Diablo 4 Rogue Build - Marksman (Lvl 70+)
Jun. 24, 2023Diablo 4 Rogue Build – Marksman (Lvl 70+)
Diablo 4 Rogue Build – Marksman: In this Diablo 4RogueBuild, I’ll show you how to play a LvL 70+ Marksman Rogue that’s aimed at World Tier 4. If you are looking for a Build that focuses on the use ofRapid Fireand is an evolution of the Freezing Rain and Cold Archer Rapid Fire Builds, then thisDiablo 4 Marksman Rogue Build Guideis for you!
So generally, what’s changed from the previous version of thisDiablo IV Buildis that even though I’m still using Cold, you’re free to use whichever element you want, whether it be Poison or Shadow. The focus here is really more onCritical Strike DamageandVulnerable Damageas well as how to get a lot of damage out of Rapid Fire. And then your chosen element is the icing on the cake.
Every time you attack an enemy, you’re going to apply Vulnerable for 3 seconds. What’s great about this is you’ll be gaining access to theImproved Rapid Fireupgrade in order to gain 15 Energy back every time you hit a Vulnerable target. As such, you won’t need to use any Basic Skill on this Build plus, you won’t encounter Energy management issues. You also don’t have to make use of any Equipment to further boost your Energy regeneration as a result. So you’re free to fire at will with Rapid Fire.
Another good way to amplify your Vulnerable Damage is by using a Crossbow because this damage type comes with it by default. If you’re using a Bow, like myself though, make sure to get thisStaton it. Additionally, you’ll also want to look for Critical Strike Damage, Core Skill Damage, and ideally, Dexterity. When it comes to your Melee Weapons, Swords are preferable over Daggers to give you that Critical Strike Damage multiplier, Damage to Distant Enemies, and more Dexterity. On your Jewelry, at least on your Rings, you can haveCritical Strike Chanceto help boost your damage together with Critical Strike Damage and Vulnerable Damage.
Should your Vulnerability be down if you didn’t kill enemies within the 3-second timeframe, you can hitConcealment. You’ll be swapping to theCountering Concealmentupgrade as it gives you a guaranteedCritical Strikewhen you come out of Concealment. So if you can’t finish off anElitein time, pop this Skill to not only grant more Energy but also to make you invisible for a couple of seconds. And then follow through with your Imbuement Skill to go to town and finish them off with 6 more seconds of Vulnerability. If they’re not yet dead, you can activateRain of Arrowswith Concealment to reactivate the cycle of applying Vulnerable on these stronger targets.
Once you hit Tier IV you’ll want to start thinking about min/maxing to get the most out of your Build, and that starts with Skills. Thanks toParagon Boardsand to the increasedEquipmentaffixes, you’ll be able to bypass most of the restrictions you previously faced while leveling up. I also won’t get too deep into Skills, as you most probably know how they work by now.
For the Diablo 4 Rogue Build – Marksman, you’re going to selectPreparationas the Specialization. This makes it so that every 100 Energy you spend reduces your Ultimate’s cooldown by 4 seconds, and using that same Ultimate resets the cooldowns of the rest of your Skills.
Equipment is the most important part of any Endgame Build, and It’s important to understand that it’s a long-term goal. You won’t have all Paragon Boards available right away, and getting all uniques will probably take a lot of farming, so try to useLegendary Aspectsto adjust to your needs while you farm levels and better gear.
I’ll divide the Equipment into different slots, so it’s easier to understand what you should be using and what affixes you should be looking for. Remember that unique equipment has fixed affixes and powers, so if you are using one, you might need to re-slot a Legendary Aspect into a different piece.
Another important thing to notice is that, when looking for stats, you’ll want to make sure you are fulfilling your Paragon Rare Node requirements. Some rare nodes have very high requirements, and equipment is what allows you to fulfill them. These bonuses often double the rare node effect so, for example, getting an Equipment piece with +100Dexteritymight unlock one or more Node bonuses, giving you a massive bonus as a result.
