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Best Diablo 4 Shadow Imbue Rogue Build Guide - Top 2 Best Melee & Ranged Rogue Builds in D4 Server Slam

5/13/2023 5:07:02 PM

Today we're going to talk about the 2 best builds to level a Rogue in Diablo 4 Server Slam Beta, the Shadow Imbue Flurry Rogue build and the Marksman Rogue build. All of these are the best leveling builds in Diablo 4.

Related Read: Best Diablo 4 Server Slam Level 20 Rogue Builds 


1. D4 Shadow Imbue Flurry Rogue Build for Server Slam

If you enjoy playing a melee build as a Rogue, then the Flurry Rogue is for you. This is the build that some people chose to play during the open beta and it was so much fun especially since you can find a key aspect for this build in the Fractured Peaks, so you could even give this a try during the Server Slam, see if you like it. It is extremely powerful even before the build was complete. For a fact, it's going to be great for leveling. So let’s take a look at the Shadow Imbue Flurry Rogue skills, specialization and legendary aspects. 


D4 Server Slam Flurry Rogue Skills & Abilities 

Basic Skill

- Invigorating Strike: It increases your energy regeneration by 20% and then you can also upgrade it to increase that energy regeneration even more. And then you can get it, so that if you hit an enemy when you have below 50 energy, it makes them vulnerable and that's a key theme for this entire build. 

Core Skill

- Flurry: Flurry is going to release a flurry of stabs and strikes which deals a ton of damage 84%, it does four attacks. 

  • Enhanced: Heals you if the target is crowd-controlled or vulnerable.

  • Advanced: Evading through an enemy will let your next Flurry cast stun targets.

  • Improved: If Flurry hits a vulnerable enemy, all others hit by that cast will also become vulnerable.

Agility Skill

- Shadow Step: Every build needs to have unstoppable, you don't want to die within a crowd control like a stun or a days where you can't use your potions, bosses will grab you like the blood bishop, and so Shadow Step is your way to escape that crowd control. 

  • Enhanced: Increases your crit chance against an enemy you damage with Shadow Step.

  • Disciplined: The cooldown is reduced if you damage an enemy that you haven't hit with Shadow Step.

  • Methodical: Stuns enemies that are damaged.

Subterfuge Skill

- Dark Shroud: you surround yourself with 5 protective shadows and you gain 8% damage reduction per active shadow, you get 40% damage reduction. However, every time you take direct damage, you lose a shadow and so you lose 8% damage reduction, you can refresh this every 20 seconds. 

  • Enhanced: Chance for shadows to not get consumed.

  • Countering: Gain increased crit chance when at least two shadows are active.

  • Subverting: Each active shadow increases your movement speed.

- Exploit: You deal 18% increased damage to healthy and injured enemies. - Malice: You deal 9% increase damage to vulnerable enemies.

Imbuement Skill

- Precision Imbuement: Precision Imbuement skills gain 15% increase critical strike chance.

- Shadow Imbuement: The next two imbued skills deal shadow damage and infect enemies, causing an explosion if they die.

  • Enhanced: You have 25% increased Critical Strike Chance against Injured enemies infected by Shadow Imbuement.

  • Blended: Shadow Imbuement’s primary explosion makes enemies Vulnerable for 2 seconds.

  • Mixed: Enemies damaged by Shadow Imbuement Skills take 12% increased Non-Physical damage from you for 8 seconds.

Ultimate Skill

- Shadow Clone: Your shadow mimicks your actions for 15 seconds and deals 60% of your damage.

  • Prime: You are Unstoppable for 5 seconds after casting Shadow Clones.

  • Supreme: Your Shadow Clone deals an additional 20% of your damage.

- Adrenaline Rush (passive): While moving, you gain 5% increased Energy Regeneration.

  • Haste: While at or above 50% maximum Energy, gain 5% increased Movement Speed. While below 50% maximum Energy, gain 5% increased Attack Speed.

  • Impetus: After moving 15 meters, your next attack deals 7% increased damage.

Key Passive

- Victimize: Dealing direct damage to a vulnerable enemy has up to a 30% chance to cause an explosion, dealing 23% of the original damage to them and surrounding enemies.


Shadow Imbue Flurry Rogue Legendary Aspects for Leveling

Take a look at the aspects you can get from dungeons in each zone, these are extremely important because legendaries aren't going to drop like they did in the open beta and these aspects are going to be guaranteed from these dungeons which means it will be in your best bet to make a build around what is available. Once you get these legendary aspects, they'll go into your codex of power and can be imprinted on rare items an infinite number of times, meaning it will be with you as you level your character. And finding a legendary item and extracting that aspect is a one-time thing which is why you should probably save those high rolled aspects for imprinting on End Game gear. And that the aspects you get from dungeons are going to always have the lowest possible value. So these are meant to be replaced in the late game. You can replace these as you progress through leveling.

- Ravenous Aspect

- Aspect of Might

- Vengeful Aspect

- Aspect of Siphoned Victuals

- Wind Striker Aspect

- Aspect of Encircling Blades

- Aspect of Unstable Imbuements

- Aspect of Corruption

- Aspect of the Expectant

- Aspect of Volatile Shadows

- Aspect of Encircling Blades


Shadow Imbue Flurry Rogue Paragon Board

Once you finish your beginner Paragon board, you have to choose which board you want to go to next. It’s recommended choosing the exploit weakness paragon board because of this legendary node, whenever you deal damage to a vulnerable enemy, they take a 1% increase damage from you for six seconds up to 15%. So basically you're going to get 15% additional damage most the time after you've done a few hits to someone especially bosses.


