With Vessel of Hatred, Diablo 4 has finally received its first expansion and with it the new class of the Spiritborn. It has quickly proven to be one of the strongest classes. MeinMMO shows you the currently best build for the Spiritborn.
What kind of build is this? The Spike Salvo build currently leads the tier list for Season 6 in Diablo 4, alongside some others. With this build, you harness the power of the Eagle Spirit and throw feathers around you that explode, blowing apart single enemies or decimating groups.
These are the strengths of the build:
- easy to play; you basically just spam one attack
- you only need one legendary affix to start
- equally useful against large groups and bosses
- enormous defense while maintaining high damage output
- fully utilizes the potential of the Spiritborn and its spirits
General gameplay for the Spiritborn and a potential leveling build can be seen here:
That’s why Spike Salvo is the best build for the Spiritborn
The core skill Spike Salvo fires multiple feathers in a cone in front of you that pierce enemies. If you fan the feathers wide, that is, stand farther away, you hit many enemies. If you stand right in front of an enemy, the skill acts like a shotgun and quickly tears apart even bosses.
Your damage, in addition, largely comes from increased armor later on. So, you deal more damage with more defense. This makes the Spike Salvo build an extremely strong all-rounder that, according to the expert wudijo, could even be the best build in the game.
To start, you only need the Bouncing Aspect. You get it in the “Forge of Malice” dungeon. The aspect ensures that feathers from Spike Salvo explode at the outermost point and then return. This allows you to hit enemies up to 20 times.
You can find the entrance to the dungeon as well as many other aspects for the Spiritborn on the interactive map for Vessel of Hatred.
Spike Salvo Build for the Spiritborn – These items, skills, and runes you need
You can find interactive builds in English for the Spike Salvo Spiritborn at d4builds-gg and maxroll.gg. What you need for the build in detail we explain to you here in the overview.
The right skill allocation for the Spike Salvo build
Although you play an Eagle build, you use the Gorilla as the primary and the Jaguar as the secondary spirit in your spirit hall. This is necessary to receive adequate defense and later benefit from your unique helmet. The active skills look as follows:
- Spike Salvo
- Armor Skin
- Scourge
- Devastator
- The Predator
You can also add either Rake, Counterstrike, or Vortex depending on your preferences and available items. When leveling up, and if you still have issues with resource generation, you should pack Rock Splitter instead of Scourge.
An exemplary talent tree with all skills, ranks, and passive talents can be found here in the talent planner from wowhead. In wudijo’s video, you will see the build in action:
These legendaries and uniques you need for the build
You absolutely need the Bouncing Aspect for the Spike Salvo build to work at all. You can find it in the “Forge of Malice” dungeon. Most other aspects must be found randomly. A good source is the gambler. These aspects strengthen your build at the start:
Offensive aspects:
- Unyielding Hits – The most important aspect in the build for more damage
- Cursed Touch
- Diverted Power
- Plane Strength
- Moonrise
Defensive aspects:
- Forest Strength
- Endurance
- Prohibition
- Disobedience
Versatile aspects:
- Dueling Aspect
Once you reach the endgame and can reliably farm torment levels, start looking for additional aspects and specific uniques for the Spiritborn:
- Aspect of Binding Fear (Skatsimi-God House)
- Harmony of Ebewaka (Helmet, Beast in Ice)
- Hyacinth Cover (Chest, Lord Zir)
- Ring of the Midnight Sun (Ring, Grigoire)
- Staff of Kepeleke (Weapon, Duriel/Andariel)
- Rakanoth’s Watch (Boots, no special farm spot)
If you ever manage to farm a Mythic or even directly craft one, you should quickly acquire Tyrael’s Might. Thanks to your high defense and barriers, you can constantly trigger the effect.
Here you will find all farm guides for the Uber bosses:
- Find and defeat Grigoire – Location, Summon, and Loot
- Summon the Beast in Ice with Distilled Fear & defeat the boss
- Summon and defeat Duriel – Here’s how
- Summon and defeat Andariel – Here’s how
- Lord Zir drops some of the best items – Here’s how to defeat him
These glyphs and paragon boards you need
Blizzard has significantly revamped the Paragon system and glyphs with Season 6. Therefore, you now have a bit more choice regarding the Paragon boards and glyphs. The following glyphs are recommended, to be leveled in this order:
- Unload or Calm
- Claw
- Spirit
- Revenge
- Colossal
And the following boards:
- Start (Spirit or Unload)
- Sturdy Shield (Calm or Spirit)
- Revelatory (Colossal)
- Convergence (Claw)
- Tapping (Revenge)
The best runes and mercenaries
With Vessel of Hatred, runes and rune words have been introduced into the game. If you place an activation rune and an effect rune in an item with two sockets, you create a rune word that can provide you with additional abilities and effects. For the Spike Salvo build, you should ideally use:
- PocQue – By spending life force, you gain barriers through the Druid’s bulwark
- XolKry – When you use a skill of another class, you cast the Vortex of the Spiritborn
- TamOhm – Using skills enables you to cast the Barbarian’s battle cry, making you faster and dealing more damage
The ideal slots for the runes are your weapon and the headpiece.
Also, with Vessel of Hatred, mercenaries have been introduced. These are NPCs that accompany you and fight for you. Which mercenaries you take here depends on your preferences, but Raheir as a companion and Varyana as reinforcement are recommended.
With the Spike Salvo build for the Spiritborn, you should be able to be at the forefront regarding pit push and farm. Hardly any build is currently as strong as this one. Only the leveling could become tedious: After over 300 hours in Diablo 4, I suddenly feel weak in Vessel of Hatred
