Alternative best Rogue builds in Diablo 4: Leveling & endgame in Season 1

Is our best build guide not Roguish enough for you? Then here are some alternative best Rogue builds in Diablo 4, including both leveling and endgame in Season 1.

Diablo 4 has lots of impressive builds for the Rogue, one of the original three Diablo classes who returns in Diablo 4 to show the Amazon and Demon Hunter classes how things are done. While we’ve already covered what we believe to be the best Rogue build in Diablo 4 for both leveling and endgame, below we’ve included some alternative builds that are also worth your time.

This way, you’ll have a choice when it comes to picking the best builds for the Rogue in Diablo 4, especially when it comes to choosing a leveling build, or a build to tackle the endgame – which is where the game really kicks in. Here’s our alternative best Rogue builds in Diablo 4 Season 1.

Contents

• Best Diablo 4 Rogue build for leveling
• Best Diablo 4 Rogue build for endgame

Best Diablo 4 Rogue build for leveling

Diablo 4’s Rogue has lots of potent builds to use in the current meta, but we found the Penetrating Shot Rogue to be among the best when it comes to leveling in Season 1.

Here are the skills you’ll need to select to craft this powerful build.

Level	Skill
2	Forceful Arrow
3	Enhanced Forceful Arrow
4	Penetrating Shot
5	Enhanced Penetrating Shot
6	Advanced Penetrating Shot
7	Fundamental Forceful Arrow
8	Dash
9	Enhanced Dash
10	Disciplined Dash
11	Penetrating Shot
12	Penetrating Shot
13	Dark Shroud
14	Enhanced Dark Shroud
15	Subverting Dark Shroud
16	Penetrating Shot
17	Penetrating Shot
18	Shadow Imbuement
19	Poison Imbuement
20	Shadow Crash
21	Consuming Shadow
22	Enhanced Shadow Imbuement
23	Blended Shadow Imbuement
24	‍Enhanced Poison Imbuement
25	Mixed Poison Imbuement
26	Adrenaline Rush
27	Haste
28	Haste
29	Haste
30	Precision Imbuement
31	Precision Imbuement
32	Precision Imbuement
33	Exploit
34	Exploit
35	Precision
36	Exploit
37	Malice
38	Malice
39	Malice
40	Weapon Mastery
41	Weapon Mastery
42	Weapon Mastery
43	Concussive
44	Concussive
45	Concussive
46	‍Poison Imbuement
47	‍Poison Imbuement
48	‍Poison Imbuement
49	‍Poison Imbuement
50	Paragon begins
1 – Renown	Stutter Step
2 – Renown	Stutter Step
3 – Renown	Stutter Step
4 – Renown	Innervation
5 – Renown	‍Innervation
6 – Renown	Innervation
7 – Renown	Rugged
8 – Renown	Reactive Defense
9 – Renown	Reactive Defense
10 – Renown	Reactive Defense

This build is a great one for cutting down Lilith’s minions in the main campaign, but once you enter the endgame, it may be time for a build with more longevity.

Best Caged Hearts

Here are the best Caged Hearts to use for this build in Season 1:

• Caged Heart of the Vile Apothecary
• Caged Heart of Revenge
• ‍Caged Heart of the Tempting Fate
• ‍Caged Heart of the Prudent Heart
• ‍Caged Heart of the Clipshot
• Caged Heart of Cluster Munitions

Legendary Aspects

While there are many great Legendary Aspects in the Codex of Power that will help this build, there are three in particular that you need to prioritize for this build. Here’s what they are and where to find them:

Offensive Aspect of the Expectant – (Underroot, Scosglen)
‍Rapid Offensive Aspect – (Buried Halls, Dry Steppes)
‍Trickshot Offensive Aspect – (Bastion of Faith, Hawezar)

Each one will essentially buff your damage in various ways and make your Rogue build even more deadly.

We’d recommend not imprinting these Aspects on your weapons, as you’re likely to replace these many times on your Leveling journey.

Best Rogue endgame build

Once you get past level 50 and have seen the ending of Diablo 4, things will then change as you’re into the endgame. This means the build you used to reach this point may no longer be sufficient, and to really make the most of the endgame content, you’ll need to respec to an endgame build. This is optional, but the switching out your skills to the one below will place you close to the top of the Season 1 meta.

Here’s one of the best endgame Rogue builds in Diablo 4 Season 1 currently, the Death Trap Rogue – and the skills you’ll need to focus on:

Skills

Twisting Blades

Puncture

Shadow Step

Dash

Poison Trap

Death Trap

Paragon Board

• Starting board (activating Skillfull, Lawless, Resilience)
• Deadly Ambush board (Activating Trapper, Engineering, Cunning)
• Cheap Shot board (Activating Devious, Wiles, Safeguard, Oppress)
• Tricks of the Trade board (Activating Brawler, Focused, Havoc)
• No Witnessess board (Activating Knowledge, Training, Exploit)

Glyphs

Here are the Glyphs we’d recommend activating as your work through the Paragon board:

• Exploit
• Combat
• Diminish
• Turf
• Closer

Best Caged Hearts

Here are the best Caged Hearts to use for this Rogue build in Season 1:

• Caged Heart of the Vile Apothecary
• Caged Heart of Dark Dance
• ‍Caged Heart of Malignant Pact
• ‍Caged Heart of the Revenge

Legendary Aspects

As this is an endgame build, it pays to unlock as many Legendary Aspects for the class as possible. Try to unlock the following Aspects as soon as possible in Season 1 to take advantage of their buffs, as each will have its own use within an endgame build:

• Aspect of Branching Volleys in Shadowed Plunge (Hawezar)
• ‍Rapid Aspect in Buried Halls (Dry Stepps)
• ‍Eluding Aspect in Caldera (Fractured Peaks)
• ‍Disobedience in Halls of the Damned (Kehjistan)
• ‍Edgemaster’s in Oldstones (Scosglen)
• ‍Might in Dark Ravine (Dry Steppes)
• ‍Cheat’s in Luban’s Rest (Scosglen)
• ‍Aspect of the Expectant in Underroot (Scosglen)
• ‍Corruption in Renegade’s Retreat (Kehjistan)
• ‍Vengeful Aspect in Inferno (Kehjistan)
• Mangler’s (Unlocked through farming Helltides & Nightmare Dungeons)
• Umbrous Aspect (Available from Season 1 Journey, Chapter 4)

Endgame item build

Here are the items you should aim to equip for your endgame Rogue build in Diablo 4 Season 1:

Item name	Item type
‍Cheat’s Adventurer’s Helm	Helm
Steadfast Tunic of Disobedience	Chest Armor
Steadfast Gloves of Retribution	Gloves
Steadfast Pants of Might	Pants
Ravager’s Superior Boots	Boots
Bladedancer’s Warcaster	Main Hand
Gladius of Synergy x2	Offhand x2
Edgemaster’s Amulet	Amulet
Accelerating Ring	Ring 1
Band of the Umbral	Ring 2

So there you have it, two more quality Rogue builds for leveling and endgame in Season 1. For more demon-hacking content, check out some of the other Diablo 4 guides we’ve put together for you:

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