
# Thunderspike Evade Build Guide (Season 6)
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This build focuses on **high mobility** and **massive lightning damage** using **Thunderspike** combined with the **Sepazontec** quarterstaff. It’s one of the fastest builds in Diablo 4 and excels at evading attacks while spamming devastating strikes. With nearly infinite evade and strong crowd control, this build is designed to clear high-tier content easily.

## Skill Tree

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### Main Skill
- **Thunderspike**: our core skill, benefiting from **Sepazontec**'s unique property of always triggering the third, most powerful attack. Max this out and use **Accelerated Thunderspike** to 100% Bypass your Evade Cooldown and Evade Non Stop!

### Crowd Control
- **Vortex**: Essential for grouping enemies to maximize AoE damage with Thunderspike. Vortex pulls enemies together and allows for efficient clearing.

### Single-Target Damage
- **Ravager**: Use this skill on bosses and elites to deal heavy single-target damage. **Ravager** also synergizes with your kit providing buffs from **Jaguar** Bonuses.

### Defensive Skills
- **Armored Hide**: Provides damage reduction and increases your survivability through block chance. It’s a key skill for staying alive in high-level content.
- **Counterattack**: Grants additional dodge chance and stacks with your evade abilities, making you even harder to hit during combat.

### Ultimate
- **The Protector**: Use this ultimate to gain <ins>Unstoppable</ins> when facing bosses or dangerous elite enemies. It removes crowd control and enhances survivability in critical moments.

## Gear Aspects and Priority

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### Offensive
- **Conceited Aspect**: You deal increased damage while your barrier is active.
- **Aspect of Unyielding Hits**: Increases your weapon damage based on armor, which synergizes well with **Armored Hide** and other defensive stats.
- **Aspect of Elements**: Boosts your lightning damage across all skills, making Thunderspike and other lightning attacks even more potent.
- **Aspect of Redirected Force**: Provides a critical strike damage bonus based on block chance, helping you deal extra damage when blocking.

### Defensive

- **Aspect of Interdiction**: Increases block chance with resolve stacks.
- **Aspect of Layered Wards**: Boosts block reduction.

## Recommended Unique Items

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- **Sepazontec**: This is the core of the build. It modifies Thunderspike, allowing it to always use its third, most powerful attack. Essential for both cooldown reduction and high damage output.
- **Loyalty's Mantle**: Doubles Spirit Boon bonuses, greatly amplifying movement speed and damage.

## Sockets, Gems, and Runes

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- **Armor**: Use **Royal Emerald** to boost dexterity.
- **Jewelry**: Use **Royal Skull** to boost armor.
- **Runewords**: Use **Cem** **Que** for Barrier.
- **Runewords**: Use **Cir** **Gar** for Crit.

## Paragon

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### Glyph leveling priorities

1. **Jagged Plume**: Boosts your main abilities, increasing both damage and survivability.
2. **Fulminate**: Enhances lightning damage, maximizing Thunderspike’s effectiveness.
3. **Spirit**: Increases non-physical damage output, scaling well with your lightning-based attacks.

## Playstyle and Rotation

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While playing the **Sepazontec Thunderspike Evade Build**, your priority is to stay mobile by spamming **Evade** to reset cooldowns and position yourself. Use **Vortex** to gather enemies, then unleash **Thunderspike** for massive AoE damage. Against tougher enemies, activate **Ravager** for powerful single-target strikes.

1. **Evade** constantly to keep cooldowns low and reposition.
2. **Vortex** to group enemies, then spam **Thunderspike** to deal lightning damage.
3. Use **Ravager** against bosses or elites.
4. Keep **Armored Hide** and **Counterattack** active for defense.
5. Use **Protector** when facing crowd control or dangerous bosses.

## Conclusion

The **Sepazontec Thunderspike Evade Build** is one of the fastest and most powerful Spiritborn builds in Diablo 4, excelling at high-tier content. Its focus on mobility, lightning damage, and strong defenses makes it a top choice for players seeking a highly mobile and destructive playstyle.



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# Bleed Rend Barbarian Guide (Season 3)
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Season 3 added a way for builds to stockpile power in the form of great buffs from Senechal Constructs and the way to have constant sources of Damage Buffs, Fortify and Resource Generation. It allows many builds to just drop Basic Attack while adding more QoL and Survivability / Damage Boosts.

One of those builds is Bleed Rend Barbarian that can be considered one of the strongest builds in the current meta due to the addition of new Unique Ring and Charge buffs.

All of the changes make Bleed Barbarian a proper S tier build with good enough single target to instantly kill Uber Lilith and enough Speed / Tankiness for easy clears of Tier 100 Nightmare Dungeons.