Affixes
Unique Equipment
Legendary Aspect
Aspect of Siphoned Victuals: This makes it so that damaging Vulnerable enemies with a Core Skill has up to a 20% chance to give you a healing potion, which happens all the time.
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Aspect of the Protector: This is useful if you want to get some more damage protection.
Affixes
These affixes are great for the Marksman Diablo 4 Rogue Build because you don’t use Imbued Skills all the time.
Affixes
Unique Equipment
Grasp of Shadow: This makes it so that your Shadow Clone Damage is increased, which helps sometimes because of the proc of Shadow Clone but otherwise, we’re not really using it. And the Grasp of Shadow provides you with +3 Ranks to Core Skills, specifically Rapid Fire. The ability on Grash of Shadow is that upon damaging a Vulnerable enemy with a Marksman or Cutthroat Skill, you have a chance to summon a Shadow Clone that mimics your attack. This is really good for this D4 Rogue Build since you damage Vulnerable targets all the time.
Legendary Aspect
Aspect of Disobedience: This basically increases your Armor.
Affixes
Legendary Aspect
Frostbitten Aspect: This makes it so thatChilledenemies that get hit by mySmoke Grenadehave a chance to beFrozen.Also, you deal up to 25% Critical Strike Damage against Frozen targets so it’s great for this Cold Marksman Diablo IV Rogue Build.
Affixes
Unique Equipment
Penitent Greaves: This makes it so that you basically create a Frost trail when you walk to Chill targets and increase your damage against them. The Penitent Greaves alternative allows you to CC them easily.
Legendary Aspect
Aspect of Repeating: This makes it so that when you use Rapid Fire, it has a 90% chance to ricochet, meaning that you’re going to get 5 ricochets if you fire it.
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Rapid Aspect: This boosts the Attack Speed of your Basic Skills.
Affixes
Unique Equipment
Windforce: This makes it so that Lucky Hit: Hits with this weapon have up to a 10-20% chance to deal double damage and Knock Back the target. Windforce is an alternative here so you’ll want to put your Aspect of Repeating on the Amulet if you get this. It’ll have a lower ricochet rate though. However, if you haveWord of Hakanlike I do, then it’s best to imprint the Aspect of Repeating on a Ring.
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Skyhunter: This makes it so that the first direct damage you deal to an enemy is a guaranteed Critical Strike. If you have maximum stacks of thePrecision Key Passivewhen you cast the Skill, you gain 15-25 Energy once per cast. The problem with Windforce or Skyhunter is that the Vulnerable Damage of your Crossbow will most likely outperform it. Although, Skyhunter has Critical Strike Damage at least but you need to experiment with these to see how much damage they actually do.
Legendary Aspect
Vengeful Aspect: Making an enemy Vulnerable has up to a 50% chance to grant a 3% Critical Strike Chance up to 9%. This happens all the time so you’ll at least get a 9% Critical Strike Chance.
Affixes
Legendary Aspect
Accelerating Aspect: This gives your Diablo 4 Rogue Build – Marksman 25% increased Attack Speed when you critically strike so you’ll be able to fire Rapid Shots faster.
Affixes
Affixes
Unique Equipment
Word of Hakan: You basically have all Imbuements when using Rain of Arrows. But if you’re usingShadow Clone, you can replace it with something else.
Legendary Aspect
Smiting Aspect: This makes it so that you have up to a 20% Critical Strike Chance against enemies below 35% Health. Also, while you’re over 80% Health, your Crowd Control Duration is up to 40%, which is great for this Frost Marksman D4 Rogue Build.
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Aspect of Corruption: If you’re not playing a Frost Build, I recommend replacing the Smiting Aspect with the Aspect of Corruption. This makes it so that your Imbuement Skill Effects have up to 40% increased potency against Vulnerable enemies. So if you’re using Shadow, this is going to him them harder and if you’re using Poison, you’ll be able to deal more damage on Poisoned targets.
Affixes
Legendary Aspect
Edgemaster’s Aspect: This makes it so that when you have higher resources, you’re going to deal more damage, which happens all the time.
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Aspect of Inner Calm: This gives you up to a 30% damage increase the longer you stand still so it’s a great way to boost your damage.
