Quill Volley – Spiritborn Leveling Build for Diablo 4

To find out more general information about leveling as a Spiritborn in Diablo 4, you can check out our main Spiritborn Leveling Guide. Or you can go to our Spiritborn Builds page for a list of other leveling builds to choose from. Once your character reaches Level 60 or is ready for Torment I Difficulty, pick one of our Endgame Builds to continue your Spiritborn journey.

We anticipate that this Eagle Quill Volley build will be the best-performing leveling build for the Spiritborn in Season 6 and a great pick for anyone looking for a leveling build that is fast, efficient, and fun!

Build Introduction

This Spiritborn leveling build revolves around more damage to Vulnerable targets and the Jaguar as main Spirit Guardian to boost direct damage, grant Ferocity stacks, and make all other skills also count as Jaguar skills. Quill Volley will be the main skill to damage big groups of enemies, which is also largely improved and benefits from the combination with the Potent passive, The Seeker ultimate, the Aspect of Accursed Touch, and the Vital Strikes key passive. You will also be equipped with Soar for movement and several defense skills, such as Armored Hide, increasing your survivability, and Replenishing Ravager for additional damage.

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Allocation of Skill Points

The table below outlines the recommended order for allocating your Skill Points. At Level 60, you will have a total of 59 points available and an additional 12 points can be obtained upon completing Renown in each zone, resulting in a total of 71 points.

Order	Skill	Cluster
1	Rock Splitter	Basic Skill
2	Enhanced Rock Splitter	Basic Skill
3	Quill Volley	Core Skill
4	Enhanced Quill Volley	Core Skill
5	Advantageous Quill Volley	Core Skill
6	Quill Volley Rank 2	Core Skill
7	Quill Volley Rank 3	Core Skill
8	Quill Volley Rank 4	Core Skill
9	Quill Volley Rank 5	Core Skill
10	Soar	Focus Skill
11	Ravager	Focus Skill
12	Armored Hide	Defensive Skill
13	Enhanced Ravager	Focus Skill
14	Replenishing Ravager	Focus Skill
15	Enhanced Armored Hide	Defensive Skill
16	Reinforced Armored Hide	Defensive Skill
17	Vigorous	Core Passive
18	Vigorous Rank 2	Core Passive
19	Vigorous Rank 3	Core Passive
20	Balanced Exertion	Core Passive
21	Balanced Exertion Rank 2	Core Passive
22	Balanced Exertion Rank 3	Core Passive
23	Focal Point	Focus Passive
24	The Seeker	Ultimate Skill
25	Harmonious Seeker	Ultimate Skill
26	Exalted Seeker	Ultimate Skill
27	The Seeker Rank 2	Ultimate Skill
28	The Seeker Rank 3	Ultimate Skill
29	The Seeker Rank 4	Ultimate Skill
30	The Seeker Rank 5	Ultimate Skill
31	Apex	Focus Passive
32	Apex Rank 2	Focus Passive
33	Apex Rank 3	Focus Passive
34	Vital Strikes	Key Passive
35	Diminishment	Focus Passive
36	Diminishment Rank 2	Focus Passive
37	Diminishment Rank 3	Focus Passive
38	Mirage	Focus Passive
39	Unrestrained Power	Focus Passive
40	Unrestrained Power Rank 2	Focus Passive
41	Unrestrained Power Rank 3	Focus Passive
42	Brilliance	Potency Passive
43	Brilliance Rank 2	Potency Passive
44	Brilliance Rank 3	Potency Passive
45	Acceleration	Potency Passive
46	Acceleration Rank 2	Potency Passive
47	Acceleration Rank 3	Potency Passive
48	Endurance	Defensive Passive
49	Perseverance	Defensive Passive
50	Perseverance Rank 2	Defensive Passive
51	Perseverance Rank 3	Defensive Passive
52	Patient Guard	Defensive Passive
53	Auspicious	Defensive Passive
54	Auspicious Rank 2	Defensive Passive
55	Resilient	Potency Passive
56	Resilient Rank 2	Potency Passive
57	Resilient Rank 3	Potency Passive
58	Dominant	Potency Passive
59	Potent	Potency Passive
60	Potent Rank 2	Potency Passive
61	Potent Rank 3	Potency Passive
62	Furnace	Potency Passive
63	Furnace Rank 2	Potency Passive
64	Furnace Rank 3	Potency Passive
65	Resolution	Ultimate Passive
66	Resolution Rank 2	Ultimate Passive
67	Resolution Rank 3	Ultimate Passive
68	Spiritual Attunement	Ultimate Passive
69	Supremacy	Ultimate Passive
70	Supremacy Rank 2	Ultimate Passive
71	Supremacy Rank 3	Ultimate Passive

