Diablo 4 - Stealth Assassin Rogue Build

So today I want to show you my stealth

assassin rogue build that focuses on

concealing and vanishing and evading your

enemies whilst laying traps to slow them

down and do damage over time, and also not

really getting hit a lot whilst you kite

your enemies around the area. I think this

build works well against large groups of

enemies because you can do a lot of AOE

damage and have good crowd control. It's

not amazing against bosses because against

bosses you need to be focusing on doing a

lot of damage against usually one target

that has a lot of health, and you don't

really want to be depending on stuns or

slows because that's not really going to

help you when you fight against a boss.

But most of the bosses do spawn a lot of

trash mobs during certain phases, and it's

good to have traps and AoE and concealment

skills to be able to deal with the trash

mobs. So the basic principle of this build

is we're going to be able to put down some

traps and also use this trap, which

actually traps your enemies into this

space. Place. And whilst the traps— you

can run around and then you can do a

vanish like this whilst you wait for your

cooldowns to reset. And then you can just

spam them again like that. Lagging a

little bit, but that's just because the

server is kind of laggy. But I think you

get the point. And then you can like kite

them around whilst they take damage from

your traps. The thing I like about this

build is you can almost always be able to

vanish and do the concealment thing.

Which does this, makes you disappear and

enemies don't see you anymore. And then

you can attack them with some bonus

damage, and you have to wait about 10

seconds until you can use it again, which

is not too long. Usually it's very helpful

during a boss. It's also really useful

when you just want to get from point A to

B in a map and you keep getting attacked

by enemies and you don't really want to

fight them. So you can just vanish and do

a few dashes and roll through them, and

you can get from point A to B pretty

quickly without being stopped by too many

mobs, which is really convenient when

going up against difficult boss fights.

It was so useful having the ability to

just vanish every 10 seconds and disappear

when I need to wait for cooldowns to

reset, or I need a bit of a breather

because I'm taking too much damage and I

just want to step back a bit, hide a bit,

and vanish. And it was really great

because I can just do damage apply some

traps or poisons, and then vanish again,

wait for some cooldowns to reset, and then

go back in for more damage.

Okay, so this is my favorite build for my

Rogue so far, focusing on stealth and

traps and AoE. So first of all, we have 5

out of 5 Invigorating Strike. This is your

basic attack that you're going to be

spamming a lot when you don't have any

energy. It just does like basic damage and

increases energy regen by 20%. And I also

got Enhanced Invigorating Strike and also

Primary Invigorating Strike, which just

gives some bonuses to the skill. And then

secondly, the secondary attack we'll be

using a lot is Twisted Blades. And this is

really good because it impales the enemy

with your blades, and then your blades

come flying out of them and boomerang back

to your character wherever you are. So the

great thing is any enemies that get hit by

the boomeranging— the boomeranging blades

will take damage as well. So what you

usually do is you'll stab one enemy and

then you'll dash in the other way, and

then the flying daggers will then hit all

of the other enemies that are now chasing

you like this. Watch, you see? Well,

hopefully they get caught in the flight

path of your daggers. And then you do

that. And I'm lagging a lot, I don't have

any potions, so I might die, but I think

you get the point anyway. So after

Twisting Blades, which is really powerful,

we also have 4 out of 5 in

Dash. Now Dash is really good because you

can dash out of the way of enemies like

this, like that, and it'll do damage, and

your blades will follow you when you're

dashing. So dashing is really useful to be

mobile and stay out of harm's way, and I

also upgraded that for extra bonus damage

and stuff like that. So next we have

Concealment, which is basically like

Vanish from World of Warcraft. It just

makes you disappear and you enter stealth

mode for about 4 seconds, and it's really

useful if you want to disengage from the

enemy. You also get 30% movement speed and

it breaks any anything that's restricting

your movement speed once you activate it.

And I got the enhancement so you get 40

energy when you enter Concealment, and the

skill that breaks Concealment will always

be a critical hit. So that's pretty good

as well. So your first attack after you

exit Concealment will be a guaranteed

critical. And then I also have Poison

Trap. I really like Poison Trap because it

slows enemies and applies a lot of damage

to them whilst they're in Poison Trap.

And then next I have Death Trap as my

ultimate skill. This is another really

good trap, does a lot of damage. It also

sucks in the enemies and keeps them inside

of the trap whilst they take damage. And

for my ultimate key passive, I have

Exposure. Now this is good for reducing

the cooldowns on your trap skills, and

since we have 2 traps, it's pretty useful.

And also drops a cluster of exploding stun

grenades that deals damage and also stuns

the, the enemy. So that's really useful

since we're going to be using a lot of

traps. I didn't get any poisons or the

chill thing, shadow thing, because I don't

really want to be spending too much time

imbuing my weapons and getting into melee

combat when we're going up against elites

and bosses. We don't really want to be hit

because we're not a tank, we're not a

barbarian. We need to place our traps,

hide in the shadows, and run around, and

then maybe do a few Twisting Blades

attacks here and there if we feel like

it's safe enough. But we're not really

going to be in the thick it most of the

time. We're gonna be running around

circles spamming traps and stuff like

that. So as you can see in this gameplay

footage, I kind of got myself into a

pickle. I entered this dungeon which was

about— I think most of the enemies were 5

or 6 levels above my level, and I was way

outmatched, way outnumbered. But I managed

to clear the dungeon eventually using my

traps and my sneaky skills. So I just lay

a poison trap and then I run around, then

I do a few stabs and then I run around,

around and And then I just try and do some

damage, run away, and do vanishing

stuff to try and keep myself safe. It took

a very long time and it was kind of

cheesy, but I managed to clear this entire

area just by running around in circles,

which I don't know if that's like a flaw

in the game. Maybe it's like bad game

design if you can just run around in

circles and kite the enemy like this,

and they have a real hard time trying to

keep up with you and actually catch you.

And you can just do a few attacks, dash

away, and then if things get really hairy,

then just vanish, and they'll just stand

around waiting for you to come back. And

then you can wait for your cooldowns to

recharge. It's kind of a silly way of

playing the game compared to other

classes, but I feel like a lot of classes

play like this in Diablo, where you just

do a lot of damage, dash out of the way,

snare them so they're slowed, and then you

just kite around them, and then you wait

for your cooldowns to reset. And then you

do the same thing again. I've seen this

kind of gameplay with basically every

class in the game. You dash in, spam load

of AOE, dash out, run off to the next

crowd of enemies, spam them with some

damage and AOE, and then basically run

away and hide until you reset your

cooldowns and do a bit of healing, stuff

like that. I don't know if this is good

gameplay. Feels kind of like you're

cheating the game because you're I don't

know how the game's supposed to be played,

but you can play like this, and it does

make a lot of sense because why would you

just stand there in front of the enemy

taking hits when you could do AOE damage

and poison damage and just run away and

not get hit? So that's my Assassin Rogue

build. Hope you liked it.