Diablo 4 Rogue BuildShadow Step Sicario

Unique Items

No Unique items are used on this build.

Paragon Board Stat Requirements

• Dex: 735
• Str: 440
• Int: 360

Stat Requirements

• Very high Cooldown Reduction: Shadow Step Cooldown of 4 or lower.
• Very high Lucky Hit Chance: 50-60%+

Affix Replacements

• Amulet: Ranks to Exploit can be replaced with Ranks to Malice or Ranks to Frigid Finesse.
• Helm: Maximum Life can be replaced with Dexterity.
• Crossbow and Daggers: Maximum Life can be replaced with Dexterity.

Basic Skills

Puncture is integral to this build and fulfills many needs:

• It heals us constantly through Siphoning Strikes.
• It keeps targets Vulnerable after Exploit Glyph's 3 seconds are over.
• It enables the Tricks of the Trade Legendary Node on every Shadow Step.
• It procs Umbrous Aspect, allowing us to have access to Dark Shroud the most important defensive tool in Rogue's arsenal.

Core Skills

We do not use a Core Skill on this build.

Agility Skills

Shadow Step is our main Damage, Mobility, and Unstoppable skill. As explained earlier, we minimize its Cooldown and increase its Lucky Hit Chance to create a 0 Cooldown Skill that does an inconceivable amount of AoE damage on use.

Caltrops essentially functions as a huge damage multiplier through the Enhanced Caltrops Passive and the Deadly Ambush Legendary Node.

Subterfuge Skills

Smoke Grenade allows us to enable: Enhanced Smoke Grenade, Aspect of Concussive Strikes, Frostbitten Aspect and most importantly, Synergy Aspect. It also provides us with a safe way to enter the fight by having enemies Dazed before we jump in with Shadow Step.

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 it's parabolic scaling.

Imbuement Skills

Cold Imbuement serves two purposes:

• It increases damage against CC/Frozen targets.
• It converts Shadow Step into Cold Damage, which enables Eldritch Bounty and Alchemist's Fortune. The latter allows us to reach the 100% Lucky Hit Chance breakpoint for 100% Victimize proc rate much easier.

Ultimate Skills

Death Trap is used in conjunction with the Preparation Specialization to reset our Cooldowns when needed.

Armor

As of Season 4, it's much easier to reach the Armor cap. Once you hit 9230 you are done.

We hit the cap on this build by getting a Greater Armor Affix with 2x Masterworking on it.

Don't hesitate to grab extra Armor nodes on the Paragon Board to hit the cap when your gear is not optimal.

Resistances

To cap your Resistances in the most optimal way you need to follow these steps:

• Gem a Ruby, Emerald and a Topaz
• Get a ring with Shadow Resistance on it and another with Cold Resistance
• Get one Greater Resistance to All Elements Affix with 1x Masterworking on it.

Remember, if your gear is not ideal, don't worry about it and look to cap your Resistances/Armor any way you can.

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 (2x)
• Resistance to All Elements (1x)
• Attack Speed (1x Crossbow, 1x Dagger)

Maximum Priority Affixes

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

• Ranks to Dark Shroud
• Ranks to Shadow Step

High Priority Affixes

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

• Shadow Step Cooldown Reduction

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.

• Cooldown Reduction
• Lucky Hit Chance
• Critical Chance (Gloves)
• Ranks to Exploit
• Cold Imbuement Lasts for + Casts
• Shadow Step Damage

Low Priority Affixes

These are mostly interchangeable 1x Masterworking affixes.

• Maximum Life
• Dexterity
• Vulnerable Damage

Victimize is a Key Passive that scales with Vulnerable Damage and Lucky Hit Chance to a far greater extent than is immediately apparent.

Victimize = 0.23 x [1 + ((1 + Real Vulnerable Damage) x 1.2 x (1 + (0.03 x Ranks of Malice)) - 1) x 1.2]

As you can see, because of the weird way tooltip values are calculated, with damage multipliers baked in, the value of Victimize is higher than it should be.

On top of that, Victimize also Double Dips with many, if not most, conditional damage multipliers. But what does this mean? Let's take Control Glyph as an example.

Control Glyph states that you do [x]20% more damage against Frozen enemies. This means If you used to do 100 damage, now you will do 100 x 1.2 = 120 against Frozen enemies. If Victimize was scaled to 100% of your damage, then it should also do 120. However, the [x]20% multiplier gets applied to Victimize again, which means it will do 120 x 1.2 = 144 damage.

Known Double Dip Damage Multipliers

• Control Glyph
• Deadly Ambush Legendary Node
• Enhanced Caltrops Passive
• Malice Passive - this one triple dips
• Exploit Passive
• Exploit Weakness Legendary Node
• Chip/Canny Glyphs

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 in 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.