Diablo 4 Rogue BuildS5 Victimize Heartseeker 1-100 Leveling + Endgame Full Progression (Victimize, Heartseeker, Smoke Grenade)

Season 4 changes a lot of things. This warrants a bit of an extended explanation when it comes to defences. This will heavily affects how we gear in terms of DR, which is now MUCH more impactful. Each % increase is rarer but the dmg scaling of enemies takes this into account, making single increases in the paragon board or on gear insanely strong.

Keep your gear updated to not fall behind in Armor. Make sure to upgrade it once you feel like you are taking too much damage from regular enemies. Always compare the gear you are wearing to the gear you pick up! THE ARMOR CAP IS 9230! GET THIS CAP!

Resistances now have a hard cap at 70%. Meaning a 100-damage elemental damage hit would only deal 30 damage. We can further increase this cap with maximum resistance. Endgame elixirs provide you with additional 6% to one element. The 100-damage hit would now be reduced by 76% to 24, which is 20% LESS damage taken than before. This cap can be increased to 85%. This change makes Resistances incredibly valuable.

Rogues get only a bit of free resistances on the paragon board, but will need to use tempers and gems to cap them to 70%.

After you reach Level 70 you should aim to bring all your resistances to 70%!

Each World Tier also penalized you with a resistance debuff! World Tiers III & IV now apply -25% and -50% to Resistance to All Elements. World tier IV overwrites World Tiers III!

And lastly Damage Reduction. This stat works on all damage types and now a lot rarer. We get it through every few sources but it is IMPORTANT to grab somewhere to push further into the pit. Luckily we are blessed with Dark Shroud offering us basically free DR. Its insanely strong and should be included in nearly all builds. However, S5 nerfed it by putting a 1.5 sec cooldown on it. This demands of us to look for other sources of DR like the new Shadow Step upgrade providing us with 20DR.

Lastly, Maximum Life. The Rogue class get surprisingly high amounts of %life on the paragon board, resulting in easy access to 50k+ life. This is curcial for higher pit pushes.

Season 2 also saw some big changes to how you are going to Scale your Damage. Crit Damage and Vulnerable Damage are now all added into the same bucket as all other damage increases like Damage to chilled. They now work as increased damage.

Critical strike are however still useful! A critical strike will now always deal 50% more damage. Meaning a 100 damage hit will now deal 150 damage. Critical Strikes are basically 50% more damage for free.

Vulnerable saw the same treatment with a 20% more multiplier. 100 damage will increase to 120. We want to apply Vulnerable for Victimize procs on targets, alongside the Blast-Trapper's Aspect, which applies the debuff with the Exploit glyph.

The calculation for this is now as follows:

(Base damage) x (Willpower modifier) * (increased damage) x (crit multiplier if crit [static 50%]) x (vulnerable multiplier if vulnerable [static 20%]) x (more multiplier 1) x (more multiplier 2) x (more multiplier 3) x …

Victimize saw a fix for the double dip, which in turn makes it much less powerful. However, they also buffed it by 50% and lowered boss health by a lot. Given all the changes and buffs to other skills and passives we use, we will mostly be fine and even see better performance from this build.

Ranks to Skills are INCREDIBLY STRONG, especially for us! This is the biggest increase to our dmg we can get. Vulnerable is the stat of choice once you can´t grab ranks to skills. Afterwards stack Attackspeed followed by Dexterity. Make sure to grab chance to double cast Heartseeker on your weapons and bring it to 100%.

As for the Paragon board its a great source for your offensive stats but also for additional defences in form of DR and Resistances. Unlock glyph thresholds first before scaling them with additional increases to your damage. Some glyphs need 15 ranks in them to utilize their threshold bonus. Progress from board to board, grab the legendary nodes ASAP and move on to the next board afterwards.

Caltrops increase the dmg an enemy takes by a lot, but they have to stand inside them for a long time. The maximized dmg is also only reached with 2 caltrops duration tempers, which is highly unlikely to happen. We can´t just reapply caltrops for the debuff either, since its going to overwrite the previous instance of f.e. 30% more dmg with 5% dmg and start counting from the very beginning.

This all sounds like duration is the way to go, but i absolutely hate the small size of caltrops and much prefer the bigger field to keep enemies in the zone as well as use it to debuff more enemies. For QoL I higly recommend 1 duration and 1 size temper.

Smoke Grenade is another incredible dmg buff, but its duration is low and cooldown high. We need multiple duration as well as cooldown tempers on our gear to achieve 100% uptime on any target we want. Its also great for disabling enemies with the applied Daze. Make sure to balance your tempers depending on what you need.

There are a few Uniques of note that could potentially benefit us.

UBERS:

S Tier | Harlequins Crest - This Uber Unique is just incredible. Especially now with the added benefit of fixing our armor issues and freeing up an affix on our boots. 4 Ranks to any skill we use is very hard to beat, not because we will get so much more dmg out of this slot, but because we are going to see a massive increase to our defensive capabilities. ☠️Target farm Bosses☠️- Duriel, Andariel, all tormented bosses

S Tier | Andariels - Be careful who you call ugly in previous seasons. This item is absolutely insane now. 30% attackspeed, around 450 life on hit, 80 all stats, 10% maximum poison resist and 666% flat poison res to cap you all in one item. It gives you access to incredible sustain, deletes the threat of poison dmg from the game, gives you a TON of attackspeed on a defensive slot and provides you with a massive 40k poison nova which we can further scale. This bad boi is insanely good for the build. Andariels is the offensive option when comparing it to Harlequins. ☠️Target farm Bosses☠️- Duriel, Andariel, all tormented bosses

