Arrow Storms Rogue Endgame Build Guide

• Spam Barrage to trigger Arrow Storms and Vengeful.
• Activate Death Trap at least once every 10sec for No Witnesses & Preparation, ideally to pull large packs together.
• Throw Smoke Grenade on elites & bosses on cooldown.
• On tough elites & bosses, activate Caltrops and keep them active for the entire fight.
• Use Dash and Shadow Step to move around and to activate Close Quarters Combat at least once every 8 seconds.
• With Unstable Elixirs , use your potion as an active cooldown once every 10 seconds.

If you are fresh in Torment 1 coming from a leveling guide, this is where you begin. Since only some Aspects can be guaranteed from Dungeon unlocks for the Codex of Power, focus on acquiring the additional aspects via gambling with Murmuring Obols.

Gear & Skills

• Early on in your progression, focus on Armor & Resistances to survive. Each Torment difficulty adds a penalty of -250 Armor and -25% all Res and it's recommended to keep both capped (1000 Armor, 70+ Res) at all times. As you unlock higher power gear, masterworking levels and more Paragon points, you naturally scale your character into the higher difficulties and can start replacing some of these rolls with offensive or utility stats.
• Umbrous is an important survivability tool for many Rogue builds. As long as you haven't found it, use either Mot or Dark Shroud on your bar for extra defense.
• As soon as you acquire this aspect, you can replace Dark Shroud on your bar and Stutter Step on the skill tree with Disciplined Caltrops to use as an extra damage boost against elites and bosses. At that point, aim for one Caltrops Duration temper on any of your items to improve the overlap.
• Almost none of the other aspects or tempers really have an impact on your gameplay and mainly provide damage buffs. If you are still missing some, just use whatever you got until you complete the above setup.
• One temper of Elemental Surge - Poison on a weapon helps us to keep Alchemical Advantage active without the need to use Smoke Grenade all the time.

The goal here is to progress through the Torment difficulties as you unlock Ancestrals, Paragon points, all Legendary Aspects, Temper mods and the most important Uniques to pilot this build. Some Legendary Aspects are used temporarily to fill slots that may be replaced with more Unique items later on.

Gear & Skills

• As you upgrade your gear to Ancestrals with more masterworking levels and reach higher paragon, you can focus more and more on replacing Armor & Resistance rolls with better stats, but ensure to stay capped at 1000 Armor and 70%+ Resistances for the difficulty you're currently in.
• Fists of Fate helps us greatly with staggering and taking down bosses in addition to offering a sizable damage bonus. With its high Lucky Hit Bonus we also trigger Arrow Storms much more consistently. Farm this item until you get a good roll of Lucky Hit, Chance to Crowd Control and the unique effect combined.
• Cowl of the Nameless provides extra ranks to Trick Attacks, a powerful damage buff especially in AoE combat. With it in the build you immediately start doing a lot more damage in all situations where you can crowd control enemies, which also widens the gap between AoE damage and boss damage. Whenever you fight high tier bosses with additional monster spawns, try to make use of them by stacking Trick Attacks with Smoke Grenade.
• If you still haven't found Umbrous at this point, invest all your Obols into Helm, Chest or Pants to get it.

This Speedfarming variant optimizes the build for easy activities like Helltides, Whispers, Nightmare Dungeons and lower Pit Tiers after you have finished the Mythic variant and reached a plateau in your progression.

Gear & Skills

This setup optimizes the build to push the highest possible Tiers in The Pit after you have finished the Mythic variant and reached a plateau in your progression.

Gear & Skills

• When fighting monsters in high tiers of the Pit, remember that after crowd controlling elites for 5 seconds, they become Unstoppable for 8 seconds. This may be the right moment to start kiting them around because your damage done goes way down and they can freely retaliate.
• In high tier boss fights, beware that many of your conditional damage and damage reduction modifiers cannot activate outside of stagger phases. This means they generally deal more damage against you than regular monsters and you have to prioritize dodging the attacks from shadow bosses while you can barely scratch them outside of stagger bursts.

This is an alternative, more powerful way to play the build. Instead of Puncture + Flurry, we focus on Barrage to trigger Arrow Storms + Vengeful and fit in Death Trap on top. The advantages are:

• Higher base damage for each Arrow Storm from Crossbow
• More total Lucky Hits in AoE combat
• Second Wind procs
• Preparation procs
• No Witnesses procs
• Access to more damage aspects/uniques
• Pulling enemies together for better AoE clear

Gear & Skills

• All in all, switching to Barrage ultimately improves the build significantly but it requires extra investment into Energy recovery and to pay some more attention. It's best to wait until you have 8+ ranks to Innervation and 100%+ Lucky Hit Chance Bonus before starting with this version. However, if you have Ring of Starless Skies available or otherwise include extra resource generation or cost reduction, then you can switch way sooner.
• Remember to switch your Specialization to Preparation as we run with Death Trap and have no Basic Skill anymore.
• Close Quarters Combat can now only be activated via Dash & Shadow Step. Hit at least one target with one of these skills every 8 seconds.
• Our Runes setup changes. Now that we use a Core Skill, we can make use of Tam to generate offering, opening up more possibilities.
• Activate Death Trap at least once every 10sec for No Witnesses & Preparation, ideally to pull large packs together.