Diablo 4 – Spiritborn Skills Guide

The Spiritborn class in Diablo 4 has access to 24 different skills in six categories. Additionally, most skills also have an “enhanced” version, as well as two upgrades that improve the skills in various ways.

This section provides a brief overview of the Spiritborn skills as well as their enhancements and upgrades.

For a detailed list of Spiritborn passives, refer to our Passive Talents page.

For more general information about the class, refer to our Spiritborn Guide.

Spiritborn Basic Skills

Basic Skills are spammable skills with the primary purpose of generating Vigor, the Resource used by other skills. Because they are free and have no cooldown, they are used to fill empty time while waiting for other, more powerful skills to become available. Basic Skills are also a good way to inflict debuffs like Vulnerable, Thorns, or Poison.

Withering Fist

Vigor Generation	9
Lucky Hit Chance	26%
Damage Type	Poison
Spirit Guardian	Centipede
Description	Dart at and jab an enemy, dealing {x} damage and applying {x} Poisoning damage over 6 seconds. Your 3rd attack bursts on your target, damaging surrounding enemies and Slowing them by 30% for 3 seconds.
Enhanced Withering Fist	You gain 1 Vigor per second for every Nearby enemy Poisoned by Withering Fist, up to 10.
Sharp Withering Fist	Withering Fist‘s 3rd attack spreads its Poisoning to 3 Nearby unaffected enemies. Hitting a Vulnerable enemy will also spread that effect to all hit.
Accelerated Withering Fist	Enemies Poisoned by Withering Fist deal 20% less damage.

Thrash

Vigor Generation	8
Lucky Hit Chance	21%
Damage Type	Fire
Spirit Guardian	Jaguar
Description	Dive at an enemy and slash into it dealing {x} damage. Your 3rd attack unleashes a rapid series of slashes around your target, dealing a total of {x} damage.
Enhanced Thrash	After killing an enemy, your next Thrash generates 10 additional Vigor, up to 10 casts of Thrash.
Sharp Thrash	Thrash‘s 3rd attack grants a stack of Ferocity.
Accelerated Thrash	Thrash continues to unleash its 3rd attack if cast again within 1.5 seconds.

Thunderspike

Vigor Generation	9
Lucky Hit Chance	23%
Damage Type	Lightning
Spirit Guardian	Eagle
Description	Quickly jab forward with a piercing strike dealing {x} damage. Your 3rd attack pierces further, dealing {x} damage and reducing your Evade cooldown by 5 seconds.
Enhanced Thunderspike	Thunderspike generates 5 additional Vigor if you have moved in the last 2 seconds.
Sharp Thunderspike	Thunderspike‘s 3rd attack strikes back again, Pulling in and Knocking Down Distant enemies for {x} seconds.
Accelerated Thunderspike	When you Evade, you attack with Thunderspike along the way and make enemies Vulnerable for 2 seconds.

Rock Splitter

Vigor Generation	11
Lucky Hit Chance	29%
Damage Type	Physical
Spirit Guardian	Gorilla
Description	Rush at a target and clobber enemies in front of you, dealing {x} damage. Your 3rd attack strikes enemies around you, dealing {x} damage.
Enhanced Rock Splitter	Rock Splitter increases your Block Chance by 15% for 5 seconds and when you Block you gain 11 Vigor.
Sharp Rock Splitter	Rock Splitter‘s 3rd attack Knocks enemies Back and grants Resolve per enemy hit.
Accelerated Rock Splitter	Rock Splitter increases your Thorns by 13 for 5 seconds and your 3rd attack deals 100% of your Thorns to enemies.

Spiritborn Core Skills

The Spiritborn class uses Core Skills to spend Resource (Vigor) to deliver powerful attacks! Core skills are among the strongest skills for most classes, including the Spiritborn. However, while they have no cooldown, their biggest drawback is their Vigor cost.

Stinger

Vigor Cost	40
Lucky Hit Chance	21%
Damage Type	Poison
Spirit Guardian	Centipede
Description	Strike a small area, dealing {x} damage to enemies within as well as surrounding Poisoned enemies.
Enhanced Stinger	Stinger applies 50% of its Base damage as Poisoning over 6 seconds to all enemies hit.
Rampant Stinger	Stinger deals 5% increased Direct damage to Elites for every Nearby Poisoned enemy.
Advantageous Stinger	If Stinger strikes a Vulnerable enemy it Heals you for 10% of your Maximum Life. If you are Healthy it makes enemies Vulnerable for 3 seconds.

