High damage numbers are almost a given in Diablo 4. Now a build of the Spiritborn has reached new heights and the community is amazed at the crazy values.
This is the situation with the Spiritborn:
- The Spiritborn was introduced with the Vessel of Hatred expansion in Season 6 and shot straight to the top of the endgame builds.
- In Season 7, the class was then nerfed. Blizzard had even warned the community ahead of time: “Enjoy what you have now.”
- With the current Season 9, the class finally received buffs again, and a new unique: the leg guards “Balazan’s Maxtlatl”, which inflicts thorn and poison damage on nearby enemies when attacking.
The unique is the centerpiece of the strongest builds for the class and catapulted the Spiritborn back to the top of the tier list in Season 9 of Diablo 4. A player now shows how much damage he can deal with the “Thorn Hooks” build. Such numbers were last seen with the Spiritborn when it was released.
“Number squish? Probably not”
How much damage does the player deal? On Reddit, the player JungleSabas shares a screenshot showing him cutting through the pit at level 120. Numerous damage numbers fly across the screen, and one of them is circled: 141,364T. The “T” stands for “trillion”, which means in German it stands for billion. So: The hit was a staggering 141,364 trillion damage.
When asked how he even achieves such absurd damage numbers, JungleSabas writes that he has already played 300 hours in the season. He is using a variant of the pit push build from mobalytics.gg.
This is what the community says about it: The top comment comes from TheSpanxxx. He wonders how any enemies are still alive with such damage numbers. JungleSabas replies that the elite enemies at pit level 120 simply “have an insane amount of health points”.
Other players remember Blizzard’s plan to reduce excessive numbers. A “number squish” had already caused the armor cap to be lowered from 9,230 to 1,000. Ideally, all values should be smaller and easier to understand. The user Kramerica mocks: “I still remember the season when they were supposed to reduce all numbers. Seems to be going great!”
After the OP start of the Spiritborn at release and the later nerfs, it remains exciting how the class will perform in Season 10. With the new season, not only fresh uniques are coming, but also chaos uniques that can completely turn your builds upside down. And systems designer Aislyn Hall even challenges players openly to “break the season” with the new items. You can find out more about the uniques here: Season 10 brings numerous new uniques to Diablo 4, but differently than you think.