This Build Guide is mostly focusing on the endgame qualities of the Bleed Rend Barbarian Build so to try it out you should have at least a 60+ level character with access to paragon. 
To get more paragon points you can check out our [Altar of Lilith Map](/map). 

## Skill Tree

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### Main Skill
- Rend - Is the main skill of the build which is used constantly to deal with tougher enemies.
By itself and through the passive bonus from Furious Rend + Aspect of unrelenting Fury it is very Fury efficient and could be used non stop when needed without losing any particular resource and staying on top of it for various bonuses.
Skill applies Bleed to the enemies and deals a small portion of phys damage when hits.

### AoE Damage / Crowd Control
- Charge - After HUGE buff in Season 3 Charge Became an amazing damaging skill for any Barbarian build out there. It works especially good with Bleed Rend Barbarian builds because it stacks well with Ring of the Ravenous bonus which allows Charge to apply bleed from REND to the enemies, raising the damage of it even higher.
Due to different ways of lowering Cooldown Reduction on items and amazing passive - Power Charge, we can just spam Charge without any cooldown if we hit at least a few enemies with it. Use it to deal with Packs and to CC / Damage rares while ragdolling them through your screen!  

### Finisher / Starter
- Rupture - the main ability which we use to start and to finish all our fights with rares or bosses. We also have 2 Charges of it due to Weapon Master Aspect so you should always have Rupture up to finish off an enemy. It is also recommended to start harder fight with it jsut to get a huge 40% Attack speed Bonus from Warrior's Rupture Passive.
By mechanic itself Rupture allows the Barbarian to deal all the Bleed damage to the enemy instantly without waiting therefore finishing them off.
(Check out the video with corresponding timestamp for a showcase of that process).

### Utility / Movement Speed
- Rallying Cry - This is the main reason why Barbarians can move so FAST! It gives you Unstoppable + 30% movement bonus together with resource generation boost as well. In the Bleed rend barb build we need to click Rallying Cry all the time to constantly have all the bonuses while running around. 
Also since we don't have a Generator we need to use Rallying Cry at the start of every fight to receive 20 fury from Tactical Rallying Cry bonus.

### Damage Boost
- War Cry - Great shout for a consistent Damage boost and the Berserking bonus from the Echanced War Cry passive. It is mostly used for bossing or when encountering tough rares. 

### Ultimate
- Wrath of the Berserker - An awesome way to boost damage of any Barbarian build even further. It provides you with a consistent Berserking bonus together with Unstoppable and stacks great with Unconstrained passive. Click it every time when you encounter any tough enemies or just need to break the CC.

### Alternative skills
For Bleed  Rend Barbarian build All Alternative skills should replace War Cry.

- Challenging Shout - if you feel like you want to add more survivability - this is your best pick. It is an amazing defensive skill which can provide you with 40% damage reduction boost and 20% more maximum Life Due to Enhanced Challenging Shout.

- Leap - Another great way to improve mobility of the Barbarian even further, allows you to jump from pack to pack while receiving Berserkering bonuses from Battle Fervor passive.

### Notable Passives
- Imposing Presence - Free way to boost life up to 18% which is picked in most of the Barbarian Builds - helps with tanking oneshots and staying more tanky in General

- Invigorating Fury -  Nice tool to Heal the character passively while spending fury for Rend casts - helps to stay at maximum health consistently.

- Unconstrained - An amazing All Round passive which boosts the damage bonus from Berserkering to the whooping 100%. Since we can get Berserkering from so many different ways applied to the character in almost 100% of cases - therefore an absolute must have for most Barbarian builds. 

### Alternative Core Passive
- Gushing Wounds - the only possible Alternative which requires a lot of critical strike chance / damage in the build. The only way it could be effective is the usage of Grandfather to boost crit damage. usually behind Unconstrained on average and is not recommended.

## Seneschal Construct 

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## Gear Aspects and Priority

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### Offensive

- Aspect of Limitless Rage - Since we are receiving a lot of Fury everytime when Senechal hits enemies (every 0.8s) we can consistently benefit from staying on top of the Fury and getting more damage for Rend this way. 

- Aspect of Unrelenting Fury - main Aspect that helps with resource management on bosses or when clearing huge packs. Aim for higher numbers to always stay at top of Fury. 

- Aspect of Ancestral Charge - A must have pick for any Barbarian Build in Season 3. Provides a lot of Crowd Control and AOE damage for Charge. 

- Edgemaster's Aspect - With Bleed Rend Barbarian build we need to stay at maximum fury at all time so Edgemaster's Aspect looks like an obvious choice which can provide a significant damage boost.