Rake

Vigor Cost	30
Lucky Hit Chance	17%
Damage Type	Fire
Spirit Guardian	Jaguar
Description	Conjure claws that rake through enemies in front of you, dealing {x} damage before exploding for an additional {x} damage.
Enhanced Rake	Casting Rake grants a stack of Ferocity.
Rampant Rake	Rake‘ Vigor cost is reduced by 2 per stack of Ferocity you have.
Advantageous Rake	Hitting at least one enemy with Rake reduces your longest active Cooldown by 0.5 seconds.

Quill Volley

Vigor Cost	35
Lucky Hit Chance	13%
Damage Type	Lightning
Spirit Guardian	Eagle
Description	Hurl 5 feathers that pierce through enemies, each dealing {x} damage.
Enhanced Quill Volley	Quill Volley makes enemies Vulnerable for 3 seconds if they are hit with at least 3 feathers at once.
Rampant Quill Volley	Quill Volley‘s feathers fly 50% further and converge on your target with 0.20% additional Critical Strike Chance for each point of Vigor you had on cast.
Advantageous Quill Volley	Quill Volley hurls out 3 additional feathers and deals 30% increased damage to each enemy per hit.

Crushing Hand

Vigor Cost	30
Lucky Hit Chance	31%
Damage Type	Physical
Spirit Guardian	Gorilla
Description	Smash down next to you, creating 2 shockwaves on either side that overlap and each deal {x} damage.
Enhanced Crushing Hand	Crushing Hand grants a Barrier equal to 10% of the damage it deals for 2 seconds, up to 50% of your Maximum Life.
Rampant Crushing Hand	Crushing Hand‘s radius increases by 5% for every stack of Resolve you have, up to 40%.
Advantageous Crushing Hand	Enemies hit by both strikes of Crushing Hand are Knocked Down for 2 seconds.

Spiritborn Focus Skills

Spiritborn Focus skills provide a wide range of utility, such as pulling enemies together or applying various debuffs.

Toxic Skin

Cooldown	15 seconds
Lucky Hit Chance	10%
Damage Type	Poison
Spirit Guardian	Centipede
Description	Passive: Enemies that attack you are Poisoned for {x} damage over 3 seconds. Active: Your toxins overflow, applying the Poisoning in a trail and making you Unhindered for {x] seconds.
Enhanced Toxic Skin	While active, Toxic Skin‘s Poisoning is increased by 100% to {x} over 3 seconds.
Replenishing Toxic Skin	Toxic Skin passively increases Thorns damage you deal to Poisoned enemies by 100%.
Measured Toxic Skin	While Toxic Skin is active, your Poisoning deals an additional 25% of its damage over time as Critical Strikes to Vulnerable enemies.

Ravager

Cooldown	20 seconds
Lucky Hit Chance	31%
Damage Type	Fire
Spirit Guardian	Jaguar
Description	Passive: Minimum Ferocity increased by 2. Active: Unleash a savage roar, causing all your attacks to trigger additional strikes dealing {x} damage for 6 seconds.
Enhanced Ravager	Ravager‘s duration is extended by 2 seconds per kill while active. This bonus is reduced by 0.25 each kill, to a minimum of 0.50 seconds.
Replenishing Ravager	Ravager passively stockpiles any Healing you receive up to 40 stacks. While active, Ravager spends stacks to strike Elite enemies up to an additional 4 times.
Measured Ravager	While Ravager is active, your Core Skills instantly dash to your target and all Vigor Generation is increased by 30%.

Soar

Cooldown	15 seconds
Lucky Hit Chance	68%
Damage Type	Lightning
Spirit Guardian	Eagle
Description	Fly into the air, creating a cloud which makes enemies at your target location Vulnerable for 5 seconds before you crash down upon them dealing {x} damage.
Enhanced Soar	The next hit against an enemy struck by Soar is guaranteed Critical Strike. If Soar hits no enemies you instead gain 50% increased Movement Speed for 3 seconds.
Replenishing Soar	Soar’s cloud remains around you for 7 seconds after landing and continues to make enemies Vulnerable.
Measured Soar	Soar makes you Unstoppable for 3 seconds.

Vortex

Cooldown	12 seconds
Lucky Hit Chance	21%
Damage Type	Lightning
Spirit Guardian	Eagle
Description	Create a cyclone that Pulls enemies inward followed by a crushing downdraft that deals {x} damage to them.
Enhanced Vortex	Casting Vortex increases the damage of the next Skill cast by 20%.
Replenishing Vortex	Critical Strikes with Vortex reduce its Cooldown by 1 second.
Measured Vortex	While you have an active Barrier, your Vortex does 200% additional damage and Knocks enemies down for 3 seconds.

