Diablo 4 Rogue BuildPenetrating Shot Rapid Fire

Unique Items

• Harlequin Crest replaces Umbrous Aspectt. Swap in Armor% instead of Maximum Life or Damage Reduction on your Chest if you do. Also, put the 3 Skill Points used on Dark Shroud on Conceal and pick up Mixed Shadow Imbuement.
• Starless Skies replaces Accelerating Aspect.
• Skyhunter is worse than a well-rolled 925 Crossbow but can be a good item to use until you find one. If you do use it, move Edgemaster Aspect to the Amulet slot and Rapid Aspect to the Accelerating Aspect slot.

Item Affixes

• Rings: You can replace Lucky Hit Chance with Critical Strike Damage w/ Imbued Skills
• Swords/Crossbow: You can replace Core Skill Damage with Close Damage or Critical Strike Damage w/ Imbued Skills.

Implicit Affixes

• Use Swords and a Crossbow.
• IMPORTANT: Attacks Reduce Evade Cooldown on Boots.

Paragon Board Stat Requirements

• Str: 540
• Int: 520
• Dex: 750

Jewelry Gemming

Refer to the Armor and Resistances Section.

Basic Skills

We use Puncture because it's the strongest and fastest Basic Skill to enable Combo Points.

Core Skills

We use Penetrating Shot in this build for AoE.

We also use Rapid Fire when we need to do single target damage.

X:1 Rotation means we use X Basic Skills for every 1 Core Skill. For example, 1:1 Puncture -> TB means we alternate between using Puncture and Twisting Blades.

Agility Skills

In this build, and most other Rogue builds, we use Dash.

Dash is overall a very strong mobility ability that lets you dash across the length of your screen.

Subterfuge Skills

We use Concealment in this build and Dark Shroud indirectly.

Concealment provides us with the ability to Stealth, gain Resistances and Max Resistances. When entering Stealth we reduce the cooldown of Shadow Imbuement by 4 seconds because of the Nightstalker Glyph.

Dark Shroud is a mediocre skill by its own because of the very long cooldown but Umbrous allows us to cast it for free when using Marksman Skills. This allows us to get up to 40% Damage Reduction and 20% Movement Speed for free. For this reason, we DO NOT place Dark Shroud on our cast bar.

In this case we use Puncture, Penetrating Shot and Rapid Fire as our Marksman Skills.

Imbuement Skills

We use Shadow Imbuement to Freeze enemies with Icy Alchemist.

Ultimate Skills

We do not use an Ultimate Skill in this build.

Armor

As of Season 2 it's much easier to reach the Armor cap so we no longer have to stack + Armor% on every slot.

You need roughly 7600 Armor to cap with a maxed Disobedience on your amulet and 9200 when the aspect is on an armor slot.

This means you need 2 Armor% affixes when you have Disobedience on an Armor slot and 1 affix when it's on your Amulet.

A third way of Armor capping is to use 3-4 Armor% affixes on your gear.

Resistances

As of Season 2 the Resistance cap is 70% and up to 85% with +15% Maximum Resistance. This is now a very strong stat for elemental damage mitigation.

To cap your Resistances in this build you need 3x Resistance Affix and 2 of the same single Resistance on Rings. You will manage the rest with 1 Diamond and two other Gems.

Example:

• Cold, Lightning and Shadow Resistance on Boots (Cold, Shadow, Lightning, Fire and Poison possible)
• 2x Fire Resistance implicit affix on Rings (Fire, Lightning and Poison possible)
• 1x Amethyst (Shadow Res), 1x Emerald (Poison Res) and 1x Diamond (All Res) on Jewelry Gems.

Senechal Construct is the Season 3 mechanic.

They are a Mech Spider that can be buffed through the use of Tuning Stones to do a wide array of things.

In this case, we use the Tempest skill potentiated with Safeguard and Fortify for Damage Reduction and Evernight for obvious reasons. If you don't have Evernight it can be replaced with Swift.

We also use Flash of Adrenaline combined with Duration, Genesis and Tactical to increase our damage.

You can swap your gloves with another pair with the following characteristics:

• Inner Calm Aspect
• +4 Rapid Fire
• +X% Critical Strike Chance
• +X% Attack Speed
• +X% Dexterity

Shako and Starless

If you are a proud owner of Starless Skies and Harlequin Crest you can use the following version of the build:

Shako

If you only have Harlequin Crest you can use the following version of the build:

More Single Target Damage

If you feel you're fine on AoE and want more Single Target damage you can use the following Paragon Board change: Chip Tricks of the Trade.

02/01/2024

• Changed Paragon Board due to the inclusion of Juggernaught Aspect making capping Armor so easy.
• Optimized Skill Points
• Changed Item Affixes (Armor no longer needed, added LHC on rings, CDR on amulet)

01/28/2024

• Changed Paragon Board
• Added Uber Stones to Seneschal Construct
• Changed Skill Tree
• Changed Aspect layout

01/26/2024

• Changed Paragon Board
• Playing around with Seneschal Construct setups
• Included Duriel One Shot version

01/25/2024

• Changed Seneschal Skills
• Changed Paragon Board
• Added Shadow Imbuement and Icy Alchemist

01/22/2024

• S3 Update

02/01/24