Best Diablo 4 Spiritborn builds – Best Skills and Skill Trees

Update Oct 9: We’ve tweaked the order of our Spiritborn Skill Trees to make levelling easier. We’ve also added some more commentary on how to play both the Poison Centipede and Lightning Eagle builds.

Hailing from the wilds of Nahantu, the Spiritborn is the new class introduced to Diablo 4 with the release of the Vessel of Hatred expansion. Wielding the primal power of either the mighty Gorilla, fearsome Jaguar, majestic Eagle or scuttling Centipede, the Spiritborn can fit into a variety of powerful archetypes.

However, at this stage in the life cycle of Diablo 4’s Vessel of Hatred expansion, 2 of these archetypes seem to stand out from the rest: the explosive DPS potential of the electrifying lightning-damage Eagle and the huge damage-over-time secreted by the poisonous Centipede.

The new activities and story missions in Vessel of Hatred are a lot more difficult than much of the base game, so it’s a good thing the Spiritborn is up to the task!

Here’s a rundown of how to craft the best Spiritborn builds in Diablo 4, as well as all of the best Skills to choose when constructing them!

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Is the Spiritborn good in Diablo 4?

With the release of the Vessel of Hatred expansion, the Spiritborn is currently considered the best class in Diablo 4, thanks to its huge damage potential and versatility.

This makes the Spiritborn the perfect class to take on both the new story campaign and new activities like slaying Realmwalkers and taking on their Seething Realms.

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Diablo 4 | Best Spiritborn Builds and Skills

Spiritborn Poison Centipede build

If you’re planning on swamping the world of Sanctuary with poison, the best Spiritborn build to craft is a Centipede build focused on Touch of Death, or more specifically the upgraded version Poised Touch of Death.

After a puny initial sting, Touch of Death deals a hefty dose of poison damage and makes the target explode into a swarm of insects, damaging other foes around them. What makes this truly great however, is when you apply the Poised Touch of Death upgrade. This then makes Touch of Death replace your Core Skill and consume Vigor with no Cooldown.

Now with a good basic skill to start up your Vigor generation (I prefer the Gorilla attack) and other Vigor generating Skills like the easy-to-miss Vigorous Skill from the Skill Tree, you can turn Touch of Death into your main method of dealing damage.

However, there are still a couple more steps you need to take to make this build truly overpowered. First, you need to unlock the Insatiable Aspect from the dungeon in The Festering Dark in the southeast of the new region of Nahantu. When equipped, this aspect causes the swarms created by Touch of Death to explode as you summon more than 3 at a time, dealing a huge amount of damage.

This is great on its own, but can be sped up even more by grabbing the Centipede Key Passive at the end of the Skill Tree, Noxious Resonance. This causes your poison damage to be applied instantly on critical hits, not just dealing more damage more quickly, but removing the need to wait 9 seconds for your Touch of Death swarms to be created.

With the defensive Skill Reinforced Scourge and the exceptionally good Ravager from the Jaguar affinity also replenishing your Vigor, you can quickly start to build up an explosive engine that’s devastatingly powerful.

Lightning Eagle Build

Or if you’re interested in a more immediate build with less set up, the lightning-damage Eagle build is based almost completely around the Quill Volley Skill, which is found on just the second node on the Skill Tree.

Basically all you need to do is prioritise Vigor generation and damage on Eagle skills – nice and easy.

The gameplan is simple: spam Quill Volley, then hammer dodge to evade around around the battlefield and regain your Vigor almost immediately using the passive Skills you’ve built up. Plus, with the Eagle Spirit Hall affinity, your dodge is turned into an incredible offensive weapon itself.

However, the Lightning Eagle build has one more trick up its sleeve too: Vulnerable. It has many different ways of weakening enemies with the Vulnerable status and dealing significantly more damage to them. The Skills Acceleration, Apex and the Key Passive Vital Strikes are key to this. This build is incredibly fast with great mobility and great damage, and is probably the most fun for burning through story content.

Since you need to fill out the rest of your hotbar, there are still some other great Eagle Skills – even if they don’t quite stack up to the unbelievable power of Quill Volley. It’s really easy to miss the extremely good combo of Measured Vortex and Auspicious from the third and fourth Skill Tree nodes respectively.