Spiritborn Defensive Skills

Defensive Skills help to improve the Spiritborn’s defensive capabilities, whether through a Barrier, Crowd Control, or escaping incoming melee strikes as fast as possible.

Armored Hide

Cooldown	25 seconds
Lucky Hit Chance	31%
Damage Type	Physical
Spirit Guardian	Gorilla
Description	Passive: Gain 1 Resolve every 5 seconds. Active: Encase yourself, becoming Unstoppable and gaining 100% Block Chance for 3 seconds.
Enhanced Armored Hide	Activating Armored Hide grants you Maximum Resolve and increases your Thorns by 64 for the duration.
Reinforced Armored Hide	While active, Armored Hide increases your Block Reduction by 5% for every Nearby enemy.
Adaptable Armored Hide	When you Evade through enemies with Armored Hide active, you deal 100% of your Thorns to them and Heal for 5% of your Maximum Life per hit.

Concussive Stomp

Cooldown	10 seconds
Lucky Hit Chance	21%
Damage Type	Physical
Spirit Guardian	Gorilla
Description	Stomp in front of you, releasing a shockwave that deals {x} damage and Knocks Down enemies for {x} seconds.
Enhanced Concussive Stomp	Concussive Stomp grants a Barrier equal to 10% of your Maximum Life per enemy hit for 3 seconds, up to 100%.
Reinforced Concussive Stomp	Concussive Stomp gains an additional Charge and does 500% increased damage to Unstoppable enemies and Bosses.
Adaptable Concussive Stomp	When enemies recover from Concussive Stomp, you Dodge their next 3 attacks.

Counterattack

Charges	2
Charge Cooldown	15 seconds
Lucky Hit Chance	31%
Damage Type	Fire
Spirit Guardian	Jaguar
Description	Passive: Gain 20% Dodge Chance and automatically retaliate against Close enemies for {x} damage when you Dodge their attacks. Active: Dodge all direct attacks for 2 seconds.
Counterattack Enhancement	Counterattack’s Cooldown is reduced by 0.5 seconds per stack of Ferocity you have.
Reinforced Counterattack	Counterattack passively increases your Critical Strike Damage by 10% for every Close enemy.
Adaptable Counterattack	When you Dodge a Control Impairing attack with Counterattack it will reflect that Crowd Control to all Close enemies for 2 seconds.

Scourge

Cooldown	12 seconds
Lucky Hit Chance	21%
Damage Type	Poison
Spirit Guardian	Centipede
Description	Call forth a wave of insects that bite enemies, Fearing and Slowing them for {x} seconds and applying {x} Poisoning damage over 6 seconds.
Enhanced Scourge	Each time you hit an enemy with Scourge you gain 1% increased damage vs Crowd Controlled enemies for 6 seconds, up to 50%.
Reinforced Scourge	Casting Scourge grants 100% of your Maximum Vigor over 6 seconds.
Adaptable Scourge	Lucky Hit: Hitting an enemy affected by Scourge has up to a 50% chance to Life Steal 35% of the damage done.

Spiritborn Potency Skills

Potency Skills provide various useful effects and mainly focus on AoE (area-of-effect) damage.

Payback

Cooldown	12 seconds
Lucky Hit Chance	31%
Damage Type	Physical
Spirit Guardian	Gorilla
Description	Smash enemies in front of you, dealing {x} damage. When attacked, you have a 35% chance to reduce Payback’s active Cooldown by 1 seconds.
Enhanced Payback	Each time an enemy attacks you the damage they take from Payback is increased by 5% for 60 seconds, up to 75%
Poised Payback	Payback passively grants you Vigor when you take damage. Payback is now a Core Skill and consumes all available Vigor to increase its damage by 0.5% for each point spent.
Invasive Payback	Becoming Control Impaired while Payback is on Cooldown makes it free to cast and grants you Unstoppable for 3 seconds. Can only occur once every 30 seconds.

Razor Wings

Charges	3
Charges Cooldown	10 seconds
Lucky Hit Chance	23%
Damage Type	Lightning
Spirit Guardian	Eagle
Description	Whirl out a cluster of razor sharp spirit feathers that rebound back, dealing {x} damage each way.
Enhanced Razor Wings	Razor Wings makes enemies Vulnerable for 5 seconds when hitting with a Critical Strike or from behind.
Poised Razor Wings	Razor Wings has a 10% chance to regain a Charge when they hit an enemy a second time. Double this chance if you have an active Barrier.
Invasive Razor Wings	Razor Wings consumes 3 Charges to send out a spiral of 3 wings at once.