- Accelerating Aspect - Consistent Attack Speed boost which procs after every time Core skill crits and helps with rising AS even higher. Even considering that we do not stack Critical Strike Chance the Rend will still crit from time to time applying that bonus reliably. 


### Defensive

- Juggernaut's Aspect - Best way to get maximum Armor now without overcomplicating your items. Works on any item but just perfect at the Amulet to reach numbers more easily. 

- Iron Blood Aspect - Since we Bleed our Enemies both with Charge AND rend it provides a great Damage Reduction bonus in all dungeons and boosts survivability by far. 

- Ghostwalker Aspect - The way to boost our incredible Movement Speed even higher! Since we have a way to stay Unstoppable most of the time due Shouts and Charge the bonus should be up most of the time.

### Alternative Aspects

Most of Alternative options for the offensive aspects should replace Aspect of Accelerating.

- Veterans Brawler's Aspect - A decent option for boosting AOE clear while adding bonuses for the Charge spam.

- Brawler's Aspect - Another good option to boost AOE Clear of the build and Stack synergy for our Charge. 

## Recommended Unique Items

- Ramaladni's Magnum Opus - The most important Unique for any Max Fury Barbarian Build.
Provides a crazy amount of Multiplicative damage and allows us to stack Fury for boosting damage numbers. Should be USED for attacking to provide the bonuses, so allocate Dual Wielding for all Skills. 

- Ring of the Ravenous - New Uniques Ring that both Boosts our Bleed Damage through Rend Duration and Adds stacks of bleed when we hit with Charge - an absolute must have.

- Tuskhelm of Joritz the Mighty - A great way to boost Berserking bonuses while receiving Cooldown and max Fury. 

- Harlequin Crest (Shako) - Best In Slot helmet for all Barbarian Builds. Can give us the same Damage Reduction as an Aspect of Might without additional conditions.
Can also provide a significant Maximum Life increase together with Resource Generation and amazing +4 Ranks to all Skills bonuses. If you have the Harlequin Crest you definitely should use it in the build.

## Sockets and Gems

Most of the Gem picks are pretty common through all Barb builds so they will be pretty easy to acquire early in the game.

For armor slots the best pick will be  Royal Ruby everywhere to stack our health higher for  survivability. We can have 1 in the helmet, 2 in the Chest armor and 2 in the pants for a total of 5 stones. 
It can give about 20% of additional Maximum Life which is a very strong bonus - make sure you always have all 5 gems on.

For the weapons we are using Royal Amethyst since Damage over time is our main damage source
In the jewelry Royal Diamond x2 + 1 additional Gems that compensate the resistance we don't have on Boots is the best option. The last gem could vary so just check which res you are missing on your helmet and boots and use that. In my example it is a Royal Amethyst .
You can also try to use different stand alone gems instead of the Royal Diamond to boost resistances that you don't have, to close the gap.

## Resistances

In Season 2 the resistance system was revamped heavily. Now to reach best survivability we will need to cap most of them - ideally all to a maximum of 70%. It could be done though a variety of options. 

For the Barbarian builds - you can pick some of them in the paragon but ultimately you will need to roll resistances on Gear. Best place to do so would be Boots since there are not a lot of good bonuses except the movement speed.

You can also roll some of those on the Chest armor to reach the cap. 
Always make sure that you have at least 60%+ to stay alive in higher Nightmare Dungeons without any issues and have better gameplay experience overall.

For this purpose you can use various Gems in your Jewelry which are covered in the previous section.

## Expertise

For the Bleed barbarian Two-Handed Axe expertise Still stands as the best option. Two-handed Axe just for general bonuses is also a superior option since we can't benefit from Critical strike damage. 

## Weapon Choices
Most of the Time Axe + Ramaladni will be the best option for damage boost. 
Doombringer could be a great option instead of the normal Sword as well, mostly boosting Survivability which is pretty important.

## Paragon

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With the current paragon setup we are mostly focusing on getting bonuses to Damage to stack Bleed and Damage Over Time even further.
Some survivability nodes should be taken as well in the form of Basic Resistances and Additional Armor which should help in both Tier 100 Dungeons and against Uber Bosses.

### Glyph leveling priorities

1. Territorial - A really important Glyph which provides both some DR and damage boost. Works great since we are always close to the enemies.
2. Ire - Gives an amazing damage while Berserking boost which stacks so well with Blood Rage unique Node.
3. Disembowel - An basic way to boost Damage over time further.
4. Exploit - Gives us Vulnerable bonus to boost Bleeding damage Through Hemorrhage Uniques Node. It also provides an Utility bonus in terms of making enemies vulnerable even without Puncture interaction.
5. Ambidextrous - The last glyph to level for the Bleed Rend Barbarian build - it is mostly taken for boosting the Damage While berserking in the last board to stack our Blood Rage uniques node.