This combo gives you a passive barrier which can total as much as 20% of your maximum health and both powers Vortex up by 300% and knocks enemies caught by it down for 3 seconds. Not only does this really conveniently focus enemies in one place to be hit by Quill Volley, but it’s amazing crowd-control and gives you vital breathing room to build up some Vigor in a pinch.

Then, to fire up your Vigor generation, take the brilliant Measured Ravager, which will help with both powering your Quill Volley and getting in close to deal massive damage.

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Diablo 4 | Spiritborn Skill Tree

For the Spiritborn’s poison Centipede build, you can follow this Skill Tree:

1. Rock Splitter
2. Enhanced Rock Splitter
3. Sharp Rock Splitter
4. Stinger
5. Enhanced Stinger
6. Rampant Stinger
7. Vigorous
8. Vigorous +1
9. Vigorous + 2
10. Balanced Exertion
11. Balanced Exertion +1
12. Balanced Exertion +2
13. Scourge
14. Enhanced Scourge
15. Reinforced Scourge
16. Antivenom
17. Touch of Death
18. Enhanced Touch of Death
19. Poised Touch of Death
20. Nourishment
21. Nourishment +1
22. Nourishment +2
23. Ravager
24. Enhanced Ravager
25. Measured Ravager
26. Refund Rampant Stinger, Enhanced Stinger and Stinger and get Rock Splitter +1, Rock Splitter +2 and Rock Splitter +3
27. Ravenous
28. Ravenous +1
29. Ravenous +2
30. Oppressive
31. Oppressive +1
32. Oppressive +2
33. The Devourer
34. Harmonious Devourer
35. Exalted Devourer
36. Noxious Resonance
37. Resolution
38. Sustenance
39. Intricacy
40. Intricacy +1
41. Intricacy +2
42. Soar
43. Enhanced Soar
44. Replenishing Soar
45. Touch of Death +1
46. Touch of Death +2
47. Touch of Death +3
48. Touch of Death +4
49. Scourge +1
50. Scourge +2
51. Scourge +3
52. Scourge +4
53. The Devourer +1
54. The Devourer +2
55. The Devourer +3
56. The Devourer +4
57. Rock Splitter +4
58. Endurance
59. Endurance +1
60. Endurance +2

Alternatively, for the lightning-damage Eagle build, you can follow this Skill Tree:

1. Thunderspike
2. Enhanced Thunderspike
3. Quill Volley
4. Enhanced Quill Volley
5. Advantageous Quill Volley
6. Accelerated Thunderspike
7. Vortex
8. Enhanced Vortex
9. Quill Volley +1
10. Quill Volley +2
11. Quill Volley +3
12. Quill Volley +4
13. Patient Guard
14. Auspicious
15. Measured Vortex
16. Auspicious +1
17. Auspicious +2
18. Brilliance
19. Acceleration
20. Brilliance +1
21. Brilliance +2
22. Acceleration +1
23. Acceleration +2
24. Ravager
25. Enhanced Ravager
26. Measured Ravager
27. The Seeker
28. Harmonious Seeker
29. Exalted Seeker
30. Counterattack
31. Counterattack Enhancement
32. Reinforced Counterattack
33. Focal Point
34. Vital Strikes
35. Apex
36. Apex +1
37. Apex +2
38. Vigorous
39. Balanced Exertion
40. Balanced Exertion +1
41. Balanced Exertion +2
42. Vigorous +1
43. Vigorous +2
44. Diminishment
45. Diminishment +1
46. Diminishment +2
47. Vortex +1
48. Vortex +2
49. Vortex +3
50. Vortex +4
51. The Seeker +1
52. The Seeker +2
53. The Seeker +3
54. The Seeker +4
55. Thunderspike +1
56. Thunderspike +2
57. Thunderspike +3
58. Thunderspike +4
59. Bastion
60. Bastion +1

With the extra Renown Skill Points, consider finishing Bastion, getting the ranks of Ravager, then working your way down to three ranks of Intricacy next to the Seeker at the bottom of the Skill Tree so you can spam Vortex after your Ultimate.

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