Dance of Knives Rogue Endgame Build Guide
Last Updated: Jun 30, 2025 by Community Build
About
The Dance of Knives Rogue build is a high-speed, high-damage melee setup that thrives on relentless momentum and precision. This build unleashes a flurry of blades that ricochet through enemies, creating devastating AoE bursts while maintaining elite single-target pressure. It’s designed for players who enjoy weaving through combat with surgical strikes and rapid repositioning, turning every encounter into a deadly ballet.
Gameplay
1. Opener - Poison Imbuement should be up at all times, is a huge boost to damage.
2. Damage - Dash (or any Mobility/Subterfuge Skill) Activates Danse Macabre bonus: +50%[x] damage on the next skill.
3. Execute - Dance of Knives This is the main damage dealer, now amplified by Shadow Imbuement and the Danse Macabre 50%[x] bonus. Hit it and start killing, keep your imbuements going.
Skills
Standard Gear
Additional information
Notable Gear:
Freezing Uniques/Aspects: We stack a lot of cold effects to take advantage of the new aspects to boost our damage against frozen enemies.
Cowl of the Nameless: This stacks damage when your imbuements trigger.
Sea Lord's Fine Gloves: Build stacks of Momentum.
Etna's Lost Dagger: Stacks damage for our imbuements.
Skill Tree and Talisman
Rogue Basic Cluster
Dance of Knives: Our channeling skill for damage, do large loops on the screen - not small tight ones.
Poison Imbuement: Keep this going at all times, stop and re-apply when it drops.
Everything else is a buff, you can use them defensively - creating shadows for harder enemies and debuffing them for more damage.
Rogue Basic Cluster
Dance of Knives: Our channeling skill for damage, do large loops on the screen - not small tight ones.
Poison Imbuement: Keep this going at all times, stop and re-apply when it drops.
Everything else is a buff, you can use them defensively - creating shadows for harder enemies and debuffing them for more damage.
(Click on the image to expand it)Paragon Board
Rogue Starting Board
Rogue Starting Board
(Click on the image to expand it)Main Mercenary
Support Mercenary
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FAQ
Here are some of the most frequently asked questions for this guide:
Does this build have a downloadable Loot filter?
Diablo 4 will be getting a new Loot filter system with the newest expansion "Lord of Hatred" coming April 28th 2026.
Is there a Leveling guide for this build?
We have a beginners leveling guide for this class available - it helps to introduce the class, but is not a 1 - 70 leveling guide.
