Rotation and Gameplay – Rapid Fire Rogue Build for Diablo 4 (Season 7)

Build Mechanics and Skill Rotation are covered on this page of the Rapid Fire Rogue build guide. Use the buttons below to navigate to the other pages.

Build Mechanics

Rapid Fire has high single-target damage, but normally lacks the Area of Effect (AoE) damage to clear groups of enemies. Scoundrel’s Kiss provides the AoE explosions needed to enable Rapid Fire as a main damage dealer for all situations.

Dash is a Cutthroat Skill that activates Tricks of the Trade for additional damage on the next Rapid Fire. A Smoke Grenade is dropped at the end of Dash with Aspect of Quickening Fog, so Dash can be used offensively to land on top of enemies. Enhanced Smoke Grenade is allocated for enemies to take 25% increased damage.

Dark Shroud is not equipped on the Skill Bar. Dark Shrouds stacks are instead granted through Umbrous Aspect with the high amount of hits per cast from Rapid Fire.

Enhanced Cold Imbuement applies Vulnerable to enemies from Rapid Fire with Cold Imbuement activated or Heartseeker through Coldclip Aspect.

Innervation should provide enough Energy generation if you are taking the time to build 3 Combo Points before casting each Rapid Fire.

Resource Management

Skyhunter and Combat should provide enough Energy generation if you are taking the time to build 3 Combo Points before casting each Rapid Fire. Ring of Starless Skies is an option for additional resource management. You can also reallocate 2 Skill Points from Stutter Step into Innervation.

Crowd Controls and Boss Stagger

Cold Imbuement is utilized to activate Mixed Cold Imbuement, Frigid Finesse, Frostbitten Aspect, and Control for additional damage. These damage bonuses do not apply to Bosses unless they are Staggered.

Chill from Cold Imbuement and Lucky Hit Chance to Stun/Freeze/Daze/Immobilize tempers are utilized to quickly Stagger bosses. Repeated Crowd Controls of the same type in a short duration apply less Stagger to bosses, so separate sources of Crowd Controls are tempered for maximum effect. Make sure to optimize damage against Staggered bosses by activating Cold Imbuement.

Animation Cancel Technique

An Evade can be used immediately after using Rapid Fire to cancel the casting animation. This technique is important to quickly dodge incoming attacks while activating Advanced Rapid Fire. Boots with the implicit effect, Attacks Reduce Evade’s Cooldown, allow for an animation cancel after using 3 Basic Attacks and a Core Skill. Practice hitting Evade after every Rapid Fire to build muscle memory.

Skill Rotation

Use the following rotation to optimize damage output.

1. Activate Concealment to move quickly between packs of enemies, or save it to break any Crowd Controls.
2. Use Evade to activate Advanced Rapid Fire.
3. Use a Potion to activate the damage buff from Unstable Elixirs.
4. Build 3 Combo Points with Heartseeker.
5. Dash on top of enemies to apply Enhanced Dash and automatically drop a Smoke Grenade.
6. Activate Cold Imbuement for damage increases from Mixed Cold Imbuement and Frigid Finesse.
7. Cast Rapid Fire at the target.
8. Immediately animation cancel Rapid Fire with an Evade to restart the rotation.

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