The release of Diablo 4 Season 1 has fervent players eagerly diving into the realms of Sanctuary once again. As the Rogue class makes its powerful return, it's time to explore the most efficient and effective leveling builds to maximize your progress. In this article, we'll delve into the top 2 best D4 Season 1 leveling builds for the Rogue class, allowing you to conquer the challenges that lie ahead and ascend to greatness.

How to Start the Season 1?

- First off, make sure you log into your main character, and get your map and some of the renown that you already earned loaded into your season character.

- Start off with the new seasonal questline. 

- Once you hit level 10, start doing whispering trees and strongholds, unlock some of those dungeons, and start getting those aspects that you want. 

- Once you’re out of stuff, start working on renown which is very important to increase your power.

- When you hit level 40, get nightmare sigils. The easiest way to get nightmare sigils is to do the whispering trees and you’ll get a guaranteed one from the whispering tree cache. You can spam nightmare dungeons as those will be the best exp.

- Once you're over level 50, you unlock the paragon board.

Best Diablo 4 Season 1 Rogue Leveling Builds - Top 2 D4 Season 1 Starter Builds for Rogue Class

1. Season 1 Barrage Rogue Level 70 Build

Barrage offers a hybrid between a ranged and melee playstyle that completely changes how the Rogue is played in Diablo 4. It sacrifices mobility for the ability to unleash a torrent of arrows to skewer everything on the screen, assuming they don't blow up from all the Shadow damage.

The Barrage Rogue build in Diablo 4 Season 1 offers a thrilling and deadly playstyle for players seeking to rain down chaos upon their enemies. By mastering the core skills, utilizing synergistic runes, and optimizing gear and passives, players can become the epitome of devastation. With strategic gameplay and a relentless barrage of arrows, the Barrage Rogue build will reign supreme in the dark realms of Sanctuary. Here’s everything about the best Barrage Rogue for speed leveling 1-70 in early game. 

Skills for Barrage Rogue Build

Our leveling will focus on 3 primary aspects, increase damage, survivability, and resource management, let’s allocate our points accordingly. 

• Basic Skills: 1 Invigorating Strike (Enhanced, Primary)

• Core Skills: 5 Barrage (1 Enhanced, 1 Improved), 3 Siphoning Strikes，1 Sturdy

• Agility Skills: 1 Shadow Step (Methodical, Enhanced), 1 Dash (Enhanced, Methodical, Disciplined), 3 Concussive, 3 Trick Attacks, 3 Weapon Matery 

• Subterfuge Skills: 1 Dark Shroud (Enhanced, Subverting), 3 Exploit, 3 Malice

• Imbuement Skills: 1 Poison Imbuement (Enhanced, Blended), 1 Cold Imbuement (Enhanced, Mixed), 3 Debilitating Toxins

• Ultimate Skills: 1 Adrenaline Rush, 3 Haste, 1 Precision, 1 Innervation, 3 Alchemist’s Fortune

Best Gears & Legendary Aspects for Leveling 

• Ranged Weapon: Accelerating Aspect

• Dual-Wield Weapons: Condemnation, Aspect of the Expectant

• Helm: Mangler’s Aspect

• Armor: Aspect of Discobedience

• Gloves: Aspect of Branching Volleys

• Boots: Penitent Greaves

• Amulet: Aspect of Corruption

• Rings: Aspect of Arrow Storms, Aspect of Bursting Venoms

Paragon Board

• Starting Board

• No Witnesses 

• Exploit Weakness 

• Tricks of the Trade

• Cheap Shot

• Cunning Strategem 

2. Twisting Blades Rogue Build Level 1-50

Poison blades is probably the strongest early game build in the entire game because it destroys trash mobs and has pure single target damage capabilities. And with this build, we can transition with it into mid and late game. So we can streamline our leveling process and make it as fast and efficient as possible. Click here to find the full guide of the best Season 1 build for Rogue.

Skills for Twisting Blades Rogue Build Diablo 4 S1

• Basic Skills: 1 Puncture (Enhanced, Fundamental)

• Core Skills: 5 Twisting Blades (1 Enhanced), 3 Sturdy, 2 Siphoning Strikers,   

• Agility Skills: 1 Shadow Step, 1 Dash, 3 Weapon Mastery

• Subterfuge Skills: 1 Dark Shroud, 1 Poison Trap (1 Enhanced, 1 Countering), 1 Exploit, 3 Malice

• Imbuement Skills: 5 Poison Imbuement (1 Enhanced, 1 Blended), 3 Deadly Venom, 2 Debilitating Toxins, 3 Precision Imbuement

• Ultimate Skills: 3 Trap Mastery, 3 Innervation, 1 Adrenaline Rush, 3 Haste 

Legendary Aspects for Leveling

• Bladedancer’s Aspect

• Aspect of Disobedience

Paragon Board

• Starting Board 

Diablo 4 Season 1 Prep Guide 

Here’s the best way to prepare for Season of the Malignant in Diablo 4!

1. Your stash, character, legendary items, aspects, gear, gems, and materials are all staying in the eternal realm when the new season begins, you can’t take any of those things with you, so be prepared to make a new character when the new season begins, leaving all those things behind.

2. You aren’t going to lose access to that character, you can always log back in on that character in the eternal realm, you just can’t use that character for the seasonal content.

3. Any parts of the map you explored will carry over when you play the new season, and the renown you earned by exploring them. Also, altars of Lilith are going to be carrying over to the seasonal realm so you won’t have to collect those again.

4. What you earned on hardcore is only transferred over to future hardcore characters and what you earned on softcore characters only transfers over to other softcore characters.

5. If you unlocked all the renown and altars on a hardcore character, but that character died - then you are not keeping that progress when you make a seasonal realm character. So if you have a hardcore character make sure not to kill them off before the new season begins, otherwise all your progress is going to be lost and that’s not going to be fun having to do all that over again.

6. The last thing you can do to prepare is to choose a class and build! Hope the rogue leveling builds we listed above can help you a lot!