Although there are many powerful builds available for each Diablo 4 class, some builds are more suitable if you want to challenge or farm specific tasks and dungeons. At least, The Pit, one of the most difficult dungeons, is not something that all builds can handle.
The Pit, full name of The Pit of Artificers, is a random dungeon with 150 floors. The higher the level, the more difficult it is. Of course, the more Diablo 4 Gold, gear, or other loot you will get. To complete a level of The Pit, you must kill as many monsters and bosses as possible within 15 minutes.
Based on this, we will take Rogue class as the protagonist this time to tell you how to craft Poison Trap Spam, a Rogue build, in order to handle the difficult content of The Pit.
Skill Selection
Generally speaking, mastering the relevant class skills is the most important prerequisite for crafting any builds, because the builds cannot function without skills.
Damage Skills
For Poison Trap Spam, first make sure to bring your Sturdy to provide damage reduction so that minimize the damage caused by enemies in The Pit. Next, equip Caltrops and upgrade them to Methodical Caltrops if possible. This type of skill can create a trap area, effectively chilling enemies in the area to slow down their movement speed.
Dance of Knives is the main Rogue skill for this build to damage enemies. This skill is a new Rogue skill that appeared in DLC Vessel of Hatred. Once launched, it has been welcomed by the majority of Rogue players.
As a practical physical damage skill, Dance of Knives has continuous mobility and excellent damage output. It allows you to guide the throwing knives to attack surrounding enemies, consuming a charge per second, allowing each throwing knife to cause 70-94% damage, and the faster the attack speed, the more damage it causes. You will even gain additional movement speed and dodge chance when channeling the skill.
Agility Skills
Of course, in addition to the evasion bonus provided by Dance of Knives, you should also equip your Poison Trap Spam Rogue with some nice defensive skills that can further improve its evasion and agility attributes, such as Smoke Grenade and Poison Trap.
In fact, these two skills can also cause considerable damage to enemies on their own - as the most agile class in Diablo 4, most of Rogue’s skills are very flexible. Poison Trap can create a poisonous trap to poison the enemy, and Smoke Grenade can throw a smoke mixture at the enemy to stun them for a few seconds. They can also be further upgraded to:
- Enhanced Poison Trap
- Countering Poison Trap
- Subverting Poison Trap
- Enhanced Smoke Grenade
- Countering Smoke Grenade
- Subverting Smoke Grenade
In addition, the concealment effect provided by Concealment skill is also very helpful for completing The Pit of Artificers. After entering the stealth state, you have 5 seconds to shuttle between enemies and deal damage without being discovered, but if you are attacked during this period, the stealth state will be invalid.
In order to ensure that the above Rogue skills you added can be better used in The Pit battle through Poison Trap Spam Rogue Build, it is also necessary to equip other important passive skills, such as:
- Alchemical Admixture
- Close Quarters Combat
- Exposure
- Momentum
- Precision
- Victimize
Some of them can increase the damage caused by your active skills, some can provide speed or dodge assistance, and some can make vulnerable enemies lose more health when attacked, which is very useful.
Gear Selection
After completing the skill matching, it is time to work hard to farm the right gear to continue to improve your build. If you want to improve the damage output ability of the build first, then Bands of Ichorous Rose is definitely your best choice.
This item is actually the latest Rogue exclusive item launched in Season 8, which can be worn by you as gloves. Bands of Ichorous Rose increase the maximum number of Poison Traps you can cast by 4, and they always deal full damage within 3 seconds, increasing damage by 50 - 100%. Other specific buffs include:
- + [18.5 - 27.5]% Chance for Poison Trap to Cast Twice
- + [10.5 - 15.0]% Attack Speed
- + [3.0 - 5.0]% Maximum Poison Resistance
- + [41.5 - 55.0]% Poison Resistance
For Legendary Aspect, we recommend Aspect of Arrow Storms. A reliable offensive aspect, Aspect of Arrow Storms gives your ranged skills a 36% chance to rain arrows that deal continuous damage to enemies.
Class-Specific Mechanic
Each class in Diablo 4 has a specific mechanic that helps you enhance your character in the most class-specific way. For Rogue, this mechanic is Specialization, which allows you to choose one of three passive bonuses to enhance yourself, and you can switch at any time, even in combat, which are:
- Combo Points
- Inner Sight
- Preparation
The one that makes Poison Trap Spam Rogue Build more powerful in The Pit is Inner Sight. It allows you to mark random enemies, and hitting these enemies will fill the corresponding progress bar, and once it is full, you will get unlimited energy.
That’s all for this time. If you are playing Rogue class and are not satisfied with the existing builds, you might as well give this build a try!
