Evade Eagle Spiritborn Endgame Guide
Welcome to the Evade Eagle Spiritborn Endgame Guide. This build Evades through content at top speed. While most Spiritborn builds have good mobility, this one specializes in movement speed and evasion making it one of the fastest builds in the game. It deals damage almost exclusively from the Primary Spirit Hall Eagle and spamming Evade. The cooldown is 5 seconds which conveniently matches Thunderspikes cooldown reduction. Now I know what you are thinking, "Bob, you already made a Soar build how is this different?" Let me tell you. This build relies on your Eagle Primary to carry you through content as opposed to Soar & Recalling Feathers. Both builds are great, but they are different enough to require two distinct guides.
Until you find Harlequin Crest the key item that enables this build is Sepazontec. The idea is that when you Evade Accelerated Thunderspike casts Thunderspike resetting the cooldown of your Evade. Now you use the Eagle Primary Spirit Hall because the damage it does is insane. There are multiple ways to reset the cooldown. Here is the other option used in this guide.
Requirements for this build
- Sepazontec
This build guide assumes you have a Level 60 Character and unlocked Torment 1. To get there, level up with one of our Spiritborn Leveling Guides. To see how this Build compares against others, check out our various Build Tier Lists.
Season Theme
Season 6 is the Season of Hatred Rising. It features the Zakarum Remnants faction which hunts Realmwalkers, massive behemoths that roam outdoor zones and beckon Mephisto's hellspawn. Participate in these zone events and take down the Realmwalkers to spawn a portal to a Seething Realm. There you can acquire Seething Opals, new consumables that stack with Elixirs for a XP buff and the chance to gather extra rewards when defeating enemies. The types of Opals are:
- Seething Opal of Equipment
- Seething Opal of Gold
- Seething Opal of Materials
- Seething Opal of Torment
- Seething Opal of Socketables
Use these Opals at all times to earn reputation with the Zakarum Remnants faction and unlock further rewards.
Learn more details about the season theme in our full Season Guide.
Skills & Gameplay
- Thunderspike provides a source of Vulnerable, and the 3rd hit resets your Evade cooldown. Therefore, when you Evade Accelerated Thunderspike reset Evades cooldown. If not, cast Thunderspike to reset Evades cooldown and repeat.
- Scourge provides us with a slow as well as a damage buff against crowd controlled enemies. Combined with Binding Morass and Apprehension significantly increases our damage.
- The Devourer provides stacks of Supremacy to increase your damage. You need enough cooldown reduction to have The Devourer always active. Thankfully its active for 15 seconds making it the best choice for this build as you don't have to sacrifice a rune slot to keep it active.
- Armored Hide is your source for Unstoppable, Resolve, and 100% block chance. This must be active at all times in order to get more damage from Redirected Force, you might need to use Armored Hide duration temper. Side note you also get lucky hit chance & heal for each enemy you evade through.
- Counterattack increases critical strike damage by up to 30% based on the number of close enemies. Paired with Mirage, dodging also boosts your critical strike chance almost all the time.
- Ravager allows us to use Potent against bosses. This is great for us as our greatest weakness is single target damage.
Skill Rotation
- Start with your buffs Ravager and Armored Hide followed by The Devourer.
- Keep your Armored Hide active at all times for Unstoppable and increased damage!
- Cast Scourge when ever it is off cooldown.
- Now you can cast Evade.
- If Thunderspikes third attack doesn't restore 3 Evade charges you need to get more cooldown reduction.
- (On Bosses) Before you start the boss fight:
- Heal yourself.
- Get Barrier from Auspicious.
- Wait for your cooldowns to finish.
Spirit Halls
Primary: You bring the thunder, Eagle brings the lightning, or in this case the Storm Feathers.
Secondary: Gorilla provides extra Resolve which increases your damage from Colossal as well as Interdiction and Redirected Force
Learn more details in our full Spiritborn Spirit Hall Guide.
Paragon & Glyphs
Carefully check your Paragon Boards to ensure correct board rotation. Glyphs go from a radius of 3 to 4 at level 15 and from 4 to 5 at level 46. Some of them cannot be activated before reaching these thresholds! Progress through The Pit to rank up your Glyphs.
