Crushing Hand Gorilla Spiritborn Endgame Build Guide

The build works really well when you decimate everything in seconds, but may get overwhelmed if fights are long against high level monsters. There are several adjustments you can make when you have trouble with more difficult content:

• Check if your Armor & Resists are capped.
• Use defensive consumables.
• Roll Maximum Life instead of offensive stats on as many pieces as possible.
• Kite enemies when they become Unstoppable.
• Add Layered Wards instead of Duelist's.

If there are times when your Crushing Hand isn't doing damage it is most likely because you don't fully restore all Vigor between every hit with Rod of Kepeleke and Ring of the Midnight Sun.

Rod of Kepeleke spends all of your resource to significantly increase the damage of Crushing Hand, adds increased AoE and guaranteed a crit. If that doesn't happen at all, you must invest more into resource generation (e.g. tempers, masterworking on jewelry) or get a better ring. It may also be that you only reach the threshold needed when Measured Ravager is active and your uptime is too low in boss encounters.

This build has multiple major progression steps related to your resource generation. Make sure to use at least one of the following:

1. Vital Strikes + Replenishing Soar & Exalted Seeker
2. Ring of the Midnight Sun
3. Rod of Kepeleke + Ring of the Midnight Sun - enabling the endgame combo

• Resource Cost Reduction (RCR) increases damage done when paired with Rod of Kepeleke by making it act as if your total consumable resource pool is larger than it actually is.
• E.g. with 250 Max Vigor and a perfect roll, Rod of Kepeleke adds a 125% bonus multiplier for a total of 225% damage.
• With 25% RCR, your total Vigor would act as 250/0.75 = 333, in which case the weapon adds 166.5% damage for a total of 266.5%, a 18.4% DPS increase.
• Channeling Shrine acts as a 75% RCR effect for Rod of Kepeleke, in this example increasing DPS by 166.67% (compared to baseline).

• Raheir (mercenary) can slowly Fortify us with this Shield Charge ability.
• This is an important source of damage for Overpower builds and an easily overlooked detail for classes that usually don't have access to this mechanic.
• As long as you protect yourself with a Barrier, Fortify remains active, but it slowly decays when out of combat or AFK in town.

Generally hardcore and softcore share the same builds. Outside of being more prudent in your gameplay, you can also tweak the setup slightly to raise your survivability:

• Focus more on Armor & Resists, making sure that they are always capped especially as you transition into higher torment difficulties.
• Focus more on maximum life rolls, for example replacing DPS stats like main attributes, attack speed, critical strike chance and additive increased damage rolls. Also masterwork life more than normal if no other crucial stats have priority.
• Focus on adding defensive skills, passives and paragon nodes first as you level up.
• Play on a slightly lower difficulty than normal, don't push into difficult territory. As long as you can deal with all enemies swiftly, they can't retaliate.
• Include a source of Unstoppable if possible to get out of crowd controls.
• Use defensive elixirs and incenses instead of offensive ones.

The most important stat on Ring of the Midnight Sun is the Vigor restore percent! Ring of the Midnight Sun restores 20 - 50% of the Vigor spent in the last two seconds. The ring tracks how much is spent on your buff bar and consumes the buff on your next crit, so you can't scale its effect by attacking quickly. The higher the roll the easier it will be to reach enough resource generation to fully restore your Vigor each attack. If you don't have enough resource generation you will do no damage!

To find out how much resource generation your Ring of the Midnight Sun roll needs to fully restore your Vigor follow this formula:

• (100% / Ring of the Midnight Sun roll) - 100%

Here is a table showing Ring of the Midnight Sun roll and the required Resource generation to fully restore Vigor:

Resource Generation:
When calculating resource generation it is important to remember resource generation is multiplicative.
Here is the formula for calculating resource generation:

Resource generation = ((100% + Source 1) x (100% + Source 2) x (100% + Source 3) …) - 100%

• ((100% + Vigorous) x (100% + Measured Ravager) x (100% + Rare node) x (100% + Magic node) x (100% + Magic node) x (100% + Magic node) x (100% + Temper) x (100% + Int)) - 100%

I strongly suggest aiming for a Ring of the Midnight Sun roll of 40% or higher

Rod of Kepeleke "chance to hit twice":

• Grants Payback a chance to deal double damage
• Grants each Quill Volley projectile a chance to be replicated
• Only replicates one of the two hits for Rake
• Only replicates one of the two hits for Crushing Hand
• Allows Touch of Death to reinfect from swarms
• Allows Stinger to replicate a full swing once per attack at a surrounding poisoned target

Rod of Kepeleke "cast at maximum size":

• Adds 2 feathers to Quill Volley
• Enlarges Crushing Hand to 200% size
• Enlarges Stinger to 200% size
• Enlarges Rake to ~400% size
• Enlarges Payback to ~double the size
• Does nothing for Touch of Death
• Does not stack with any size tempers

Resource Cost Reduction:

• Acts as a multiplier to your total Max Vigor pool for this item, meaning you deal more damage because Rod of Kepeleke can "consume more".
• E.g. with 250 Max Vigor and a perfect roll, Rod of Kepeleke adds a 125% bonus multiplier for a total of 225% damage.
• With 25% RCR, your total Vigor would act as 250/0.75 = 333, in which case the weapon adds 166.5% damage for a total of 266.5%, a 18.4% DPS increase.
• Channeling Shrine acts as a 75% RCR effect for Rod of Kepeleke, in this example increasing DPS by 166.67% (compared to baseline).

