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Rogue Poison Twisting Blades Endgame Build (Season 8)

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This is a Rogue Twisting Blades endgame build and guide for Season 8 of Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred (D4). Read on to learn more about the Rogue Twisting Blades endgame build as well as its playstyle in the Season of Belial's Return!

Attention!	This build is a Legacy Build that was created from Season 8 (Belial's Return) and is not updated for the current season.

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Rogue Twisting Blades Build

Poison Twisting Blades Build Summary

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Boss Powers			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

This Twisting Blades build is based on Slaydra's Poison Twisting Blades Rogue. The video includes details on how to gear up to get the build online. You can check Slaydra on Youtube for more Diablo 4 content, or on Twitch to ask questions about the build!

Build Summary
Poison Twisting Blades Build
Poison Twisting Blades Build	Focus: Endgame, Pit 100+
Fast Mob Clearing High Mobility High Energy Costs

This build for Season 8 uses Twisting Blades with Poison Imbuement and with Shadow Clone to quickly make work of enemy packs and speed run pit levels.

Poison Twisting Blades Skills and Passives

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Boss Powers			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

※ More skills can be seen by scrolling vertically.

Active Skills
Basic Skill Tree ┗ Puncture (1/5) 　┗ Enhanced Puncture
Core Skill Tree ┗ Twisting Blades (5/5) 　┗ Enhanced Twisting Blades 　　┗ Advanced Twisting Blades ┗ Sturdy (3/3)
Agility Skill Tree ┗ Shadow Step (1/5) 　┗ Enhanced Shadow Step 　　┗ Methodical Shadow Step ┗ Caltrops (1/5) 　┗ Enhanced Caltrops 　　┗ Methodical Caltrops ┗ Dash (1/5) ┗ Unstable Elixirs (1/3) ┗ Weapon Mastery (3/3) 　┗ Trick Attacks (3/3)
Subterfuge Skill Tree ┗ Dark Shroud (5/5) 　┗ Enhanced Dark Shroud 　　┗ Subverting Dark Shroud ┗ Exploit (3/3) 　┗ Malice (3/3)
Imbuement Skill Tree ┗ Poison Imbuement (5/5) 　┗ Enhanced Poison Imbuement 　　┗ Blended Poison Imbuement ┗ Deadly Venom (3/3) 　┗ Alchemical Advantage (3/3) ┗ Frigid Finesse (3/3)
Ultimate Skill Tree ┗ Shadow Clone (5/5) 　┗ Prime Shadow Clone 　　┗ Supreme Shadow Clone ┗ Aftermath (3/3) ┗ Second Wind (3/3) ┗ Innervation (3/3) 　┗ Haste (3/3)
Key Passive ┗ Close Quarters Combat

Poison Twisting Blades Specialization

Preparation	Spend 75 Energy to reduce your Ultimate Skill's Cooldown by 5 seconds. Ultimate Skills reset other Cooldowns and grant 15% Damage Reduction for 10 seconds.

Preparation is the best specialization for this Twisting Blades build variant as it allows the build to impale multiple Twisting Blades onto enemies, overwhelming them with poison damage. This also allows the build to manage its energy consumption and generation even if it's not using basic skills.

Rogue Specialization Guide

Best Boss Powers

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Boss Powers			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

Boss Power	Effect/Modifiers
Grigoire's Lightning Square	Effect: After you Cast a Core Skill, lightning tiles outward for 1.2 seconds dealing XX Lightning damage per strike.
Andariel's Flaming Skull	Modifier: Burning Enemies take XX more damage from your Damage over Time effects.
Avarice's Explosive Ore	Modifier: Activating your Main Boss Power spends all your Primary Resource to increase its damage by XX per Resource point spent.
Hatred's Embrace's Haste	Modifier: Gain XX Critical Strike Chance, increased by XX for each 1% Shadow Resistance from bonuses you have, up to a maximum of XX.

The Boss Power setup for the build is focused on synergizing with the non-physical damage aspects of the build. Grigoire's Lightning Square will be the main boss power used, as it procs more often due to its ties to Twisting Blades. Andariel's Flaming Skull, Avarice's Explosive Ore, and Hatred's Embrace's Hate provide extra damage bonuses that passively synergize with the rest of the build's mechanics.

Best Boss Powers and Modifiers Guide

Poison Twisting Blades Best Aspects and Affixes

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Boss Powers			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

Masterwork Priority	Affixes marked with ★ are the ones you should aim to upgrade when masterworking.

