Diablo 4 Level 1-50 Starter Twisting Blades Rogue Build - Skills, Aspects, Specializations, How It Works

We provide the optimal starter build for D4 Twisting Blades Rogue that does not require any drops.

Skills

• Basic Skills: Puncture (1) > Enhanced Puncture (1) > Fundamental Puncture (1).

• Core Skills: Twisting Blades (5) > Enhanced Twisting Blades (1) > Advanced Twisting Blades (1), Sturdy (3) > Siphoning Strikes (3).

• Agility Skills: Shadow Step (1) > Enhanced Shadow Step (1) > Methodical Shadow Step (1), Dash (1), Weapon Mastery (3).

• Subterfuge Skills: Dark Shroud (1) > Enhanced Dark Shroud (1) > Countering Dark Shroud (1), Exploit (3), Malice (3).

• Imbuement Skills: Shadow Imbuement (5) > Enhanced Shadow Imbuement (1) > Blended Shadow Imbuement (1), Shadow Crash (1) > Consuming Shadows (3), Precision Imbuement (3).

• Ultimate Skills: Innervation (3), Adrenaline Rush (1) > Haste (3) > Impetus (3).

• Key Passive Skill: Victimize (1).

Specializations

Inner Sight: Targets are randomly marked and focusing them will make the rogue enter a combat stance that will allow them to spam abilities with unlimited energy.

Aspects

• Helm: Enshrouding Aspect

• Chest: Aspect of Disobedience

• Gloves: Rapid Aspect

• Legs: Aspect of Siphoned Victuals

• Boots: Wind Striker Aspect

• 2H Weapon: Bladedancer’s Aspect

• 1H Weapon: Aspect of Unstable Imbuements/Aspect of Inner Calm

• Amulet: Edgemaster’s Aspect

• Ring 1: Aspect of Corruption

• Ring 2: Ravenous Aspect

Stats Priority

1H Weapon: Vulnerable Damage → Core Skill Damage → Damage to Close Enemies

Helm: Armor → Maximum Life → Ranks of Shadow Imbuement

Chest: Damage → Damage Reduction → Armor

Gloves: Ranks of Twisting Blades → Attack Speed → Critical Strike Chance

Legs: Damage Reduction → Maximum Life → Armor

Boots: Movement Speed → Armor → Energy Cost Reduction

Amulet: Damage → Cutthroat Skill Damage → Damage to Elites

Gems

• Weapon: Emerald for Crit DMG to Vulnerable enemies

• Armour: Ruby for %Life

• Jewelry: Diamond for resistance to all elements

How It Works

Twisting Blades is your main source of damage and its 5-hit mechanic with the Legendary Aspect, Bladedancer’s Aspect, make it an excellent source of leach as well via Siphoning Strikes.   On top of this, Twisting Blades has one of the best lucky hit rates in the game considering the amount of hits allowing us to take advantage of a number of Lucky Hit effects.The combat stance, Inner Sight, allows very high up-time on being able to spam Twisting Blades when played correctly with your mobility skills, Dash and Shadow Step, while providing almost perma-uptime on single target encounters making this one of the highest single target dps combinations in the game.  Shadow Imbuement will provide excellent aoe for the purpose of mob clear but more importantly provide us with extremely good energy resource for the early game via Consuming Shadows.Vulnerable application comes from the basic skill Puncture and your Blended Shadow Imbuement.This build uses Codex-Legendary Aspects only so they can be obtained immediately and re-used whenever.