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Best Diablo 4 Launch Rogue Leveling Builds - Top 2 D4 Starter Rogue Builds for Endgame

6/1/2023 6:54:23 PM

Today we have a Diablo 4 Rogue class build guide, we are going to be covering 2 best Rogue endgame builds for launch, including the twisting blades leveling build and cold Archer bow leveling build. We show you the skills, aspects, and how to play them.

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Best Diablo 4 Launch Rogue Leveling Builds - Top 2 D4 Starter Rogue Builds for Endgame

1. Diablo 4 Cold Archer Bow Leveling Build for Launch

This is an update to the Cold Archer Bow build we did in the beta, there are few skills changed around and it's definitely much more potent than it was in the beta simply by changing a couple things. And this build is aimed at World Tiers 1 and 2 in a starter Rogue build endgame that aims at focusing on using Marksman skills and like a ranged build & melee Rogue build. If you’ve been looking for a Diablo 4 bow Rogue build, then this build is for you.

How to Play Archer Bow Build for Rogue in Diablo 4

The general strategy here is we're going to use combo points to build up and use barrage and barrage gets extra arrows when you use more combo points. So you want to try and fire this every time you have 3 combo points if possible. And what we really like about barrages is the middle ground between penetrating shot and rapid firewear. Penetrating shot is a really good at AOE, but it's not very good against single target damage because it's claim to fame is that it goes through the enemy. But if you're facing a boss or an elite or something, that's not always super helpful. And Rapid Fire is really good against bosses, but it's not very good against packs of enemies. And barrage kind of has a little of both worlds if an enemy is standing right in front of you, it's going to get hit with almost all of your bra shots. And if there is nothing in front of you, it's going to ricochet around and hit a lot of enemies giving you some AOE damage. So it's kind of a nice middle ground and it works really well for this build.

Best Skills & Abilities of Cold Archer Bow Rogue Endgame Build D4

Basic Skills

Puncture
Enhanced Puncture
Fundamental Puncture

Core Skills

Barrage
Enhanced Barrage
Improved Barrage
Sturdy

Agility Skills

Weapon Mastery
Dash
Enhanced Dash
Disciplined Dash

Subterfuge Skills

Dark Shroud
Enhanced Dark Shroud
Exploit
Poison Trap
Enhanced Poison Trap
Countering Poison Trap

Imbuement Skills

Shadow Crash
Precision Imbuement
Shadow Imbuement
Poison Imbuement
Enhanced Poison Imbuement
Mixed Poison Imbuement
Cold Imbuement
Enhanced Cold Imbuement
Mixed Cold Imbuement
Deadly Venom
Alchemical Advantage
Debilitating Toxins
Frigid Finesse
Chilling Weight

Ultimate Skills

Adrenaline Rush
Innervation
Shadow Clone

Diablo 4 Launch Cold Archer Rogue Build Gameplay

Crowd Control and Freezing Enemies: The core aspect of the Cold Archer Bow build is to freeze enemies using your cold-based skills. Utilize Frost Nova to freeze groups of enemies, allowing you to pick them off one by one. Cold Arrow's freezing effects also play a crucial role in crowd control, as frozen enemies take increased damage and are temporarily immobilized.
Kiting and Positioning: As a Cold Archer Bow build, your goal is to maintain distance from enemies while dealing damage. Use your kiting skills, such as Crippling Shot, to slow down enemy movement and create space. Position yourself strategically to exploit weak spots and maximize your damage output.
Synergies with Elemental Effects: Cold damage synergizes well with other elemental effects. Look for gear or skills that can amplify these synergies, such as shatter effects that trigger when enemies are frozen. Consider combining your cold-based skills with other elemental skills or gear modifiers to create devastating combos.
Critical Strikes and Critical Damage: Focus on increasing your critical strike chance and critical damage through gear and skill choices. Critical strikes can significantly enhance your damage output, especially when combined with cold-based effects. Aim for gear that provides bonuses to critical strike chance, critical damage, and cold damage.

Legendary Aspects of Diablo 4 Rogue Bow Build

Offensive Aspects

Rapid Aspect: This increases your basic attack speed by 30%, if you have it on a two-handed weapon you can find this with higher values, if you get it dropped. But if you're using the codex of power, it's 30%. This makes you attack very quickly with puncture. This gives you combos, charge it up quickly and back into barrage.
Aspect of the Expectant: This makes it so that when you attack enemies with a basic skill, the damage of your next core skill is increased. Because we basically alternate 3 basic skills at least before we use a barrage most of the time, this is fantastic for this build and you should consider getting this one early on.
Energizing Loop: This aspect is phenomenal for this build, it makes it so anytime you damage an elite with a basic skill you generate 3 energy, since you usually get 6 energy from puncture this could be 9 and you can get up to 13 if you have the highest roll on this early on in the game. This is really nice for energy management and it can help alleviate some energy management problems you have.
Loop of Corruption: This makes it so your imbuement skill effects have a 20 to 40% increased potency against vulnerable enemies. Because we set vulnerable so easily in this build that's going to make it so enemies freeze faster, so they take more poison damage.

