r/D4Rogue

Got GA on crit damage multipler, indestructible, item quality, and gem strength

Update: phew. This was a brutal reality check in my first post here. Turns out my cherished bow sucks and I have to get a better one. I have 5 Lair Boss keys if someone would be willing to take them to high Torment and try to get a better one for me?

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I understand that there are ways that I can screw my item up (based on some heartbreaking posts here). I have an Eaglehorn that I’ve been farming for. It’s not even that great of a roll but it’s mine so I cherish it. I added sockets and started to add mastery (level 11 already).

I’ve heard about tempering, and enchanting, and rerolling afixes, and Codex of Power and it is all terrifying. Can someone recommend to me what else can I safely do to improve my item without messing it up?

I also have other questions about general order of crafting and what steps to follow - someone posted an item they like that they didn’t add sockets to? I thought you can always add sockets - are there things that lock the item at any time without ability to do anything more to it?

Every season this discussion somehow returns:

• “Uhm, actually Sorc teleports more.”
• “BUT, actually Barb is faster.”
• “Bro, my homebrew Blood Lance Necro with 17 movement speed affixes clears just as fast.”

No. You are being lied to and deceived.

Rogue is the closest thing Diablo 4 has to a controlled physics violation. Half the class design reads like the developers accidentally left debug movement enabled and decided to ship it.

Other classes:

• “I move quickly under certain conditions.”
• “I have good traversal.”
• “I can chain mobility skills.”

Rogue:

• permanently Shadow Steps
• ignores terrain
• screen transitions before your party loads in
• enters a new dungeon before finishing the previous one

People confuse "high burst movement" with actual end-to-end speedrunning efficiency. Rogue doesn't just move fast, no my friends, it maintains velocity through combat, routing, objective handling, tactical backtracking, and elite deletion without losing tempo.

That's the difference.

If a build clears a hallway instantly but has to stop every 4 seconds to roleplay resource management, that's not speed. That's interval training.

Meanwhile actual Rogue gameplay looks like:

• Shadow Step
• Death Trap
• Entire room evaporates
• Accidentally complete next objective while trying to pick up Tuning Prisms
• Dungeon over

I finally got tired of the discourse and recorded a full run pushing the current speed benchmark because apparently "trust me bro" wasn’t enough evidence anymore.

Turns out Artifice Shadow Step is the second coming of RNGesus …it just IS fast.

Shocking development for the Diablo 4 community, I know, lol.

I've got a 15 seconds Seer's Reach run and guide details below if you wanna-be Shadow Steppers want to see what actual speed looks like.

Run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBbN6a_asx8

Full Written Guide: https://mobalytics.gg/diablo-4/builds/rogue-death-trap (Infinite Step Variant)

(This post is satire, but also not)

I feel like losing all that Dex and attack speed might be bad. Is crit damage multiplier really that huge?
Thank you

I am playing Freeze Penetrating Shot build. I found these two but cannot figure out what is more important. One rolled with greater affix but the other has almost max roll on unique affix. How would you think this through? Which one to keep and masterwork?

Took far too long to beat this but I did it and with my own build❤️ Nobody seems to be running TB so I havent had much to go off of online.

Next challenge is beating Pit 120 and T12 Mephisto😭

I managed to roll a pretty good 4GA Etna but im not sure if it's better than my 1 GA version. The 4GA rolled a Poison damage while the 1GA has double DoT affixes.

for reference im running a poison TB right now. I wanna know before i transfigure it.

I found this and am using it until I get Shrouded Gift, but I wonder why it isn't the preferred pants for DoK in any builds online. I've run a number of NMD with it and the knives that fall are visible and aren't hard to pick up during the spin, the energy grant is welcome and the damage stack is noticeable. Any insights?