• Jacinth Shell effectively reads the same as "75% cooldown reduction" or "300% increased cooldown recovery speed" that works in addition to other cooldown reduction effects.
• The drain ticks multiple times per second for partial reductions and stops when you reach 1 HP.
• Drained life does not count as taking damage.

• Unyielding Hits hits adds weapon damage based on your current armor.
• As your armor is reduced by the Torment penalties, so is the damage gain of this aspect.
• The weapon damage added is equal to that from your equipped weapon, which is the base for all further damage calculations and thus adding to it is a massive benefit.
• Unyielding Hits adds a flat amount of weapon damage regardless of base weapon speed, meaning it's more beneficial for faster weapons.
• The total weapon damage can be tracked in the character details.
• To calculate the relative DPS increase, use the following formula:
  • ((Armor x Unyielding %) + (Avg. Weapon Damage)) / (Avg. Weapon Damage)

• Mystic Circles can only spawn from the aspects Plains Power, Forest Power, Sky Power, Soil Power.
• They last 10 seconds and have a limit of 1 active at a time.
• They can not be overwritten with a fresh spawn while active.
• The lucky hit effect that triggers the circle will be immediately activated.
• Multiple buffs from multiple aspects can be active at the same time if skills of those spirits are used inside a circle.
• "Mystic Circle Potency" from tempers or Ritual amplifies most effects including damage done, damage gained, barrier gained gained by the aspects.
• "Mystic Circle Potency" does not amplify armor gained from Forest Power.
• When combined with Sky Power you can relocate your active circle to the destination of your Evade.

• Convergence requires you to stack physical or elemental damage bonuses.
• For the maximum of 30%, you need a total of 150% bonus damage to any combination of two damage types, or simply stack one high enough.
• "Non-physical damage" - while adding to each elemental type in your character sheet - does not function for Convergence. Instead you need to rely on other sources such as Bane, Fulminate and Wildfire.

• The stacks from Drive have individual timers and don't refresh when a new stack is acquired.
• While running non-stop at movement speed cap (200%), you can reach up to 7 stacks.
• In order to reach close to the maximum damage bonus, it's required to move very fast at all times including mobility skills such as Soar, Rushing Claw or The Hunter.

• The stacks from In-Fighter have individual timers and don't refresh when a new stack is acquired.
• With a 5 second timer for 9 stacks, you need to dodge or block a hit roughly twice per second in order to keep the bonus at maximum.

• Counterattack can stack a maximum duration of 6 seconds, which can be refreshed indefinitely with enough cooldown reduction.
• There is no forced gap or downtime in the 100% dodge effect.
• Some damage over time and ground effects cannot be dodged, even if they hit instead of dealing DoT damage. Most notably, Explosive Elites are very dangerous when your survivability greatly depends on high uptime of Counterattack.

• The Minimum Ferocity is always active, even when Invasive Rushing Claw consumes 4 stacks to refresh its cooldown.
• Hits with other skills create an extra Ravager hit, once per attack per enemy.
• Replenishing Ravager increases the number of hits against elites, dealing the same damage each.
• Replenishing Ravager stacks are filled up by any individual healing source, such as any life steal, life on hit, life regen etc.

Barrier Generation works with:

• Auspicious
• Forest Power
• Enhanced Concussive Stomp
• The Protector (but its barrier doesn't scale with max. life)
• Earthen Bulwark from Que

Barrier Generation doesn't work with:

• Gorilla primary hall
• Enhanced Crushing Hand

• While all the exact mechanics are much more nuanced, there are two separate Attack Speed Bonus caps of +100% that apply to all builds for a total potential of +200%. For Spiritborn, these two caps are distributed in the following way:

Cap 1

• Gear rolls
• Paragon nodes
• Elixirs
• Artillery Shrine
• Moonrise
• Hysteria (Varyana)
• Bloodthirst (Varyana)
• Bloodlust (Varyana)

Cap 2

• Accelerating
• Rapid
• Ferocity
• Adaptive Stances

Read up more on Attack Speed in our dedicated guide by Ava.

Bosses are immune to Crowd Control (CC) effects and instead take Stagger Damage when hit by one. The amount of stagger damage dealt depends on the type of CC and is proportional to its duration. After being hit by a CC effect, the Boss will temporarily take less Stagger Damage from a CC of the same type.

Effectively, this means that when you're just spamming one type of CC you don't need to spam any more of it than what you need to keep a normal enemy permanently CC-d. To stagger the Boss quickly you need to use as many different types of CC as possible. After the Boss is staggered it gains a certain amount of stacking Stagger Damage Reduction for the rest of the fight:

• After 1st Stagger: 20%
• After 2nd Stagger: 40%
• After 3rd Stagger: 60%
• After 4th Stagger: 90%

Bosses naturally regain 1% of their Stagger HP every second and when that regen is combined with 90% Stagger Damage Reduction it becomes borderline impossible to Stagger the Boss again unless you bring a serious amount of crowd controls.