News Tag: Diablo 4 Penetrating Shot Rogue Endgame Build

In Diablo 4 Season 6, Rogue has undergone a major overhaul, with significant improvements in agility and damage. This has made Penetrating Shot Rogue build, which focuses on high burst damage, the choice of many players.

In this build, you only need to use a few accurate shots to defeat the enemy easily. For the endgame build with stronger survivability and damage capabilities, defeating some medium-difficulty enemies is no problem at all. But it is precisely because the difficulty of enemies or bosses in the endgame content will be much more difficult than the leveling stage, so it is very important to choose the most suitable skills and items for them.

If you still have no idea and don’t want to invest too much trial-and-error costs, then this guide will be your best helper. Here, you will be introduced to how to choose the best build items in this Penetrating Shot Rogue endgame build so that it can be used to its maximum effectiveness.

Skills

Penetrating Shot is a pretty simple piercing arrow on its own, but if you combine it with Umbracrux dagger and Trickshot Aspect, this arrow becomes a nuke that can knock down a ton of enemies! But be careful with positioning. As the more enemies you hit in the path of this arrow, the more damage you will do.

So your skills and passives are all about making sure this arrow is accurate, and secondly, focus on stacking Critical Strike Damage. This way the entire build will have the maximum damage to enemies, so you can quickly complete some exploration tasks and pick up Diablo 4 Gold dropped by enemies.

Here are some skills and passives you can place in the skill tree for Penetrating Shot Rogue endgame build. Note that the skill point numbers here are for reference only, and you can change them appropriately based on your play style.

Active Skills

Puncture - 1
Smoke Grenade - 1
Penetrating Shot - 5
Shadow Step - 1
Dash - 1
Poison Imbuement - 1
Death Trap - 5
Dark Shroud - 5

Passive Skills

Sturdy - 3
Siphoning Strikes - 3
Stutter Steps - 2
Weapon Mastery - 3
Unstable Elixirs - 3
Trick Attacks - 3
Rapid Gambits - 1
Agile - 2
Exploit - 3
Malice - 3
Frigid Finesse - 3
Innervation - 3
Second Wind - 3
Precision - 1
Rugged - 3
Balestra - 1
Aftermath - 1
Victimize - 1

Best Rotation

Once you have all your skills equipped, you can start beating some low-level enemies to determine which rotation is best for you. But if you just want to deal the most damage, you can use Heartseeker to accumulate combo points first, and then cast Death Trap to group enemies together for maximum damage later.

After that, you can deploy Poison Trap to poison the enemies, which will increase their damage to subsequent attacks and trigger fancy totems from Umbracrux.

Next, you can use Shadow Step or Dash to enter the battle perfectly and activate Tricks of the Trade, which will help you increase your bonus damage. Finally, cast Penetrating Shot to penetrate those already dying enemies and make them deal the final blow.

So the best Specialization setup in this Penetrating Shot Rogue endgame build is Combo Points, which will allow your Heartseeker to accumulate points at a faster rate, which is the origin of everything.

Best Legendary Aspects

After choosing skills, it’s time to start choosing Diablo 4 Items. The first thing we’ll cover is Legendary Aspects, because they are very important to the damage and survivability of the entire build. Here are some of Legendary Aspects you can choose in this Penetrating Shot Rogue endgame build.

Trickshot: Whenever a Penetrating Shot deals damage to an enemy, two additional arrows branch off on either side. These side arrows deal a percentage of Penetrating Shot’s base damage and do not branch.
Rapid: Increases attack speed of basic skills.
Edgemaster’s: Skills now deal increased damage based on your Primary Resource when activated.
Might: The basic skill grants damage reduction.
Expectant: After attacking an enemy with a basic skill, the damage to the next core skill will be increased.
Energizing: Dealing damage to an elite enemy with a basic skill generates 4 energy.
Protector: Dealing damage to elite enemies grants you a barrier that absorbs the damage.
Wind Striker: Critical strikes give you an additional movement speed boost.
Aspect of Unstable Imbuements: When you activate an Imbuement Skill, an explosion occurs around you.
Enshrouding: Using a Healing Potion will create a free Dark Shroud Shadow.
Umbrous Aspect: Critical strikes grant a free Dark Shroud Shadow.
Crowded Sage: Increase your chances of dodging. Dodging also restores your maximum life.
Concussive Strikes: When you damage an enemy, you can Daze them.
Accelerating: Critical attacks using core skills increase attack speed.
Elements: Increased damage against a range of damage types, switching between Fire, Lightning, Physical and Cold, Poison, Shadow.

Best Gear

After you equip Legendary Aspects, the next step is your gear. As before, your gear should still focus on your Critical Strikes and the mobility of your Penetrating Shot Rogue endgame build. So you can choose the following items based on these criteria.

Runic Skullcap of Might - Helm
Shroud of False Death - Chest
Trickshot Runic Gloves - Glove
Umbrous Runic Leggings - Pants
Runic Cleats of Concussive Strikes - Boots
Edgemaster’s Warcaster - Ranged Weapon
Obsidian Blade of the Expectant - Melee Weapon
Obsidian Blade of Elements - Melee Weapon
Rapid Necklace - Amulet
Accelerating Band - Ring
Ring of Retribution - Ring

The above are some of the build options for how to make the Penetrating Shot Rogue endgame build into a powerful build in Diablo 4 Season 6. It is worth mentioning that Penetrating Shot Rogue build not only performs well in leveling and endgame content but also can win you a lot of battles in PVP with its high burst damage and accuracy.

If you have questions about other builds of Rogue Class or have experience to share, you are welcome to communicate in IGGM Discord! And now you also have the opportunity to participate in the lottery for Boss summoning materials here. The prizes are very generous. You can check whether you have won on October 28. Wish you good luck!