A Tier | Tyraels Might - The defensive monster. BIS on nearly all builds in the game, offering you 17% movementspeed, 7.5% MAX RES TO ALL ELEMENTS & 60% Resistance to all elements as well as 20% DR. On top of that we will also get access to a barrage of divine projectiles which we will basically always fire due to infinite Barrier through Temerity and Andariels. A defensive monster. Well, except for Rogues with Dark Shroud. Given the nerf to this skill we can now at least look at other options and think about potential benefits. We get max res, DR, fix all our resitances in one go, but we also lose one aspect slot. This is the more important issues. We can´t lose any aspect slots without sacrifices in terms of dmg or survivability. ☠️Target farm Bosses☠️- Duriel, Andariel, all tormented bosses

1) Victimize The Explosion damage of Victimize has been increased by ~50% to compensate for a bug fix, detailed below.

2) Shadow Step Damage increased by 11% (0.72 to 0.8).

a) Enhanced Shadow Step Previous – Damaging an enemy with Shadow Step increases your Critical Strike Chance against them by 8% for 3 seconds. Now – Damaging an enemy with Shadow Step Dazes and applies Vulnerable to them for 3 seconds.

b) Methodical Shadow Step Previous – Enemies damaged by Shadow Step are Stunned for 2 seconds. Now – After Shadow Stepping, you gain 20% Damage Reduction for 3 seconds.

3) Dash Damage increased by 25% (0.32 to 0.4). Additional functionality: Dash Slows enemies hit by 30% for 3 seconds.

a) Enhanced Dash Previous – Enemies damaged by Dash take 15% increased Critical Strike Damage from you for 5 seconds. Now – Casting Dash increases your Critical Strike Chance by 10% for 5 seconds.

b) Methodical Dash Previous – Dealing damage to Crowd Controlled enemies with Dash reduces its Charge Cooldown by 0.5 seconds, up to 4 seconds per cast. Now – Dash has 1 additional Charge and its Charge Cooldown is reduced by 2 seconds.

4) Caltrops Damage increased by 13% (0.4 to 0.45).

a) Disciplined Caltrops Critical Strike Chance bonus increased from 5% to 10%.

5) Dark Shroud You can now only lose 1 Dark Shroud shadow every 1.5 seconds.

a) Enhanced Dark Shroud Previous – Dark Shroud's shadows have a 14% chance to not be Consumed. Now – Each active Dark Shroud shadow grants you 5% increased Movement Speed and also has a 15% chance to not be Consumed.

b) Countering Dark Shroud You only need 1 active shadow to get the bonus Critical Strike Chance instead of 2. Critical Strike Chance increased from 8% to 10%.

6) Smoke Grenade Additional functionality: Smoke Grenade now deals 45% Physical damage, has a 25% Lucky Hit Chance, and its Skill Ranks now give increased damage and Cooldown Reduction.

a) Enhanced Smoke Grenade Previous – Enemies affected by Smoke Grenade take 25% increased damage from you. Now – Enemies hit by Smoke Grenade take 25% increased damage from you for 5 seconds.

b) Countering Smoke Grenade Previous – Lucky Hit: Dealing direct damage to enemies affected by Smoke Grenade has up to a 25% chance to reduce its Cooldown by 1 second, or by 3 seconds instead if the enemy is Vulnerable. Now – Hitting an Elite or Boss with Smoke Grenade reduces its Cooldown by 5 seconds.

7) Passives a) Concussive Renamed to Unstable Elixirs. Previous – After Knocking Back or Knocking Down an enemy, you gain 4% increased Critical Strike Chance for 4 seconds. Now – Using a Healing Potion Stuns surrounding enemies for 2 seconds and increases your damage by 6% for 5 10 seconds.

b) Trick Attacks Previous – When you Critically Strike a Dazed enemy they are Knocked Down for 0.5 seconds. Now – Dazing or Stunning an enemy increases your Critical Strike Chance by 2% and Critical Strike Damage by 2% for 5 seconds, both up to 12%.

c) Malice Previous – You deal 3% increased damage to Vulnerable enemies. Now – You deal 4% increased damage to Vulnerable or Knocked Down enemies.

8) Paragon a) Cheap Shot – Legendary Node Previous – You deal 5% increased damage for each Nearby enemy that is Crowd Controlled, up to 25%. Now – You deal 5% increased damage for each Nearby enemy that is Crowd Controlled, up to 25%. A Nearby Staggered Boss provides the maximum bonus.

b) Exploit Weakness – Legendary Node Previous – Whenever you deal damage to a Vulnerable enemy, they take 1% increased damage from you for 6 seconds, up to 25%. Now – Lucky Hit: Direct damage to a Vulnerable enemy has up to a 45% chance to increase your damage by 1% for 25 seconds, up to 50%. At 50 stacks, this bonus resets and you Execute all Nearby Non-Boss enemies. Hitting a vulnerable enemy has up to a 60% chance to increase your damage by 1%x for 25 seconds, up to 25%x. At 25 stacks the bonus remains for 6 seconds then expires.

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.

The following Sheet lets you calculate your Attack Speed Breakpoint for various skills. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n0_YA-HE1MvSro5vWBTsMYvtPZPz-nNuftylgHBrQ3o/edit?gid=0#gid=0

This build wants to reach at least the 14 frame (50% Attack Speed on Character Sheet with Elixir) breakpoint and ideally the 13 frame (68.6% Attack Speed on Character Sheet with Elixir) breakpoint .

Sorcerer S5

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Rogue S5

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Druid S5

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