Diablo 4: Best Barrage Rogue build guide

The Barrage Rogue offers one of the best hybrid gameplay styles in Diablo 4. This build is capable of shredding mobs from mid-range and easily shotgun through elites at close range. The Barrage skill fires a cone of projectiles that spreads across multiple enemies when used from a distance, and from up close, it deals massive single-target damage, melting through bosses and elites with minimal difficulty.

So if you want a build that is capable in both long and close-range combat, the Barrage Rogue build is the best choice for you in Diablo 4. In this guide, we will break down everything needed to make this build perform, including its appropriate skills and overall viability.

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Best skills to use in this Barrage Rogue build

The Barrage Skill is versatile and can be used in both mid-range and close-range scenarios (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

Ability skills

• Heartseeker (Fundamental Heartseeker): Increased critical strikes and double damage to Vulnerable enemies.
• Barrage (Advanced Barrage): Unleashes a bunch of arrows in a cone ahead of you that inflicts extra damage on enemies by ricocheting.
• Dash (Methodical Dash): Zoom forward into enemies while slashing them and slowing them.
• Caltrops (Disciplined Caltrops): Slow down enemies and deal moderate amounts of damage.
• Smoke Grenade (Countering Smoke Grenade): Enemies are dazed and take more damage.

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Ultimate

• Shadow Clone (Supreme Shadow Clone): Deal increased damage while being stealthy and unstoppable.

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Key passive

• Precision: Gain stacks of Precision while using Marksman skills. This allows you to get the next ultimate or core skill to land a guaranteed critical hit.

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Passives

• Stutter Step
• Sturdy
• Rugged
• Weapon Mastery
• Trick Attacks
• Malice
• Exploit
• Deadeye
• Impetus
• Second Wind
• Unto Dawn
• Aftermath
• Haste

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Specialization

1) Combo Points (early game): Gain combo points while casting basic skills, and use them while casting your core skill to get additional effects.

2) Preparation (mid-late game): Use energy to reduce the cooldown of ultimate skills, and using the ultimate skill resets all other cooldowns.

You can still get Combo Points in the late-game content, but it is recommended to change your class specialization to Preparation, as it offers you a much more fluid combat capability by constantly resetting cooldowns during your ultimate skill.

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Skill rotation of the Barrage Rogue for optimal performance

The skill rotation of the Barrage Rogue is extremely easy to play against both mobs and elites (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

• Begin the fight by activating Shadow Clone for maximum damage output.
• Use Heatseeker to build up Combo Points.
• Cast Barrage to build up Precision stacks.
• When in trouble, use Dash to reposition or kite enemies into your next Barrage.
• Use Smoke Grenades tactically against elites and bosses.
• Cast Caltrops to slow down enemies and deal consistent damage to elites and tanky enemies.
• If you are running Precision specialization, use Shadow Clone to reset your other skills.

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Paragon leveling setup for the Barrage Rogue

Board

• No Witnesses
• Exploit Weakness
• Eldritch Bounty
• Deadly Ambush

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Glyphs

• Ranger
• Control
• Exploit
• Headhunter
• Combat

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Best gear and aspects for the Barrage Rogue in Diablo 4

With the right gear combination, the Barrage Rogue easily melts through enemies (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

1) Godslayer Crown

Stats

• +67.3% Damage to Elites
• 8.8% Cooldown Reduction
• +457 Maximum Life
• +65 All Stats

Unique Effect

• When you Stun, Freeze, or Immobilize an Elite, you Pull In all Nearby enemies and deal 60%[x] increased damage to them for 3 seconds. It can only occur once every 12 seconds.
• Against Bosses, this effect triggers when dealing damage instead.

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2) Fists of Fate

Stats

• +51.8% Lucky Hit Chance
• +8.7% Critical Strike Chance
• +8.7% Attack Speed

Unique Effect

• Lucky Hit: Up to a +51.8% Chance to Make Enemies Vulnerable for 3 Seconds
• Your attacks randomly deal 1% to 300% of their normal damage.

