Flurry – Rogue Build for Diablo 4

Build Introduction

The Flurry Rogue build rapidly stabs every foe in range. Flurry penetrates through every enemy in range with multiple hits. Aspect of Encircling Blades enables Flurry to deal damage in a massive circular Area of Effect (AoE) around the player. This AoE build is perfect for players who want a simple playstyle that easily clears groups of enemies.

For the best version of the Flurry build, check out the Flurry Overpower Rogue guide. It is the most powerful Flurry setup but has extremely strict build requirements. Take a look at the guide to start collecting the gear before switching to the build.

The only starting requirement for this endgame build guide is a Level 60 character. Check the Rogue Leveling Guide if you need help getting there.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Check the build tier lists to see how this build compares to others on Icy Veins.

Skill Tree Points and Skill Bar

Skill Bar Setup for Flurry Rogue (order does not matter)

FlurryPunctureCold ImbuementSmoke GrenadeDark ShroudDash

The Skill Tree above shows the full allocation of 71 Skill Points for the Flurry Rogue build. Make sure you obtain the 12 Skill Points available from Renown.

Flurry Rogue Specialization

Combo Points is the preferred Rogue Specialization for general farming due to the burst damage playstyle of Flurry Rogue. Build Combo Points with Puncture to unleash additional damage for Flurry.

Paragon

After Character Level 60, experience gains are applied to Paragon up to Level 300. A maximum of 228 Paragon Points can be obtained through Paragon Levels, Renown, and Altars of Lilith. Follow the Paragon setup designed for the Flurry Rogue to gain a considerable amount of progression for your character.

Glyphs are inserted into sockets on each Paragon board and can be found during various activities in Diablo 4. Level up the Glyphs included in the Paragon setup by completing The Pit. Clearing higher tiers of The Pit allows Glyphs to reach higher levels.

Important Notes:

• Make sure you select the correct Legendary Boards and rotate them into the proper orientation.
• Attach Legendary Boards in the order shown, as bonus requirements of Rare Nodes increase with their placement order.
• Prioritize leveling each of your equipped Glyphs to 15 to gain the increased radius, which can be required to meet additional bonus requirements. Afterward, level each Glyph to 46 to unlock its Legendary Bonus and gain another radius increase.

The Paragon setup displayed above focuses on quickly unlocking the essential Glyph sockets and Legendary Nodes at a moderate Paragon Level. Once the base setup is complete, allocate the remaining Paragon points in the following order.

1. Obtain any remaining nodes providing a damage increase within the radius of Glyph sockets.
2. Path to the remaining Rare and Magic nodes. Prioritize obtaining damage reduction, any needed Resistances/Armor, and damage increases.
3. Any remaining points can be spent on Dexterity nodes within the radius of Headhunter.

Gear, Gems, Elixirs, and Stats

The following sections cover the important systems that are essential to improving the power of your character in the endgame of Diablo 4.

Legendary Aspects

Listed below are all the best-in-slot Aspects for the Flurry Rogue build. Salvage Legendary Items with higher Aspect values to unlock them in the Codex of Power, and then imprint them onto Legendary Items with the preferred affixes.

