[VESSEL OF HATRED] Razor Wings - Spiritborn Build for Diablo 4

Build Introduction

This endgame build focuses on the interaction between Razor Wings, Counterattack, and the Aspect of Deflection, amplifying Razor Wings’ damage while bouncing it back to enemies through Counterattack. In short, this gameplay is built around the Intricacy passive and The Seeker charges to let you cast free Razor Wings. With strong barrier generation, a powerful ultimate, and the double Eagle Spirit Guardians boosting your critical hits, it offers a high-impact playstyle. Though this build absolutely requires specific gear, aspects, and careful tempering, it is an excellent pick for players who are looking for a rewarding and dynamic playstyle.

For more details on how exactly this build works, please read our mechanics and playstyle section.

However, before we jump into the build details, keep in mind that 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

Fast gameplay style
Easy to Play
Heavy Damage

Weaknesses

Requires specific gear and aspects
Needs the right tempers

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

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: Eagle
- Casting an Eagle Skill grants 4 seconds of the Storm Feathers Movement Speed bonus. When you Evade, fling up to 8 Storm Feathers for every remaining second, each dealing 125% Lightning damage and making targets Vulnerable for 5 seconds. All Skills are now also Eagle Skills.
Secondary: Eagle
- For every 4 meters you move, your Critical Strike Chance increases by 4%. This bonus is reset 2 seconds after you Critically Strike.

For this endgame build, we pick the Eagle as the primary and secondary Spirit Guardian. As Primary Spirit Guardian, the Eagle grants us Storm Feathers Movement Speed bonus for 4 seconds when using any Eagle skill. On top of that, Evade will trigger up to 8 Storm Feathers for each remaining second, deal Lightning damage, and make enemies Vulnerable for a few seconds. Since all our Skills are now also considered Eagle skills, this synergizes perfectly with the build.

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 Glyphs to improve the build even further as you grind through the endgame. Note that each Glyph’s information and radius are based on the Level 46 version.

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	Loyalty’s Mantle	While your Spirit Hall choices match: Their bonuses are 100% more potent. Skills of their Base Spirit gain {x}% Vigor Cost Reduction and x% Cooldown Reduction.
Chest	Xol Kry	Jacinth Shell	Spending Vigor Heals you for {x}% of your Maximum Life. Every second, your active cooldowns now drain 10% of your maximum Life to reduce their durations by 3 seconds.
Gloves		Aspect of Redirected Force	Gain increased Critical Strike Damage equal x% of your Block Chance. Blocking doubles this bonus for 10 seconds.
Pants	Yul Que	Temerity	Effects that Heal you beyond 100% Life grant you a Barrier up to {x}% of your Maximum Life that lasts for 8 seconds. You may now drink your Healing Potion while at full Life.
Boots		Rakanoth’s Wake	When you cast a Skill with a Cooldown, you explode, dealing {x} Fire damage.
Amulets(50% bonus)	Grand Skull	Aspect of Deflection	While active, Counterattack reflects incoming Razor Wings back out again. Other Small missiles are also deflected back at enemies and deal {x}% of Counterattack’s Base damage on impact.
Ring	Grand Skull	Aspect of Unyielding Hits	Casting a Gorilla Skill increases your Weapon Damage by {x}% of your Armor for 3 seconds.
Ring	Grand Skull	Edgemaster’s Aspect	Skills deal up to {x}% increased damage based on your available Primary Resource when cast, receiving the maximum benefit while you have full Primary Resource.
Weapon (200% bonus)	Grand Emerald	Conceited Aspect	Deal x{x}% increased damage while you have a Barrier active.

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	1. All Stats 2. Movement Speed 3. Damage Reduction 4. Ranks to Velocity	N/A
Chest	1. Damage Reduction while Injured 2. Life on Hit 3. Maximum Life 4. Ranks to Endurance	N/A
Gloves	1. Critical Strike Chance 2. Critical Strike Damage 3. Armor	Eagle Finesse (Offensive) – Eagle Damage Natural Schemes (Utility) – Barrier Generation
Pants	1. Lucky Hit: up to a 5% change to heal x Life 2. Healing received 3. Damage Reduction while Healthy 4. Maximum Life	N/A
Boots	1. Movement Speed 2. Cooldown Reduction 3. Resistance to All Elements 4. Non-Physical Damage	Natural Schemes (Utility) – Barrier Generation Natural Motion (Mobility) – Movement Speed
Amulet	1. Dexterity 2. Total Armor 3. Ranks to Brilliance	Natural Schemes (Utility) – Barrier Generation Eagle Efficiency (Resource) – + Seeker Charges
Rings	1. Critical Strike Chance 2. Maximum Life 3. Lucky Hit: up to a chance to make enemies vulnerarable for 2 seconds or Critical Strike Damage	Eagle Finesse (Offensive) – Eagle Damage Centipede Efficiency (Resource)- + Razor Wings Charges
Weapon	1. Dexterity 2. Critical Strike Damage 3. Maximum Life	Elemental Surge — Day (Weapon) – Lucky Hit: Up to a 40% chance to deal Fire Damage Eagle Finesse (Offensive) – Eagle Damage

