Diablo 4: Rogue skill tree, all attacks and abilities
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Sharpen your knives and mix your poisons with the sneakiest class in Blizzard’s hack-and-slash role-playing game.
Diablo 4features five classes at launch. If you’re a player that wants to deal heavy critical damage using poisons and knives, the Rogue will be the one to choose. Rogue’s abilities are powered by Energy, using agility to dodge enemy attacks and deal debilitating retaliatory blows.
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I’ve got the full details on the Rogue skill tree in Diablo 4, so you can read up on everything this class offers. Bear in mind that because Diablo 4 is an ongoing game, it’s entirely possible that some of the information here will change. The developers at Blizzard Entertainment will be taking feedback and adjusting things as needed, so I’ll be adjusting things here whenever that happens.
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Diablo 4 Rogue Skills
In a similar fashion to the other classes in Diablo 4, the Rogue’s skills are divided into Basic Skills, Core Skills, Agility Skills, Subterfuge Skills, Imbuement Skills, Ultimate Skills, and Key Passives. You can generally take as many of each skill as you want, but you can only acquire one active Ultimate Skill and one Key Passive.
All active non-Ultimate skills can be upgraded four times to a fifth level, and each one also has a branching fork, where you choose between one of two special upgrades. The Rogue’s skills can be reset for free up to level 15, so you can play around with different setups early on. Past level 15, this starts to cost gold, with the cost going up with each level, so be careful if you choose to reset later on.
While the Rogue was limited to 25 levels in the open beta, it goes all the way up to level 100 in the final game.
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Diablo 4 Rogue Skill tree: Basic Skills
Blade Shift:Quickly stab your victim for damage and shift, allowing you to move freely through enemies for 3 seconds.
Forceful Arrow:Fire a powerful arrow at an enemy, dealing damage. Every 3rd cast makes the enemy Vulnerable for 2 seconds.
Heartseeker:Fire an arrow that seeks an enemy, dealing damage and increasing your Critical Strike Chance against them by 3% for 4 seconds, up to 15%.
Invigorating Strike:Melee attack an enemy, dealing damage and increasing Energy Regeneration by 20% for 3 seconds.
Puncture:Throw blades a short distance, dealing damage. Every 3rd cast Slows enemies by 20% for 2 seconds. Critical Strikes will always Slow.
Diablo 4 Rogue Skill tree: Core Skills
Barrage:Unleash a barrage of 5 arrows that expands outwards, each dealing damage. Each arrow has a 20% chance to ricochet off an enemy up to 1 time. Ricochets deal 40% of the arrow’s Base damage.
Flurry:Unleash a flurry of stabs and slashes, striking enemies in front of you 4 times and dealing damage to each.
Penetrating Shot:Fire an arrow that pierces through all enemies in a line, dealing damage.
Rapid Fire:Rapidly fire 5 arrows, each dealing damage.
Sturdy:You gain 40% Close Damage Reduction. (3 levels)
Stutter Step:Critically Striking an enemy grants 5% Movement Speed for 4 seconds. (3 levels)
Twisting Blades:Impale an enemy with your blades, dealing damage and making them take 8% increased damage from you while impaled. After 1.5 seconds the blades return to you, piercing enemies for damage.
Diablo 4 Rogue Skill tree: Agility Skills
Caltrops:Leap backwards and throw caltrops on the ground, dealing damage and Slowing enemies by 50%. Lasts 6 seconds.
Concussive:After Knocking Back or Knocking Down an enemy, you gain 5% increased Critical Strike Chance against them for 3 seconds. (3 levels)
Dash:Dash forward and slash enemies for damage.
Rugged:Gain 5% Damage Reduction against Damage Over Time effects. (3 levels)
Shadow Step:Become Unstoppable and quickly move through the shadows to stab your victim from behind for damage. Gain 50% increased Movement Speed for 2 seconds afterwards.
Weapon Mastery:Gain a bonus when attacking based on weapon type. Daggers get 5% increased damage to Healthy enemies. Swords get 3% increased damage. Bows get 4% increased damage to Vulnerable enemies. Crossbows get 5% increased Critical Strike Damage. (3 levels)
Diablo 4 Rogue Skill tree: Subterfuge Skills
Agile:Using a Cooldown increases your Dodge Chance by 3% for 2 seconds. (3 levels)
Concealment:Vanish from sight, gaining an advanced form of Stealth for 4 seconds that will not be removed by taking damage. Concealment also makes you Unstoppable, grants 25% Movement Speed, and allows you to move freely through enemies for its duration. Using an attack Skill during Concealment will break Concealment.
