Do you remember what it was like to experience Spiritborn class for the first time in Diablo 4 DLC or Season 6? New classes always bring you freshness, and it is normal that Spiritborn, which is different from the old class in every aspect, will be welcomed by players.
Although Spiritborn has been weakened to a certain extent since Season 7 due to design problems, this does not mean that it has become worse, but it is just not too superior to other classes to ensure the balance of the game. So you may be curious whether those Spiritborn builds that performed well in the previous seasons can still play a role in the upcoming Season 8? Based on this, this time we will take Touch Of Death Centipede Build as an example for analysis.
Touch Of Death Centipede Build
The design and use of this build is based on the high continuous damage effect brought by Touch of Death, and combined with Insatiable Aspect to trigger a huge explosion in battle to form a good clearing effect. This also makes this build not only able to deal with bosses, but also easily helps you complete Diablo 4 Gold farming in various dungeons, or complete other important tasks.
As the main skill of this build, Touch of Death has been adjusted according to the needs of the build. With just a simple operation, you can make this skill release a huge range explosion of poison to the enemy, causing the enemy to be infected with a large amount of poison damage. Even after Touch of Death is upgraded, it can ignore the cooldown by consuming Vigor, which means that as long as there is enough Vigor generated, you can use this skill continuously.
On this basis, if you can combine it with the passive skill Noxious Resonance, you can make your critical hits trigger poison damage on the enemy, causing damage within the range and eliminating the poison effect, forming a perfect match with Insatiable Aspect.
Since the combination of Touch of Death, Noxious Resonance and Insatiable Aspect is very compact, the role of the rest of the build is to enhance the damage value of the main skill Touch of Death or provide you with defensive capabilities. It is not difficult to set up overall.
Best Skills
In addition to the main skill Touch of Death and the key passive Noxious Resonance that we have already highlighted, other skills suitable for this build include the following:
Basic
- Rock Splitter: 1/5
- Enhanced Rock Splitter: 1/1
Core
- Vigorous: 3/3
- Balanced Exertion: 3/3
Focus
- Ravager: 1/5
- Enhanced Ravager: 1/1
- Measured Ravager: 1/1
- Mirage: 1/3
- Focal Point: 1/3
- Diminishment: 3/3
- Apex: 3/3
Defensive
- Armored Hide: 1/5
- Enhanced Armored Hide: 1/1
- Adaptable Armored Hide: 1/1
- Scourge: 1/5
- Enhanced Scourge: 1/1
- Adaptable Scourge: 1/1
- Endurance: 1/3
- Perserverance: 3/3
- Antivenom: 1/3
- Nourishment: 3/3
Potency
- Touch of Death: 5/5
- Enhanced Touch of Death: 1/1
- Poised Touch of Death: 1/1
- Resilient: 3/3
- Vehemence: 3/3
- Potent: 3/3
- Ravenous: 3/3
- Oppressive: 3/3
Ultimate
- The Seeker: 5/5
- Harmonious Seeker: 1/1
- Exalted Seeker: 1/1
- Resolution: 3/3
- Initiative: 1/3
- Spiritual Attunement: 1/3
- Supremacy: 3/3
You can also swap Rock Splitter for Vortex, if you can solve the resource generation problem. You’ll still need to invest two points in the basic skill category, though. Another thing to remind you about Spirit Hall selection is that the best Spirit Hall combination for this build is primary-gorilla and secondary-jaguar.
In actual combat, the gorilla buff provides damage reduction and turns all your other skills into gorilla skills, further stacking the damage buff. Jaguar Spirit Hall increases your maximum Ferocity and stacks it when you kill an enemy, so that it always remains in this state.
Best Gear & Stats
Touch Of Death Centipede Build requires you to obtain and use many unique items for it, because this makes the build more lethal and stronger by forming good synergies with other parts of the build. Among them, Harmony of Ebewaka is indispensable for almost every Spiritborn build.
Jacinth Shell can quickly recharge your skills, but this is based on the consumption of your health. Fortunately, because of the synergy effect of the centipede skills, the rest of the build contains a lot of health regeneration and recovery capabilities, so using Jacinth Shell will not cause any substantial loss of your health.
If you also have Yen’s Blessing, its special effect will allow you to use Armored Hide, Vortex, Ravager, and Scourge at the same time in rare cases, and activate both effects at the same time, thus increasing your survivability while also increasing your damage output.
To summarize, after using Focus, Sunstained War-Crozier Unique Quarterstaff will provide a very high damage bonus to Touch of Death, and Jacinth Shell and Yen’s Blessing can effectively reduce your skill cooldowns, making it easy to maintain the damage output of the build by frequently using all skills and gear.
- Helm: Harmony of Ebewaka
- Chest: Jacinth Shell
- Gloves: Fell Soothsayer’s Aspect
- Pants: Aspect of Binding Morass
- Boots: Yen’s Blessing
- Amulet: Insatiable Aspect
- Ring 1: Aspect of Unyielding Hits
- Ring 2: Starlight Aspect
- Weapon: Sunstained War-Crozier
How To Use This Build?
After crafting this build, to use it in combat, first have your character stay in Ravager mode as long as possible with the blessing of Jacinth Shell, and use Touch of Death to deal heavy damage to normal enemies, and use Scourge to deal with stronger enemies. In between using Touch of Death, it is best to use the ultimate skill The Seeker at the same time to apply multiple passive effects to deal with more damage.
In addition, Ravager can use Touch of Death to teleport you to the nearest enemy, which improves the overall mobility of the build. In fact, it is also necessary to use dodge or mount to increase the movement speed.
After our introduction, do you know how to give full play to the power of this build in Season 8? If the answer is yes, it proves that our work is valuable! Thank you for reading!
