In Diablo 4, the Rogue is a versatile and agile class known for its swift and deadly combat style. As a Rogue, you have access to a wide array of weapons, traps, and shadow-based skills, allowing you to adapt to different playstyles and combat scenarios. Welcome to the Diablo 4 Builds guide, where we present our first ranged rogue build for leveling – the Rapid Fire Leveling Build. In this guide, we will focus on single-target damage and mobility, utilizing legendaries from the Codex of Power. 

• Build Skills
• Legendary Aspects (Codex of Power)
• Stats and Gems
• Conclusion

 

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↖ Build Skills

• Puncture (Basic): Start with Puncture as your basic skill. It provides guaranteed vulnerability, which is crucial for dealing with bosses and elites.
• Enhanced Puncture: Improve your Puncture skill for enhanced performance.
• Rapid Fire: Unlock Rapid Fire for its excellent single-target damage output.
• Fundamental Puncture: Obtain Fundamental Puncture to ensure guaranteed vulnerability after using Rapid Fire.
• Enhanced Rapid Fire: Improve Rapid Fire's effectiveness with this skill.
• Improved Rapid Fire: Maximize your core skill, Rapid Fire, to unleash its full potential.
• Shadow Step and Dash: Enhance your mobility by acquiring both Shadow Step and Dash.
• Exploit: Boost your damage against healthy and injured enemies, which will greatly assist your Shadow Imbuement skill.
• Shadow Imbuement: Acquire Shadow Imbuement for its explosive area-of-effect (AOE) damage potential.
• Enhanced Shadow Imbuement and Blended Shadow Imbuement: Improve the performance of Shadow Imbuement, specifically for clearing trash monsters. Blended Shadow Imbuement ensures vulnerability applies to every enemy in the area.
• Max out Shadow Imbuement: Maximize the AOE damage output of Shadow Imbuement.
• Shadow Clone, Prime Shadow Cloud, and Supreme Shadow Clone: Solidify your DPS against bosses and elite packs with Shadow Clone, which can annihilate them in seconds.
• Precision Imbuement: Increase critical strike chance when using Shadow Imbuement, synergizing well with Enhanced Rapid Fire.
• Weapon Mastery and Malice: Invest points into Weapon Mastery for additional damage against vulnerable enemies. Malice further enhances damage against bosses.
• Precision: Focus on Precision to boost critical strike damage. Maximum Precision guarantees critical strikes and increased critical strike damage.
• Enhanced Dash and Shadow Crash: Maximize mobility and benefit from increased critical strike damage when dashing through enemies.
• Consuming Shadows and Adrenaline Rush: Pick up Consuming Shadows to generate additional energy when killing vulnerable enemies. Adrenaline Rush further aids in energy regeneration.
• Haste: Benefit from movement speed and increased attack speed when above or below 50 maximum energy.
• Max out Dash: Reduce Dash's cooldown to enhance its effectiveness as your primary movement skill.

 

↖ Legendary Aspects (Codex of Power)

• Edge Masters Aspect (Amulet): This aspect provides additional damage based on your primary resource, making it highly beneficial for your energy-focused build.
• Aspect of Aerostorms (Ranged Weapon): When using marksman skills, this aspect has a chance to create an aerostorm, dealing extra damage.
• Ravenous Aspect (Armor): Killing vulnerable enemies grants energy regeneration, crucial for sustained energy during trash clearing.
• Aspect of the Expectant (Ranged Weapon): Boost your damage against vulnerable enemies with this aspect.
• Rapid Aspect (Armor): Increase the speed at which you can cast basic attacks, synergizing well with your rapid-fire playstyle.

 

↖ Stats and Gems

• Weapon: Use an emerald gem for increased critical strike damage to vulnerable enemies.
• Armor: Slot rubies for additional maximum life.
• Jewelry: Opt for extra armor to improve damage reduction.
• Stats: Prioritize critical strike chance, critical strike damage, damage versus distant enemies, core skill damage, and imbued skill damage. Vulnerable damage is particularly useful against bosses.

 

↖ Conclusion

The Ranged Rogue Rapid Fire Leveling Build offers a powerful combination of single target damage and mobility. With the right skill choices and legendary aspects, you can quickly eliminate bosses and elites while efficiently clearing trash mobs. Remember to prioritize critical strike chance, critical strike damage, and other damage-enhancing stats for optimal performance.