## Playstyle and Rotation

While Playing Bleed Barbarian we need to constantly Charge enemies moving them around the screen and creating groups with Charge spam. 
After enemies are grouped together you can spam a few Rend's and finish off the pack with rupture. Most of the enemies will stay in heavy CC so will be unable to properly attack you.

When encountering tougher enemies like bosses and Uber Bosses - it is a great idea to start a fight with Rupture for attack speed bonus and then move to spamming Rend until you have enough Bleed on the foe to finish it off with  rupture. While fighting single target spamming Charge is not necessary but could be used to update or apply Berserking bonus. 


## Conclusion

The Bleed Rend Barbarian Build is a proper Jack of all trades that can clear Dungeons amazingly fast while staying Tanky and showcasing great single target Damage. Due to various changes it can utilize both the New Unique Ring and Charge to Storm through content with ease.





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# Rapid Fire Rogue Guide (Season 3)
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The build packs an amazing punch being able to instantly destroy any enemy from Uber Lilith to bosses in Tier 100 Nightmare Dungeons.
It is all content viable without changing anything in the setup and can showcase both - great Speedfarming capabilities due to innate Rogue Movement Speed which is the best in the current game and insane Single Target / Aoe damage.
Survivability is less impressive but since the build is Ranged and can pick enemies from distance it should be enough for most of the content.

Rapid Fire itself is a pretty versatile skill and one of the strongest options for all Ranged Rogue builds!

Due to pretty low resource cost and various mechanics that can help with fast regeneration - the Rapid Fire Rogue build can always stay at the maximum resource so you can avoid worrying about additional management and use Edgemaster Aspect to the fullest. Combine it with Victimize + X'fal AOE and crazy Combo points single target and you will get an absolute Beast of a Build!!

This Build Guide is mostly focusing on the endgame qualities of the Rapid Fire Rogue build so to try it out you should have at least a 60+ level character with access to paragon. 
To get more paragon points you can check out our [Altar of Lilith Map](/map). 

## Skill Tree

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### Main Skill
- Rapid Fire - Is the main skill of the build which is used for both AoE (through the Aspect of Repeating) and Single target. When used the skill will fire a set of arrows with some additional one based on combo points spent. 
Combined with Tibault's Will (Which can provide additional Maximum combo points due to unexpected interaction) and Condemnation it can shoot a set of 20+ arrows in one click doing an insane amount of damage. Improved Rapid Fire passive can also make sure that you will not spend any energy since it can refund almost the full cost of the skill for hitting a Vulnerable enemy.

### Generator
- Puncture - Our basic attack and the generator that should be used a few times after every Rapid Fire cast to restack Combo Points to the maximum and buffing your next Rapid Fire cast.
It can also make enemies Vulnerable with Fundamental Puncture Passive if at least 2 out of 3 blades hit the enemy. Since we need to use Puncture after every single cast of Rapid Fire it synergizes with Moonrise very well, providing strong Attack Speed bonuses and Movement Speed bonuses as well. 

### Defense
- Dark Shroud - Signature Rogue defensive ability that can lower the damage that you receive based on the amount of Shrounds that you currently have. Can significantly boost survivability and help with avoiding one shots in tough situations. Provides very strong Critical strike bonus through Countering Dark Shroud.
Alternatively Subverting Dark Shouds can be used to boost movement speed even further for such purposes as Speed Farming.

### Crowd Control
- Shadow Step - Main CC ability for any Rogue build, which can provide a source of Unstoppable, movement ability, and a 2 second Stun via Methodical Shadow Step . It can also add a significant amount of Critical Strike Chance because of Enhanced Shadow Step passive as well.

### Imbuement Skills
- Poison Imbuement - Unique set of skills for a Rogue build that can imbue your weapons with a particular element. Poison Imbuement will make 2 of the next used skills do the Poison Damage instead of Physical one and Poison the enemies as well. It is the main source of additional damage which can be easily stacked further and should be used at all times.

- Shadow Imbuement - A second Imbuement skill which is mostly used as an alternative damage amplifier at the start of the fight or when your Poison Imbuement is on Cooldown. 
Can make all your Non-physical damage higher with Mixed Shadow Imbuement and increase your Critical Strike Chance against all injured enemies inflicted with Shadow Imbuement via Enhanced Shadow Imbuement .

### Alternative skills

- Smoke Grenade - The strongest Crowd Control skill for almost any Rogue build in the current meta. Should be used in higher tiers Nightmare Dungeons if you feel like you need more CC to boost overall survivability of the build. Can also greatly increase your damage with Enhanced Smoke Grenade passive.

