[VESSEL OF HATRED] Rake - Spiritborn Build for Diablo 4

Build Introduction

This endgame build for the Spiritborn is all about boosting the Jaguar’s Rake skill through our Spirit Hall choices in combination with the required Unique Loyalty’s Mantle helmet. Resulting in massive single target and AoE damage from Jaguar skills. Additionally, the Ravager adds even more damage, while also helping with mobility and Vigor generation, creating a fast-paced and fierce playstyle.

This endgame guide assumes your Spiritborn is Level 60 and meets all the build requirements. If you are just starting out with a new Spiritborn character, we recommend heading over to the Quill Volley Leveling Build and then switching to this endgame build when ready.

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Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths

Great Mobility
Good Survivability
Good AoE and Single Target Damage

Weaknesses

Gear Reliant
Requires Unique Helmet

To see how this build compares to the other builds on our site, you can check out our build tier lists.

Build Requirements

Required Uniques

Required Aspects (Non-codex)

Skill Bar and Skill Tree Points

Follow the points allocated in the Skill Tree above for the completed build. If you are missing skill points, complete Renown Tier 1-4 in every zone to get the missing additional points.

Spirit Hall Choice

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 endgame build, we pick the Jaguar as both the primary and secondary Spirit Guardian, as this synergizes extremely well with Loyalty’s Mantle. This unique helmet grants a 100% bonus to both Spirit Hall choices, as well as reduced resource costs and cooldown reductions, which will allow you to spam Rake way more often!

Paragon Board

Paragon unlocks after reaching Level 60, and is considered an endgame progression system. Leveling up your paragon greatly increases your character’s power! We recommend using the following Legendary nodes and Rare Glyphs to improve the build even further as you grind through the endgame. Note that each Rare Glyph’s information and radius listed below is for the Level 46 version.

Keep in mind that the Paragon Boards were selected during theorycrafting, and everything is still subject to change until after the release of the Vessel of Hatred expansion.

Gear, Stats, Gems, Runes, and Elixirs

The following sections cover all systems that are important if you want to improve the power of your character in the endgame of Diablo 4.

Legendary Aspects

Each Aspect is listed with its matching gear slot. Do your best to keep each Aspect in the assigned slot. Remember to salvage Legendary Items with higher Aspect values to unlock them in the Codex of Power, and then imprint them onto gear pieces with the preferred affixes.

Additionally, if you are trying to farm a specific item, we recommend using your Obols to target farm them!

Gear Slot	Gems/Runes	Aspect / Unique	Legendary Aspect / Unique Power
Helm	Grand Emerald OR Runes	Loyalty’s Mantle	While your Spirit Hall choices match, their bonuses are 100% more potent and Skills with that Base Spirit cost x% less and have x% reduced Cooldowns.
Chest	Grand Emerald OR Runes	Aspect of Reactive Armor	Gain 10% block chance. Blocking an attack from a close enemy has a x% chance to cast a free Concussive Stomp at them.
Gloves		Aspect of Redirected Force	Gain increase critical strike damage equal x% of your Block chance. Blocking doubles this bonus for 10 seconds.
Pants	Grand Emerald OR Runes	Aspect of Interdiction	Gain x% Block chance per resolve stack.
Boots		Duelist’s Aspect	Maximum Ferocity increased by 1-5.
Amulets(50% bonus)	Grand Skull	Aspect of Unyielding Hits	Casting a Gorilla Skill adds x% of your Armor to all attacks for 3 seconds.
Ring	Grand Skull	Ring of the Midnight Sun	When you Critically Strike, you regain x% of the Vigor you’ve spent in the last 2 seconds. Gain Counterattack’s Passive Effect.
Ring	Grand Skull	Aspect of Wild Claws	Rake manifests a Spirit Jaguar which also casts Rake at a random enemy, dealing x% Base damage.
Weapon (200% bonus)	Grand Emerald	Aspect of Plains Power	Lucky Hit: Up to a 25% chance to create a Mystic Circle for 10 seconds. Casting a Jaguar Skill in Mystic Circles empowers them to keep your Ferocity at Maximum and increase your damage by {x}% per stack while you remain within.

