
The Diablo 4 melee thief build to kill your enemies with daggers and swords, enjoy very good mobility, DPS and resistance!
Principle of the build and skills
What this build is based on:
- physical damage and shadow melee
- lots of area and single target damage
- very good mobility
- lots of critical chance and critical damage
Thief Skills:
- Passage de Lame - Blade Shift: resource and mobility generator
- Flurry - Flurry: primary damage spell
- Shadow Step - Shadow Step: debuff
- Dark Shroud - Dark Shroud: Defensive Skill
- Shadow Imbuement - Shadow Imbuement: damage boost
- Shadow Clone - Shadow Clone: ultimate skill
Skill Order
Here is the order of skills with the total number of points invested in brackets, which you will find on the arc thief build :
- Blade Shift (1), reduced speed and damage (2) (3)
- Flurry (4), liabilities related to vulnerability (5) (6)
- Shadow Step (7), Crit Chance and Stun (8) (9)
- Flurry (10 to 13)
- Dusk Shroud, passive and critical chance (14 to 16)
- Coated in Shadow, critical chance and vulnerable (17 to 19)
- Blade Shift (20 to 23)
- Shadow Clone Ultimate Skill and Passives (26 to 28)
- Coated with Shadow (29 to 32)
- Dusk Shroud (33 to 36)
- Passive Ultimate, reduced damage, speed and energy (37)
- Dusk Shroud (38)
- Passives near Flurry, reduced damage, healing on critical, movement speed (39 to 44)
- Shadow Coating ready passives, coating crits (45 to 47)
- Passives near Dusk Shroud, damage enemies with life and vulnerability (48 to 53)
- Passives ready for Shadow Step, weapon mastery (54 to 56)
- The rest in Shadow Step
Equipment and statistics
Here are the statistics to collect in priority:
- intelligence for critical chance and dexterity for skill damage
- damage, resistances and critical hits
- physical or shadow damage
Specialization
Take combo points to boost the damage of your skills.
This Diablo 4 melee thief build will allow you to have a very resistant character while being ultra mobile and with very good damage! The perfect build for melee play on Diablo 4!
By Alchemists, March 2023
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well I'm starting on d4, I'm going to test your build by leveling :p
It might be good to put a link to a talent calculator to have the full build, or do you prefer people to go to your video?
well it sleeps in there :p