Diablo 4 Rogue BuildHeat-Seeking Heartseeker

Unique Items

• No Unique items are used on this build.
• Harlequin Crest is used on the Ubers variant.

Paragon Board Stat Requirements

• Dex: 735

Stat Goals

• Lucky Hit Chance: 30%+
• Critical Hit Chance: 25-30%
• Vulnerable Damage: 1100+
• Attack Speed: 14 or 13 frames. Check the detailed section on Attack Speed.

Affix Replacements

• Amulet: Ranks to X can be replaced with Lucky Hit Chance, Critical Chance or even Attack Speed early on.
• Bow and Dagger: Greater Affixes on Maximum Life and Dexterity are replaceable.

Amulet Passive Skill Priority

• +2 Exploit > +2 Malice > +1 Exploit > +1 Malice > +2 Frigid Finesse> +2 Weapon Mastery > GA LHC/Dex% > +1 Frigid Finesse > +1 Weapon Mastery > LHC/Dex%

Basic Skills

Heartseeker is the star of this build. We scale its damage with Moonrise and Adaptability and use the fact that it essentially has 100% LHC from 50% x 2 hits to abuse Victimize, converting its high single target damage into even higher AoE damage.

Core Skills

We do not use a Core Skill on this build.

Agility Skills

Shadow Step is our main Unstoppable skill.

Dash is our main Mobility skill.

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 safely CC mobs to get close and cast Caltrops. It also provides more damage.

Concealment is another source of Unstoppable and the Stealth can be very useful for repositioning.

Imbuement Skills

We don't use an Imbuement Skill on this build.

Ultimate Skills

We don't use an Ultimate Skill on this build.

Armor

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

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

Resistances

The recipe to cap Resistance is explained earlier in the guide, below the gear on each variant.

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

Max Resistances are 70% and up to 85% with enough + Max Resistances. Remember that WT4 gives you a penalty of 50%. This means you need to get to 120% to soft cap your Resistances.

How it Works

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 into 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.

How it Works

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
• Exploit Passive
• Exploit Weakness Legendary Node
• Chip/Canny Glyphs

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
• All Resistances
• Attack Speed
• X Imbuement Lasts for X Casts

Maximum Priority Affixes

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

• Ranks to Dark Shroud
• Ranks to Heartseeker
• Ranks to X Passive
• Caltrops Duration

High Priority Affixes

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

• Dodge on (Boots, Legs)
• Lucky Hit Chance (Gloves)
• Critical Hit Chance (Gloves)
• Cooldown Reduction
• Movement Speed

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.

• Close Quarter Combat: Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies
• Precision: Critical Damage
• Victimize: Vulnerable Damage
• Caltrops Size

Low Priority Affixes

These are mostly interchangeable 1x Masterworking affixes.

• Maximum Life
• Dexterity

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.

This Sheet lets you calculate your Attack Speed Breakpoint for various skills.

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 .

Something to keep in mind is that two Masterworking crits on an affix are worth the same as Greater Affix.

Why Bow over Crossbow?

• You lose a very minor amount of damage and gain a lot of Attack Speed. This leads to more Stagger, better Dark Shroud uptime, more healing, etc.

Why Daggers over Swords?

• Enemies are almost always in close range due to having to use Caltrops. Also, Daggers make your Dash and Shadow Step animations faster. The difference is very minor though, use whatever you have available.

How do I apply Vulnerable?

• Make sure you have either the Lucky Hit: Chance to make Enemies Vulnerable Affix or the Accursed Touch Aspect.

Where is Dark Shroud?

• Umbrous Aspect gives you Dark Shroud stacks on Lucky Hit. This means we do not need it on our Skill Bar.

What Potions do I Run?

• Elixir 1: 15% AS 15% LHC (Advantage II)
• Elixir 2 (Pushing): 15% Max Life (Antivenin)
• Incense I: 25 Dex (Queen's Supreme)
• Incense II: 15 All Stats (Spiral Morning) or 500 Max Life (Reddamine Buzz)
• Incense III: 40 All Stats 5% CSD (Chorus of War)

Does it Matter What Lucky Hit: CC I Temper?

• You ideally want 2x Freeze, 1x Stun, 1x Stun/Daze > Immobilize

What Should be my Stat Priority?

1. 14 Frames
2. 20-25% LHC
3. 30-35% CSC
4. 13 Frames
5. 35-40% CSC
6. LHC = Vuln as much as possible of both

How Much of Each Stat Should I have?

• Lucky Hit Chance: 50%+ with Advantage Elixir
• Critical Strike Chance: 35-40%
• Attack Speed: 13 Frames with Advantage Elixir
• Vulnerable Damage: 1100+ Bottom Tooltip in Town

06/18/2024

• Updating Paragon Board
• Updated Affixes (All Res, Dodge, Crit -> Vuln on ring)

06/09/2024

• Added Reactive Defense on the Skill Tree

06/02/2024

• Added Attack Speed Breakpoints sheet
• Changed Uber Paragon Board slightly (Chip -> Devious, Ranger -> Chip)

05/29/2024

• Updated Board and Affixes very slightly

05/19/2024

• Updated Board and Affixes

05/15/2024

• Updated Build Affixes
• New Paragon Board
• Old Board