Shadow Step

The Shadow Step Rogue Build Guide teaches you about Gear, Skills, Paragon, Playstyle & Seasonal Mechanics in Diablo 4.

Shadow Step is your main driver of this build and you use it as a Catalyst to proc the Lucky Hit Chance: Deal Cold Damage from Azurewrath. This unique sword and a few other flat damage lucky hit damage sources scale their damage via Attack Speed. Therefore, we try to stack it as much as we can.

• The unique Boots Assassins Stride are mandatory to playing any variant of this build. You can drop them from Lord Zir.
• You can find a very in-depth explanation of everything there is to know further down below. The main focus of the guide is the Endgame variant and the following provides a quick overview depending on which variant you select.

• Activate Shadow Clone whenever it is ready.
• Shadow Clone is a massive damage boost and allows you to score more Lucky Hits to proc Azurewrath.
• Move around by spamming Shadow Step on monsters.
• Casting Shadow Step will not break Inner Calm Aspect. Dash or moving however, will.
• If there are no monsters in range, utilize Dash to cover the distance.
• Hitting enemies with Shadow Step will proc Azurewrath for big damage. This can also proc from the Cleave.
• Shoot Heartseeker every 6-8 seconds.
• You need to do this to keep up Close Quarters Combat.
• The exact timing is dependant on your Heartseeker Duration Temper.
• Drop Caltrops and Poison Trap on Elite packs and Bosses.
• Through the Umbrous Aspect you generate Dark Shrouds through Lucky Hits, securing your defense.

1st of July 2025

• Guide published for Season 9 Sins of the Horadrim