u/funnybunni123

Everyone and their grandma is playing WW Barb or at least has one, and deathtrap is sitting here as a one-button, invincible, teleporting machine. I haven't run into another Death Trap Rogue since I started playing it.

It's the build I wish I would've known about sooner. I would always create a WW Barb and just wreck everything, but I always got bored with it. Then I found the Death Trap Rogue and fell in love with it.

Do you like the idea of keeping things simple, pressing one button and annihilating everything on the screen? Being able to teleport anywhere instantly? Being able to customize your build and really adjust it to your playstyle? Then the Death Trap Rogue is for you.

The rotation:

• Hold down Death Trap
• Press Concealment for your buff
• Use Shadow Step to instantly teleport anywhere

The key gear:

• Melted Heart of Selig
• Beastfall Boots
• Aspect of Aftermath
• Optional: Endurant Faith charm (immunity to one-shot mechanics)

The core concepts:

• The Preparation rogue specialization grants +5 seconds of cooldown for every 75 energy spent (see table below)
• Beastfall Boots consumes all of your energy in one Death Trap cast — and also restores a flat 25 Energy, since using a Cooldown (which Death Trap counts as) triggers that effect
• Aspect of Aftermath (plus resource generation on gear) restores your entire energy pool and keeps it full at all times

After that, you can focus on getting more +Trap/Grenade Skills or +Maximum Resource on your charms as you see fit.

Energy Spent	Cooldown Reduction (sec)
75	5
150	10
225	15
300	20
375	25
450	30
525	35
600	40

Then it comes down to restoring your entire energy pool, which is driven by your Death Trap rank, your Aftermath roll, Beastfall's flat 25 energy, and your resource generation.

Formula to find your own number:

Rank Needed = (Max Energy ÷ (1 + Resource Generation%) − 25) ÷ Aftermath Roll

Quick example: at 300 max energy, I need my Death Trap cooldown under 20 seconds, and enough ranks to fully refill that energy per cast. With Beastfall's flat 25 and my Selig amulet's 25% resource gen, that lands around 43 ranks on a 5.0 Aftermath roll, or 27 ranks on an 8.0 roll.

I found it most comfortable to play at 300–450 max energy with a 20–30 second Death Trap cooldown — adjust based on your own gear. This easily clears any T12 content and Pit to about 125+.

A couple planners to reference or copy skills/paragon from:

Planner 1

Planner 2

That's about all there is to the Immortal Death Trap Rogue. Super easy to set up. Super easy to play. So fun.

Or don’t allow the first click after returning to town to be the return portal

The amount of times I’ve accidentally gone straight back is too high

In case anyone wanted other areas

Kehjistan

First you'll need "Writhe and Rot" in the helltides war plans tree.
Second you'll want 2/3 full threat meter which you can quickly get by farming ruptures.
Wyrms have a 10-second global cooldown so you can't spawn them faster than that.

I added spawn locations as exact as I could make them. Spawns are not guaranteed so when you check a location just do a little circle then move on to the next one.

This is by far the easiest area in the game to do this and you can get a crazy number of spawns in one hour.

Here is the map tool: https://maxroll.gg/d4/map-tool

-edit as u/TheMeltingPointOfWax points out in the comments there’s a route that avoids backtracking if you want to check that out.

-once at 2/3 threat level, try limiting kills to just maggots as everything else will raise your threat meter and you’ll end up farming for threat more often.

-and higher torment level = more xp

edit - I added an easier to follow map to the comments.

If you only farm one area for hellwyrms this would be the spot. It’s pretty much just one circle around the edges. And there’s plenty of ruptures to get your threat level up.