary Skills

• Poison Imbuement (Rank 5): Injects poison into the weapon. The next two Imbueable Skills of Rogue deal poison damage and additional poison damage equal to 100% of its base damage over 6 seconds.
• Shadow Step (Rank 1): Rogue moves unstoppably through the shadows and comes behind the enemy, dealing 80% damage and gaining 40% speed.
• Dash (Rank 1): Dash forward and slash at the enemy, dealing damage and slowing it down.
• Shadow Clone (Rank 5): Within 15 seconds, Rogue’s shadow will imitate his movements and deal damage to nearby enemies. At Rank 5, releasing this skill can deal 200% damage and stun nearby enemies for 3 seconds.
• Specialization: Preparation.

The above is just one of the skill combinations of Twisting Blades Rogue Build. This skill configuration focuses more on single-target damage and increases Rogue’s survival space by slowing down the enemy.

Another skill combination is: Twisting Blades, Smoke Grenade, Shadow Step, Poison Trap, Poison Imbuement, and Death Trap. This skill combination focuses more on using traps and toxins, and performs better when dealing with groups of enemies.

Twisting Blades, Shadow Step and Poison Imbuement are always the core of this build. As long as you have enough Diablo 4 Gold, you can always change the remaining skills to your favorite ones.

Boss Powers

• Main Boss Powers: Ashava’s Poison Breath/Grigoire’s Lightning Square
• Harbinger of Hatred’s Volley
• Avarice’s Explosive Ore
• Sinerat’s Flames

Ashava’s Poison Breath: Hitting an enemy affected by continuous damage will generate a poison wave, causing huge poison damage to the hit enemy within 4 seconds. The poison effect will increase by 10% for every 1% continuous damage taken by the target’s current health.

Grigoire’s Lightning Square: After casting the core skill, lightning will spread outward for 1.2 seconds, causing huge lightning damage with each attack.

Both of the two Boss Powers are suitable for this build, and both are Rare Boss Powers. If you prefer to use poison, then Ashava’s Poison Breath will be a skill that suits you quite well.

If you are good at using Twisting Blades skill, then Grigoire’s Lightning Square can be used with this skill to deal Lightning damage. But you need to use affixes that can reduce the skill CD to match this Boss Powers.

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Equipment

• Helm: Heir of Perdition
• Chest Armor: Shroud of Khanduras
• Gloves: Slice and Dice Aspect
• Pants: Umbrous Aspect
• Boots: Rakanoth’s Wake
• Amulet: Conceited Aspect
• Ring 1: Ring of Starless Skies
• Ring 2: Aspect of Corruption
• Ranged Weapon: Bladedancer’s Aspect
• Dual-Wield Weapon 1: Accelerating Aspect
• Dual-Wield Weapon 2: Aspect of Creeping Death

Rogue is very fragile and needs Ancestral Unique items to improve his armor strength. The above equipment recommendations are mainly focused on improving Rogue’s melee attack damage and Twisting Blades damage.

Before you get the best equipment, you can use other equipment with excellent affixes as a substitute. You need to pay attention to the following affixes:

• Improve core skills.
• Improve melee damage.
• Increase maximum health.
• Increase movement speed/Dexterity.

Active Runes

• Armor: Igni and Ohm
• Weapon: Cir and Qax

Gems

• Weapon: Diamond. Increases ultimate damage by 60%.
• Armor: Emerald. Increases 60 Dexterity Attribute.
• Amulet: Skull. Increases 240 armor.
• Ring 1: Diamond. Increases elemental resistance by 12%.
• Ring 2: Skull. Increases 240 armor.

Since Twisting Blades Rogue has weak survivability and its damage is actually overflowing, Gems you choose need to improve survivability as much as possible.

The above is a brief introduction to Twisting Blades Rogue Build. Rogue is a high-damage, high-risk class, and is not good at dealing with group monsters and farming gold. But once you can live with its shortcomings, you’ll have fun seeing how quickly it can take down a single enemy.

In the 2025 roadmap announced by Diablo 4 a few days ago, besides some frustrating seasonal power updates, the only thing that can interest players is two IP collaborate. These two IP collaborations will take place in Season 8 and Season 10.

At least in PTR, players have found no menus about other works, so this has also aroused discussion among players. Which two works will these two new IP collaborate be?