- Dash - Fastest moving ability in the Rogue builds skill kit. Can be used if you want to go even FASTER.
Concealment - A pretty Unique disengaging ability for Rogues that can be used to avoid unnecessary fights while speedrunning dungeons for glyph experience.

### Notable Passives
- Victimize - Core passive that utilizes our huge Vulnerable bonus that we stack everywhere in the build. Can help with both AOE and single target burst.

- Innervation - another part of the Rogue kit that can make sure that we will always have enough resource. Together with our amazing Attack Speed and constant stream of arrows from Rapid Fire we can proc it often enough to ensure that energy will stay at maximum at all times to get bonus from Edgemaster's Aspect .

- Debilitating Toxins -  a great Survivability passive that can make all poisoned enemies deal less damage.

- Haste - an amazing source of Movement Speed for every Rogue build out there. Can also provide attack speed but since we never drop lower than 90% of resource should be used only for the movement speed bonus.

### Alternative Core Passive
- Close Quarters Combat - an interesting alternative to the Victimize mostly used in other Rogue builds such as Twisting Blades Rogue or Flurry Rogue. Since you will need to use both Marksman and Cutthroat skills together - you can use Puncture and follow it with Shadow Step to get the bonus. If you are using this passive it would be a great idea to take Dash as well to make it easier to proc it with Dash + Puncture combo too.
However attack speed boost from it could be a nice addition to the build for people who prefer speed over everything else which can be a theme for Rogue builds as well.


## Seneschal Construct 

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## Gear Aspects and Priority

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### Offensive

- Edgemaster's Aspect - One of the best available aspects for the damage increase and core aspect for Rapid Fire Rogue build. Since we are always staying at almost maximum resource should always provide a huge 40% damage increase. Always should stay at two handed weapon for maximum benefit.

- Repeating Aspect - A special aspect that works directly with Rapid Fire based builds and gives the chance for rapid fire arrows to ricochet to another target. Invaluable aspect for AOE and overall clear in the dungeons. Placed at the Amulet to ensure that the ricochet percentage will be high enough.

- Aspect of Corruption - Strongest pick for any Rogue build that focuses on imbuements. The 40% potency increase from it will provide a significant poison damage increase when Poison Imbuement is used. Just make sure that you use Puncture often enough to always keep enemies Vulnerable.

- Aspect of the Expectant - Since we are using Puncture at least 2-3 times after every cast of Rapid Fire this aspect can help to capitalize even higher on this situation providing up to 30% damage increase

- Accelerating Aspect - Reliable and straightforward Attack Speed boost which procs after every Core skill critical and helps with rising AS even higher shortening the animation of Rapid Fire as well.

### Defensive

- Aspect of Disobedience - Still the best way to ramp up armor in the toughest situations for any build out there, and is therefore the most important defensive aspect due to the huge bonus it can provide.

- Aspect of Might - Since we need to Puncture after every cast of rapid Fire this aspect is a constant source of 20% Damage Reduction so should be picked in the most cases.

- Ghostwalker Aspect - The way to boost our incredible Movement Speed even higher!

### Alternative Aspects

Most of Alternative options for the offensive aspects should replace Aspect of Accelerating and most of the defensive ones should replace Aspect of Might.

- Aspect of Inner Calm - Good damage multiplier that can increase single target damage even more if you stay in one place. Due to the animation you are standing at one place when Rapid Fire is used so it could be a valuable option for Rapid Fire Rogue Build.

- Aspect of Pestilent Points - Interesting aspect for all poison based Rogue Builds - can make our Puncture even stronger by applying more poison to get bonuses from Debilitating Toxins and Alchemical Advantage.

- Aspect of Bursting Venoms - Mostly a way to increase your Poison Imbuement uptime since it can heavily help with  the cooldown.

- Mangler's Aspect - great way to constantly daze all vulnerable enemies therefore boosting survivability. Mostly used for higher Nightmare Dungeons.

- Cheat's Aspect - Can be used with Penitent Greaves Unique boots to get additional survivability since any close enemy will be chilled and therefore crowd controlled.

## Recommended Unique Items

- Tibault's Will - The most important Unique for any combo points based Rogue build.
Due to unintended interaction can provide as many additional combo points as Maximum resource bonus written on the item. Therefore perfect Tibault's Will should have +18 Maximum Resource. Can also provide additional damage and resource when you are becoming unstoppable which should happen constantly when you evade with Metamorphosis .