These are the abilities you want on your skill bar:

Recommended

Suggested Skill Bar

RavagerSoarArmored HideThe SeekerRock SplitterQuill Volley

Skill Tree

Here is the completed skill tree for the build:

Spirit Hall – Spiritborn Specialization

The Specialization of the Spiritborn Class becomes available at Level 15. It is recommended to complete the “Sacred Hunt“ questline in Kehjistan as soon as possible. The quest is given by Tarka.

The Spirit Hall system allows you to choose two animal spirits as protective guardians to receive powerful passive bonuses. The first, primary Spirit Guardian can be selected at Level 15, after completing the quest. Followed by the secondary Spirit Guardian at Level 30. Each Guardian has a different primary and secondary bonus ability, and you do not have to pick the same Guardian twice!

The Spirit Hall allows you to combine two different Spirit Guardians or stick with just one.

• Primary Spirit Guardian: Jaguar
  • Every 15th time you deal direct damage to an enemy with a Jaguar Skill, unleash an additional strike dealing 15% of the damage you have dealt to them in the last 0.5 seconds. All skills are now also Jaguar skills.
• Secondary Spirit Guardian: Jaguar
  • Maximum Ferocity is increased by 1. Gain 1 stack of Ferocity whenever you kill an enemy or damage a Boss.

For this leveling build, we choose the Jaguar as both the primary and secondary Spirit Guardian. With the Jaguar as primary spirit guardian, we gain additional direct damage. Furthermore, since every skill will now also be identified as a Jaguar skill, passive notes such as Potent or Furnace will also apply to Eagle skills. The secondary spirit will be the Jaguar as well, simply to increase Ferocity and because it synergizes greatly with the rest of the build by raising maximum Ferocity stacks by 1, resulting in even more attack speed.

Keep in mind that if you select the Jaguar as your primary guardian, all of your skills will be considered Jaguar skills as well. This means that any + Rank to Jaguar skills on your gear or items will increase the rank of all your skills.

If you are struggling to stay alive during leveling, switch the primary guardian spirit to the Gorilla.

Mercenaries

During the Vessel of Hatred campaign, you will unlock different NPC Mercenaries who join you on your travels. As you level up, you can generally pick any mercenary you like, as they will not play an essential role until you optimize your build in the endgame. However, if you would prefer to get a recommendation, we would advise selecting Subo as your main companion, for extra movement speed and crowd control, and Raheir as Reinforcement.

Subo Skill Tree choices:

• Core Skill: Wire Trap
• Core Passive: Ready At Hand
• Iconic Skill: Trip Mines
• Iconic Passive: Loaded Munitions

Raheir Reinforcement choices:

• Opportunity Skill: Pick “Injured” as opportunity skill. (Injured will automatically trigger when you become Injured).
• Reinforcement Skill: Provoke

Mechanics and Playstyle

The primary damage-dealing skill in this build is Quill Volley, which is upgraded with the Rebounding Aspect. Quill Volley allows you to do massive AoE Damage while making enemies Vulnerable. The Vital Strikes key passive boosts damage to vulnerable targets while healing you, restoring Vigor, and removing the vulnerable effect after a direct hit. It pairs well with The Seeker ultimate, which makes enemies Vulnerable again. When Seeker is on cooldown, the Aspect of Accursed Touch with the Vampiric Curse takes over, making enemies vulnerable as well. Combined, this creates a satisfying gameplay loop where you will rarely use Rock Splitter, except in cases when you want to use it as filler to restore Vigor.

