As a diverse class in Diablo 4 that can perform both ranged and melee attacks, Rogue is often overshadowed by high-damage classes such as Sorcerer or Necromancer, making it the choice of a few players. However, in the current Season of Hatred Rising, Rogue has been strengthened to enhance its mobility and survivability.
However, you will face some different situations in Diablo 4, such as leveling content and endgame content, and you will need to choose a different build. Or if you want to gain more combat experience in PVP content, you also need to change to a new build to face different situations.
So this guide will introduce you to the best build you should choose for Rogue based on the requirements in different content. This will help you to get into the game exploration faster and save some of the trial-and-error costs you spend on the build.
Best Leveling Builds: Barrage Rogue
First, during the leveling phase, when you need to level up quickly, Barrage Rogue is a splendid choice for clearing groups of enemies. It fires multiple arrows in a cone, which is great for clearing groups and close-range targets. Not only that, but the arrows will also bounce back, dealing a lot of damage to the remaining enemies.
Also, Barrage Rogue build is extremely mobile, so this build allows you to have both high damage and high survivability, especially if you infuse it with Shadow Imbuement, which will help you recover and cast extra burst damage.
Alternatively, you can choose to inject Poison Imbuement, as it adds additional poison damage to enemies, which can be very helpful when dealing with some of the larger, tougher monsters with higher health.
If you want Barrage Rogue build to be a very strong melee build, then Flurry and Twisting Blades may be your first choice. But you need to be aware that Rogue is not very good in the melee, so you may need to use more Diablo 4 Gold in this build to make your character more defensive.
Best Endgame Builds: Dance Of Knives Rogue
Once you reach level 60 and unlock Paragon Board, you can switch the build you were using during the leveling phase to one that is suitable for the endgame content. Since the boss difficulty and exploration difficulty in the endgame content are much more difficult than the leveling phase, the requirements for the build will be more stringent.
The first thing to focus on is the damageability of the build, so Dance of Knives, which was added in Season 6, is your best helper because it can throw knives at enemies at a constant speed. Most importantly, the attack speed does not affect the speed of your throwing knives, but increases the base damage of your throwing knives.
Once you have enough movement speed, you are basically a perpetual motion machine. Once you have enough movement speed, you’re basically a perpetual motion machine - you can keep defeating enemies and then keep picking up Diablo 4 Gold that they drop.
Then there is the defense ability, so you can use Dark Shroud as your main defense skill to better protect you with the protective shadows it creates every time you take damage. And Dark Shroud also provides you with some very important attack speed gains.
Like Barrage Rogue build, you can also infuse Shadow Imbuement to give it super strong AOE damage, but for a single boss, you can use Cold Imbuement, as this makes the boss take cold damage and move slower.
Best PVP Builds: Rapid Fire Rogue
In PVP, your build is all about how to defeat the other player quickly with minimal strategy, so Rapid Fire Rogue build will help you a lot. In this build, the high burst damage arrows fired by Rapid Fire can easily make it easy to stand in a safe area and deal damage to a single target.
Besides Rapid Fire skill, you can also add Precision to your passive skills. This way, after consuming the maximum stack of Precision, you will gain a special move - your Critical Strike Damage will be greatly increased.
It is worth mentioning that Barrage Rogue build used in the leveling stage is also very suitable for PVP mode, but if you want to perform more like an assassin in this mode, you will definitely like Shadow Step Rogue build.
This Shadow Step Rogue build emphasizes mobility and burst damage. It will let you use Shadow Step to attack enemies from behind. But unfortunately, since the cooldown time of this skill is too long, it is better to place some items that can reduce the cooldown time in your construction before you use it.
As a build that uses poison damage and fast attacks to make the enemy vulnerable, Andariel’s Rogue is also very suitable for you to use in PVP mode because it has high mobility and continuous damage output.
But the reason it is not the best build is that you need to spend a lot of time and Diablo 4 Gold to get Andariel’s Visage or Andariel’s Visage Aspect to make this build most effective, because these two items are very important for the buff of Poison Novas.
The above is the best build you can choose for Rogue, the buried Class, according to different requirements in Diablo 4 Season 6. We sincerely hope that Rogue will perform better in this season, because this Class is very friendly to some novice players.
If you have questions about the build in this new season, you are welcome to come to IGGM Discord to ask questions or communicate with other players. I believe you will definitely find your favorite answer here. Not only that, you can also participate in a lottery event here, in which there will be some summoning materials required by bosses, such as Andariel Materials and Exquisite Blood. The winners will be announced on October 28. Good luck!