- Condemnation - Second Unique of the build which is essential and shouldn’t be replaced. Gives us a chance to generate more combo points when attacking with Puncture . Synergizes with Tibaults maximum combo points unintended interaction and can provide up to 21 combo points.

Always make sure to use a few Puncture attacks right after Rapid Fire to proc it.

- X'Fal's Corroded Signet - A pretty great item that can provide a various stat set that can compliment the build. Damage Over Time for the initial poison ticks, lucky hit chance to proc various effects and X'Fal's Corroded Signet itself. Cooldown Reduction can help with Poison Imbuement uptime.
And the Unique part can provide an awesome Poison eruption that can add both single target and AoE damage to the whole build kit.

- Harlequin Crest (Shako) - Best In Slot helmet for all Rogue Builds and especially for Rapid Fire Rogue. Can give us the same Damage Reduction as an Aspect of Might without additional conditions.
Can also provide a significant Maximum Life increase together with Resource Generation and amazing +4 Ranks to all Skills bonuses. If you have the Harlequin Crest you definitely should use it in the build.

## Alternative Unique Items

- Grasp of Shadow - Awesome gloves that could be a valuable addition to any Rogue build mostly due to strong +6 to all Core skills bonus and innate attack speed. However, the downside of losing critical strike chance and offensive aspect could be a reason to avoid them.

- Penitent Greaves - Strong boots that can provide a constant crowd control uptime in the form of chill. Can be used together with Cheat's Aspect for better survivability and easier speed runs through dungeons.

- Doombringer - A really good alternative to the second Sword or dagger. Could be used to heavily improve survivability due to significant Maximum Life Bonus (about 41% for upgraded version). Lucky hit proc can synergize without high Lucky Hit chance as well and can heal the character pretty often.

- Skyhunter - Decent alternative to the crossbow which is usually not picked due to the lack of Vulnerable damage bonuses and the loss of Two Handed Edgemaster's Aspect . Can still work, but requires some changes in the build.

## Sockets and Gems

Most of the Gem picks are pretty common through all Rogue builds so they will be pretty easy to acquire early in the game.

For armor slots the best pick will be  Royal Ruby everywhere to stack our health higher for  survivability. We can have 1 in the helmet, 2 in the Chest armor and 2 in the pants for a total of 5 stones. 
It can give about 20% of additional Maximum Life which is a very strong bonus - make sure you always have all 5 gems on.

For the weapons we are using Royal Emerald since most of the time we are maintaining the Vulnerable status effect on all the enemies through various means.
In the jewelry Royal Diamond x2 + 1 additional Gems that compensate the resistance we don't have on gear is the best option. The last gem could vary so just check which res you are missing on your helmet and boots and use that. In my example it is a Royal Amethyst .
You can also try to use different stand alone gems instead of the Royal Diamond to boost resistances that you don't have, to close the gap.

## Resistances

In Season 2 the resistance system was revamped heavily. Now to reach best survivability we will need to cap most of them - ideally all to a maximum of 70%. It could be done though a variety of options. 

For the Rogue builds - you can pick some of them in the paragon but ultimately you will need to roll resistances on Gear. Best place to do so would be Boots since there are not a lot of good bonuses except the movement speed.

You can also roll some of those on the Helmet or Chest armor to reach the cap. 
Always make sure that you have at least 68%+ to stay alive in higher Nightmare Dungeons without any issues and have better gameplay experience overall.

For this purpose you can use various Gems in your Jewelry which are covered in the previous section.

## Specialty

For the Rapid Fire Rogue build the best choice will always be Combo Points since it is the main way to stack damage of the build to a high enough amount. Unfortunately no alternatives are good enough to be considered.

## Weapon Choices
In regards to the weapon choices we generally have many possible combinations that could be chosen based on the Gear that you have in your disposal.
The recommended one will be a combination of Crossbow to receive Vulnerable damage bonus and one handed sword for the critical damage bonus as well. The second melee weapon slot is reserved for Condemnation which is essential part of the build.
The second option would be picking Dagger instead of Sword which could be less beneficial since you will need to always stay close to get a full damage bonus from it.
Doombringer could be a great option instead of the normal Sword as well, mostly boosting Survivability which is pretty important because Rapid Fire Rogue don't have a lot of means to tank the damage - especially in higher tiers.

## Paragon

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With the current paragon setup we are mostly focusing on getting bonuses to Vulnerable to stack Victimize even further.
We are also amplifying Non-Physical and Imbued Skills damage since it is the main source of the whole punch that Rapid Fire packs.
Some survivability nodes should be taken as well in the form of Basic Resistances and Additional Armor which should help in both Tier 100 Dungeons and Abattoir of Zir.