Gear Slot	Aspect Name	Aspect Power
Ranged Weapon (+100% bonus effect)	Aspect of Encircling Blades	Flurry damages enemies in a circle around you and deals [35 – 55%] increased damage.
Amulet (+50 bonus effect)	Breakneck Bandit’s Aspect	Flurry deals [25-45%] increased damage and has a 20% chance to Stun enemies for 3 seconds with each hit.
Dual-Wielded Weapon Slot #1 (replaced by Condemnation)	Accelerating Aspect	Critical Strikes with Core Skills increase your Attack Speed by [15 – 25%] for 3 seconds.
Gloves (optional replacement with Fists of Fate)	Coldclip Aspect	Your Basic Skills are always Cold Imbued. You deal x [5 – 20%] increased damage to enemies who are Chilled or Frozen.
Ring Slot #1 (replaced by Ring of Starless Skies)	Edgemaster’s Aspect	Skills deal up to [5 – 25%] increased damage based on your available Primary Resource when cast, receiving the maximum benefit while you have full Primary Resource.
Dual-Wielded Weapon Slot #2 or Ring Slot #2	Aspect of the Expectant	Attacking enemies with a Basic Skill increases the damage of your next Core Skill cast by [5 – 10%], up to 30%.
Dual-Wielded Weapon Slot #2 or Ring Slot #2	Aspect of Retribution	Distant enemies have a 10% chance to be Stunned for 2 seconds when they hit you. You deal [15 – 35%] increased damage to Stunned and Knocked Down enemies.
Helm (replaced by Harlequin Crest)	Aspect of Might	Basic Skills grant 20% Damage Reduction for [2 – 6] seconds
Chest (replaced by Tyrael’s Might or Shroud of False Death)	Umbrous Aspect	Lucky Hit: Critical Strikes have up to a [45 – 60%] chance to grant a free Dark Shroud shadow.
Pants	Frostbitten Aspect	Enemies hit by your Grenade Skills have a chance equal to your Critical Strike Chance to be Frozen for 2 seconds. You deal x [10 – 30%] increased Critical Strike Damage against Frozen or Stunned enemies. Note: Only used for the damage increase, not for Grenades.
Boots	Aspect of Concussive Strikes	Lucky Hit: Damaging an enemy has up to a 20% chance to Daze them for 2 seconds. You deal x [5 – 25%] increased damage to Dazed enemies.

Gems and Runewords

Listed below are the best Gems to socket into gear for each item type.

Weapon Gems	Armor Gems	Jewelry Gems
Grand Emerald if Critical Strike Chance is capped at 100% or Grand Sapphire.	Grand Emerald for Dexterity.	Any Resistance Gems needed or Grand Skull for Armor (up to the 1,000 Armor cap).

Insert one of the following Runewords, consisting of a Rune of Offering and a Rune of Invocation, into your equipped Ranged Weapon. The other Runeword can be inserted into any equipped Helm, Chest, or Pants item. Add sockets to your equipment at the Jeweler if necessary.

Runewords	Effects
Yax Gar	Gain: 200 Offering — Drink a Healing Potion. Requires: 25 Offering, Cooldown: 1 Second — Gain 2.5% Critical Strike Chance for 5 seconds, up to 25%.
Lith Ohm	Gain: 25 Offering — Stand still for 0.3 seconds. Requires: 600 Offering, Cooldown: 2 Seconds — Evoke the Barbarian’s Enhanced War Cry, increasing your Movement Speed and damage dealt.

If you prefer to stutter-step (move in between attacks), replace Lith with Moni.

Elixirs

Visit the Alchemist in any main town to craft helpful Elixirs, or find Elixirs by killing enemies or opening chests during various activities in Diablo 4. Listed below are the best Elixirs to consume for the Flurry Rogue, ranked by importance.

1. Elixir of Precision provides the highest damage output increase, if not already capped at 100% Critical Strike Chance.
2. Elixir of Advantage increases damage output, if not already capped at 100% Attack Speed bonus from gear and Paragon.
3. Elixir of Resource greatly helps with Energy issues, if you do not already have the appropriate Energy gear. This elixir is highly recommended for starting characters to maintain the casting of Core Skills.
4. Elixir of Fortitude is the best general-purpose option for survivability.
5. Elixir of Iron Barbs can provide a high amount of Physical Damage Reduction. Armor becomes more effective as you approach the Armor cap (9,320 against monster level 100 and above).
6. Specific Resistance Elixirs can be utilized to survive against Uber Bosses with elemental attacks.

Stat Priority and Tempering Affixes

Listed below are the affixes to prioritize on gear for Flurry Rogues. Each line of affixes are listed in order of importance. Affixes on the same line are considered to be equally important, but their benefits may vary depending on how much is stacked or other character stats. Attempt to obtain all affixes in each line before moving to the next line. Bolded affixes are the most important targets for Masterworking upgrades.

