Rain of Arrows

The Rain of Arrows Rogue Build Guide teaches you about Gear, Skills, Paragon, Playstyle & Seasonal Mechanics in Diablo 4 in Season 10.

Rain of Arrows in combination with Word of Hakan will fill your screen with devastating Arrows.

• You will use Smoke Grenade and Caltrops on Bosses and Elites for more Damage.
• If you overlap a new Caltrops over an old one before it expires it will inherit the maximum 45% Damage Multiplier.
• You will use Dash for Mobility.
• You will use Concealment for Unstoppable.
• You will then cast a rotation of 3x Heartseeker -> Rain of Arrows.
• Heartseeker stacks your **Precision for Rain of Arrows to consume.
• Because it takes 3x Heartseeker to proc Preparation two times, you will only be able to cast Rain of Arrows then. This means you won't have to "piano" it.

Rain of Arrows functions by resetting its cooldown constantly through Preparation. We use Heartseeker with Shard of Verathiel and Lucion Crown for that purpose. Later on, when we have access to Chaotic Uniques, we will use Puncture to bypass Ophan Maker's Reload.

Season 10 brings powerful buffs in the form of Chaotic Uniques and new Uniques.

Being able to slot Word of Hakan somewhere that isn't our Amulet is hugely beneficial for the build, as Amulets are the highest damage item.

Orphan Maker is also a huge endgame buff to the build, as its stats are fantastic for the build.

Leveling

You can't level with this build as it requires Uniques to function.

Consider leveling with Dance of Knives, as it is by far the strongest leveling build.

Mercenaries

We will use Subo with Wire Tap for more Movement Speed and Cover Fire for more Critical Strike Damage.

Raheir is also an option if we lack tankiness, as he can provide Armor and Fortify.

For our reinforcement Mercenary, we will use Raheir with Crater to pull in. If we are already using Raheir as our main Mercenary, we will use Aldkin with Field of Langush for more Damage Reduction.

Chaos Perks

We will use A Beast Cornered, in combination with Marred Guard, to do a lot more damage and become incredibly tanky.

Crazy Brew will help us by giving more Attack Speed.

Lastly, Unpredictable Alchemy will increase our damage.

Runes

Initially, we will use Zan + Zec to help lower the Cooldown of Rain of Arrows.

We will also use Poc + Thul for more damage.

Later on, we will use Zan + Jah for Mobility and Poc + Xan for even more damage.

When Pit Pushing, we will replace Jah with Ohm.

Elixirs and Incenses

It's important to run Elixirs and Incenses at all times. Not only because they increase our Experience gain but also because they provide very strong combat boosts.

For Elixirs, we will use Elixir of Advantage for Attack Speed.

For Incenses, we will use Queen's Supreme for Dexterity, Song of the Mountain for Armor and Soothing Spices for All Resistances and more Armor.

Cooldown Reduction

You can use THIS Sheet to calculate your Rain of Arrows Cooldown by making a Copy. We need the cooldown to be 10 seconds.

Attack Speed Breakpoints

Because the game's server operates in frames (images), Skills can only be cast in a whole number of frames. This means, for example, that you can't cast a Skill in 10.2 frames. To extend this example further, that means that all Attack Speed values that lead to a cast time of 10.01 to 10.99 frames would mean you end up casting at 11 frames, effectively wasting all Attack Speed gains from 11 frames to 10.01.

In order to avoid wasting Attack Speed, you can calculate the Attack Speed Breakpoints for your skills using THIS SHEET.

You might be wondering how frames translate into actual Cast Speed. Because the server runs at 60 frames per second the way we translate frames into Cast Speed is with the formula: 60 / Frames = Casts per Second.

Masterworking and Greater Affixes Explained

Masterworking

Masterworking (MW) enhances an item's stats. Each MW rank boosts all affixes by 5%. Ranks 4,8,12 give a 25% bonus to a random affix (MW Crit).

In this planner, the color blue on an item denotes that the affix got one MW Crit, the color yellow denotes that the item got two MW crits and the color orange denotes that the item got three MW crits.

For future reference the amount of MW Crits on an affix will be denoted by 1MW, 2MW, 3MW.

Greater Affixes

Greater Affixes (GA) on an item force the affix to roll at the top of it's range of possible values and then applies a 50% increase to its value. GA increases are additive with Masterworking increases.

In this planner, the yellow star to the left of an affix denotes that is a GA.

Example

To put it all in to practice, let's calculate what stat increase a GA Affix on a 12/12 Masterworked item with 2 MW Crits gets:

Ranks 1-3, 5-7, 9-11 all give 5% -> 9 * 5% = 45%

Two MW Crits -> 2 * 25% = 50%

GA = 50%

Total = 45% + 50% + 50% = 145%

Masterworking and Greater Affix Priority

Unless a certain amount of a stat is required and no more, like in the case of Attack Speed Breakpoints, Armor and Resistances, GA and MW priority should be easy to follow.

Guides, which follow a Starter -> Midgame -> Endgame progression, are structured such that the difficulty of the MWing outcome and amount of GAs on items also progresses as expected.

For example, a Starter variant will generally have 1GA items with three 1MW affixes. A Midgame variant will generally have 2GA items with a 2MW Affix and a 1MW affix. An Endgame variant will generally have 2GA/3GA items with a 3MW affix.

From this you can derive that the GA on the starter version is the most important, the second GA added is the second most important and the third GA added is the third most important affix.

In the case of Masterworking, 3MW = most important affix, the 1MW in the Midgame variant is the second most important affix and from the Starter variant with three 1 MW affixes you can know which is the third most important affix.

When GA and MW don't align you are most likely in the presence of a stat with a certain threshold you have to meet or a cap and those will be explicitly stated in the guide anyways.

In the case of Uniques GA and MW, progression standards are generally shifted by one as they are easier to MW because they have 4 affixes and also easier to acquire with multiple GAs.

Frequently Asked Questions

10/07/2025

• Patch 2.4.1 Update

09/21/2025

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04/27/2025

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01/24/2025

• Updated Board, Merc and Skill Tree

01/23/2025

• Changed back to Barrage as 1:1 + 150 Max Energy makes it possible to play it.
• Added Verathiel Heartseeker variant again for people who don't meet the requirements for the Barrage build.

01/22/2025

• Changed Barrage to HS and added Verathiel, Barrage RoA is just unplayable without macros

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