### Glyph leveling priorities

1. Efficacy - Provides some armor together with damage but mostly valued for the amazing Additional Bonus which grants a significant increase in Imbuement damage.
2. Canny - Good way to combine damage oriented Main bonus with good Additional bonus to boost it even further.
3. Ranger - Unfortunately the percentage for this glyph is only 6.6%. However it requires Dexterity and the additional bonus can provide required survivability so it should be acquired earlier if possible.
4. Exploit - Since we are stacking Vulnerable Damage bonus for Victimize this is one of the greatest sources. It also provides an Utility bonus in terms of making enemies vulnerable even without Puncture interaction.
5. Infusion - The last glyph to level for the Rapid Fire Rogue build - it is mostly taken for a huge main bonus percentage and used just to amplify damage of the build even further.
6. Tears of Blood - The best damage glyph for any build out there that should replace Infusion and be placed in No Witnesses board. Take all the surrounding stats nodes for a tremendous damage boost.

### Alternative glyphs

- Bane - A good option in case you want to focus on the Poison damage more. It has a pretty decent Additional bonus as well.

- Combat - An interesting option which can boost Critical strike Damage and make energy management even easier due to Additional Bonus.

### Tears of Blood (New Glyph) 

- The new Tears of Blood glyph will provide even more damage for the build moving the potential to a truly insane amount. After you acquire the Tears of Blood unique glyph from Abattoir of Zir you will need to move Canny to the exploit Weakness Board and drop Infusion completely. 
Tears of Blood on the other hand will take place in the No Witnesses board. Drop Hunter Killer, Ruin and Dominant + all leading nodes to take all core stats ( Intelligence, Strength, Dexterity, Willpower) around Tears of Blood to stack the damage even further.

## Playstyle and Rotation

Rapid Fire Rogue has an elaborate rotation and it is pretty important to follow that to see those big Damage numbers.
At the start of any fight you need to attack with at least 3-4 uses of Puncture to apply Vulnerable and stack Combo Points. This is a general approach for many different Rogue Builds so it will be easier to get used to it. 

After the Puncture set you can use the Poison Imbuement and Rapid Fire enemies immediately. 

If somebody survived it you need to repeat the process - so 3-4 Puncture uses again and then Poison Imbuement (Use shadow Imbuement if Poison Imbuement is on cooldown) + Rapid Fire.

For a single target you can also add Shadow step at the start of the fight to boost your Critical strike Chance with Enhanced Shadow Step .

In most of the cases you will need to utilize the Ranged origin of the build by keeping your distance and picking enemies from afar which should help with Survivability.

Perfect distance should be a distance of Puncture hit - come closer than that only for big single target burst against big elites or bosses.

## Conclusion

The Rapid Fire Rogue build is currently completely broken in terms of damage in the same fashion as [Twisting Blades Rogue](/builds/twisting-blades-rogue-guide), [Ball Lightning Sorceress](/builds/ball-lightning-sorcerer-guide), and [Hammer of the Ancients Barbarian](/builds/barbarian-hammer-of-the-ancients-endgame-build-guide). 
This will be one of the most promising Rogue builds to clear all the current content together with the upcoming Abattoir of Zir. 
With such great damage you can also drop some offensive Aspects to focus more on the defensive part to reach better Survivability so the build can stay versatile enough. 




Rapid Fire Rogue Guide (Season 3) - Paragon Boards, Seneschal Construct, Skills, Aspects, Uniques.

Rapid Fire Rogue Endgame Build Guide


Tenets of Akarat are the new collectible shrines similar to Altars of Lilith in Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred

We have not yet discovered the bonuses that come along with finding these statues, but they will be added here and to the map as they are found!

There are 30 total tenets, and you can see all of their locations on the map below:


To save your progress for marked locations, and for a fullscreen view of the full map of Sanctuary, head to [Diablo 4 Interactive Map](/map)
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Tenets of Akarat are the new collectible shrines similar to Altars of Lilith in Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred

Tenets of Akarat Map Locations

All Tenets of Akarat Locations


Iron Wolves reputation provides an easy and consistent way to farm Uber Uniques in Diablo 4 Season 4 Loot Reborn.

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Creating new characters and quickly leveling them through helltides provides easy and fast Iron Wolves reputation, which rewards Resplendent Sparks.  4 Resplendent Sparks can be used to craft a specific uber unique of your choice, allowing you to easily create
new characters, level them up, and acquire powerful uber unique items.

To see where Accursed Rituals happen, head to one of the marked spots on the map below during a helltide for that area, and start the event using Baneful Hearts.  This will result in other players joining your game, and running to help due to the blinking
map icon, and others will usually contribute their hearts.

