Flurry Rogue Leveling 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.

Defense and Mobility

At this point, you unlock Agility Skills. Here you pick up Dash and Shadow Step to move around the map faster. Methodical Dash and Disciplined Shadow Step allow you to use the skills more often while Enhanced Shadow Step is a reliable way to apply Vulnerable to high priority targets.

Once you unlock Subterfuge Skills, pick up Dark Shroud. It gives you much needed defense, Movement Speed, and Critical Strike Chance. Cast Dark Shroud often to remain at full stacks.

Specialization

At level 15, you unlock your class mechanic called Specializations. Then, choose one of three to augment your build. The Flurry Rogue uses Combo Points which allows for a large burst of damage with Flurry after casting Blade Shift three times, while also giving you a massive attack speed boost.

Imbuement

Shadow Imbuement allows for additional Shadow damage explosions when you kill an enemy that has previously been hit by a Shadow Imbued skill. Combine Shadow Imbuement with the Consuming Shadows passive to get Energy back from the explosion. This is a great Imbuement to use early on. Avoid using Shadow Imbuement before casting Shadow Step, wait until you are ready to cast Flurry or Dash as they can both hit multiple targets.

Key Passive

Momentum is your Key Passive of choice for the build. It is a great all rounder that provides you Movement Speed, Damage Reduction, Energy Regeneration, Max Energy, and increased damage. Stacks are gained by casting Cutthroat skills which are Blade Shift, Flurry, Dash, and Shadow Step. Once it has been fully stacked, you don't need to worry about losing stacks as this build uses no Marksman skills.

Final Journey to Level 60

At this point, the core setup is complete. All of your remaining points go into boosting your damage, defenses, speed or already allocated skills. Check out the skills progression above to see where to put your points as you go, but feel free to deviate from the order displayed as necessary. For example, you can pick up Target Practice or Stutter Step earlier over Sturdy if you don't feel you need this extra defense.

Poison Imbuement Swap

Once you acquire the Imbuement Abundance tempering manual, you can add more imbuement charges to your Rings and Amulets. By combining additional Poison Imbuement with Mixed Poison Imbuement, you can effectively have all skills Poison Imbued. This enables full uptime on Alchemical Advantage and Debilitating Toxins. The build still focuses on dealing direct damage instead of Damage Over Time. More info in the Flurry Rogue Endgame section below.

Rogue Specializations

The Rogue's Class Specialization allows you to choose one out of three powerful passive effects to boost your build. The three available choices are:

• Combo Points (lvl 15) - Use Basic Skills to boost your subsequent Core Skill for more damage and various other effects.
• Inner Sight (lvl 20) - Attack enemies to fill the gauge. Marked enemies fill it faster. When full, gain 25%[+] Critical Strike Chance and unlimited Energy for 4 seconds.
• Preparation (lvl 30) - Every 75 Energy used reduces the cooldown of your Ultimate Skills by 5 seconds. Casting an Ultimate Skill resets all other cooldowns and grants 15% Damage Reduction for 10 seconds.

Unlocking Specializations

Once you reach level 15, you have to complete a short questline starting in Menestad, Fractured Peaks. A Priority Quest leads you there to help out Leyrana. After a few stops outside of town you enter the Forsaken Quarry Dungeon and finish the quest there, unlocking Combo Points. After that, the other two Specializations unlock automatically once you reach their minimum level.

To get started as a Flurry Rogue, focus the most on upgrading your melee weapons as their damage is the base for all further damage calculations for all Cutthroat skills. Otherwise, follow the priority list below. Since this build does not use any Marksman skills for damage, your ranged weapon becomes a stat stick that does not need to be replaced often. While you don't have all of the desired temper manuals available, simply try to get anything useful on your gear until you get the right ones. For example, % Damage, Damage to Close, Vulnerable Damage, etc. all work as long as you activate their conditions. Likewise, you can temper multiple defensive options such as Resistances, Life, Armor to fill gaps in your survivability. Tempering low level gear is relatively cheap and the results can be very impactful.

