Diablo 4 Rogue BuildHeat-Seeking Heartseeker

Unique Items

• Tyrael's Might is not mandatory but will greatly increase your survivability.
• Paingorger's Gauntlets are required to have some type of AoE damage. They also add a decent amount of damage.
• Shard of Verathiel is absolutely mandatory.

Paragon Board Stat Requirements

• None

Stat Goals

• 11 frame breakpoint.
• 50-55% Critical Strike Chance.

Affix Replacements

Amulet Passive Skill Priority

Basic Skills

Heartseeker is the star of this build. We scale its damage with Moonrise, Adaptability, Cold Clip, Shard of Verathiel and many other multipliers to do a massive amount of damage.

Core Skills

We do not use a Core Skill on this build.

Agility Skills

Shadow Step is our main Unstoppable and mobility skill.

Caltrops essentially functions as a huge damage multiplier through the Enhanced Caltrops Passive and the Deadly Ambush Legendary Node. It also helps proc Paingorger's mark.

Subterfuge Skills

Smoke Grenade allows us to safely CC mobs to get close and cast Caltrops. It also provides more damage and enables Paingorger's Gauntlet.

Imbuement Skills

We use Cold Imbuement on this build because Cold Clip does not proc the Eldritch Bounty Legendary Node.

Ultimate Skills

We use Rain of Arrows with Preparation to get 15% DR, x39% damage from No Witness and to reset our cooldowns.

Rain of Arrows is insane to spam and generate fields of arrows to enable Paingorger's Gauntlets by marking your enemies.

How it Works

Dark Shroud is used passively through the Umbrous Aspect and therefore does not need to be placed on our Skill Bar. Dark Shroud is an insanely powerful defensive skill in Season 4 because of its parabolic scaling. This means that it gets stronger the more we invest into it.

Level 1 Dark Shroud provides 40% DR at 5 stacks. Level 5 Dark Shroud provides 48% DR at 5 stacks. 1 - (1-48%)/(1-40%) = 13.33% effective DR increase. Level 15 Dark Shroud provides 68% DR at 5 stacks. 1 - (1-68%)/(1-48%) = 39.5% effective DR increase. Level 19 Dark Shroud provides 76% DR at 5 stacks. 1 - (1-76%)/(1-68%) = 25% effective DR increase.

As you can see, the more we increase our Dark Shroud level the stronger each level gets. Going from 1 to 5 is equivalent to adding a 13.33% DR affix while going from 15 to 19 is equivalent to adding a 25% DR affix.

Although this guide shows the most optimal gear setup, it's not easy to acquire and generally compromises must be made. For that reason, it's important to understand how the different affixes rank in terms of Masterworking priority.

Breakpoint Affixes

These affixes and their exact Masterworking values are used to reach specific breakpoints.

• Armor
• All Resistances
• Attack Speed
• X Imbuement Lasts for X Casts
• Innervation

Maximum Priority Affixes

These should be 3x Masterworking at all costs as they are incredibly powerful affixes.

• Ranks to Dark Shroud
• Ranks to Heartseeker
• Ranks to X Passive

High Priority Affixes

These should ideally be 3x Masterworking but are not an absolute necessity.

• Damage per Dark Shroud stack.
• If using the Precision Key Passive: Critical Damage

Medium Priority Affixes

These should ideally be 2x Masterworking, although exceptions exist when other affixes of the same priority level or higher co-exist on the item.

Low Priority Affixes

These are mostly interchangeable 1x Masterworking affixes.

• Maximum Life
• Dexterity

To explain what Attack Speed Breakpoints are we first need to understand how the game works.

• The server operates at a fixed 60 FPS, irrespective of your ingame FPS.
• Because casts can only take a discrete amount of frames to go off this leads to the existence of breakpoints.
• A cast can't take between X.01 and X.99 frames. For example, Attack Speed values that should lead to a cast speed between 20.01 to 20.1 will all lead to 21 frames.
• Because the server runs at 60 FPS we can find our real cast speed by calculating 60/Frames. For example, if your Heartseeker cast takes 15 frames, that translates to 60/15 = 4 attacks per second.

This Sheet lets you calculate your Attack Speed Breakpoint for various skills.

This build wants to reach at least the 11 frame breakpoint

Something to keep in mind is that two Masterworking crits on an affix are worth the same as Greater Affix.

08/15/2024

• Big Changed all around

08/05/2024

• S5 Update

06/18/2024

• Updating Paragon Board
• Updated Affixes (All Res, Dodge, Crit -> Vuln on ring)

06/09/2024

• Added Reactive Defense on the Skill Tree

06/02/2024

• Added Attack Speed Breakpoints sheet
• Changed Uber Paragon Board slightly (Chip -> Devious, Ranger -> Chip)

05/29/2024

• Updated Board and Affixes very slightly

05/19/2024

• Updated Board and Affixes

05/15/2024

• Updated Build Affixes
• New Paragon Board
• Old Board