Best Rogue build in Diablo 4 Season 5

The best Rogue build in Diablo 4 Season 5 focuses on making Rogues as swift as possible while ensuring that they deal high damage numbers to most of the bosses in the game.

Rogues in general, are a class, that can deal both melee and ranged attacks, and have a variety of traps at their disposal. So, here’s a list of all the skills and weapons that you need to create the strongest Rogue to have walked Sanctuary.

Best Diablo 4 Barrage Rogue leveling build

Of the three class specializations that you get to select for the Rogue, you need to pick Combo Points. At max stack, it’ll cause you to fire more arrows whenever you use the Barrage skill.

How to play Barrage Rogue in Diablo 4

Barrage is your main skill here, so you’ll be using it to fire multiple arrows at the enemy. Ideally, you’ll have to build Combo Point stacks with Puncture. Once you’ve got three stacks, you need to trigger your Barrage skill.

The loop is as follows:

Dark Shroud – Puncture (build Combo Points stack) – Poison Imbuement – Barrage – Puncture (build Combo Point stack) – Shadow Imbuement – Barrage

It’s worth noting that you should use Barrage once you’ve got three Combo Points stacks. You can use an Imbuement skill twice, so make sure to use both stacks, before you trigger the other Imbuement skill.

Dark Shroud is your defensive skill here, so keep triggering it whenever you have the chance. For this build to work properly, you’ll have to reposition yourself continuously, so use Dash to get through enemies. It’s also worth noting that Imbuements are applied to Dash too, so make sure to not waste them.

Best Legendary Aspects for Barrage Rogue in Diablo 4 Season 5

This is a very basic setup for this skill, but it should get you through to World Tier 3 easily. After you’ve unlocked your first Paragon Board, you need to start shifting to a stronger Endgame build.

Best Diablo 4 Barrage Rogue endgame build in Season 5

The Barrage Rogue is currently meta in Diablo 4 Season 5, so for the endgame build we’ll be exploring the Barrage Rogue only, but with a different setup.

• Puncture (1)
  • Enhanced Puncture
    • Fundamental Puncture
• Barrage (5)
  • Enhanced Barrage
    • Improved Barrage
• Sturdy (3)
• Siphoning Strikes (1)
• Caltrops (1)
  • Enhanced Caltrops
    • Methodical Caltrops
• Dash (1)
  • Enhanced Dash
    • Methodical Dash
• Smoke Grenade (1)
  • Enhanced Smoke Grenade
    • Countering Smoke Grenade
• Weapon Mastery (3)
• Unstable Elixirs (3)
• Trick Attacks (3)
• Exploit (3)
• Malice (3)
• Cold Imbuement (1)
  • Enhanced Cold Imbuement
    • Mixed Cold Imbuement
• Frigid Finesse
• Innervation (1)
• Second Wind (3)
• Alchemists Fortune (2)
• Precision

The skills mentioned above can be unlocked in no specific order because it takes into account that you’ve already hit level 50. As you make your way to level 100, you’ll get access to various Paragon boards. Here’s the setup that you need to use with this build:

Best Legendary Aspects and Uniques

While this is the optimal Legendary Aspect setup for the Barrage Rogue in Diablo 4 Season 5, it works best with certain Uniques and Mythic Uniques in the game. Here are the ones you need to look out for:

• Crown of Lucion / Harlequin Crest
• Skyhunter
• Condemnation
• The Umbracrux
• Tyrael’s Might
• Ring of Starless Skies

Diablo 4 Barrage Rogue gameplay loop

The gameplay loop her is quite similar to the leveling build, but it’s actually less complicated. Here’s how it looks:

Puncture (stack Combo Points) – Caltrops – Cold Imbuement – Barrage – Puncture (stack Combo Points)

You have two more skills at your disposal here, your namely your Dash and Smoke Grenades. Use the former to get around the map quickly and reposition yourself while damaging the enemy, while the latter will help you daze the enemy and deal some extra damage to them.

As a Rogue, one of your primary source of defense is the Dark Shroud, but we won’t be looking to use it as a skill. Instead, we’ll be using the Umbrous Aspect to continuously pick up Dark Shroud stacks for bonus defense.

Furthermore, when considering the Gems, use Amethyst on your weapons for additional Critical Strike Chance, Diamond on your Jewellery for increased Elemental Resistance, and Ruby on your Armor for increased Maximum Health.