Use the slider to see progression steps. At around Paragon 200, leveling slows down significantly and all important Rare clusters, Legendary nodes and Glyph sockets should be unlocked. Afterwards, you can min/max your build with minor tweaks and by picking up additional smaller nodes.
Evade Eagle Spiritborn Endgame Paragon
Some Glyph position swaps, board changes and other pathing adjustments may occur as you unlock your full potential. The setup displayed by default is the final version of the build before spending additional points that do not significantly impact your character's power.
Glyph Leveling Priorities
To Level 15
- Fulminate
- Jagged Plume
- Talon
- Spirit
- Colossal
To Level 46
- Jagged Plume
- Spirit
- Fulminate
- Talon
- Colossal
There are a total of 328 Paragon Points. After reaching level 60, you gain up to 300 Paragon Levels, 24 from Renown and 4 from Altars of Lilith. Check out our dedicated in-depth guides to learn more about Paragon Boards and Glyphs.
Runes
You can have up to two Runewords in your setup, each consisting of one Ritual and one Invocation Rune. Socket them in Two-Handed Weapons if your build calls for them, otherwise place them into your Armor pieces to replace normal gems. The Evade Eagle Spiritborn focuses on the following combos:
Best in Slot
- Bac + Xal - For extra defense & offense through Viscous Shield
- Cem + Tzic - Casts Concussive Stomp giving us Unyielding Hits & Barrier!
Alternative choices
As long as you haven't unlocked the final setup or found the top runes, you can also benefit from these options:
- Gar - get additional Critical Strike Chance!
- Wat - Decrepify helps with stagger, defense and allows you to execute enemies at 10% HP.
- Zec - Reduces your ultimate cooldown allowing for you to take advantage of Intricacy more often. Armored Hide must always be active.
- Que - Earthen Bulwark provides a Barrier for more survivability, and more importantly Viscous Shield!
- Cir - Is great as each Evade casts Thunderspike, so 3 Evades gives offering.
Learn more about Runes and how they work in our dedicated Runewords Overview and Runewords Tier List.
Mercenaries
Mercenaries are unlocked during the Vessel of Hatred campaign and assist you in battle. There are 4 separate Mercenaries to choose from, each with their own skill trees and abilities. You can have one hired (permanent) mercenary during solo play and a reinforcement who assists you from time to time in certain situations.
Hired: Raheir
He provides you with insane amount of survivability with Valiance. Raheir's Guard gives you extra armor for Unyielding Hits. Mocking Lure is another 15%[x] damage multiplier.
Reinforcement: Varyana
You choose Earth Breaker to repeatedly knock enemies down and build stagger.
Learn more about Mercenaries and how they work in our dedicated Mercenaries Overview.
Stat Priorities & Item Progression
To enable the Evade Eagle Spiritborn to perform optimally, hunt for these stats on your gear with good rolls and aim to Temper ⚒️ & Masterwork Crit ↑ them accordingly. Keep in mind that certain stats, such as Armor, Resistances, Extra Size Tempers, Attack Speed and more, have caps that may affect your priorities according to the items and Paragon points available at that moment.
Recommended Endgame Stat Thresholds
- Sub 15s The Devourer cooldown
- 60%+ Critical Strike Chance
- 2000+ Dexterity
- 8,000+ Life
Click here to check the suggested consumables.
- Thunderspike third attack must restore at least 3 Evade charges
- Armor Capped 5,000 (For Unyielding Hits)
- Resistance Capped 70%+
Item Progression Goals
Before you dive into the Endgame with the Evade Eagle Spiritborn, take a look at this overview of the items used in the build. See below for further details about the different progression steps and variants. Some of your Skill Tree choices depend on what Legendary Aspects and Unique items are available to you. Keep in mind that while we can guarantee that everyone has access to the same Codex of Power Aspects, the exact progression is different for everyone.
Learn more details and how to farm Legendary Aspects and Uniques in our General Farming Guide.
Build Variants
This section is designed to guide your Evade Eagle Spiritborn from a fresh level 60 into the very late endgame using the three variants Starter, Ancestral and Mythic. At the final step, you should be fully decked out with a great all-rounder build. From there, follow the other min/max variants if you want to optimize around certain activities such as Pit Pushing, Speedfarming and more.