On top of that, Ravager increases your Ferocity and will passively stock up any healing you receive to deal additional damage upon activation of the skill. Last but not least, Soar is a great skill to quickly get around during leveling, especially in combination with Acceleration, while Armored Hide provides more survivability.

Damage Rotation

1. Soar into the enemy.
2. Use The Seeker Ultimate for crowd control and to make enemies Vulnerable.
3. Armored Hide for protection.
4. Ravager to increase Ferocity stacks and damage.
5. Spam Quill Volley!
6. Use Rock Splitter as filler or to generate Vigor.

Gear, Gems, Elixirs, and Stats

When picking your gear, higher Item Power generally indicates stronger gear, but you should also consider the affixes and effects that are relevant to your class and build. When making gear decisions, keep an eye on both Item Power and the specific attributes that complement the build.

Legendary Aspects

For general information on how to unlock the Codex of Power, head to our dedicated Aspects and Codex of Power guide. You can imprint Aspects onto items by visiting the Occultist.

Listed below are all the Aspects that are important for this Quill Volley Spiritborn leveling build. You can equip any aspect from this list in the slot it drops for, as they are all useful while leveling. 

If you want a recommendation regarding which Aspect to get first, the Rebounding Aspect will be the most useful while leveling because it helps with additional damage with Quill Volley. You can unlock this aspect by finding it naturally, as a random drop. 

Last but not least, if possible, use a Polearm as your weapon for the increased Vulnerable damage.

Aspect Name	Legendary Aspect Power	Source
Rebounding Aspect	Quill Volley’s feathers explode at their apex and return to where they were cast, dealing {x}% of their normal damage both times.	Random Drop
Aspect of Redirected Force	Gain increased critical strike damage equal {x}% of your block chance. Blocking doubles this bonus for 10 seconds.	Random Drop
Aspect of Interdiction	Gain {x}% Block chance per resolve stack.	Random Drop
Aspect of Endurance	Your Resolve has a {x}% chance to not be lost when you are hit for each stack of ferocity you have.	Random Drop
Aspect of the Umbral	Restore {x} of your primary resource when you crowd control an enemy.	Champion’s demise, Dry steppes
Aspect of Accursed Touch	Lucky hit: up to a x% chance for your skills to inflict Vampiric Curse on enemies. Enemies afflicted with Vampiric Curse are also Vulnerable. Vampiric curse’s stored souls deal x% increased damage.	Random Drop
Duelist’s Aspect	Maximum Ferocity increased by 1-5.	Random Drop
Aspect of Unyielding Hits	Casting a Gorilla skill adds {x}% of your Armor to all attacks for 3 seconds.	Random Drop
Aspect of Forest Power	Lucky hit: Up to a 25% chance to create a Mystic Circle for 10 seconds. Casting a Gorilla Skill in Mystic Circles empowers them to periodically grant you a Barrier for 25% of your Maximum Life which increases your Armor and Maximum Resistances by {x}% while active.	Random Drop

Stat Priority and Tempering Affixes

During your leveling journey, you may stumble across items with very good affixes. Tempering these items can provide you with a significant boost in character power, so make sure you understand how it works. 

Tempering is only possible if you have already found a few Tempering Manuals while leveling!

