Season 3 Rogue Leveling Build

This is a Season 3 leveling build for Rogue that fashions Shadow Imbued Twisting Blades in Diablo 4 (D4). Read on to learn all the Gear, Skills, Aspects, and Stones that you will need, and how to play the build to level from 1 to 50 for Season 3 (Version 1.3.0).

Twisting Blades Leveling Build Summary

Twisting Blades Leveling Build Pros and Cons
Can Clear Trash Mobs Fast Easy-to-Learn and Adjustable Skill Rotations Mechanically Demanding Build

The highlight of the build is the skill combination which starts with your Shadow Imbuement which you will use to spread shadow damage to enemies or trash mobs with Twisting Blades then move around with your agility skills or evade, follow this up with another Twisting Blades then use another Dash towards trash mobs again. What will happen is that your Twisting Blades will return towards you, damaging the shadow-imbued mobs on their way and causing the mobs to explode and cause shadow damage when they die.

Seneschal Construct Setup

Governing Stone	Tuning Stone
Reconstruct	Fortify Support	Safeguard Support	Duration Support
Lightning Bolt	Arcing Support	Electrocution Support	Swift Support

Most of the suggested Governing and Tuning Stones for this build will be early game rares. Reconstruct provides a decent stream of healing and, when paired with Safeguard Support (Rare) and Fortify Support (Rare), grants Damage Reduction and Fortify.

Lightning Bolt with Arcing Support, Electrocution Support, will provide your Rogue with an alternative means for mob damage, while Swift Support provides additional attack speed.

How to Level Governing and Tuning Stones

Skill Progression

This build will follow the standard setup of maximizing Combo Points before each skill rotation. All skills active skills will have their synergies that complement the passive skills in this build as well.

• Shadow Imbuement: The core of the build that will imbue your Twisting Blades, providing additional damage and shadow blight to enemies that allows for chain explosions against mobs.
• Countering Poison Trap: Allows you to knock down enemies which will also synergize with the Concussive, giving you additional critical strike chance that will synergize with Precision Imbuement.
• Dash: This is your panic button when things do not go your way with each encounter. This is also a good source of secondary damage, which is empowered by the Shadowslicer Aspect.
• Methodical Shadow Step: This is your opener against mob groups that have elites or annoying ranged types. The stun from this skill synergizes with the Aspect of Retribution, giving you a significant damage boost for your opening Twisting Blades. If used against an elite, you will also receive a barrier for increased survivability thanks to the Aspect of the Protector.

Recommended Skill Progression
Lv.2	Lv.3	Lv.4	Lv.5
Puncture	Enhanced Puncture	Twisting Blades	Enhanced Twisting Blades
Lv.6	Lv.7	Lv.8	Lv.9
Improved Twisting Blades	Fundamental Puncture	Dash	Shadow Step
Lv.10	Lv.11	Lv.12	Lv.13
Enhanced Shadow Step	Methodical Shadow Step	Twisting Blades	Poison Trap
Lv.14	Lv.15	Lv.16	Lv.17
Twisting Blades	Twisting Blades	Twisting Blades	Enhanced Poison Trap
Lv.18	Lv.19	Lv.20	Lv.21
Shadow Imbuement	Enhanced Shadow Imbuement	Blended Shadow Imbuement	Countering Poison Trap
Lv.22	Lv.23	Lv.24	Lv.25
Shadow Crash	Consuming Shadows	Consuming Shadows	Consuming Shadows
Lv.26	Lv.27	Lv.28	Lv.29
Sturdy	Sturdy	Sturdy	Weapon Mastery
Lv.30	Lv.31	Lv.32	Lv.33
Weapon Mastery	Weapon Mastery	Precision Imbuement	Precision Imbuement
Lv.34	Lv.35	Lv.36	Lv.37
Precision Imbuement	Victimize	Shadow Imbuement	Shadow Imbuement
Lv.38	Lv.39	Lv.40	Lv.41
Shadow Imbuement	Shadow Imbuement	Exploit	Exploit
Lv.42	Lv.43	Lv.44	Lv.45
Exploit	Malice	Malice	Malice
Lv.46	Lv.47	Lv.48	Lv.49
Concussive	Concussive	Concussive	Trick Attacks
Renown Skill Points (Lv50 Onwards)
R1	R2	R3	R4
Trick Attacks	Trick Attacks	Trap Mastery	Trap Mastery
R5	R6	R7	R8
Trap Mastery	Trap Mastery	Adrenaline Rush	Adrenaline Rush
R9		R10
Impetus		Impetus