World Tier 2 is the best way to farm this reputation, when using a profane mindcage, you can kill the denizens of hell easily and safely, and gather plenty of Abberant Cinders.

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To track all world events like helltides, bosses, and legion events, head over to [Diablo 4 Event Tracker](/trackers)

To save your progress for marked locations, and for a fullscreen view of the full map of Sanctuary, head to [Diablo 4 Interactive Map](/map)






Iron Wolves reputation provides an easy and consistent way to farm Uber Uniques in Diablo 4 Season 4 Loot Reborn

Diablo 4 Uber Unique Easy AFK Farming


After a huge overhaul of the Loot System - Diablo 4 Season 4 Loot Reborn - many materials are harder to farm.  Masterworking gear costs a tremendous amount of gold, and will become a bottleneck for late game progression.

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For gold farming, we primarily want to complete Whispers of the Dead bounties at the Tree of Whispers.  Helltides, specifically Harvest whispers are great ones to focus on.  Dungeon whispers work well, as do PvP zone whispers.

For Scattered Prism farming, the easiest way is to make sure not to miss world boss events.  To easily help you track and be notified when a world boss event is going to happen, head over to [Diablo 4 World Boss Tracker](/trackers/world-bosses) .




How to farm Gold, Scattered Prisms, Obducite, Ingolith, Neathrion, Angelbreath, Runeshards, Respendent Sparks, and Gemstone Fragments

Farming Gold, Scattered Prisms, and All Materials


During an active Helltide event, 3 Baneful Hearts can be used at the Accursed Ritual location to summon the Blood Maiden Vyola.  Baneful Hearts can be found in helltide chests.

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To track all world events like helltides, bosses, and legion events, head over to [Diablo 4 Event Tracker](/trackers)

To save your progress for marked locations, and for a fullscreen view of the full map of Sanctuary, head to [Diablo 4 Interactive Map](/map)

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Accursed Rituals are a fantastic way to level and farm legendaries in helltides for Diablo 4 season 4

Helltide Accursed Ritual Bloodmaiden Map Locations

All Helltide Accursed Ritual Bloodmaiden Locations


Abattoir of Zir is coming to Diablo 4 Season 2 on December 5th.

Blizzard has prepared a new challenge for players who are seeking to test their mettle against the hardest game encounters.

Lord Zir, a boss introduced in the Season of Blood, gathers his vampire legions to launch an attack on Sanctuary. Definitely not the first villain to attempt that, yet Blizzard claims the challenge players are going to face is the hardest Season 2 has seen so far.

The new Nightmare Dungeon type will go live with the Patch 1.2.3 on December 5 and will add a new Glyph Tears of Blood that will be able to be leveled up to level 200 as well as a special Sigil type - Bloodforged Sigils, where you will be able to face Zir’s legions themselves.

Want to make sure you are prepared? Check out our [Diablo 4 Build Guides](/builds) to beat Abattoir of Zir.


Don't skip cellars while exploring the world of Sanctuary!  You may just find a cellar full of loot goblins.

Abattoir of Zir is coming to Diablo 4 Season 2 December 5th


It seems that at least some of the powerful effects granted by malignant hearts in Season 1 of Diablo 4 will be returning in the form of Malignant Rings.  To earn these rings, you can farm Echo of Varshan starting on November 7th.
The rings will be available in both the seasonal and eternal realms.


## Barbarian
#### RING OF RED FUROR
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## Druid
#### AIRIDAH'S INEXORABLE WILL
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## Necromancer
#### RING OF THE SACRILEGIOUS
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## Rogue
#### WRITHING BAND OF TRICKERY
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## Sorcerer
#### TAL RASHA'S IRIDESCENT LOOP
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Upcoming items for Diablo 4 - Malignant Rings - mark the return of powerful malignant heart effects

Malignant Rings Bring Back Season 1 Malignant Heart Powers


The new expansion for Diablo IV - Vessel of Hatred will be coming late next year, and feature a new class never before seen in the Diablo universe.  This seems to rule out the return of the fan favorite Paladin class for the time being.  This article will be updated as more details about the expansion emerge.

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Upcoming Diablo IV expansion, Vessel of Hatred, is coming late next year

Diablo IV Expansion - Vessel of Hatred


Don't skip those loot cellars!  Apparently there are various tiers of loot cellars, the highest being one that can spawn full of loot goblins.  As you can see from the below video by [DM: Diablo 4](https://www.youtube.com/@dmdiablo4), loot cellars
can come loaded with loot goblins who have also been [confirmed to have been buffed for launch](https://www.wowhead.com/news/treasure-goblins-buffed-for-launch-diablo-4-333038).  

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