Diablo 4 Boosting

When it comes to Diablo 4 classes focused on dealing poison damage, Spiritborn is likely the first one that comes to mind right now. While Rogue and Druid are certainly capable of doing so, Spiritborn is undeniably the true master of this craft.

Therefore, if you are looking to utilize poison-centric builds in Season 13 or Lord of Hatred expansion, building around Spiritborn remains your absolute best option.

In this guide, we will introduce you to Poison Execute Spiritborn build, a setup boasting incredibly high farming efficiency, ensuring you can charge through the newly reset game environment with unstoppable momentum!

Skill setup and related mechanics

The key to crafting this build lies primarily in Counterattack and Rushing Claw skills, as well as The Devourer Ultimate skill.

In particular, you must ensure that your Ultimate skill is available at all times, as it allows you to instantly execute any enemy whose accumulated poison damage exceeds their current remaining healthy.

This means that immediately upon entering any dungeon or event you intend to farm, you should trigger all available cooldown reset effects, and then activate Rushing Claw to dash furiously through the area.

This sequence causes all enemies in your path to instantly suffer massive amounts of poison damage, leading to their immediate execution.

From there, you simply need to keep refreshing your skill cooldowns, ensuring The Devourer remains ready to use, to clear the dungeon with ease.

A crucial point to note is that as soon as The Devourer finishes its cooldown, you must cast it again immediately; furthermore, while moving through the battlefield, ensure that its active buff effect remains uninterrupted at all times.

Additionally, Rushing Claw has the ability to extend the duration of all your other active skills. This means that whether it is your core Counterattack buff or various other beneficial effects, they will persist for a longer period as you dash through the dungeon.

Building upon the core mechanics described above, if you find yourself facing a boss encounter, simply activate The Devourer, Toxic Skin, Counterattack, and Ravager in succession, then proceed to dash back and forth across the battlefield.

The only additional adjustment required for boss fights is to switch the minor upgrade for The Devourer from Instant Kill (the execution effect) to Poisoning Duration in order to maximize your total damage output.

How to cast Rushing Claw continuously?

This skill has now been reclassified as an Eagle skill, which means it no longer requires a specific target to be cast. To further reduce this skill's cooldown beyond the base level, you must accumulate a full stack of 4 Ferocity charges.

To achieve this, you need to unlock Ravager node in your Skill Tree and level it up to rank 20 or higher.

If the skill's rank falls below 20, it can provide a maximum of only three Ferocity charges. In such cases, you also have the option to buy Diablo 4 items on IGGM to utilize gear that grants an additional +1 skill level.

How to reset skill cooldowns?

To accomplish this, you must first unlock Prodigy's Tempo Paragon node. With this node active, every time you cast the same Core or Mastery skill three consecutive times, the cooldowns of all your skills currently on cooldown will be reduced by 30%.

Subsequently, you can choose to acquire Menagerist glyph, which grants you a 4% bonus to damage whenever you use any Bat, Jaguar, Eagle, or Centipede skills.

Other glyphs and nodes worth unlocking include:

• Consumption
• Colossal
• Drive
• Canny
• Bane

Which gear pieces are the best choices?

Once you have selected Exalted Devourer upgrade for your The Devourer skill, any non-boss enemies you attack that are currently afflicted by poison will instantly die, releasing a Pestilent Swarm that deals damage to any enemies it passes through.

If you wish to have this highly beneficial effect constantly active around you, you can achieve this by acquiring Ring of the Writhing Moon, a Legendary Ring.

This piece of gear causes a Pestilent Swarm to emanate from your character every four seconds, dealing poison damage with every hit.

However, the best way to obtain this ring is to farm the boss, Lord Zir. To do so, you must first acquire Lair Keys, which are required to unlock his loot cache once the battle concludes.

Fortunately, IGGM Diablo 4 Facebook Group is currently hosting a giveaway for Lair Boss Keys! In addition to Lair Keys, you also have the chance to win three other types of keys, allowing you to unlock even more hoards and acquire even more rare gear!

Now, back to the main topic. Upon acquiring this ring, it is highly recommended to ensure it possesses affixes related to DoT, poison damage, and vulnerable damage for optimal effectiveness.

Next, your second ring should also feature the same multiplicative damage affixes found on Ring of the Writhing Moon; additionally, you must imprint Aspect of Pestilence onto it.

The effect of this Aspect is to increase the damage dealt by Pestilent Swarm by 100% and extend its duration by 50%, causing it to spiral outward.

The final key damage buff comes from imprinting Aspect of Supremacy onto your Amulet. Whenever your Ultimate Skill is active, this Aspect grants you one stack of the supremacy buff for every enemy you kill.

Each stack of this buff increases your damage by 11.7%, stacking up to a maximum of 117%. Once your Ultimate Skill's effect ends, you immediately gain 5 stacks of the buff, though you will subsequently lose one stack per second.

