Lucky Luciano's Rogue Paragon Tier List
Optimizing your paragon board can be a daunting task, luckily Lucky Luciano has created a tier list with everything you need to know about the best and worst Rogue paragon board options. For more analysis check out Lucky’s video below, and to find your favorite Paragon build paths check out our Diablo IV Calculator!
D Tier
Starting out with D tier
- Board: Leyrana’s Instinct
- This board features an attack speed rare node which is great, however, it’s hard to get to. Furthermore, locking down the glyph and the legendary node requires a massive number of nodes. Overall, if you've chosen this board you're likely wasting paragon points.
- Important Nodes
- Poison Resilience (life)
- Nimble (Attack Speed + Damage)
- Recommended Glyphs
- Don't use this board
C Tier
- Board: Eldritch Bounty
- This board is only good for imbuements. The niche role this board fills is what ranks it lower than others. It features some good poison-enhancing rare nodes, but once again, these powerful rare nodes are so far away from the glyph socket. Essentially, this board is only worth it for Rogue players running double or triple imbuement builds.
- Important Nodes
- Eldritch Bounty (for Imbuement builds)
- Potent (Imbue + Dex)
- Ready Supply (Imbue + CDR)
- Recommended Glyphs
- Infusion (great for imbuement uptime)
- Combat
- Control
- Tracker
- Board: No Witnesses
- This board is a solid defensive choice, especially when using Efficacy, it features the training node which grants a ton of max health, especially when boosted by Efficacy (this combo grants more max life than any other board in Paragon). However, this board is unfortunately overshadowed by some of the other boards in the system.
- Important Nodes
- Training (Huge Max Life + Dex)
- Ruin (Damage + Crit)
- Knowledge (Damage + Int)
- Recommended Glyphs
- Efficacy (to boost Training)
- Combat
- Control
- Tracker
- Exploit
B Tier
- Board: Deadly Ambush
- A solid offensive and defensive choice for Rogue builds featuring traps. First, the legendary node is incredible with Rogue Trap builds because it grants a massive crit chance buff when damaging enemies affected by traps. The board also features some solid rare nodes like Spring Loaded which decreases trap arm time by a noticeable amount.
- Important Nodes
- Deadly Ambush (Huge for Traps)
- Lawless
- Skillful
- Resilience
- Recommended Glyphs
- Exploit
- Turf
- Bane
- Board: Cunning Stratagem
- This board provides access to a tone of Core Skill Damage and defense. This is especially powerful for poison builds since the Core Damage boost applies multiplicatively. This means that, for poison builds, this board is a must. The main downside of this board is the massive distance between the glyph socket and the legendary node, making it not worth grabbing.
- Important Nodes
- Lawless (Core + Dex)
- Finisher (Armor + Dex)
- Dominate (Core + Basic)
- Cunning Stratagem: The legendary node might be worth grabbing for builds using Rapid Fire, however, other than that it usually is not worth the investment.
- Recommended Glyphs
- Devious (the goal with this, and the others, is to boost magic nodes)
- Diminish
- Versatility
- Bane
- Exploit
- Turf
A Tier
- Board: Starting Board
- Yep, the Starting Board sits firmly in A tier. While it doesn’t have as much in sheer size this board makes up for it in some quality rare nodes and a well-placed glyph slot. At a minimum, you should grab Lawless and Prime for the armor and damage, but also consider grabbing Skillful and Resilience as they provide further damage and some max life.
- Important Nodes
- Pride
- Lawless
- Skillful
- Resilience
- Recommended Glyphs
- Devious
- Diminish
- Versatility
- Ranger
- Closer
- Board: Tricks of the Trade
- An awesome board for offensive stats, with solid defensive choices as well. The legendary node does not work with poison, however, for all other builds it is something you should definitely grab as it adds a multiplicative damage boost, one of the best for Rogues. The legendary node is fairly close to the glyph socket and the board features some very good rare node choices.
- Important Nodes
- Tricks of the Trade (for all builds but poison)
- Lawless (Dex + Armor)
- Focused (DMG + Dex)
- Havoc (Crit + DMG)
- Recommended Glyphs
- Devious
- Diminish
- Versatility
- Ranger
- Closer
- Chip
- Frostfeeder
- Board: Cheap Shot
- Easily one of the best offensive boards in the game with solid defensive options as well. The legendary node on this board is superb in almost any Rogue build as it applies a stacking multiplicative damage boost against crowd-controlled enemies. Not as good on bosses like Uber Lilith, however, in just about everything else it’s the way to go. The board also features some powerful rare nodes like Safeguard that provide great defensive stats, also the glyph socket and legendary node sit close enough that you don’t have to expend too many points to get both.
- Important Nodes
- Cheap Shot
- Safeguard (Damage Reduction + Armor)
- Spearhead (Damage + Armor)
- Devious (Damage + Dex)
- Devious (Dmg + Dex)
- Wiles (Damage Reduction + Dex)
- Recommended Glyphs
- Chip
- Closer
- Ranger
- Frostfeeder
S Tier
- Board: Exploit Weakness
- This board stands out as the single S tier board for one reason alone, vulnerable damage is by far still one of the best stats you can stack on your character. First off the legendary node for this board grants a stacking multiplicative damage boost to vulnerable enemies. Second, this board features almost no bad choices, defensive and offensive for rare nodes, ideally, you grab as much as you can here since you’ll get access to defensive stats, max life, vulnerable damage, and much more.
- Important Nodes
- Exploit Weakness
- Artifice (Vulnerable Damage + Dex)
- Exploit (Vulnerable Damage + Damage)
- Unassailable (Damage Reduction + Armor)
- Cold Resilience (Life)
- Recommended Glyphs
- Control
- Exploit
- Turf
- Bane
- Tracker
That wraps up Lucky Luciano’s Rogue Paragon Tier List! Below you’ll find a link to Lucky’s spreadsheet which features all the information shown above and more! Don’t forget to check out Lucky’s Channel and our Diablo IV Build Calculator to test out the damage yourself!