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

Make sure to reach the Armor Cap of 1,000 for survivability. However, as this builds scales with armor, we benefit from having more than the minimum. This applies to any build using the Aspect of Unyielding Hits, where higher armor increases overall damage. 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 more Critical Strike Damage	Grand Emerald For more Dexterity	Grand Skull or Grand Diamond For more Armor or For more Resistance

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 Razor Wings endgame build of the Spiritborn:

Runeword Combination	Runeword Effects
Xol Kry	Xol – Gain: 150 Offering. Evoke Power from another Class. Kry – Requires: 300 Offering. Cooldown: 3 seconds. Evoke the Spiritborn’s Vortex, dealing damage and Pulling in enemies.
Yul Que	Yul – Gain: 50 Offering. Cast a Skill with a Cooldown. Que – Requires: 300 Offering. Cooldown: 1 Seconds. Evoke the Druid’s Earthen Bulwark, granting yourself a Barrier.

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 most Spiritborn builds:

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. However, if you would prefer to get a recommendation, we would advise selecting Subo as your main companion, for the added survivability he provides, 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 (will automatically trigger when you become Injured)
Reinforcement Skill: Provoke

Build Mechanics and Rotation

This build focuses on Barrier generation in combination with the heavy damage of Razor Wings. The Aspect of Deflection allows your Counterattack to deflect your Razor Wings back to the enemies, dealing additional damage. With The Seeker providing extra charges and the Intricacy passive, you will be able to constantly keep Counterattack up, allowing you to cast Razor Wings for free and maintain high Critical Strike Damage. Your tempers on Amulet and Rings providing extra charges are an important part of this mechanic.

The double Eagle Spirit Guardian boosts mobility and damage output, with Storm Feathers making enemies Vulnerable and increasing your Critical Strike chance. This pairs perfectly with Loyalty’s Mantle, improving your overall damage thanks to the increased Critical Hit potential from the secondary Spirit Guardian choice.

We also use the Jacinth Shell and Wildfire Glyph, which, together with Rakanoth’s Wake, optimize cooldown management and improve fire damage through the Elemental Surge temper on your weapon. The boots aren’t mandatory, but they help extend the effects of these interactions.

For this build, sustainability is key, so your Barrier generation is almost constant as Jacinth Shell will keep draining your life for your active cooldowns. With Temerity, you can use potions even when at full health, converting overhealing into a powerful barrier. The Auspicious passive adds to this by granting a barrier every second, keeping you shielded as you fight:

Engage with Soar. Paired with the Vortex Runeword (XolKry), this will be great to start any fight.
Use Armored Hide to boost your survivability and block chance, triggering the Aspect of Redirected Force for more critical strike damage.
Use a potion. Even at full health, they will grant you barriers for extra protection.
Cast Razor Wings before the Ultimate!
Activate The Seeker to increase Critical Strike Damage and make enemies Vulnerable.
Counterattack to increase Critical Strike Damage and make use of the Aspect of Deflection.
Spam Razor Wings!
Use The Seeker whenever you have charges ready.

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. Skills of their Base Spirit gain {x}% Vigor Cost Reduction. Skills of their Base Spirit gain {x}% Cooldown reduction.
Jacinth Shell (Required): Spending Vigor Heals you for {x}% of your Maximum Life. Every second, your active cooldowns now drain 10% of your maximum Life to reduce their durations by 3 seconds.
Temerity (Required): Effects that Heal you beyond 100% Life grant you a Barrier up to {x}% of your Maximum Life that lasts for 8 seconds. You may now drink your Healing Potion while at full Life.
Rakanoth’s Wake (Recommended): When you cast a Skill with a Cooldown, you explode, dealing {x} Fire damage.

Mythic Uniques

The Razor Wings Spiritborn does not require any Mythic Uniques!

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 Guide here!

Changelog

October 13th, 2024: Guide created for Vessel of Hatred, Season 6.

Razor Wings – Spiritborn Build for Diablo 4