Daggers are equipped for the fastest weapon speed to heal more often with Improved Flurry. Bows and Crossbows provide comparable implicit stats.

Close Quarters Combat increases the priority of the Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies tempering affix from Natural Finesse.

Prioritize Boots with the implicit effect, attacks reduce Evade’s cooldown, for constant Evades to activate Advanced Flurry.

The priority order of Resistances is Lightning > Poison > Fire > Cold > Shadow. Maximum Resistance is 70% by default for each element and can be increased to 85% by various sources.

Armor is only needed until capped at 1,000.

Check out our Tempering Guide for more details on Blacksmith upgrading.

Slot	Gear Affixes	Tempering Affixes
Weapons	1. Maximum Life, Dexterity, Vulnerable Damage	Agile Augments (Weapon): Chance for Flurry to Deal Double Damage up to 100% cap Natural Finesse (Offensive): Damage to Close Enemies
Helm	1. Cooldown Reduction 2. Any uncapped Resistances or Armor 3. Maximum Life, Dexterity, Lucky Hit Chance	Alchemist Control (Utility): Flurry Size up to 100% cap Worldly Endurance (Defensive): Armor up to 1,000 cap, otherwise Dodge Chance
Chest	1. Maximum Life, Dexterity 2. Any uncapped Resistances or Armor 3. Healing Received	Alchemist Control (Utility): Flurry Size up to 100% cap Worldly Endurance (Defensive): Total Armor up to 1,000 cap, otherwise Dodge Chance
Gloves	1. Ranks to Flurry, Critical Strike Chance, Attack Speed 2. Any uncapped Resistances or Armor 3. Maximum Life, Lucky Hit Chance	Natural Finesse (Offensive): Damage to Close Enemies Alchemist Control (Utility): Flurry Size up to 100% cap
Pants	1. Maximum Life, Dexterity 2. Any uncapped Resistances or Armor	Alchemist Control (Utility): Flurry Size up to 100% cap Worldly Endurance (Defensive): Armor up to 1,000 cap, otherwise Dodge Chance
Boots	Implicit Stat: Attacks Reduce Evade’s Cooldown 1. Movement Speed 2. Any uncapped Resistances or Armor 3. Ranks to Dash, Maximum Life, Dexterity	Natural Motion (Mobility): Movement Speed Alchemist Control (Utility): Flurry Size up to 100% cap
Amulet	1. Ranks to Unstable Elixirs, Frigid Finesse, Malice, and/or Exploit 2. Critical Strike Chance, Cooldown Reduction, Attack Speed	Imbuement Abundance (Resource): Cold Imbue Additional Casts Natural Finesse (Offensive): Damage to Close Enemies
Rings	1. Critical Strike Chance, Attack Speed 2. Resource Cost Reduction, Vulnerable Damage, Maximum Life	Imbuement Abundance (Resource): Cold Imbue Additional Casts Natural Finesse (Offensive): Damage to Close Enemies

Unique and Mythic Items

Listed below are the recommended and optional Unique Items for the Flurry Rogue build. Each item description includes the most important affix to target for Masterworking upgrades.

• Condemnation (recommended) provides a 1.4x multiplier that works well in this Combo Points build.
  • Masterworking Priority: Basic Skill Attack Speed
• Harlequin Crest (recommended) provides a good amount of offense and defense, if you are lucky enough to find this Mythic Unique Item.
  • Masterworking Priority: Cooldown Reduction
• Ring of Starless Skies (recommended) is a Mythic Unique Item that provides a highly valuable 1.5x multiplier. The downside is the unique effect requires some management to ramp up and maintain the buff stacks.
  • Masterworking Priority: Critical Strike Chance or Ranks to Core Skills
• Fists of Fate (optional) increases overall damage by 50% with a 300% value on the unique effect. They are comparable to well-rolled Legendary Gloves with Ranks to Flurry, Attack Speed, Critical Strike Chance, and an Offensive Aspect. The downside is the drastic damage range of the unique effect can cause an inconsistency in the hits required to kill enemies.
  • Masterworking Priority: Critical Strike Chance
• Cowl of the Nameless (optional) provides the highest damage output when properly Masterworked.
  • Masterworking Priority: Ranks to Unstable Elixirs or Trick Attacks
• Tyrael’s Might (optional) is the best defensive option for a Chest Armor. The divine barrage does not contribute a significant portion of the total damage in this build.
  • Masterworking Priority: Damage Reduction
• Shroud of False Death (optional) provides the highest damage increase in the slot due to the +1 Ranks to All Passives inherent affix.
  • Masterworking Priority: All Stats or Maximum Life