Affixes
For gems, you’ll want to slot:
When it comes to Paragon Boards, we are mainly going to aim for Rare Nodes that increase our damage output, as well as Glyphs that synergize with our Build. Please note that the order in which I get the Nodes is just a general guideline, and you can adjust it to your current needs.
So you’re going to employ a similar strategy that you’ve done in the World Tier 3 version of this D4 Rogue Build by taking theExploit Glyph, which has been moved to the first Paragon Board. Additionally, you’ll be unlocking every singleStrength Nodeto further boost your Vulnerable Damage together with Damage to Injured Enemies, which are those with below 35%Health.
On your Second Paragon Board, you’ll takeExploit Weakness, which makes it so that when you deal damage to a Vulnerable enemy, they take increased damage from you. Apart from this Legendary Node, what you’ll really want are the Rare Node Passives likeArtifice. This lets you have increased Vulnerable Damage, and if you have 270 Strength, you’re going to get additional 20% Vulnerable Damage. It also gives 10 Dexterity, which is fantastic.
Hunter Killeris also really good as it raises your damage to Elites as well as yourMovement Speedafter killing them. If you have up to 345 Dexterity, you’ll gain an extra 16% damage against them.
The Glyph you’re going to place on your Second Paragon Board is determined by the Imbuement you’ve selected. For instance, if you’ve chosen Cold like I have then slotting theControl Glyphis what you should do. I get up to 110% damage against CCed enemies at Level 15 when IFreezethem. And then you’ll be able to deal increased damage thanks to theFrigid Finessepassive.
If you’re going withPoisonorShadow Imbuement, then I suggest getting theCombat Glyphto considerably amplify your Critical Strike Damage with your Core Skill. But you’ll need to get this up to Level 15 to take advantage of its bonus effect.
For the next board, you’re going to takeTricks of Trade. I don’t want this Legendary Node but there are a lot of good Rare Node clusters here. First isHavoc, which increases your Critical Strike Damage and Physical Damage, which means all the shots you fire that aren’t Imbued. And you use Rapid Fire frequently imbued because you’re just applying Vulnerable while killing enemies really quickly.
Additionally, there’s theFocused Nodethat grants more damage against Elites, and if you meet the secondary requirement, it’s up to 32% damage! So that’s 64% damage between this and the other nodes from the previous tree.Brawlerisn’t also a bad node since a lot of times when you’re playing solo, you need to deal damage to close targets you just can’t get far enough away from. It even has Damage Reduction to Close Enemies to help keep you alive. And then up in the corner, there’sRanger, which raises your Damage to Distant Enemies while lowering the damage you take from them. This is great because anything outside of the melee range is considered distant.
For the glyph socket, this is going to be determined by your playstyle. So since I’m playing Cold, then I’ll place the Combat Glyph there because I have Control on my second board. However, if you have the Shadow Imbuement, you’d probably want to takeInfusion, which makes it so that Imbued Skills deal increased damage. Because this is Shadow Damage, you really need to get it as high as you can with Shadow Attacks in order to cause those explosions and cause chain reactions.
Alternatively, for Poison Imbuement, you’ll have to slotBane, which makes it so that you deal increased Poison Damage and have a chance to deal double the amount of Poison Damage.
Remember that attacking enemies and then applying Vulnerable will only give you a 3-second window so you want to try to burst them down as quickly as possible. This means that if you start hitting a target, be sure to focus on it. You don’t want to try and hit everything, otherwise, you’ll only end up weakening them. What will happen here is the Vulnerable effect will wear off so you’ll have a hard time killing enemies.
So that wraps up the Diablo 4 Rogue Build – Marksman. I hope I showed examples of how you can change the Build.
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Is this build capable of beating bosses quickly like the ball lightning sorcerer?
Any chance to get new screen shots of the paragon board for this build?
So I have been playing around with the paragon board and found a way to squeeze more dmg out of it (though this board COULD be improved still, so please if you see a better way, let me know)
The board in question I have right on this link (easy tool to share builds IMO):[link removed due to new account]