To fully capitalize on this aspect's effect, you must constantly ensure that your Ultimate Skill, The Devourer, remains active. In fact, this is a point we have repeatedly emphasized throughout our discussion of the skill set.

Charm setup

If you have unlocked Lord of Hatred expansion, you can further enhance your build by equipping Protean Heart Charm.

Whenever you cast a skill belonging to a different base spirit category, this charm causes your damage bonuses to shift to that new category while simultaneously boosting your core stats by 100%.

That concludes our guide for this time. If you are currently playing a character in Spiritborn class, why not give this build a try?

Players, in Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred, we must approach the endgame content with a different mindset. This may require overturning some previous strategies and employing new techniques to better complete the endgame.

Proper Paragon Board Construction

Many new players, after gaining Paragon Points, habitually fill all nodes from the starting board, but now you must realize this is a mistake.

The correct approach is to directly target every glyph slot and every Legendary node on Paragon board, unlocking only the most basic path. Once you have a node, immediately move on to the next board.

If you were to fill the entire Paragon board directly, you might only unlock 3 boards by level 220, thus missing out on significant damage and survivability. Always follow the minimum unlocking path, prioritizing the activation of all glyph and Legendary nodes.

Glyph Upgrade Strategy

In Lord of Hatred, the glyph level cap has been increased to 150, and the upgrade mechanism is related to Pit level.

A glyph's radius is smallest at level 1, expands for the first time at level 25, and reaches its most crucial threshold at level 51. At this level, not only does it reach its maximum radius, but it also unlocks the multiplicative damage bonus of Legendary glyph at the bottom, the most significant boost you'll receive from all your glyphs.

Regarding upgrade efficiency, it's recommended that players choose Pit levels 10 stacks higher than their current glyph level, guaranteeing a 100% upgrade probability. If the level difference is only 9 stacks, the probability drops to 90%. The probability decreases as the stack difference narrows.

When the probability falls below 50%, the upgrade chance is zero. To reach level 150, you need to clear at least 100 Pit levels, even with only a 1% success rate. Therefore, it's recommended to first evenly upgrade all your glyphs to level 25, then gradually upgrade them to level 51, and then upgrade them evenly afterward.

Optimizing Damage Bonuses

Players must first understand the types of damage bonuses in the game. There are two categories: additive damage bonuses and multiplicative damage bonuses, marked with a plus sign (+) and a multiplicative sign (×).

Please note that most of the data on the character attribute panel is unreliable; only Critical Strike Chance and Attack Speed ​​are reliable.

Additive damage primarily comes from Paragon board, while multiplicative damage is in a separate multiplicative zone. In Lord of Hatred, damage affixes on weapons, gloves, rings, and amulets are also multiplicative.

To maximize total damage, you should evenly increase each multiplicative zone, rather than investing all resources in a single zone. If you increase each of the three 50% multiplicative zones by 50%, the benefit will be far greater than doubling a single multiplicative zone from 50% to 100%.

Therefore, when choosing Diablo 4 items, prioritize increasing the multiplicative zone with the lowest current value. While additive damage is small, it's still worthwhile to supplement it appropriately.

Make good use of Training Grounds

Training Grounds in Diablo 4 are an excellent place to test your gear and damage output. You can choose a single target, boss, elite, or group targets, and even have training dummies attack you to activate certain aspects or glyphs that require taking damage to trigger.

The most important setting is Disable Player Damage Variance. Because weapon damage has a fluctuation range, setting this will fix the damage values, making test results more reliable.

You can also directly equip or disband mercenaries in Training Grounds, and adjust the type of combat numbers displayed, such as making it only show critical hit damage.

It is strongly recommended that you set Disable Player Damage Variance before testing to accurately compare the actual output of different builds.

Save Time with Armory

Armory can save a complete build for your current character and allows you to switch to another saved build with a single click. This is very timesaving for players who play multiple builds with one character.

However, there are some limitations when using Armory. Runes do not automatically transfer. If two builds use runes from different slots, an error will occur when switching, and conflicting runes must be manually removed.

Gems and Aspects work similarly to runes; they don't transfer automatically and need to be manually changed.

Nevertheless, Armory saves you from manually resetting your Paragon board every time, making it a very powerful tool.

Gear Misconceptions

Many players mistakenly believe they must equip all their gear with Greater Affixes to tackle the highest difficulty Torment 12. In reality, you don't need any Greater Affixes to quickly clear mobs in Torment 12.

The key lies in correctly choosing gear affixes and performing Tempering and Masterworking correctly. Tempering must precede Masterworking.

Prioritize determining which affixes are most crucial to your build, then craft a set of gear without Greater Affixes but with the correct affixes. Combined with an upgraded glyph and Paragon board, this is sufficient for Torment 12.

Of course, if you're aiming for leaderboards or very high-level Pit runs, Greater Affixes remain the ultimate goal.

While completing the endgame content in Lord of Hatred isn't easy, we should still try our best to master the correct building methods, make good use of the in-game tools, and avoid unnecessary detours. Good luck with your game!