Legendary Aspects

Codex Aspects

The best part about this is that its only required Aspects are Codex Aspects. The Core aspect of the build is the Bladedancer's aspect to provide a stream of Shadow Imbued Twisting Blades when you're in combat.

To recap, Bladedancer's increases Twisting Blades damage and AoE, Corruption with Shadow Imbuement potency, Expectant with raw damage, and Rapid Aspect for attack speed that allows you to gain energy.

Aspect	Effect and How to Get
Aspect of Corruption (Offensive)	How to Get: Kehjistan (Story Campaign) Your Imbuement Skill effects have (20-40)% increased potency against Vulnerable enemies.
Aspect of Disobedience (Defensive)	How to Get: Halls of the Damned (Dungeon Clear) You gain (0.25-0.50)% increased Armor for 4 seconds when you deal any form of damage, stacking up to (66)%.
Aspect of Might (Defensive)	How to Get: Dry Steppes (Story Campaign) Basic Skills grant 20% Damage Reduction for (XX) seconds.
Aspect of Retribution (Offensive)	How to Get: Kehjistan (Story Campaign) Distant enemies have a 8% chance to be Stunned for 2 seconds when they hit you. You deal (10-20)% increased damage to Stunned enemies.
Aspect of the Expectant (Offensive)	How to Get: Underroot (Dungeon Clear) Attacking enemies with a Basic Skill increases the damage of your next Core Skill cast by (5-10)%, up to 30%.
Aspect of the Protector (Defensive)	How to Get: Lost Archives (Dungeon Clear) Damaging an Elite enemy grants you a Barrier absorbing up to (XX) damage for 10 seconds. This effect can happen once every 30 seconds.
Bladedancer's Aspect (Offensive)	How to Get: Jalal's Vigil (Dungeon Clear) How to Get: Scosglen (Story Campaign) Twisting Blades orbit for a short time after they return to you, dealing 20-30% of Twisting Blade's return damage per hit.
Ghostwalker Aspect (Mobility)	How to Get: Scosglen (Story Campaign) While Unstoppable, and for 4 seconds after, you gain (10=25)% increased Movement Speed and can move freely through enemies.
Rapid Aspect (Offensive)	How to Get: Buried Halls (Dungeon Clear) Basic skills gain (15-30)% Attack Speed.
Shadowslicer Aspect (Offensive)	How to Get: Twisted Hollow (Dungeon Clear) When you cast Dash, a Shadow Clone is spawned at your location that also casts Dash, dealing (80-100)% of the Base damage.

Stats and Affixes

Best Weapons

All your weapons will stick to meta affixes that benefit a melee Rogue Build like Damage to Close, Damage to Crowd Controlled, and Core Skill Damage.

Best Armor

Armor affixes and aspects will focus on defense except for the boots which will have utility-related affixes and aspects.

Best Gems

Gem Type	Effect Explanation
Royal Emerald (Weapon)	+12.0% Critical Strike Damage to Vulnerable Enemies Provides additional damage against vulnerable enemies which synergizes with the skills in this build.
Royal Ruby (Armor)	4.0% Maximum Life Increases your maximum Life. Since Twisting Blades is a melee class, you'll want to raise your HP for more survivability.
Royal Diamond (Jewelry)	5.0% Resistance to All Elements Very helpful since many traps inside the Season 3 Vault Dungeons do elemental damage.

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