Flurry Rogue Endgame Build Guide

Season 6 is the Season of Hatred Rising. It features the Zakarum Remnants faction which hunts Realmwalkers, massive behemoths that roam outdoor zones and beckon Mephisto's hellspawn. Participate in these zone events and take down the Realmwalkers to spawn a portal to a Seething Realm. There you can acquire Seething Opals, new consumables that stack with Elixirs for an XP buff and the chance to gather extra rewards when defeating enemies. The types of Opals are:

Use these Opals at all times to earn reputation with the Zakarum Remnants faction and unlock further rewards.

Skill Rotation

• Activate Poison Imbuement. Track your stacks and reactivate when you run out. Avoid spamming it so you can maintain Advanced Flurry as much as possible while it's equipped.
• Cast Dash or Flurry with the Improved Flurry node to move quickly from enemy to enemy, or just run towards your targets. It is not recommended to initiate with Shadow Step as this is your only source of on demand Unstoppable. As you become more comfortable with the build, Shadow Step becomes another mobility option.
• Cast Death Trap to group up your enemies while activating Preparation and No Witnesses. Cast on cooldown in extended fights to maintain the buffs.
• Hold down Flurry until everything is dead.
• (On Elites & Bosses) Throw Smoke Grenade for a 25% damage buff.
• (On Bosses) Start with Caltrops and keep them inside the area to maintain the Enhanced Caltrops debuff.
• (On Bosses) Keep an eye on the Stagger bar and ensure the No Witnesses buff and Smoke Grenade debuff are active once Stagger begins.

Rogue Specialization

Use the slider to see progression steps. At around Paragon 200, leveling slows down significantly and all important Rare clusters, Legendary nodes and Glyph sockets should be unlocked. Afterwards, you can min/max your build with minor tweaks and by picking up additional smaller nodes.

Glyph Leveling Priorities

You can have up to two Runewords in your setup, each consisting of one Ritual and one Invocation Rune. Socket them in Two-Handed Weapons if your build calls for them, otherwise place them into your Armor pieces to replace normal gems. The Flurry Rogue focuses on the following combos:

Best in Slot

• Tam + Zec - You reduce the cooldown of Death Trap even more as you attack, increasing Preparation up time.
• Lith + Tzic - Gives you a reliable way to Knock Down enemies for Malice and increases Stagger rate.

Alternative choices

As long as you haven't unlocked the final setup or found the top runes, you can also benefit from these options:

• Ohm - Grants moderate uptime of War Cry to increase damage
• Bac - Consistently generates Offering in Speedfarming setups
• Wat - Decrepify helps with Stagger, defense, and allows you to execute enemies at 10% HP. When combined with Xol in your other Runeword it also generates large amounts of Offering
• Cir - Generates Offering when spamming Flurry
• Poc - Another way of generating Offering
• Xal - For extra defense
• Gar - To reach 100% Critical Strike Chance more reliably
• Mot - Generates Dark Shroud for extra defense

Mercenaries are unlocked during the Vessel of Hatred campaign and assist you in battle. There are 4 separate Mercenaries to choose from, each with their own skill trees and abilities. You can have one hired (permanent) Mercenary during solo play and a reinforcement who assits you from time to time in certain situations.

Hired: Raheir

He offers you unparalleled defense that in turn buffs your offense. Valiance and Bastion reduce the damage you take and save you in dire situations. Inspiration gives you two great damage boosts as Raheir uses his skills either to save you or to attack enemies.

Reinforcement: Varyana

Call Varyana, the Berserker Crone as your reinforcement Mercenary when you cast Smoke Grenade to attack with Earth Breaker, amplifying your damage through the Malice Knock Down bonus and applying additional Stagger to bosses.

To enable the Flurry Rogue to perform optimally, hunt for these stats on your gear with good rolls and aim to Temper ⚒️ & Masterwork Crit ↑ them accordingly. Keep in mind that certain stats, such as Armor, Resistances, Extra Size Tempers, Attack Speed and more, have caps that may affect your priorities according to the items and Paragon points available at that moment.

Recommended Endgame Stat Thresholds

*Review Attack Speed Caps information in the FAQ/Mechanics section for an in-depth explanation of the two categories.

Item Progression Goals

Before you dive into the Endgame with the Flurry Rogue, take a look at this overview of the items used in the build. See below for further details about the different progression steps and variants. Some of your Skill Tree choices depend on what Legendary Aspects and Unique items are available to you. Keep in mind that while we can guarantee that everyone has access to the same Codex of Power Aspects, the exact progression is different for everyone.

This section is designed to guide your Flurry Rogue from a fresh level 60 into the very late endgame using the three variants: Starter, Ancestral, and Mythic. At the final step, you should be fully decked out with a great all-rounder build. From there, follow the other min/max variants if you want to optimize around certain activities such as Pit Pushing, Speedfarming and more.

Once a guide is released, many players have questions on why and how we are approaching certain choices. In this section you can find the answers to the questions that have been asked the most.

What can I do to improve survivability?

The build works really well when you decimate everything in seconds, but may get overwhelmed if fights are long against high level monsters. There are several adjustments you can make when you have trouble with more difficult content:

• Check if your Armor & Resists are capped.
• Use defensive consumables.
• Roll Maximum Life instead of offensive stats on as many pieces as possible.
• Kite enemies when they become Unstoppable.

How can I trigger Unstoppable?

Stolen Vigor grants you Unstoppable for 3 seconds every 8 seconds. Rogues don't have many sources of Unstoppable but a good way to break out of Crowd Control on demand is with Shadow Step.

What can I do for better Energy recovery?