Dark Shroud:Surround yourself with up to 5 protective shadows. Gain 8.0% Damage Reduction per active shadow. Each time you take direct damage, that damage is reduced and a shadow is consumed.
Exploit:You deal 6% increased damage to Healthy and Injured enemies. (3 levels)
Poison Trap:Place a trap that arms after 1.25 seconds. It activates when an enemy moves within range, applying Poisoning damage over 9 seconds to enemies in the area. You can have 4 armed traps out at once.
Smoke Grenade:Throw a smoky concoction at enemies that Dazes them for 4 seconds.
Diablo 4 Rogue Skill tree: Imbuement Skills
Cold Imbuement:Imbue your weapons with frigid energies. Your next 2 Imbueable Skills deal Cold damage and Chill enemies for 25% per hit.
Deadly Venom:You deal 3% increased Poisoning damage. (3 levels)
Frigid Finesse:You deal 5% increased damage to Chilled enemies. This bonus increases to 10% against Frozen enemies. (3 levels)
Poison Imbuement:Imbue your weapons with lethal poison. Your next 2 Imbueable Skills deal Poison damage and apply 70% of their Base damage as additional Poisoning damage over 5 seconds.
Precision Imbuement:Imbued Skills gain 5% increased Critical Strike Chance. (3 levels)
Shadow Crash:Shadow damage has up to a 10% chance to Stun for 0.5 seconds. (3 levels)
Shadow Imbuement:Imbue your weapons with festering shadows. Your next 2 Imbueable Skills deal Shadow damage and infect enemies for 6 seconds. Infected enemies explode on death, dealing damage to all surrounding enemies. If the infection expires before the enemy dies, it will deal 12 damage to only that enemy.
Diablo 4 Rogue Skill tree: Ultimate Skills
Adrenaline Rush:While moving, you gain 5% increased Energy Restoration. (3 levels)
Aftermath:After using an Ultimate Skill, restore 25 Energy. (3 levels)
Death Trap:Place a trap that arms after 1.25 seconds. It activates when an enemy moves within range, dealing damage to each enemy in the area.
Innervation:Up to a 10% chance to gain 8 Energy. (3 levels)
Rain of Arrows:Arrows rain down over a large area 2 times, each wave dealing damage.
Shadow Clone:Your shadow mimicks your actions for 15 seconds. The shadow deals 60% of your damage.
Death Trap:Place a trap that arms after 1.25 seconds. It activates when an enemy move within range, dealing damage to each enemy in the area.
Diablo 4 Rogue Skill tree: Key Passives
Close Quarters Combat:Damaging a Close enemy with Marksman or Cutthroat Skills each grant a 10% Attack Speed bonus for 8 seconds. While both Attack Speed bonuses are active, you deal 20% increased damage against Crowd Controlled enemies.
Exposure:Dealing direct damage to an enemy affected by a Trap Skill has up to a 25% chance to reduce the active Cooldowns of your Trap Skills by 20% and drop a cluster of exploding Stun Grenades that deal Physical damage and Stun enemies for 0.50 seconds.
Momentum:Cutthroat Skills grant a stack of Moment for 8 seconds if they either hit a Stunned, Dazed, or Frozen enemy or hit any enemy from behind. While at 3 stacks of Momentum you gain 20% increased Damage Reduction, 30% increased Energy Regeneration, and 15% increased Movement Speed.
Precision:Critical Strikes with Marksman Skills grant you Precision. You gain 4% increased Critical Strike Damage per stack of Precision, up to a maximum of 20%. When you reach maximum Precision, your next Marksman Skill is a guaranteed Critical Strike that deals 40% increased Critical Strike Damage, then consumes all stacks of Precision.
Victimize:Dealing direct damage to a Vulnerable enemy has up to a 30% chance to cause an explosion, dealing 23% of the original damage to them and surrounding enemies.
Try another class
If the Rogue doesn’t end up being what you wanted (or you just want to get some more variety) then there are four other classes in Diablo 4 to check out. We’ve got all the details on the other skill trees, so read up in the box near the top of the article and find your new favorite!
Diablo 4 is scheduled to launch on June 6, 2023 across Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, Windows PC, PS5, and PS4. Based on the open beta, it’s widely expected to be one of thebest Xbox gamesof the year.
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