Diablo 4 Rogue BuildHeat-Seeking Heartseeker

You can find the Dance of Knives leveling guide HERE.

We use Raheir with Shield Charge as it makes it much easier for you to cap your Armor and also provides Fortify. Provoke provides you with more damage.

Varyana with Earth Breaker is used to Knockdown, which increases the damage you get from Malice.

Catalyst

You will use Disintegrate as its the lowest Cooldown Catalyst.

With Disintegrate you will use the following Arcanas:

• Fractured Core to disable the very annoying Damage Resistance Aura.
• Gleaming Conduit to make it easier for your Disintegrate to hit enemies.
• Bloody Charm to Execute non-Boss enemies.

Lastly, you will use the Nebulous Extract Infusion to provide you with more Damage Reduction.

Gems

You will use the following Hoadric Gems:

• Scornful Light will make you do more Damage at the cost of taking more.
• Idol From Below provides you with many useful Combat Stats.
• Luminate Eye gives you Shadow Clone Cooldown Reduction.

You will use CirQax for a huge burst of Damage until you get access to Legendary Runes. Then, you will swap to AhuQax.

You will also use PocThul for Damage and Freeze.

It's important to run Elixirs and Incenses at all times. Not only because they increase your Experience gain but also because they provide very strong combat boosts.

For Elixirs you will use Elixir of Advantage for Lucky Hit Chance and Attack Speed.

For Incenses you will use Spiral Morning for Dexterity, Reddamine Buzz for Maximum Life and Soothing Spices for All Resistances and more Armor.

Because the game's server operates in frames (images), Skills can only be cast in a whole number of frames. This means, for example, that you can't cast a Skill in 10.2 frames. To extend this example further, that means that all Attack Speed values that lead to a cast time of 10.01 to 10.99 frames would mean you end up casting at 11 frames, effectively wasting all Attack Speed gains from 11 frames to 10.01.

In order to avoid wasting Attack Speed, you can calculate the Attack Speed Breakpoints for your skills using THIS SHEET.

You might be wondering how frames translate into actual Cast Speed. Because the server runs at 60 frames per second the way we translate frames into Cast Speed is with the formula: 60 / Frames = Casts per Second.

Masterworking

Masterworking (MW) enhances an item's stats. Each MW rank boosts all affixes by 5%. Ranks 4,8,12 give a 25% bonus to a random affix (MW Crit).

In this planner, the color blue on an item denotes that the affix got one MW Crit, the color yellow denotes that the item got two MW crits and the color orange denotes that the item got three MW crits.

For future reference the amount of MW Crits on an affix will be denoted by 1MW, 2MW, 3MW.

Greater Affixes

Greater Affixes (GA) on an item force the affix to roll at the top of it's range of possible values and then applies a 50% increase to its value. GA increases are additive with Masterworking increases.

In this planner, the yellow star to the left of an affix denotes that is a GA.

Example

To put it all in to practice, let's calculate what stat increase a GA Affix on a 12/12 Masterworked item with 2 MW Crits gets:

Ranks 1-3, 5-7, 9-11 all give 5% -> 9 * 5% = 45%

Two MW Crits -> 2 * 25% = 50%

GA = 50%

Total = 45% + 50% + 50% = 145%

Unless a certain amount of a stat is required and no more, like in the case of Attack Speed Breakpoints, Armor and Resistances, GA and MW priority should be easy to follow.

Guides, which follow a Starter -> Midgame -> Endgame progression, are structured such that the difficulty of the MWing outcome and amount of GAs on items also progresses as expected.

For example, a Starter variant will generally have 1GA items with three 1MW affixes. A Midgame variant will generally have 2GA items with a 2MW Affix and a 1MW affix. An Endgame variant will generally have 2GA/3GA items with a 3MW affix.

From this you can derive that the GA on the starter version is the most important, the second GA added is the second most important and the third GA added is the third most important affix.

In the case of Masterworking, 3MW = most important affix, the 1MW in the Midgame variant is the second most important affix and from the Starter variant with three 1 MW affixes you can know which is the third most important affix.

When GA and MW don't align you are most likely in the presence of a stat with a certain threshold you have to meet or a cap and those will be explicitly stated in the guide anyways.

In the case of Uniques GA and MW, progression standards are generally shifted by one as they are easier to MW because they have 4 affixes and also easier to acquire with multiple GAs.

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