Highest Damage ROGUE Build After LEVEL 50+ ｜ Diablo 4 Best Rogue DPS Build (Level 50+)

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So I

want to talk about the best highest damage

DPS build for a rogue in Diablo 4.

I've been working very hard leveling up my

rogue, trying to level up as quickly as

possible, and after experimenting with

several builds, I think I found probably

the best build that I can come up with.

Sorry if it's not 100% perfect. It's kind

of a weird build in the way that we're not

going to use any basic attacks. I tried a

lot of builds using Shadow Imbuement,

Poison Imbuement, Cold Imbuement, traps,

no traps. I tried range archery stuff,

and I tried a lot of different things,

and this is the best version of DPS

damaging build I can come up with for the

Rogue. So I hope you enjoy it. Okay, so

first of all, basic skills. You might be

wondering why we only have 2 points in a

basic skill, and that's because we're not

actually going to use any basic skill

because they all kind of suck. I tried

maxing out Invigorating Strike, I tried

maxing out Blade Shift. They both don't

really do a lot of damage and they require

you to stand still in front of the enemy,

which means you're going to get hit in the

face. And as a rogue, you're not a very

tanky character. You don't really want to

be standing still getting hit in the face.

So you got also these ranger archer kind

of basic attacks too, which I tried for a

bit. I did try Heartseeker as kind of like

a way to pull enemies, or whilst I'm

kiting to do some ranged DPS. But in the

end, I realized actually it's better to

just take it off the toolbar so you have

one extra slot for a different ability,

which is actually a lot more useful than

just a rubbish basic skill that barely

does anything. So I just put 2 points in

Heartseeker because you need 2 points in

something. And then we get 5 out of 5

Twisting Blades. Max that out, that's an

important skill. And then we go down to

Agility. We don't really have any Agility

apart from 1 point in Dash, and that's

just so we have some mobility. We need to

be able to dash around, so we're gonna—

going to plunge Twisting Blades into a

couple enemies and then dash through the

mob so that the returning blades do

maximum damage. It doesn't really matter

how much damage Dash does or the little

bonuses you get from Dash. I did get the

Enhanced Dash, so we get an increased

critical strike damage bonus, and it's

just there so we have some

maneuverability. It's not really there for

damage. Okay, so we put a lot of points

into Subterfuge, max out Concealment.

That's very useful and important for

evading enemies. We're going to be

basically spamming all of our cooldowns,

doing a few Twisting Blades, and then

getting the eff out of there, and then

just kiting them around whilst they take

poison damage. And if we really need to

hide, we'll have to Concealment to reset

the fights in case, you know, like a

really tough boss is chasing us and we

would probably die without Concealment.

And then we're going to get Poison Trap,

very important for this build. We're going

to be placing traps, poison pools, death

traps, so we're going to be maxing out

Poison Trap and also maxing out Agile.

So cooldown— using a cooldown increases

your dodge chance, and also whilst we're

stealth, we get 9% maximum life healed.

So if we're taking a beating, we'll be

able to conceal, regenerate some health,

and survive a bit longer. And also we have

deal 18% increased damage to healthy and

injured enemies— extra damage, great— and

9% increased damage to vulnerable enemies.

Okay, next, very important skills. We have

maxed out Poison Imbuement. That's going

to give us 168% poison damage

applied to the enemies that get hit by it.

And we're going to enhance Poison

Imbuements and Mix Poison Imbuements and

also max out the poison damage buffs with

Deadly Venom. And I've got 1 point here

because it's from gear. I didn't really

get 1 point. So the thing I noticed

between the different imbuements is that

Poison does the highest damage and damage

over time. Shadow is for evading, so

there's some abilities. I mean, there's

some gear that lets you evade and

dodge through an enemy that's being

damaged by Shadow, and then you get

stealth. So if you want to carry on

re-stealthing every time you evade,

then Shadow would be the way to go.

That's like evasive maneuvers. But we want

to do max damage. Chilling and cold

imbuements basically slow down the enemy

and also give you a kind of barrier. If

you have the right gear, you can dodge

through a chilled enemy, and it could give

you a barrier if you have proper aspects.

So you could chill and freeze your

enemies, but still the poison is the best

damage from what I've seen so far. And

then here we have Death Trap. Death Trap's

really good because we're going to lay a

Death Trap and then chuck in a Poison Trap

inside of the Death Trap, and the Death

Trap is going to pull in enemies all

around it and they'll get stuck in it

whilst also taking damage from Poison

Trap. And then we also have, uh, 3 out of

3 Trap Mastery. We're going to gain 12%

increased crit strike chance against

vulnerable crowd control enemies for 4

seconds. And also, after using an

ultimate, we'll get some energy back. And

then for our passive, key passive, we're

going to go for Exposure, which will deal—

dealing direct damage to an enemy affected

by a trap has a 25% chance to reduce

cooldowns of traps or drop a cluster stun

grenade. Or yeah, it does some nice things

when you use traps, which we're going to

be using a lot of. Oh, okay, so for

aspects, on the head we have the immune

bubble you get early on in the game.

Pretty basic but very useful. You get 5

seconds of immunity. On our chest we get a

healing buff that heals us for up to 126

life per second depending on how many

enemies are around us. On our hands we

have an 8% chance to stun distant enemies,

enemies. So if you're getting shot at by

archers or magic NPCs, they'll get stunned

and be damaged a little bit. And this one,

we have the barrier on our legs, so every

time we damage an elite, we get 1,300

damage absorbed. That happens every 30

seconds. Very useful because we're going

to be stepping into the middle of huge

packs of enemies, laying down traps,

putting down some Twisting Blades, and to

have that barrier protecting us whilst

we're doing our stuff a few seconds before

we get out is very useful. And then we

have when you hit a crowd-controlled

enemy, 30% chance for the crowd control

effect to spread. Very good because we're

going to be doing a lot of crowd control

like knockdowns. Our Poison Trap, it's

going to knock down all of the enemies

that get caught into it. And on our bow,

we have a 38% increased crit strike chance

against injured enemies. And whilst you

are healthy, you gain 76% increased 76%

increased crowd control duration. On our

amulet, we have when you cast the

imbuement, you will trigger an explosion

around you for 470 damage. So that's

pretty good. If we apply poison on our

blades, it's going to make a little

explosion. And on our ring,

we have an imbuement skill effect has 20%

increased potency against vulnerable

enemies, so increases the poison blades.