Stat Priority and Tempering Affixes

Affixes on the same line are considered to be equally important. Bolded affixes are the most important targets for Masterworking upgrades. To masterwork, you will need rare materials that only drop from Nightmare Dungeons. Be sure to check our Tempering and Masterworking guides, for more details about these topics.

Slot	Targeted Gear Affix	Tempering Affixes
Helm	All Stats Movement Speed Damage Reduction Ranks to Velocity	N/A
Chest	1. Ranks to Armored Hide 2. Armor 3. Maximum Life	Spiritborn Resolve (Defensive): Maximum Resolve Stacks Jaguar Innovation (Utility): Rake Size
Gloves	1. Ranks to Rake 2. Critical Strike Chance 3. Resistance to All Elements	Worldly Finesse (Offensive): Critical Strike Damage Jaguar Innovation (Utility): Rake Size
Pants	1. Armor 2. Maximum Life 3. Resistance to All Elements	Spiritborn Resolve (Defensive): Maximum Resolve Stacks Jaguar Innovation (Utility): Rake Size
Boots	1. + Evade Charges 2. Movement Speed 3. Vigor per Second	Natural Motion (Mobility): Movement Speed Worldly Fortune (Utility): Lucky Hit: Chance to Stun
Amulet	1. %Dexterity 2. Total Armor 3. Ranks to Furnace	Spiritborn Resolve (Defensive): Maximum Resolve Stacks Jaguar Finesse (Offensive): Jaguar Damage
Rings	1. Attack Speed 2. Critical strike Chance/Damage 3. Lucky Hit: Chance to Make Enemies Vulnerable	Jaguar Efficiency (Resource): The Hunter Cooldown Reduction Jaguar Finesse (Offensive): Jaguar Damage
Weapon (Quarterstaff)	1. Critical Strike Damage 2. Maximum Life 3. Dexterity	Jaguar Augments (Weapons): Chance for Rake to Extra Hit Jaguar Finesse (Offensive): Mystic Circle Potency

The priority order of Resistances is Lightning > Poison > Fire > Cold > Shadow.

Make sure to reach the Armor Cap of 1,000. Certain builds that scale with armor may benefit from having more of it. For instance, those that make use of the Aspect of Unyielding Hits. Furthermore, in higher difficulties, there will be a penalty to armor and resistance, so you will need a higher amount to compensate for the loss.

Gems and Runewords

Listed below are the recommended Gems and Runewords to socket into your gear.

Gems

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

For Jewelry Gems, simply use any gem that provides armor or the resistance you lack the most.

Runewords

Runewords are unlocked during the Vessel of Hatred campaign and can be used to strengthen or fill a build’s weaknesses. Two Runewords have to be combined to create a new effect:

A trigger Runeword of Ritual that provides Offerings when the condition is met
An effect Runeword of Invocation that costs Offerings and triggers an action.

Once the Runeword of Ritual has generated enough Offerings, the Runeword of Invocation will trigger its effect. Some Runewords of Invocation will have overflow effects, meaning that extra Offerings that have been created will be used to empower the triggered effect. For more information on how Runewords work, take a look at our comprehensive Runeword Guide.

Runewords replace Gems in gear.
Only two Runeword pairs (4 Runes in total) can be equipped at a time.

The following are recommended Runeword combination options for the Thunderspike endgame build of the Spiritborn:

Runeword Combination	Runeword Effects
Tam Gar	Tam – Gain: 25 Offering. Cast a non-Channeled Core Skill. Gar – Requires: 25 Offering (Overflow: Gain Multiple Stacks). Cooldown: 1 Second. Gain 2.5% Critical Strike Chance for 5 seconds, up to 25%.
Yul Ohm	Yul – Gain: 150 Offering. Cast a Skill with a Cooldown. Ohm – Requires: 500 Offering (Overflow: Increased Duration). Cooldown: 2 Seconds. Evoke the Barbarian’s War Cry, increasing your Movement Speed and damage dealt.
Bac Eom	Bac – Gain: 50 Offering. Eom – Requires: 100 Offering. (Overflow: Further Reduced Cooldowns). Cooldown: 1 Second. Reduce your active Cooldowns by 0.25 seconds.