Diablo IP Collaboration History

It is normal for players to be surprised that Diablo 4 requires new IP collaborate. Because in Diablo series, developers have always kept the series pure, and there is almost no history of introducing elements from other works.

But Diablo series is not completely without cooperation with other IPs, but most of these cooperations are limited to cooperation with different works of the same company, such as:

World Of WarCraft x Diablo

Diablo 4 launched a cross-border linkage with World of WarCraft in 2024. Players can get the Invincible Mount Bundle, as well as Lich King, Kael’Thas, and Garrosh transmogrification, but you can’t use gold to get these new appearances, and you need to use Platinum. In addition, Diablo Immortal also launched a cooperation project with the world of Azeroth.

Diablo Immortal Seasonal Themes & Events

Although players may not pay much attention to Diablo Immortal, Diablo Immortal always tries to make changes in the dark and cold tone.

Overwatch 2 x Diablo

The background of Overwatch and Diablo is completely different. Its game background is the near future with advanced technology. There are many exquisite skins in Overwatch, and these skins basically represent different background stories or even different games.

Overwatch 2 added several Diablo-themed skins to the game:

• Demon Hunter Sombra
• Barbarian Zarya
• Inarius Pharah

But this is only a one-sided collaboration, and Diablo 4 has not added any Overwatch-related appearances or even decorations.

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Who Will Be The Two IPs?

As mentioned earlier, Diablo 4 pays great attention to keeping the game pure, and cooperation with new IPs will inevitably have some impact on the game worldview. Game developers claim that IP collaborate will not destroy the immersion of the game, and these two IPs will belong to the dark fantasy category like Diablo 4.

Based on this condition, we can guess which works the following two mysterious IPs will be.

Dark Souls / Elden Ring

These two works may be the first guess of most players, at least I think so. Dark Souls and Elden Ring are from the same production company, and after years of development, they have accumulated an enormous fan base. And the backgrounds of these two works are also dark and profound, almost perfectly meeting the linkage requirements of Diablo 4.

Elden Ring is Game of the Year for 2022, but if it is an IP collaboration, Dark Souls should be a better choice, because there are many classic game elements in Dark Souls that are very suitable for IP collaborate. Diablo 4 can release some armor appearances, or replace the treasure chests in the event with treasure chest monsters, or temporarily replace Diablo 4 Gold in the player’s backpack with souls.

Demon’s Souls

At least in terms of name, Demon’s Souls is closer to Diablo 4 than Dark Souls. Demon’s Souls, as a predecessor of Dark Souls in a sense, also has very classic elements. But because of its high difficulty, the fan base of this work is far less than that of Dark Souls and Elden Ring, but this is still a very likely choice.

Castlevania

Castlevania is one of the most classic game series in the history of games. Almost every dungeon in the game has been inspired by this game. Castlevania’s main boss is Count Dracula, and Diablo 4 has many bosses and monsters made with vampire elements.

If Diablo 4 cooperates with Castlevania, Lord Zir may change his appearance and name for a short time and reappear. But Vampire Powers has been gone for too long, so the probability of cooperation with Castlevania is not that high.

The Witcher

The Witcher often cooperates with other IPs. From the background of The Witcher, Geralt often teleports to other worlds to kill some monsters. The world background of The Witcher is far less desperate than Diablo 4, but there are some similarities.

However, most players should not refuse to have a transmogrified Geralt’s appearance, or play a Gwent card game with the background of Diablo 4?

Bloodborne

Bloodborne is another game full of chaos and despair, and the monsters in it are even more twisted than those in Diablo 4. But to be honest, the background of Bloodborne is set in Victorian era, which is quite different from the era of Diablo 4, so there are some possibilities for Bloodborne and Diablo 4 to collaborate, but not much.

The Way Of IP Collaborate

These collaborations will most likely only add some appearances to the game, such as clothing appearances or mount appearances, and the gameplay will not change much. Otherwise, if the developers of Diablo 4 really have such ideas, why not add it to the game as a new mechanism earlier?

If the developers of Diablo 4 are really creative, maybe they will add some small in-game activities or a temporary task, so that players can get gold and some limited appearances after completing the task.

IP collaborate will not be officially launched until June, and players will have to wait for a while to get detailed news. Which work do you think Diablo 4 will collaborate with?