What’s New for Rogues in Season 4?

Unique Items

Scoundrel’s Kiss – Unique Ring

• Rapid Fire now lobs exploding arrows that deal 15%-25% increased damage.
• Scoundrel’s Kiss projectile pattern is now more predictable.

Saboteur’s Signet – Unique Ring

• Casting Flurry has a 15-30% chance to release Stun Grenades that deal Physical damage and Stun enemies for 1 second. Your Grenade Skills have a 2% Lucky Hit Chance.

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of High Velocity

• Barrage arrows now pierce through 1 enemy.
• Barrage has 10%-20% increased Attack Speed.

Class Changes

• Stun Grenades (granted by various aspects) base stun duration increased from .5 to 1 second.

Skills

Inner Sight

• While the Inner Sight gauge is full, you also gain 25%[+] Critical Strike Chance for 4 seconds.
• Attacking enemies that are not marked will fill the gauge but at 5% of the normal rate.

Preparation

• Reduced energy requirement from 100 to 75.

Flurry

• Damage increased from 66% to 75%.

Volley

• Can now be cancelled slightly earlier from another skill.

Passive

Victimize

• Fixed an issue where this wasn’t activating and scaling from certain instances.
• Increased chance to proc from 45% to 50%.

Paragon

Exploit Weakness Legendary Node

• Maximum increased damage buffed from 15%[x] to 25%[x].

Leyrana’s Instinct Legendary Node

• Previous – When Inner Sight’s gauge becomes full, you gain 100%[+] Dodge Chance for 2.0 seconds. Your next 3 Core Skills deal increased damage equal to 25%[x] of your Core Skill Damage Bonus.
• New: When Inner Sight’s gauge becomes full, you gain 100%[+] Dodge Chance for 2.0 seconds. Your Core Skills deal increased damage equal to 25%[x] of your Core Skill Damage Bonus while Inner Sight’s gauge remains full.

Chip Glyph

• Increased physical damage bonus from 6.6% to 9.9% for each 5 Dexterity purchased within range.

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Encircling Blades

• Increased damage range buffed from 10-25% to 15-30%.

Opportunist’s

• Previous – When you break Stealth with an attack, you drop a cluster of exploding Stun Grenades around your location that deal Physical damage and Stun enemies for 0.5 seconds.
• Now – When you enter or break Stealth, you drop a cluster of exploding Stun Grenades around you that deal Physical damage and Stun enemies for 1 second. Your Grenade Skills deal 25-40% more damage.

Trickster’s

• Now additionally increases Grenade Skill damage by 25-40%.

Of Surprise

• Now additionally increases Grenade Skill damage by 25-40%.

Of Artful Initiative

• Grenade Skill damage increase is now a range with higher potential, increased to 25-40%.

Of Uncanny Treachery

• Previous – Dealing direct damage to a Dazed enemy with an Agility Skill grants Stealth for 4 seconds. Breaking Stealth with an attack grants you 15-21% Control Impaired Duration Reduction for 4 seconds.
• Now – Dealing damage to a Dazed enemy with an Agility Skill grants Stealth for 4 seconds. When Stealth breaks, you gain 10-15% 85-100% Dodge Chance for 2 seconds.

Of Siphoned Victuals

• Previous – Lucky Hit: Damaging a Vulnerable enemy with a Core skill has up to a 10-20% chance to drop a Healing Potion.
• Now – Damaging a Vulnerable enemy with a Non-Basic Skill has a 5-20% chance to drop a Healing Potion.

Frostbitten

• Previous – Chilled enemies hit by your Grenade Skills have a chance equal to double your Critical Strike Chance to be instantly Frozen for 2 seconds. You deal x10-25% increased Critical Strike Damage against Frozen enemies.
• Now – Enemies hit by your Grenade Skills have the same chance as your Critical Strike Chance to be Frozen for 2 seconds. You deal x10-25% increased Critical Strike Damage to Stunned or Frozen enemies.

Escape Artist’s

• Number of attacks dodged reduced from 2-7 to 2-5.
• Smoke Grenade Dodge effect Cooldown has been reduced from 45 to 20 seconds.

Of Quickening Fog

• Maximum Dash Cooldown Reduction is reached from hitting 3 enemies, reduced from 5.

Of Volatile Shadows

• Previous – When a Dark Shroud shadow was removed, you would trigger an explosion around yourself that dealt Shadow damage.
• Now – When a Dark Shroud shadow is removed, you trigger an explosion around yourself that deals Shadow damage and applies Shadow Imbuement to each enemy it hits.

Blast Trapper’s

• Previous – Lucky Hit: Dealing direct damage to enemies affected by your Trap skills has up to a 30-50% chance to make them Vulnerable for 3 seconds.
• Now – Lucky Hit: Dealing damage to enemies affected by your Trap skills has a 15-30% chance to cause an explosion that deals Shadow Damage and applies Vulnerable for 2 seconds.

Of Lethal Dusk

• Previous – Evading through an enemy infected by Shadow Imbuement grants Stealth for 4 seconds. Breaking Stealth with an attack grants you 1-5% Maximum Life on Kill for 6 seconds.
• Now – Evading through an enemy infected by Shadow Imbuement grants Stealth for 4 seconds. Breaking Stealth grants you 10-25% Maximum Life.

Vengeful

• Previous – Lucky Hit: Making an enemy Vulnerable has up to a 40-60% chance to grant 3% increased Critical Strike Chance for 3 seconds, up to 9%.
• Now – Lucky Hit: Damaging a Vulnerable enemy has a 25% chance to create an Arrow Storm at the location, dealing Physical damage over 3 seconds. Your Arrow Storms deal 25-40% more damage.

Of Arrow Storms

• Previous – Lucky Hit: Your Marksman Skills have up to a 10% chance to create an arrow storm at the enemy’s location, dealing physical damage over 3 seconds. You can have up to 5 active arrow storms.
• Now – Lucky Hit: Your Marksman Skills have up to a 36% chance to create an Arrow Storm at the enemy’s location, dealing Physical damage over 3 seconds. Your Arrow Storms deal 25-40% increased damage.

Developer’s Note: The maximum number of active Arrows storms remains at 5, we are just removing this from the tooltip to make it more succinct.

Resistant Assailant’s

• When using Concealment, Resistance and Max Resistance have increased duration from 4 to 6 seconds.

Unique Items

Writhing Band of Trickery

• Reduced cooldown from 10 to 6 seconds.

Beastfall Boots

• • Damage bonus reduced from .5-1.5% per Energy consumed to .25-.75%.

Eaglehorn

• Damage bonus increased from 40-60% to 50-70%.

Skyhunter

• Damage bonus increased from 10-30% to 20-40%.

Bug Fixes

Rogue

• Fixed an issue where Enhanced Shadow Imbuement always granted extra Critical Strike Chance instead of just on injured targets.
• Fixed an issue where the tooltip for the Chilling Weight passive did not denote increased chill amount in the next rank up tooltip.
• Fixed an issue where Shadow Clones weren’t inheriting Ultimate Skill damage from the No Witnesses Legendary Paragon node.
• Fixed an issue where Thorns damage could apply Skyhunter’s Critical Strike Effect.
• Fixed an issue where the Glyph Upgrade pedestal could spawn directly on top of a player if a Nightmare Dungeon was completed while casting Barrage.
• Fixed an issue where the Aspect of Surprise calculated damage in a way that was inconsistent with other grenade effects.
• Fixed an issue where Enhanced Rapid Fire was giving less Critical Strike Chance than expected.
• Fixed an issue where non-offensive skills, such as Concealment, could consume the buff from Impetus.