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Gear	Aspect and Affixes
Head	Heir of Perdition ・Critical Strike Chance ・Lucky Hit Chance ・Movement Speed ・Ranks to Core Skills★★★
Chest	Shroud of False Death ・All Stats ★ ・Damage to Next Attack after Entering Stealth ・Maximum Life ★★ ・Resource Generation
Gloves	Slice and Dice Aspect ・Dexterity ・Maximum Life ・Attack Speed Temper: ・Offensive - Natural Finesse 　┗ Damage to Close Enemies ・Utility - Imbuement Abundance 　┗ Poison Imbue Lasts for 2 Casts ★★★
Pants	Umbrous Aspect ・Dexterity ・Maximum Life ・Armor Temper: ・Defensive - Rogue Persistence 　┗ Maximum Life while Dark Shroud is Active ・Utility - Imbuement Abundance 　┗ Poison Imbue Lasts for 2 Casts ★★★
Boots	Mired Sharpshooter's Aspect ・Dexterity ・Maximum Life ・Movement Speed Temper: ・Mobility - Natural Motion 　┗ Movement Speed ・Utility - Imbuement Abundance 　┗ Poison Imbue Lasts for 2 Casts ★★★
Amulet	Conceited Aspect ・Dexterity ・Ranks to Exploit ・Ranks to Malice Temper: ・Offensive - Natural Finesse 　┗ Damage to Close Enemies ★★★ ・Offensive - Specialist Evolution 　┗ Shadow Clone Duration
Ring	Ring of Starless Skies ・Critical Strike Chance ・Attack Speed ・Lucky Hit Chance ・Ranks to Core Skills ★★★
Ring	Aspect of Corruption ・Dexterity ・Ranks to Exploit ・Ranks to Malice Temper: ・Offensive - Natural Finesse 　┗ Damage to Close Enemies ★★★ ・Offensive - Specialist Evolution 　┗ Shadow Clone Duration
Bow	Bladedancer's Aspect ・Maximum Life ・Vulnerable Damage ・Dexterity Temper: ・Offensive - Natural Finesse 　┗ Damage to Close Enemies ★★ ・Weapons - Cuttthroat Augments 　┗ Chance for Twisting Blades to Hit Twice ★
1-Handed Sword	Accelerating Aspect ・Maximum Life ・Vulnerable Damage ・Dexterity Temper: ・Offensive - Natural Finesse 　┗ Damage to Close Enemies ★★ ・Weapons - Cuttthroat Augments 　┗ Chance for Twisting Blades to Hit Twice ★
1-Handed Sword	Aspect of Creeping Death ・Maximum Life ・Vulnerable Damage ・Dexterity Temper: ・Offensive - Natural Finesse 　┗ Damage to Close Enemies ★★ ・Weapons - Cuttthroat Augments 　┗ Chance for Twisting Blades to Hit Twice ★

Poison Twisting Blades Best Gems and Runewords

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Boss Powers			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

Weapon	Armor	Jewelry
Diamond	Emerald	Skull

For Gems, it's best to slot in Emerald on your Armor slots for more Dexterity. For your weapons, it's best to use Diamonds to increase the damage of your Ultimate Skill, synergizing with the No Witnesses passive.

List of All Gems

Poison Twisting Blades Best Runewords

Runeword 1	Runeword 2
Igni Ohm	Cir Qax

For our Runewords, Igni + Ohm and Cir + Qax are our recommended choices as they further increase the damage of the build.

List of All Runewords

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Summary				Skill Progression				Boss Powers
Aspects and Affixes			Gems			Mercenary			Playstyle

Poison Twisting Blades Best Mercenary

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Boss Powers			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

Mercenary	Reinforcement
Varyana	Raheir

Use Varyana as Your Main Mercenary

Varyana's passive effect allows us to efficiently clear dungeons and other activities due to the movement speed it grants, enablinging you to avoid ground effects while fighting.

For her skills, use Shockwave, Ancient Harpoons, and Iron Grip to synergize it with Caltrops, allowing you to daze the enemies she pulled. Reprisal is also a great passive from Varyana as it provides an extra defense against impairment.

Varyana Mercenary Guide

Use Raheir For Reinforcement

Use Raheir's Bastion to grant passive Unstoppable for 1 second and redirect 90% of damage taken to Raheir.

Have Raheir's opportunity usage to Crowd Control to apply the Unstoppable from Bastion, granting you an extra dispel against impairment effects.

Raheir Mercenary Guide

Poison Twisting Blades Paragon Setup

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Boss Powers			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

Paragon Boards
1. Starting Board (Tracker)

2. Tricks of the Trade (Bane)

3. No Witnesses (Turf)

4. Eldritch Bounty (Exploit)

5. Exploit Weakness (Canny)

For your Paragon Board, you'll want to take runes and nodes that increase your Poisoning Damage and Non-Physical damage to synergize with the overall damage modifiers of the build. The raw damage increase of the build comes from the No Witnesses node as well as the Turf glyph, which increases our skill's damage based on our Damage to Ultimate multipliers and your damage dealt to close enemies respectively.

Poison Twisting Blades Playstyle and Rotation

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Summary			Skills and Passives			Boss Powers			Aspects and Affixes
Gems			Mercenary			Paragon			Playstyle

The playstyle of the Poison Twisting Blades revolves around spamming your Twisting Blades and Poison Imbuement to activate the Boss Powers. The rotation is as follows:

Use Dash or Shadow Step to farther enemies.
Cast Caltrops amd Shadow Clone for damage increase.
Cast Poison Imbuement and spam Twisting Blades to activate Boss Powers.

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Rogue Poison Twisting Blades Endgame Build (Season 8)

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Use Varyana as Your Main Mercenary

Use Raheir For Reinforcement

Poison Twisting Blades Paragon Setup

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