Tip: For the early game, Elemental Surge Weapon Tempers are very powerful due to their high base damage, especially if you are twinking. If you find these, you may want to keep imprinting them on your weapons for an easy time.

The Codex of Power is a collection of Legendary Aspects you can imprint onto Rare or Legendary items at the Occultist. They unlock after completing specific Dungeons located around Sanctuary or salvaging items with these powers. Check out our Map Tool to locate these Dungeons.

For leveling, there are a few powers that can significantly help if you have the funds to imprint them. In addition, keep an eye out for powerful Unique items you may find for this or other builds.

Must-have Dungeon unlocks

1. Encircling Blades (Forsaken Quarry - Fractured Peaks)
2. Rapid (Buried Halls - Dry Steppes)
3. Expectant (Underroot - Scosglen)

Nice-to-have Dungeon unlocks

1. Disobedience (Halls of the Damned - Kehjistan)
2. Might (Dark Ravine - Dry Steppes)
3. Wind Striker (Shivta Ruins - Kehjistan)
4. Energizing (Sanguine Chapel - Fractured Peaks)
5. Retribution (Abandoned Mineworks - Kehjistan)
6. Enshrouding (Ghoa Ruins - Hawezar)

Great Uniques for this build

1. Asheara's Khanjar
2. Condemnation
3. Penitent Greaves
4. Tibault's Will
5. Mother's Embrace

Jackpot Drops

As you level up, you may get lucky and find some great random drops. Some of these can massively amplify your power and speed up the leveling by switching to another build. Keep in mind that there are many more Aspects and Uniques that can be useful to multiple builds; this just lists some of the most impactful ones. While it's usually recommend starting with Endgame Builds at level 60, you often can make them work earlier with these drops:

Build-defining Aspects

• Star Shards (enables Dance of Knives Rogue Endgame Build)
• Creeping Death (enables Twisting Blades Rogue Endgame Build)
• Repeating (enables Rapid Fire Rogue Endgame Build)
• High Velocity (enables Barrage Rogue Endgame Build)

Build-defining Uniques

• Eyes in the Dark (enables Death Trap Rogue Endgame Build)
• Scoundrel's Kiss and (enables Rapid Fire Rogue Endgame Build)
• Andariel's Visage (enables Andariels Visage Rogue Endgame Build)
• Shard of Verathiel (enables Heartseeker Rogue Endgame Build)
• Skyhunter (enhances Rapid Fire Rogue Endgame Build)
• The Umbracrux (enables Dance of Knives Rogue Endgame Build)
• Shroud of Khanduras (enhances all Victimize Rogue Endgame Builds)

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 Death Trap cooldown even more as you attack, increasing Preparation up time.
• Lith + Tzic - Gives you a reliable Knock Down source 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.
• Wat - Decrepify helps with Stagger, defense, and executes enemies at 10% HP. When combined with Xol in your other Runeword it also generates large amounts of Offering
• Cir - Generates Offering when building Combo Points
• Poc - Another way of generating Offering
• Xal - For extra defense
• Gar - To reach 100% Critcal 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 Blade Shift to attack with Earth Breaker, amplifying your damage through the Malice Knock Down bonus and applying additional Stagger to bosses.

In Diablo 4, you can level by completing the Campaign, collecting Grim Favors for the Tree of Whispers, completing Helltide activities, grinding Dungeons, clearing Strongholds, fighting in the Undercity of Kurast or interacting with the Seasonal Mechanics. While there are many ways to level up in Diablo 4, not all of them are equal.

Paragon & Glyphs

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

Coming soon.

• The Flurry Rogue comes online easily and is a speedy farming build with high mobility skills and area damage.
• Build 3 Combo Points with Blade Shift then unleash Flurry. Continue repeating this combo to maximize your damage output.
• Activate Shadow Imbuement for Shadow Damage explosions on kill.
• Maintain Dark Shroud stacks by casting on cooldown.
• Focus on improving your Melee Weapons more than any other items.
• Look out for helpful Legendary Powers in the Codex of Power, especially Encircling Blades and those that provide extra damage and defense.

Written by DeezyTheMonster
Reviewed by M1PY