And then Twisting Blades— this is really

good because it makes your Twisting Blades

orbit around you once they return to you,

and that will deal 13% of the damage. And

that's pretty good for bonus AOE. Your

blades will return to you, they'll spin

around you, you can run back into the pack

to do extra AOE damage. And then this is

my favorite aspect. On our main blade,

we have critical strikes with

poison-imbued skills have up to a 10%

chance create a toxic pool that deals

nearly 3,000 damage over a few seconds.

And also, while standing in the pool,

your poison imbuement skill has no

cooldown and no charge limit. So it's only

a 10% chance of it happening, but it

happens quite often, and you'll get this

3,000 damage AoE pool plus your poison

trap plus the death trap. Anything

standing in these traps will just get

completely destroyed and annihilated. And

then on our second skill, using on the

second weapon, using an agility skill

reduces the cooldown of your next

subterfuge skill by 20%, and using a

subterfuge skill increases damage of your

next agility skill. So we're going to be

doing— do we have any agility skills?

Hold on. Uh, yeah, Dash is an agility

skill. So when we use Dash, it's going to

reduce the cooldown of our concealments,

poison traps. What else is Subterfuge?

Yeah, poison trap and concealment cooldown

will be reduced when we do a dash, so

that's pretty good. So we could start off

with stealth. So what I'm going to do is

first place a poison trap and then a death

trap. The poison trap is going to knock

them down and the death trap will suck

them into it, and the death trap also

resets our cooldowns, and then we can

re-stealth put another poison trap down,

focus on the big enemies. Little enemies

will come and follow you, and then do some

Twisted Blades, dash out, let the blades

return to you, and just basically mop up

the remaining mobs. They should mostly be

dead by now. Now the problem with this

build is, like I said earlier, we don't

have a basic attack and we're very

dependent on the cooldowns and having

energy. And as you may know, rogues run

out of energy pretty quickly and pretty

often So whilst you have no energy and

you're waiting for cooldowns to, to cool

down, you can't really do anything because

you don't have any basic attacks. And

basically all you can do is just run away

and try and kite them a bit whilst you

wait for some energy to recharge and for

your cooldowns to cool down. So again

here, what you want to do is stealth and

then first put down a poison trap. Death

Trap, Poison Trap again, re-stealth,

and maybe do some Twisted Blades, dash

through them a few times, and that should

get you through a lot of the packs of mobs

in this game. Um, yeah, we're doing a

tier— what is it— Tier 11 dungeon, and

we're doing pretty well so far. I still

haven't died, mainly relying on concealing

traps, kiting them around. So we can redo

another death trap, another poison trap to

finish them off. Vanish again to

hide, get rid of these blood blisters.

The annoying thing about the nightmare

mode of dungeons is these stupid things

like the blood blisters, or there's one

dungeon where they keep throwing lightning

at you and you have to hide in the bubble

before the lightning strikes. It was so

annoying because I have to save my

concealment to hide in the bubble.

Because when you go into the bubble, the

enemies chase you into the bubble and you

can't really run away because you have to

stay in the bubble. So that was very

frustrating. So like these mobs here,

there's not many of them, but we can still

do the trap strategy and it will sort them

out. It's kind of annoying because to pick

off these mobs one by one, because we

don't have a basic skill It can be a bit

time-consuming. This build is basically

for big packs of enemies and

also bosses and elites.

Spamming the traps on the bosses and

elites does do a lot of damage as well,

but in this dungeon there doesn't seem to

be huge packs of mobs that I can show.

Oh, maybe here I can gather them around,

group them up, put down some traps.

The bubble immunity also helps a lot.

Sometimes you do nearly die because you

are pretty fragile. You don't really have

many tanking capabilities because we're

focusing on damage here.

Um, but yeah, the barrier, the immune

bubble, and being able to dash in and out,

vanish as well. Also the healing from the

vanish or the concealment. I call it

vanish because it's basically like vanish

from World of Warcraft, which I'm used to.

It just basically resets the fight, lets

you run away. Maybe this guy would be a

good example.

Yeah, I love it when you do a death trap,

poison trap, and then another poison trap,

and then just re-stealth and run away.

But the thing is, look, now my cooldowns

are all cooling down. I can't really do

anything apart from run in circles.

And now we're kind of screwed because this

is dashed into a huge room— small room

with loads of mobs. But this is the good

thing about this build, it's very

versatile. You do have good survivability

as long as you are nimble and maneuver

around a lot.

Oh,

try in this room.

And then some Twisted Blades, dash through

them a few times. Another Poison Trap,

another Death Trap. You see the dashes

really— oh, we died.

Well, I did lag out a bit, so it's not

really my fault, but we did a Death Trap,

Poison Trap, and I don't know why, but

Death Trap cooldown just seems to reset

itself, and I did another Death Trap. So

that's my damage build for the Rogue, I

don't think it's as good as the Barbarian.

I was doing like 60,000 crits on my

Barbarian at the same level, whereas I

don't think I've ever seen a 10k crit on

my Rogue. They do— I think the Rogues do

more damage, but the numbers are smaller

because it's like small amounts of damage

rapidly applied over time.