News Tag: Diablo 4 Twisting Blades Rogue

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.

If you’re looking to upgrade your Rogue as soon as possible, then you’ll want Twisting Blades Rogue with Dual Imbuements. This build is fast-paced and perfect for any player who enjoys a high-intensity play style. Let’s start.

Skills

• Puncture: This is our basic skill. You need to use these Triple Throwing Knives to gain resources while also making enemies vulnerable.
• Twisting Blades: Our main core ability, it does insane damage but can be tricky to use. After using Twisting Blades, Blades will pierce the enemy for 1.5 seconds before returning to you.
• Dash: Used to move and guide our Twisting Blades to attack groups of enemies.
• Shadow Step: This teleports you to the enemy while also providing the ability to be unstoppable. This will get us out of some sticky situations.
• Poison Imbuement: When it comes to boss fights or tough elite enemies, Poison Imbuement is the best choice.
• Shadow Imbuement: This is our primary wave clearing ability.

Skill Tree

For our passive, we will invest 1 point in Fundamental Puncture to make the enemy vulnerable. Improved Twisting Blades 5 points provide a stun status effect. Siphoning Strikes 3 points for extra healing. Disciplined Shadow Step 1 point reduces cooldown.

Weapon Mastery 3 points for extra damage. Trick Attacks 1 point to knock down stunned enemies. Rapid Gambits 2 points reduce dodge cooldown. Exploits 3 points can deal more damage to healthy or injured enemies.

Finally, our key passives Close Quarters Combat Casting Puncture and Twisting Blades will give us 20% attack speed for 8 seconds, as well as a damage bonus equal to 40% of our damage.

Specialization

After completing Rogue level 15 priority tasks, Rogue has 3 special passive skills to choose from. The first passive we can get is Combo Points. This passive skill will give us 3 Diamonds at the bottom of the screen, which will be filled when we hit an enemy with Puncture. Using core skills will cost these Combo Points to deal massive amounts of damage.

Once we reach level 30, we will unlock the best passive skill for killing bosses, Inner Sight. Inner Sight will use the purple eye-icon target above the target’s head.

Using Core Skills on these targets will fill up our Inner Sight bar. When the bar is full, we have unlimited resources. We can also spam Twisting Blades for 4 seconds before the effect wears off.

Gameplay Tips

The most important thing about playing Twisting Blades Rogue is rhythm. Make sure to start every new battle with Puncture, not only for Combo Points, but we need to make the enemy vulnerable.

We need to use Twisting Blades once or twice on high-value targets and try to dash towards another group of enemies or wherever you think, you will hit the most enemies when Twisting Blades returns. This means you can maximize your damage and Diablo 4 Gold gains. This concept is very important to Twisting Blades Rogue.

Because Poison Imbuement and Shadow Imbuement both generate 2 charges when cast. Therefore, be careful not to waste these charges on Dash or Shadow Step.

Twisting Blades Rogue is all about quick thinking and split-second decision-making, and paying close attention to your available resources and the cooldowns of your abilities will be key to your success.

Legendary Aspects

Here are some easy-to-get Legendary Aspects to take your Twisting Blades Rogue to the next level.

Bladedancer’s Aspect is an absolute must-have for Twisting Blades Rogue, it causes Twisting Blades to circle around you after returning to you, making Twisting Blades one of our best wave clearing abilities. To get this Aspect in your Codex of Power, visit Jalal’s Vigil in Scosglen.

Twisting Blades Rogue is a very resource intensive build. So you need Ravenous Aspect from Dry Steppes’ Shifting City dungeon. This aspect will cause your Puncture to provide you with 50% more resources after defeating a vulnerable enemy.

Edgemaster’s Aspect is a generic Legendary Aspect that works on most classes as a slight damage boost. With enough resources, you take 10% extra damage, and the more resources you consume, the less damage you take. You can find these Legendary Aspects from Scosglen’s Oldstones Dungeon.

Aspect of the Umbral is another useful resource generation aspect that will provide 1 additional resource for each enemy to which we apply Crowd Control effect. Our Puncture slows down every enemy we hit, and our Twisting Blades stun enemies. So 1 extra resource increases over time.

Ghostwalker Aspect increases movement speed after becoming unstoppable. For Twisting Blades Rogue, this is every time we shadow step an enemy. We can get this aspect from Broken Bulwark in Scosglen.

Vampiric Powers

Vampiric Powers in Season 2 adds so much utility for wave clearing and damage if you choose correctly.

• Hemomancy: Increases staggering wave clearing damage every 4 seconds while also slightly increasing our survivability.
• Moonrise: Gives us extra attack speed and extra movement speed, which is perfect for Rogue’s play style.
• Ravenous: Based on our extra movement speed, Ravenous can gain higher attack speed.
• Undying: This Powers pairs perfectly with all of our attack speeds, allowing us to heal whenever we use a skill.
• Prey on the Weak: Boost vulnerable damage.

Twisting Blades Rogue upgrade build in Diablo 4 provides a balanced combination of Crowd Control, Damage Output, and Survivability. Whether you’re a newbie or an experienced player, this guide will help you get through Season 2 efficiently and make your trip to Sanctuary an exciting experience.