Diablo 4 Rogue BuildFlurry Rapid Fire

Unique Items

• Flickerstep: this item is MANDATORY as it enables us to constantly reset Shadow Clone, without it it´s not worth playing this version of the build.
• Tibault's Will: this item is MANDATORY as it enables us to regenerate our energy enough to sustain our damage rotation.
• Grasp of the Shadow: this item can be replaced with Shared Misery, Repeating or Surprise,

If you do not have a MANDATORY item refer to this build for a version of the build that does not use it and works just as well.

Aspects

• Lethal Dusk is mandatory. The rest can be replaced momentarily.

Paragon Board Stat Requirements

• Str: 610
• Int: 620

Use Swords, not Daggers.

Basic Skills

We do not use a Basic Skill in this build.

Core Skills

We use Flurry and Rapid Fire in this build for various reasons:

• By using two Energy spenders we activate Preparation faster.
• Flurry provides AoE, healing and CC
• Rapid Fire provides massive single target damage and energy recovery.
• We need a Marksman Skill and Cutthroat Skill to activate Close Quarter Combat.
• We need to reset our Evade's cooldown with Flurry before we Rapid Fire to cancel the animation.

Agility Skills

In this build we use Dash

Dash is overall a very strong mobility ability that lets you dash across the length of your screen. It's especially good in Preparation builds because using your Ultimate refreshes both charges.

Subterfuge Skills

We use Dark Shroud indirectly on this build.

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% DR and 20% MS for free. For this reason, we DO NOT place Dark Shroud on our cast bar.

In this case we use Rapid Fire as our Marksman Skill.

Imbuement Skills

As detailed in other parts of the guide, Shadow Imbuement is our build's most important skill as it allows us to constantly enter Stealth.

Ultimate Skills

We use Shadow Clone in this build for increased single target damage. On top of that, with the Legendary Node No Witness, we gain [x]60% of our Ultimate Skill Damage as multiplicative damage for 8 seconds after using our Ultimate.

By using Preparation and Flickerstep we should be able to maintain that buff indefinitely.

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 9500 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.

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 damage mitigation.

In my opinion, the most important overall resistance is Poison because it's very prevalent and unavoidable.

In order to cap your Resistances you need 1x Resistance Affix of 4 different Resistances while the rest can be gemmed.

Once you have very high item level jewelry you can do the following to cap Resistances:

• Two rings that give the same Elemental Resistance
• One Elemental Resistance affix on piece of gear
• Gem the remaining three Elements.

Example:

• Penitent Greaves 60% Cold
• Rings 2x 12% Shadow
• Gems 30% Poison, Fire and Lightning
• Intellect 15% All
• Jewlery 28.5% + 2x 12% All
• Paragon Board 28.5% All
• WT4 Penalty -50%

Totals: All: 46 Fire: 30 + 46 = 76 Cold 60 + 46 = 106 Lighting 30 + 46 = 76 Poison 30 + 46 = 76 Shadow 24 + 46 = 70

Close Quarter Combat

When we attack an enemy with a Marksman Skill we get a 10% Attack Speed buff. In this build we use Puncture.

When we attack an enemy Cutthroat Skill we get another 10% Attack Speed buff. In this build we use Twisting Blades.

Once both buffs are active for a total of 20% Attack Speed, we now gain [x]40% of our Damage vs. Crowd Controlled Enemies as multiplicative damage. Since we can get over 400% Damage vs. CC this means we effectively double our damage against crowd-controlled enemies.

No Witness

When we use an Ultimate Skill we get [x]60% of our Ultimate Skill Damage as multiplicative damage for 8 seconds. In this build we use Death Trap.

Since we can get almost up to 200% Ultimate Skill Damage, this means we double our damage whenever No Witness is active.

To try to maintain 100% uptime on this massive buff we use Preparation and Flickerstep alongside high attack speed and resource generation.

This build, like all non-poison builds, can struggle with killing Bosses efficiently. A thing you can do to alleviate this, if survivability is not a problem, is to do an amulet swap before engaging.

Amulet Swap:

• Inner Calm
• Weapon Mastery
• Ultimate Skill Damage
• % Dexterity
• % Cooldown

Vampiric Powers are the Season 2 mechanic.

• Metamorphosis grants us Unstoppable when we evade and applies Vampiric Curse to monsters along our path. This synergizes incredibly well with Tibualt's Will which increases damage by [x]40%. On top of this, our build already wants to Evade as often as possible for Flickerstep.
• Accursed Touch helps spread Vampiric Curses and increase our damage.
• Anticipation further reduces the cooldown of Death Trap and increases its damage.
• Ravenous because all Rogue builds regularly are at the Movement Speed cap or very close to it this power is essentially 40% Attack Speed.
• Prey on the Weak rounds out the build by giving it Vulnerable, which gives us [x]20% damage, on top of another [x]16%.

Placement Order

1. Place Explosive on the first board.
2. Place Devious on the second board.
3. Place Diminish on the third board.
4. Place Closer on the fourth board.
5. Place Turf on the fifth board.
6. Place Control on the sixth board.

Leveling Order

Level 15 1. Devious 2. Diminish 3. Closer 4. Turf 5. Control 6. Explosive

Level 21 1. Diminish 2. Devious 3. Control 4. Turf 5. Explosive 6. Cutthroat