Mercenaries

Once the Den is unlocked during the main questline in the Vessel of Hatred expansion for Diablo 4, complete Mercenary key quests to acquire them. Hire a Mercenary and enlist a Reinforcement in the following setup.

• Hired Mercenary: Varyana
  • Skills: Cleave, Hysteria, Bloodthirst, Bloodlust
• Reinforcement: Raheir
  • Skill: Bastion
  • Opportunity: Cast when the player becomes Injured

Advanced Information

Additional details are provided in the following sections for a more in-depth explanation of the Flurry Rogue. Read this advanced information after understanding the basic overview of the build in the previous sections.

Build Mechanics

The Flurry Rogue build is fairly simple to play. Flurry becomes a powerful clearing skill, especially with Aspect of Encircling Blades to turn it into a circular Area of Effect around the player.

Fundamental Puncture easily applies Vulnerable to a target with a single Basic attack. Aim Puncture at the toughest enemies in a pack. In group play, apply this debuff to Elites and Bosses so your teammates deal more damage!

Puncture is a Marksman Skill that can be used before casting Flurry to gain the damage bonus from Tricks of the Trade.

Resource Management

Enhanced Puncture, and Combat should provide enough Energy generation if you are taking the time to build 3 Combo Points before casting each Flurry. Ring of Starless Skies is an option for additional resource management. You can also reallocate 3 Skill Points from Stutter Step into Innervation.

Cold Imbuement and Crowd Control

Cold Imbuement is utilized for Crowd Control and multiple damage increases. The 25% chill applies to every hit from Flurry, meaning enemies become Frozen after just one cast. The multiple hits easily activate the additional bonuses on Mixed Cold Imbuement and Frigid Finesse for some insane damage multipliers.

Elites are easy to kill after being Frozen, but bosses are initially immune to Crowd Controls. Cold Imbuement can be used against bosses to eventually Stagger them. After fully Staggering a Boss, they are considered affected by all Crowd Control types for the Staggered duration.

Damage Rotation

Use the following rotation to optimize damage output.

1. Cast Dark Shroud if you are missing the shadow stacks.
2. Cast Smoke Grenade on enemies to activate Enhanced Smoke Grenade.
3. Use a Potion to activate the damage buff from Unstable Elixirs.
4. Build 3 Combo Points with Puncture. Make sure you are close enough for Fundamental Puncture to apply Vulnerable.
5. Activate Cold Imbuement for damage increases from Mixed Cold Imbuement and Frigid Finesse.
6. Cast Flurry in the middle of enemy packs.
7. Continue to build Combo Points with Puncture before casting Flurry.

Obol Gambling

Obol gambling is a great way to potentially find item upgrades or items missing from your build. Use Obols on your target equipment for a chance to receive Greater Affixes. Check out the new tool from Icy Veins for gambling Obols in the link below.

Changelog

• October 16th, 2024: New Paragon tool added.
• October 4th, 2024: Guide updated for Season 6 (Patch 2.0.2).
• August 6th, 2024: Guide updated for Season 5 (Patch 1.5.0).
• May 14th, 2024: Guide updated for Season 4 (Patch 1.4.0).
• January 22nd, 2024: Guide updated for Season 3 (Patch 1.3.0).
• October 17th, 2023: Guide updated for Season 2 (Patch 1.2.0).
• July 18th, 2023: Guide updated for Season 1.