Defensive Aspects

Aspect of the Protector: This is really good in any build, this gives you a barrier when you damage an elite enemy. Rogues are squishy, so getting protection is very important for Rogues and this is a good way to get some easy protection.
Cheat’s Boneweave Faalds: This makes it so that you receive less damage from crowd controlled enemies. A lot of the enemies that you are facing in this game are crowd controlled, because you slow them with puncture or you drop them with poison trap or you chill them with cow drops and slow them with cow traps depending which one you're using. So this helps to reduce the damage you take.
Aspect of Might: This is also good, this makes it so that you take 20% less damage for a few seconds after you use a basic skill. Since this usually happens a lot with this build because you're rotating between 3 basic skills and then barrage, this helps reduce the damage you take in the meantime.

Gears for Diablo 4 Rogue Bow Build

Armor: Protection Tormentor
Helm: Spirit Crest
Gloves: Boneweave Gauntlets of the Expectant
Pants: Cheat’s Boneweave Faulds
Boots: Kick Mayhem
Weapons: Bucher’s Nexus, Foe Dawn
Rings: Loop of Corruption, Energizing Loop
Amulet: Chain of the Protector

Specializations

Combo Points
Inner Sight
Preparation

1. Diablo 4 Twisting Blades Rogue Leveling Build for Launch

Twisting Blades, a melee Diablo 4 build for the Rogue that focuses on utilizing the Twisting Blades skill and other complementary abilities to unleash a flurry of fast-paced attacks and devastating damage. And this is a Diablo 4 beginner Rogue endgame build aimed at World Tiers 1 and 2. So if you've been looking for a good beginner melee Rogue build that allows you to quickly explode all your enemies, then this Twisting Blades leveling build is for you.

How to Play Twisting Blades Leveling Build in Diablo 4

The way this build works is by using the Shadow Imbuement Skill in combination with twisting blades to generate a chain reaction of explosions that decimates big groups of enemies. To achieve this, you'll start the fight by casting the Shadow Imbuement buff and then head straight into a pack of enemies and perform two attacks with twisting blades. Once this has been accomplished, you'll dash through the group of enemies depending on the opposite side of them and start attacking using the invigorating strike skill, and this will help to build up combo points and increase your energy regeneration. At this point, the first two attacks you made with twisting blades will return to you passing through the enemies that you attack and this will deal damage to all of them and apply the Shadow Imbuement debuff which will generate a chain reaction of explosions. Also because of the advanced twisting blades upgrade, both your Shadow Imbuement and dash cooldowns will be reduced and thanks to consuming Shadows, you'll get back the energy you spent allowing you to restart this sequence. The aspect that will help the most here is the blade dancers aspect making it so that the returning blades orbit around you in the end to deal extra damage which is very useful to finish off enemies or to deal with Elites. The new orbit damage is further amplified based on the enemies pierced by the boomerang effect and you can acquire the codex of power for this aspect by completing the Jalal's Vigil dungeon located in Scosglen.

You can use the combo point specialization to fight regular enemies as it'll increase the damage of your twisting blades and it'll also give you a speed buff, that you should swap to Inner sight specialization when fighting bosses. Doing so allow you to spam the Twisting Blade's skill when inner side is active dealing a ton of damage and generating a massive amount of orbiting blades that quickly tick the boss's health down. Remember that you'll also invest points into the shadow clone ultimate to be able to summon your Shadow who will mimic this action further increasing your burst damage.

Skills & Abilities

Basic Skills: Invigorating Strike, Enhanced Invigorating Strike, Primary Invigorating Strike
Core Skills: Twisting Blades, Enhanced Twisting Blades, Advanced Twisting Blades
Agility Skills: Shadow Step
Subterfuge Skills: Exploit, Malice, Shadow Crash, Consuming Shadows,
Imbuement Skills: Shadow Imbuement, Enhanced Shadow Imbuement, Blended Shadow Imbuement
Ultimate Skills: Shadow Clone, Prime Shadow Clone

Best Gears for Twisting Blades Rogue Starting Build D4