Hello, old barbarian level 100 main here. I’m looking for a melee based, viable and fun rogue build. Can you recommend me some?
A friend of mine recommended poison flurry.
Rapid Fire with Exploit glyph is pretty sweet
Can be played as melee or range , As long as you have a good roll of the Rapid Fire Ricochet, to put on your main weapon 
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I started with a marksman rogue build, first 50 levels and now I am working on a mid range hybrid between Penetration Shot (build combo points with Puncture, throwing knives is faster than the crossbow, and then a Penetration Shot every 4th shot) and then mixing n Shadow Step and Dash for close melee with a dual wield. It’s been fun !!!
I haven’t figured out whether I like the Poison or the Shadow Imbuement for a DoT
Agree … Google Haunted Crossbow if you want to try out a 3-stat max damage (can roll +800 item power) main hand drop from a unique boss.
I’m running a Rapid Fire/Twisting Blades combo that gives the best of both worlds (ranged/melee) and so far, it’s pretty effective and fun.
Sounds Great , Will have a look, Thanks!
And which key passive are you using?
I swear, Combining 2 Core abilities, Sounds very interesting
I wanted to try some things like that in the future
Experimenting with borrowing point distros to get enough for both core abilities … will probably need more cc/traps when I get closer to p100
Puncture(1)->Enhanced P->Fundamental P (vulnerable on hit)
Twisting Blades(5)->Enhanced TB->Advanced TB (handles crowds)
Rapid Fire(5)->Enhanced RF->Improved RF (handles ranged/single target)
Sturdy(3)->Siphoning Strikes(3) (close dmg reduct/life heal)
Shadow Step(1)->Enhanced SS->Disciplined SS (unstoppable, mobility, dmg)
Concussive(2)->Trick Shots (extra CC)
Exploit(3)->Malice(3) (increased dmg)
Poison Imbuement(5)->Enhanced PE->Blended PE (extra dmg)
Deadly Venom(2)->Debilitating Toxins(2)->Alchemical Advantage(1) (dmg, dmg reduct, attk sp)
Fridget Finesse(1) (for extra dmg for Penitent Greaves boots)
Shadow Clone(1)-Prime SC->Surprime SC (mimics attks, dmg)
Adrenaline Rush(1)->Haste(1) (energy regen, ms)
Momemtum (buffs always active when attacking)
Helm - Stolen Vigor aspect (heal/full life/potions w/Momemtum stacks)
Chest - Disobedience aspect (Armor)
Gloves - Grasp of Shadow unique (extra Clone spawns)
Pants - Cheats aspect (Dmg reduction from CC)
Boots - Penitent Greaves unique (extra CC, dmg)
Ring - Manglers aspect (chance to Daze CC)
Ring - Bursting Venoms aspect (Toxic poison pools extra dmg)
Amulet - Bladedancer TB aspect (+50% on amulet)
Xbow - Repeating RF aspect (+100% on xbow)
testing w/weapons Asheara’s (attk speed) and Condemnation (stat stick … not using CC) unique daggers for attk speed and close dmg
Or can substitute
sword aspect with
Vengeful
Expectant
Inner Calm
Edgemaster’s
Corruption aspect
glove aspect with
Manglers
Rapid
boot aspect with
Ravager
If the skill #s are a bit off, may be do to extra points from gear. Using Shadow Clones to minic attks, poison toxic pools to melt, TBs to hit crowds, RF for single target and ranged. Grasp of Shadow gloves do proc a lot, even on clicking on items on the ground.
I tried using the 40% damage based on primary resource asspecked instead of that, thinking with pen shot i can make rapid fire more single-targety. I switched it back and it’s just better, and you can’t notice the difference on single target. The only other thing I’d potentially try is the increased attack speed on crit, but i need to find one if those and another max roll rapid fire ricochet before i try it, because we both know I’ll be switching back to ricochet most likely.
Are you using both? I use those, clone, dark shroud (triggered with asspecked), cold and poison imbue and concealment, no basic. Rapid is my generator, pen shot is for hoards and sniping, clone resets my cooldowns and wrecks stuff. I have cold imbue and concealment proccing vuln to back up the exploit glyph. I run preparation h to shave 12 to 20 seconds off my ult cooldown, but i have been tempted to try going back to forceful arrow instead of pen shot to see how combo is doing now with everything else i have going on in the paragon tree. Those extra arrows on rapid do get nasty.
A great build I’m using is
Puncture
Flurry/Barrage
2x imbuement
Concealment
Poison Trap/Caltrop
You will build towards melee tankiness with a focus on vulnerable damage and crits.
It doesn’t really matter if you go flurry or barrage. Flurry will make you stay true melee, while barrage makes you mid range. Nice to switch around depending on your mood and specific gear.
Very effective and doesn’t really rely on any uniques.