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3) Penitent Greaves

Stats

• Evade Grants +125% Movement Speed for 2.0 Seconds
• Evade Grants Unhindered for 2.0 Seconds
• +25.0% Movement Speed
• +55.0% Chill Slow Potency
• +6.0% Critical Strike Chance Against Chilled Enemies
• +0 Cold Resistance

Unique Effect

• You leave behind a trail of frost that Chills enemies. You deal 25%[x] more damage to Chilled enemies.

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4) Windforce

Stats

• +130.0% Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies
• +55.0% Chance for Barrage Projectiles to Cast Twice
• +4 to Barrage
• +2 to Malice
• +18.0% Movement Speed

Unique Effect

• Hits of Barrage have a 75% chance to deal triple damage and Knock Down enemies.

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5) Ring of Starless Skies

Stats

• +17.5% Attack Speed
• +12.5% Critical Strike Chance
• +12.5% Lucky Hit Chance
• +2 to Core Skills

Unique Effect

• Spending your Primary Resource reduces the Resource cost of your Skills and increases your damage by 10%[x] for 3 seconds, up to 50%[x].

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6) Enshrouding Aspect

• Using a Healing Potion makes a free Dark Shroud shadow. Each shadow grants 4.5% increased Damage Reduction.
• You may now drink your Healing Potion while at full Life.

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7) Umbrous Aspect

• Lucky Hit: Critical Strikes have up to a 65% chance to grant a free Dark Shroud shadow.

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8) Vehement Brawler's Aspect

• Casting an Ultimate Skill increases your damage by 30%[x] for 8 seconds. Gain 2 additional Ultimate Skill Ranks.

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9) Aspect of Branching Volleys

• Increase the damage of arrows that ricochet from Barrage from 40% to 90%. Barrage's arrows have a 70% chance to split into two arrows whenever they ricochet.

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20) Conceited Aspect

• Deal 45%[x] increased damage while you have a Barrier active.

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21) High Velocity Aspect

• Barrage arrows now pierce through 1 enemy.
• Barrage has 30.0%[+] increased Attack Speed.

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Diablo 4 Season 10 alternative gear choices

The Windforce unique bow is the most crucial gear component for the Barrage Rogue build (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

The Season of Infernal Chaos offers new Chaos Armors, which can contain any random armor stat. This allows you to craft a much stronger build in this season of Diablo 4. Here are the best gears to use for your Barrage Rogue in Diablo 4 Season 10:

1. Fists of Fate (Helm)
2. Crown of Lucion (Body)
3. Condemnation (Gloves)
4. Orphan Maker (Pants)
5. Cowl of the Nameless (Boots)
6. Skyhunter (Ranged weapon)

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Tempering stat recommendation

• Dexterity
• Attack Speed
• Shadow Clone Double Damage
• Chance for Barrage to cast twice
• Armor
• All resistances

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Best-in-slot Gems and Runes for the Barrage Rogue

Gems

• Emerald (Armor/weapons): + (10-60) dexterity
• Diamond (jewelry): + (10-60)% resistance to all elements

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Runes

1) CirMot

• Cast 5 Skills, then become exhausted for 3 seconds.
• Gain 2 shadows, from the Rogue's Dark Shroud Skill, reducing damage taken per shadow.

2) ZanVex

• Cast an Ultimate Skill.
• Gain +1 to all Skills for 10 seconds.

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Mercenary (Vessel of Hatred)

1) Subo (Hired)

• Wire Trap: Deals physical damage and stuns enemies.
• Trip Mines: Inflicts massive physical damage and knocks down enemies while inflicting them with Vulnerable.

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2) Varyana (Reinforcement)

• Shockwave: Deals moderate physical damage and knocks down enemies.

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The Barrage Rogue build offers flexible, fast, and versatile gameplay in Diablo 4. So whether you are going through dungeons or taking out ladder bosses, the Barrage Rogue is one of the best choices in the Rogue class.

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Edited by Sijo Samuel Paul