In the early game you may occasionally be starved on resources before you get enough Attack Speed and Lucky Hit Chance. Investing more into Resource Cost Reduction (especially on ranged weapon) helps with this. Alternatively, you can put points into the Aftermath, use Resource Aspects like Umbral or Galvanized Slasher's, and roll more Energy per Second on your gear.

Which adjustments should I make on Hardcore?

Generally Hardcore and Softcore share the same builds. Outside of being more prudent in your gameplay, you can also tweak the setup slightly to raise your survivability:

• Focus more on armor & resists, making sure that they are always capped especially as you transition into higher Torment difficulties.
• Focus more on maximum life rolls, for example replacing DPS stats like Dexterity, Attack Speed, Critical Strike Chance. and additive increased damage rolls. Also Masterwork Maximum Life more than normal if no other crucial stats have priority.
• Focus on adding Defensive skills, Passives and Paragon nodes first as you level up.
• Play on a slightly lower difficulty than you normally would and don't push into difficult territory. As long as you can deal with all enemies swiftly, they can't retaliate.
• Include a source of Unstoppable if possible to get out of Crowd Control effects.
• Use defensive elixirs and incenses instead of offensive ones, such as Soothing Spices, Song of the Mountain, and Elixir of Fortitude II.

Why don't you have Dark Shroud on your skill bar?

Even without Dark Shroud on your skill bar, there are two ways to gain shrouds: Enshrouding Aspect and Umbrous Aspect. The latter is used in this build to profit from the enormous Damage Reduction. For it to work, you don't even have to invest any points into Dark Shroud on the skill tree, but you can if you want to profit from a higher Damage Reduction value or its enhancement and upgrade options.

What are the Pros and Cons of Daggers and Swords?

Both weapon types offer the same DPS (damage per second) value at any given item power. This leaves four main differences between them:

• 1) Attack Speed (1.20/s Daggers, 1.10/s Swords)
• 2) Average Weapon Damage for Dual-Wield: (496 Daggers, 519 Dagger + Sword, 542 Swords, 800 item power)
• 3) Implicit Attribute (Close Damage on Daggers, Critical Strike Damage on Swords)
• 4) ‍Weapon Mastery scaling
  • 7%[X] vs Healthy and Injured per Rank and Dagger vs 3%[X] per Rank and Sword
  • When Dual-Wielding, these bonuses are both multiplicative

Healthy and Injured only applies to 55% of the total damage you deal to kill an enemy. One Dagger and one Sword leads to better Average DPS, and Asheara's Khanjar is a significant source of damage due to giving 40% Cap 2 Attack Speed, and many ranks to Weapon Mastery.

More details for Weapon Mastery and other Rogue interactions can be found in the Rogue Class Compendium, written by Avarilyn.

Mechanics

Dark Shroud

• Dark Shroud stacks Damage Reduction additively for each active shadow. Due to the additive stacking, each increase in the skill's rank and active shadows boosts your survivability exponentially.
• Shadows have a 1.5 seconds cooldown between losing stacks, but the Damage Reduction still applies depending on how many are active at all times.
• At maximum stacks, your effective hit points (EHP) scale as follows in these examples:
  • Rank 1: 66.6% more EHP
  • Rank 5: 92.3% more EHP
  • Rank 10: 138.1% more EHP
  • Rank 15: 215% more EHP
  • Rank 20: 354.5% more EHP

Attack Speed Caps

• While all the exact mechanics are much more nuanced, there are two separate Attack Speed Bonus caps of +100% that apply to all builds for a total potential of +200%. For Rogues, these two caps are distributed in the following way:

Cap 1

• Gear rolls
• Paragon nodes
• Elixirs
• Flurry combo points buff
• Close Quarters Combat (Cutthroat portion)
• Moonrise
• Artillery Shrine

Cap 2

• Close Quarters Combat (Marksman portion)
• Enhanced Heartseeker
• Alchemical Advantage
• Haste
• Accelerating
• High Velocity
• Asheara's Khanjar

Read up more on Attack Speed in our dedicated guide by Ava.

Stagger

Bosses are immune to Crowd Control (CC) effects and instead take Stagger Damage when hit by one. The amount of Stagger damage dealt depends on the type of CC and is proportional to its duration. After being hit by a CC effect, the Boss temporarily takes less Stagger Damage from a CC of the same type.

Effectively, this means that when you're just spamming one type of CC you don't need to spam any more of it than what you need to keep a normal enemy permanently CC-d. To Stagger the Boss quickly you need to use as many different types of CC as possible. After the Boss is staggered it gains a certain amount of stacking Stagger Damage Reduction for the rest of the fight:

• After 1st Stagger: 20%
• After 2nd Stagger: 40%
• After 3rd Stagger: 60%
• After 4th Stagger: 90%

Bosses naturally regain 1% of their Stagger HP every second and when that regeneration is combined with 90% Stagger Damage Reduction it becomes borderline impossible to Stagger the Boss again unless you bring a serious amount of Crowd Control.

Coming soon.

The Flurry Rogue is a fun to play, fast-paced melee build that is easy to get going in endgame. It boasts tremendous area damage and excels in Speedfarming and Endgame scenarios.

• Your defense is tied to your offense due to Damage per Dark Shroud tempers. Attack with Flurry as often as possible to maintain Dark Shroud stacks through Umbrous.
• When fighting bosses, overlap your Caltrops to maintain the damage boost as previous ones run out.
• Maintain your Energy with timed casts of Poison Imbuement, and invest in Aftermath and Resource Cost Reduction if you still find yourself running low.
• Cast Death Trap whenever possible to maintain Preparation and No Witnesses bonuses.
• Swap between Improved Flurry and Advanced Flurry depending on what activities you are doing.

Written by DeezyTheMonster

Reviewed by M1PY