Class Specialization

When it comes to the class specific mechanic, you have 3 options, you've got preparation, combo points or inner sight. Inner site is not that strong, basically once you fill up this inner sight gauge by attacking marked targets, it makes all of your resource costs go at zero for four seconds, that's not a very long time, you don't really get that many attacks off for free. Combo points is going to consistently make your core skills stronger. Preparation, we haven't seen in action but it's probably going to like reset the cooldown in your ultimate or something like that which could be strong.


2. D4 Shadow Imbue Marksman Rogue Build for Server Slam

This is another very viable rogue build, the Marksman Rogue. This build stacks critical strike rating and is pretty darn powerful, uses shadow imbuement as well and we are building this around the guaranteed legendary aspect.


D4 Server Slam Marksman Rogue Skills & Abilities

Basic Skills 

- Forceful Arrow: Fire a powerful arrow at an enemy, dealing 20] damage. Every third cast makes the enemy Vulnerable for 2 seconds.

  • Enhanced Forceful Arrow: Every third cast of Forecful Arrow has a 15% increased crit chance

  • Fundamental: Forceful Arrow knocks back non-elite enemies if they are close, if they collide with another enemy, they are both knocked down for 1.5 seconds.

Core Skill

- Penetrating Shot: Fire an arrow that pierces all enemies in a line, dealing 70% damage.

  • Enhanced: Penetrating Shot deals 20% increased damage per enemy it pierces.

  • Improved: If Penetrating Shot damages at least 3 enemies, your next Penetrating Shot has a 20% increased critical strike chance.

- Stutter Step (passive): Critically Striking an enemy grants 5% movement speed for 4 seconds.

Agility Skill

- Weapon Mastery: Gain a bonus when attack based on weapon type:

  • Daggers: 5% increased damage to Healthy enemies.

  • Swords: 3% increased damage.

  • Bows: 4% increased damage to vulnerable enemies.

  • Crossbows: 5% increased crit damage.

Subterfuge Skill

- Dark Shroud: Surround yourself with shadows that reduce damage taken; shadows are consumed when you're hit.

  • Enhanced: Chance for shadows to not get consumed.

  • Countering: Gain increased crit chance when at least two shadows are active.

- Exploit (passive): You deal 6% increased damage to Healthy and Injured enemies.

Imbuement Skill

- Shadow Imbuement: The next two imbued skills deal shadow damage and infect enemies, causing an explosion if they die.

  • Enhanced: Increased crit chance against injured targets affected by Shadow Imbuement.

  • Blended: The explosion will apply vulnerable.

- Shadow Crash: We are also going to get 1 point into Shadow Crash, 10% chance to stun with shadow damage.

  • Consuming Shadows: We're going to get 3 points into consuming shadows. Each time you kill an enemy with shadow damage, you gain 30 energy.

  • Precision Imbuement: We're going to put 3 points into Precision Imbuement. Imbued skills gain 15% increased Critical Strike chance.

Ultimate Skill

- Shadow Clone: This is going to be helpful against bosses when you just really need to pump a boss down, you got to have a shadow clone with you to help do some damage. It's going to mimic your actions for 15 seconds, it deals 60% of your damage, we can increase that to 80.

  • Prime: You are Unstoppable for 5 seconds after casting Shadow Clones.

  • Supreme: Your Shadow Clone deals an additional 20% of your damage.

- Aftermath (passive): After using an Ultimate Skill, restore 25 energy.

  • Adrenaline Rush (passive): While moving, you gain 5% increased Energy Regeneration.

  • Haste: While at or above 50% maximum Energy, gain 5% increased Movement Speed. While below 50% maximum Energy, gain 5% increased Attack Speed.

  • Impetus: After moving 15 meters, your next attack deals 7% increased damage.

Key Passive

- Precision: It's going to make critical strikes with Marksman skills. You gain 4% increased critical strike damage per stack of Precision, up to a maximum of 20%. When you reach maximum Precision, your next Marksman Skill is a guaranteed critical strike that deals 40% increased critical strike damage, then consumes all stacks of Precision.


Marksman Rogue Legendary Aspects for Leveling

These legendary aspects are ones that you can find in Dungeons and it's very important that you take a look at the aspects you can get from dungeons in each zone. They're extremely important because legendaries aren't going to drop like they did in the beta and these aspects are going to be guaranteed from dungeons which means it will be in your best bet to make a build around what is available. Once you get these legendary aspects, they're going to go into your codex of power and can be imprinted on rare items an infinite number of times, meaning it will be with you the entire time as you level your character. Finding a legendary item and extracting that aspect is a one-time thing though which is why you should save those high rolled aspects for imprinting on End Game Gear. The legendary aspects that we're going to get from clearing dungeons are always going to roll the lowest possible roll.

- Energizing Aspect

- Aspect of Might

- Aspect of Volatile Shadows

- Enshrouding Aspect

- Wind Striker Aspect

- Aspect of Arrow Storms

- Trickshot Aspect

- Aspect of Unstable Imbuements

- Aspect of the Expectant

- Aspect of Inner Calm


Marksman Rogue Paragon Board

When it comes to your Paragon board, the board to go with this Marksman build is the Eldritch Bounty node. When you attack with an imbued skill, you gain 20% resistance and 20% increased damage for that imbuement's element for 6 seconds. The reason to choose this is because the whole build is based around Shadow Imbuement, basically exploding everything on your screen instantaneously and this will basically ensure that that continues to happen with that 20% increase damage.


Class Specialization

Go with the combo points.

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