The Spiritborn isn’t a plug-and-play build like Druid or Necromancer. It takes perfect Diablo 4 gear, heavy resource investment, and full game systems mastery. But if you want to fly through the Pit while unloading hundreds of billions in damage, here’s how to make it happen.
🔥 The Core Engine: Rake + Jaguar Spirit Hall Madness
This build hinges on two things:
- Jaguar Spirit Hall – Triggers every 15 hits with a Jaguar skill, unleashing 47% of the damage dealt in the last 0.5 seconds.
- Balazan’s Maxtlatl – Converts Thorns into area damage and Poison. Retaliate with Thorns, stack poison, let Jaguar explode.
You don’t care about the poison or base attacks themselves—it’s all about creating a burst window for Spirit Hall to pop off.
🧠 The Build Philosophy
This is a speed/damage stacking machine, not a tanky bruiser. Your job:
- Stack attack speed to 100%+ (cap 1) plus Ferocity’s 20% (cap 2).
- Stay alive using permanent barrier uptime and maxed armor/resistance.
- Maintain infinite resource via cooldowns, paragon synergy, Diablo 4 Gold, and vigor tricks.
🔄 Gameplay Loop
- Hunter Ultimate → Pull enemies in.
- Vortex → Buffs next skill by 20%.
- Rake Spam → Trigger Jaguar explosions.
- Jump to the next pack, repeat.
You are not doing damage. Your Jaguar Spirit Hall is. Your job is to spam attacks fast enough to make them detonate repeatedly.
📊 Key Gear & Affixes
- Balazan’s Maxtlatl (Pants)
150% Thorns AoE + Poison
Masterwork for Bastion, Thorns, and Poison multipliers. - Razorplate (Chest)
Massive Thorns scaling—ignore the “trash” label, it’s key here.
Needs DR affixes to offset its survival drop. - Loyalty’s Mantle (Chest)
100% more Spirit Hall potency if matched with Jaguar Spirit.
Drop source: Grigoire. - Vehement Brawler’s Ward (Amulet)
Stack +ranks into Potent (30% bonus dmg vs enemies hit by Jaguar).
Add damage on ult cast. - Fell Soothsayer’s Gloves
Aspect: Kill a vulnerable enemy = echo killing blow to nearby target.
Chain reaction madness in the Pit. - Duelist’s Archon Greaves (Boots)
Max ferocity stacks + armor + movement. - Ring of Starless Skies
+40% attack speed. Helps hit attack speed cap 1. - Nightborne Sight of Wild Claws (Ring)
Rake spawns extra Jaguar—bonus DPS on bosses. - Neo + Qax (Weapon Runes)
- Qax = 100% damage buff (at cost of resource).
- Neo = restores offering, enabling Qax every 4s.
- Tam (Weapon Rune)
Rake triggers Druid’s Earthen Bulwark = more barrier = more Viscous Shield damage.
🧪 Aspects & Tempers
- Aspect of Plains Power: Creates Mystic Circles → Up to 226% bonus damage when max Ferocity is active.
- Mystic Circle Potency Temper: Max this on gloves, weapon, gear. Triple masterwork if possible.
- Jaguar Spirit Hall Potency: Same—needs masterworking to reach full S-tier.
TL;DR: No masterwork = no S-tier. Get as close to max rolls as possible.
📈 Paragon Boards & Glyphs
- Sapping Board (start here): Restores spirit with Jaguar spam.
- Vicious Shield Board: 1% bonus damage per 3% barrier.
- Hubris Glyph: Boosts thorns.
- Ritual Glyph: Boosts Diablo 4 Mystic Circle Potency based on intelligence.
- Canny Glyph: Increases poison damage (non-physical).
- Revenge Glyph: +15% damage when dealing Thorns.
♾️ Infinite Resource Engine
- Loyalty’s Mantle + Vigorous + Reactive Ooze = cheap skills + bonus vigor.
- Paragon: Sapping – Jaguar spam restores 15% vigor.
- Rake = Core Skill → Triggers resource perks.
- Consistent Spirit Regen = Infinite Qax → 100% damage every 4s.
🛡️ How to Stay Alive
- Permanent Barrier Uptime:
- Tam Rune
- Auspicious Passive: Builds barriers over time.
- Disintegrate Bottle Wind: Barrier every 4s.
- Barrier Gems over Dex Gems.
- Max Life ~12k
- Stack via gear and Paragon.
- All Resistance Buffs
- Use incense + elixirs to hit thresholds.
- Stack 1% nodes on Paragon until you reach the Denial node.
- Armor Cap
- Needed for Razorplate to not kill you.
- Use Fell Soothsayer’s Gloves with Armor affixes.
🧨 Final Thoughts
Spiritborn is not beginner-friendly. It requires:
- Perfect gear rolls
- Triple-masterworked tempers
- Careful resource/barrier management
- Constant optimization
But if you grind it out, you’ll fly through Pit 90+, pull entire screens, and trigger billions in chain-reaction kills.
If you’re casual, stick to Druid or Necro. If you’re hardcore and want bragging rights? Spiritborn is your Everest.