Rushing Claw

Charges	4
Charges Cooldown	4 per 20 seconds
Lucky Hit Chance	26%
Damage Type	Fire
Spirit Guardian	Jaguar
Description	Slash a short distance through an enemy, striking all enemies along the way twice for a total of {x} total damage.
Enhanced Rushing Claw	Enemies hit by Rushing Claw take 10% increased damage from Rushing Claw, up to 80%.
Poised Rushing Claw	When Rushing Claw hits an Elite enemy you gain 25% increased Dodge Chance for 3 seconds.
Invasive Rushing Claw	Using Rushing Claw‘s last Charge will instantly refill all Charges by consuming 4 stacks of Ferocity.

Touch of Death

Cooldown	15 seconds
Lucky Hit Chance	21%
Damage Type	Poison
Spirit Guardian	Centipede
Description	Strike an enemy and infect them, dealing {x} damage and applying {x} Poisoning damage over 9 seconds. When the infection expires or the host dies, a swarm hatches and seeks enemies for 9 seconds, dealing {x} damage per hit. You can have up to 3 swarms active at once.
Enhanced Touch of Death	Touch of Death‘s infection Heals you for 2% of your Maximum Life per second for a total of 18% Maximum Life. You Heal any remaining when the swarm hatches.
Poised Touch of Death	Touch of Death is now a Core Skill which costs 70 Vigor and has no Cooldown.
Invasive Touch of Death	Touch of Death‘s swarm bursts every second, applying 30% of its Base Poisoning damage over 6 seconds to surrounding enemies.

Spiritborn Ultimate Skills

Ultimate Skills are powerful skills that have a particularly long cooldown. Ultimate Skills are often built around in order to be effective, and only one Ultimate Skill can be equipped at a time.

The Protector

Cooldown	45 seconds
Lucky Hit Chance	16%
Damage Type	Physical
Spirit Guardian	Gorilla
Description	The Gorilla spirit protects an area for 6 seconds, continuously smashing surrounding enemies for {x} damage and granting you Barrier for 15% of your Maximum Life every 1.5 seconds.
Harmonious Protector	The Protector’s strikes deal 300% increased damage to Non-Elite enemies and reduce the damage you take from Elite enemies by 30% for 6 seconds.
Exalted Protector	The Protector’s area persists for an additional 6 seconds. While in the area you are Unstoppable and any enemies or Small Missiles inside are Slowed by 80%.

The Seeker

Charges	3
Charges Cooldown	30 seconds
Lucky Hit Chance	31%
Damage Type	Lightning
Spirit Guardian	Eagle
Description	The Eagle Spirit swoops down and deals {x} damage. After a short delay it blasts off dealing {x} damage.
Harmonious Seeker	The Seeker’s first hit Knocks enemies Down for {x} seconds and the second hit is a guaranteed Critical Strike.
Exalted Seeker	The Seeker constantly makes all Nearby enemies Vulnerable while active.

The Hunter

Cooldown	45 seconds
Lucky Hit Chance	16%
Damage Type	Fire
Spirit Guardian	Jaguar
Description	Bound across the battlefield with the Jaguar Spirit, dealing {x} damage upon landing and then rapidly slashing enemies in the area for {x} total damage over 7 strikes.
Harmonious Hunter	The Hunter overfills your Ferocity by 4 stacks and causes you to deal 100% increased damage to Injured enemies for 8 seconds.
Exalted Hunter	Killing an enemy while The Hunter is present has a 15% chance to instantly reset its Cooldown and cause your next cast within 8 seconds to repeat its 7 strikes an additional time, up to 4 times.

The Devourer

Cooldown	45 seconds
Lucky Hit Chance	10%
Damage Type	Poison
Spirit Guardian	Centipede
Description	The Centipede Spirit emerges, blasting enemies in a line for {x} damage and spitting at others for {x} damage. Lasts for 15 seconds.
Harmonious Devourer	As it emerges, The Devourer launches 10 toxic globs that apply 143 Poisoning damage over 6 seconds wherever they land.
Exalted Devourer	While The Devourer is active, if a Non-Boss enemy’s remaining Life becomes Poisoned they die instantly and unleash a Pestilent Swarm that deals 40 damage per hit to enemies it passes through.

Spiritborn Dismount Skill

While mounted, the Spiritborn has access to a unique Dismount Skill that allows them to leap off the mount and slam down on enemies with a powerful lightning attack that is similar to other skills of the Eagle Guardian Spirit. Players that are struck by an enemy are automatically dismounted and are unable to use their Dismount Ability until they mount back.