In theory, these Runes should be very good for this build, but we need additional testing to be certain. We will update this part as soon as possible.

Which Elixirs Should You Use?

Visit the Alchemist and craft an Elixir providing any Resistance you need most, or the Assault Elixir to increase Attack Speed. Some Elixirs cannot be crafted and only drop from activities like Helltides or Nightmare Dungeons. Additionally, make sure to keep your health potion upgraded!

The following Elixirs are useful for the Rake Spiritborn build:

Elixir of Precision provides the highest damage output increase.
Elixir of Advantage increases your attack speed
Elixir of Fortitude for additional survivability

Mercenaries

During the Vessel of Hatred campaign, you will unlock different NPC Mercenaries who join you on your travels. In the early endgame, 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 Subor as your main companion, and Raheir as Reinforcement.

Subo Skill Tree choices:

Core Skill: Wire Trap
Core Passive: Ready At Hand
Iconic Skill: Trip Mines
Iconic Passive: Mastermind

Raheir Reinforcement choices:

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

Rotation and Playstyle

Similar to other endgame builds for the Spiritborn, this one is mechanically straightforward and should be easy to learn and play, making it ideal for those times when you just want to grind the endgame without worrying about perfecting your gameplay. The main mechanic of this build is to boost Rake‘s damage as much as possible. By using the Jaguar as main and secondary Spirit Guardian in combination with the Loyalty’s Mantle, the Aspect of Wild Claws, and the powers of Ravager and The Hunter, you will deal strong single target and AoE damage.

Furthermore, Rake’s damage gets another extra boost from the Aspect of Redirected Force, which increases Critical Strike Damage based on your block chance. Using Gorilla-tagged skills helps raise that block chance even more. To maximize this, you should use Rock Splitter roughly every 5 seconds to maintain the increased block chance:

Rushing Claw to slash through enemies and to get close.
Armored Hide for survivability.
Use The Hunter Ultimate to gain Ferocity and increase your damage to Injured enemies.
Ravager for additional damage.
Spam Rake!
Use Rock Splitter to gain block chance every 5 seconds, and generate Vigor.

Uniques and Mythic Uniques

Below you will find information on Uniques and Mythic Uniques that are useful and recommended for this build. Moreover, if you are interested in target farming Mythic Uniques, check out our How to Farm Mythic Uniques guide.

If a Unique or Mythic Unique is not listed here, it is NOT recommended and won’t benefit this specific build in any way.

Uniques

Listed below are the recommended and optional Unique Items for this build.

Loyalty’s Mantle (Required): While your Spirit Hall choices match, their bonuses are 100% more potent and Skills with that Base Spirit cost x% less and have x% reduced Cooldowns.
Ring of the Midnight Sun (Required): When you Critically Strike, you regain x% of the Vigor you’ve spent in the last 2 seconds. Gain Counterattack’s Passive Effect.

Mythic Uniques

Ring of Starless Skies (Recommended): Spending your Primary Resource reduces the resource cost of your Skills and increases your damage by x% for 3 seconds, up to x%.

We recommend the Ring of Starless Skies only in combination with higher endgame gear, where Vigor sustain should be less of an issue.

Advanced Information

Detailed information about this build will be updated once Vessel of Hatred is released and the class has been thoroughly play-tested.

If you want to have a look at builds that focus on other spirit guardians, you can find all our Spiritborn builds listed on this page.

Obol Gambling

Obol gambling is a great way to potentially find item upgrades or items missing from your build. Similar to Kadala in Diablo 3, you can use Obol vendors in town to try and get any specific item that you are missing. When a Level 60 Character spends Obols, all gear from that vendor will be 750 item power, the highest non-Ancestral item power in the game, allowing you to fill out gear with the affixes or Legendary Aspects you need. There is also a small chance to receive an Ancestral piece with item power 800.

You can check out our Obol Gambling Tool here!

Changelog

October 3rd, 2024: Guide theorycrafted and created for Vessel of Hatred, Season 6.

Rake – Spiritborn Build for Diablo 4