Keep an eye out for the following stats and modifiers that are particularly beneficial for this build (listed in order of importance):

Gear Slot	Important Affixes (ranked by priority)	Tempering Recipes and Affixes
Helm	1. Cooldown Reduction 2. Dexterity  3. Armor	Worldly Endurance (Defensive): Total Armor Natural Schemes (Utility): Barrier Generation
Chest	1. Ranks to Defensive Skills 2. Resistances 3. Dexterity	Worldly Endurance (Defensive): Total Armor Natural Schemes (Utility): Barrier Generation
Gloves	1. Ranks to Quill Volley 2. Critical Strike Damage 3. Attack Speed	Natural Schemes (Utility): Barrier Generation Eagle Finesse (Offensive): Eagle Damage
Pants	1. Dodge Chance 2. Armor 3. Resistances	Worldly Endurance (Defensive): Total Armor Natural Schemes (Utility): Barrier Generation
Boots	1. Dexterity  2. Movement Speed 3. Resistances	Natural Motion (Mobility): Movement Speed Worldly Fortune (Utility): Chance to Stun for 2 Seconds
Amulet	1. Attack Speed 2. Movement Speed 3. Critical Strike Chance	Worldly Stability (Resource): Lucky Hit: Up to a 15% Chance to Restore x% Primary Resource Jaguar Finesse (Offensive): Jaguar Damage
Rings	1. Critical Strike Damage 2. Vulnerable Damage 3. Resistance Needed	Worldly Stability (Resource): Lucky Hit: Up to a 15% Chance to Restore x% Primary Resource Jaguar Finesse (Offensive): Jaguar Damage
Weapon (Polearm)	1. Vulnerable Damage 2. Critical Strike Damage 3. Dexterity	Eagle Finesse (Offensive): Eagle Damage Eagle Augments (Weapon): Chance for Quill Volley Projectiles to cast Twice

Gems and Runewords

Listed below are the best Gems to socket into gear for each item type.

Weapon Gems	Armor Gems	Jewelry Gems
Emerald For Critical Strike Damage	Emerald For more Dexterity	Skull For more Armor

If you find one of the Runes listed below, you can equip them as a Runeword on your Chest or Pants.

Runeword Combination	Runeword Effects
Cem Gar	Cem – Gain: 50 Offering — Cast Evade. Gar – Requires: 25 Offering, Cooldown: 1 Second — Gain 2.5% Critical Strike Chance for 5 seconds, up to 25%.
Yul Ohm	Yul – Gain: 50 Offering — Cast a Skill with a Cooldown. Ohm – Requires: 100 Offering, Cooldown: 2 Seconds — Evoke the Barbarian’s War Cry, increasing your Movement Speed and damage dealt.

Which Elixirs Should You Use?

Head to the Alchemist in any main town and craft Elixirs to boost your stats and experience gain for 30 minutes! Remember to gather the necessary crafting materials by foraging plants (to get Bundled Herbs)

Listed below are Elixirs that will be useful for you while leveling as a Spiritborn:

1. Elixir of Resourcefulness for better Resource Management.
2. Elixir of Advantage to boost Attack Speed.
3. Elixir of Iron Barbs or Elixir of Fortitude for a small defensive boost until other options become available.

Return to the Alchemist again when you reach Level 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60, to upgrade your potion. The extra healing is essential to survival! You can upgrade your potion at Level 60 multiple times, depending on whether you have the required materials or not.

Season 6: Hatred Rising

For a complete overview of Season 6, its mechanics and theme, new game mode, and other changes coming with the Season of Hatred Rising, please take a look at our comprehensive season hub here.

What matters most for leveling are the Realmwalkers. Defeating the Realmwalker will open a portal to the Seeting Realm. Completing the dungeon within will reward you with various items, depending on the rewards you choose upon entering, as well as Seething opals, which are consumables you can use. They can be stacked with elixirs to increase experience gains even further. For more information on which different Opals are available, head to our Seething Opal section here. 

Difficulty and Endgame

Once you hit Level 60 with this build, you will be ready to tackle harder difficulties as you transition into more challenging endgame content. Make sure to pick one of our recommended endgame builds to continue your journey! Additionally, keep your Obols until you reach maximum level (60), then spend them on a weapon to kickstart your preferred endgame build.

Changelog

• October 5th, 2024: Updated Skill Tree and Mercenary Skills, Switched some Temper Manuals, and added one Aspect.
• October 2nd, 2024: Guide created and theorycrafted for Season 6.