Best Spiritborn builds in Diablo 4 season 7

Spiritborn are the agile, monk-like characters in Diablo 4, and are exclusive to 2024’s Vessel of Hatred DLC. Despite being the “fast melee class,” the Spiritborn are much more complex than they initially seem, as they can command four unique beast spirits to imbue their abilities and create new identities.

Thankfully, we’ve spent quite a bit of time with the Spiritborn, and have put together a leveling guide to help you get through Vessel of Hatred and Diablo 4 season 7. We’ve also simplified one of the most powerful endgame builds for the Spiritborn to help you conquer Torment I and beyond.

In this Diablo 4 build guide, we’ll show you the two best Spiritborn builds in Diablo 4 (for our money) and teach you how to make your own best Spiritborn build.

Best Spiritborn build for leveling in Diablo 4 season 7

This build is based off Wudijo’s Spiritborn leveling guide at Maxroll.gg, and is purely for leveling (i.e., allocating your 71 skill points between levels 1 and 60) and early Torment I. If you want more detailed information about the item affixes you want to look for on your gear, or which other Legendary powers are great for your build, check out the original Maxroll.gg guide.

In this build, you’ll use Quill Volley as your Core skill of choice. You’ll also use Soar, The Seeker, Thunderspike, Ravager, and Rushing Claw.

Here are the best skills for a Spiritborn leveling build, organized by the exact order you should purchase them in — bearing in mind that some skills require you to allocate a number of skill points in the tree in order to unlock them. As such, you’ll need to unlock new skills before enhancing existing ones:

Best spirit hall animals for leveling

Here are the best spirit hall animal choices for leveling:

Best Legendary Aspect for Spiritborn leveling build

When you first start your new character, complete these four dungeons first in order to collect their Aspects. Then place them on a piece of gear (ideally jewelry and never weapons).

Best Spiritborn build for endgame

Note: The following build was one of the best Spiritborn endgame builds for season 6. While you might not get the most bang for your buck from it in season 7, it’s still effective as of this writing.

This build is based off of Wudijo’s Spiritborn endgame guide at MaxRoll.gg, and is a general endgame guide capable of finding success in all activities. This guide assumes that you’re level 60, have access to all 71 skill points, and are making progress through your Paragon Boards. If you want more detailed information about the item affixes you’ll want on your gear, why certain Legendary powers are great for your build, Paragon pathing, and more, be sure to check out the original MaxRoll guide.

Best skill points for Spiritborn Touch of Death build for endgame

This build utilizes Touch of Death as its core skill and main means of dealing damage. It also utilizes Armored Hide, Scourge, Ravager, Counterattack, and The Hunter.

Since you need all 71 points for this build, the order you select these skills in doesn’t matter as long as you have the pre-requisite points in the earlier skill tree tiers. Here is how you should spend your skill points for this build:

Spirit Hall setup for Spiritborn Touch of Death build

For this build, you’ll want to use the gorilla as your primary Spirit Hall in order to keep your defenses up. Use jaguar for your secondary in order to increase your attack speed.

Legendary Powers and Uniques for Spiritborn Touch of Death build

To make this build work, you’re going to need powerful Legendary Powers and Unique items to augment your build.

Wudijo recommends these Aspects:

If you want to get into the nitty gritty of stat priorities, refer to Wudijo’s original guide.

Paragon Boards for Spiritborn Touch of Death build

The Paragon Board system is very complex, and you’ll want to carefully pair your Glyphs with specific boards for your class:

You should level your Glyphs to 15 in this specific order:

Check Wudijo’s guide for the complete Paragon path and the best order to level your glyphs past 15.

How to make a great Spiritborn build

All Spiritborn builds revolve around the four animal spirits that govern their collection of skills: gorilla, jaguar, eagle, and centipede. What’s cool about the Spiritborn is that each of these animals have skills you can build on to make a complete single build — like all eagle skills for a super speedy hero. But you can also combine them together to get some very potent combinations, like mixing eagle with centipede to make a poison/crit build to burst down groups quickly.

Like the other classes, you’ll be looking to your key passives as you think about what you want to start building toward. But in addition to that, you’ll also want to look at the Spirit Hall bonuses. Your primary Spirit Hall animal not only gives you a powerful passive, it also turns all skills into that skill type — picking gorilla, for example, will also add the “gorilla” modifier to every skill you have. Combine these ideas together to create something special.

All of that is very overwhelming, but thankfully, Blizzard has ensured each animal type has their own identity. Starting with jaguar, this animal spirit brings attack speed and fire damage to the field. Gorilla skills are primarily about defense and knocking enemies down. Eagle skills are about moving quickly and critically striking enemies. And finally, centipede skills are all about poison and damage over time effects.

When you’re thinking about starting a build, look first to the type of identity you want (speed, poison, speed, etc), and then pick the animal spirit that best suits that. But don’t be afraid to change things up as you go. Just because you want to do a poison build doesn’t mean the centipede is your best spirit hall ally. Like all things in Diablo, you need to look at the complete picture of Legendary Aspects, skills, class mechanics, and passives before you can put together a great puzzle. But the great news with the Spiritborn is that there are so many different puzzles you can make that you’re pretty likely to stumble into a decent one on your own.

Looking for other Diablo 4 builds? We have explainers on the Sorcerer, Necromancer, Rogue, Druid, and Barbarian classes.