If you are fresh in Torment 1 coming from a leveling guide, you will need to acquire Sepazontec before starting this build. Since only some Aspects can be guaranteed from Dungeon unlocks for the Codex of Power, focus on acquiring the additional aspects via gambling with Murmuring Obols.
Gear & Skills
- Early on in your progression, focus on armor & resistances to survive. Each Torment difficulty adds a 250 armor and 25% all res penalty and it's recommended to keep both capped (1000 armor, 70+ res) at all times. As you unlock higher power gear, masterworking levels and more paragon points, you naturally scale your character into the higher difficulties and can start replacing some of these rolls with offensive or utility stats.
- Focus on acquiring Sepazontec before starting to play this build!
- With this item every Thunderspike does its 3rd strike which resets evade cooldown.
- Like a Tardigrade survivability has become your greatest weapon! Unyielding Hits turns your defense into offense! Overstacking armor to get as much damage out of it as possible!
- You need to have 2 charges of Evade. Acceleration provides an extra charge.
- This isn't a basic attack build! Sepazontec is only used to reset the cooldown of Evade.
- This isn't a Gorilla build, but you will use Colossal because you can temper a lot of resolve stacks.
- Tzic casts Concussive Stomp which activates Unyielding Hits and provides a Barrier for protection as well as damage from Viscous Shield.
- Flawless Amethyst in armor provide more Barrier generation for Tzic Concussive Stomp.
The goal here is to progress through the Torment difficulties as you unlock Ancestrals, Paragon points, all Legendary Aspects, Temper mods and the most important Uniques to pilot this build. Some Legendary Aspects are used temporarily to fill slots that may be replaced with more Unique items later on.
Gear & Skills
- As you upgrade your gear to ancestrals with more masterworking levels and reach higher paragon, you can focus more and more on replacing armor & resistance rolls with better stats, but ensure to stay capped at 1000 armor and 70%+ resistances for the difficulty you're currently in.
- You don't have enough cooldown reduction to keep Armored Hide always active, so you use Interdiction to provided you with block chance to increase your damage from Redirected Force.
- Tzic casts Concussive Stomp which activates Unyielding Hits and provides a Barrier for protection as well as damage from Viscous Shield.
- Flawless Amethyst in armor provide more Barrier generation for Tzic Concussive Stomp.
This is the final version of the build's progression, including all regular Unique items, Mythic Uniques, Legendary Aspects, Temper mods and Masterworking, leaving you with a great all-rounder build for all content in the game. Additional variants use this as a baseline to optimize around certain activities.
Gear & Skills
- Congratulations on Shako!
- Do you have enough cooldown reduction?
- Now you can change to the Legendary weapon variant of this build.
- How do I reset my evade?
- Each time you Evade, Thunderspike is cast.
- Every third Thunderspike reduces Evades cooldown by 5 seconds.
- Evades cooldown is 5 seconds. Divided by 3 is 1.66 seconds.
- If you have enough cooldown reduction to lower Evades cooldown to 1.66 seconds, then every third Evade will reset three Evade cooldowns.
- With the cooldown on Shako, amulet, and boots you can get your Evade cooldown to under 1.6s.
- Fists of Fate are here for the damage increase.
- 300% aspect gives on average 50% damage increase.
- Shroud of False Death gives you max life, and best of all +1 to all passives.
- 4 ranks of Supremacy, using your ultimate to reach 30 stacks gives you +120%[x] from just one passive.
- 4 ranks of Brilliance and Acceleration.
This Speedfarming variant optimizes the build for easy activities like Helltides, Whispers, Nightmare Dungeons and lower Pit Tiers after you have finished the Mythic variant and reached a plateau in your progression.
Gear & Skills
- No changes from the Mythic build as this build is ridiculously quick, but to make speed farming.
This setup optimizes the build to push the highest possible Tiers in The Pit after you have finished the Mythic variant and reached a plateau in your progression.
Gear & Skills
- When fighting monsters in high tiers of the Pit, remember that after crowd controlling elites for 5 seconds, they become Unstoppable for 8 seconds. This may be the right moment to start kiting them around because your damage done goes way down and they can freely retaliate.
- For Pit Pushing it is suggested to change to the Exhilaration variant of this build to increase your damage.
- Exhilaration provides a Lucky Hit Chance to reset Evade when you hit a vulnerable enemy.
- Fists of Fate gives you a better chance to reset our Evade. Make sure you have a good lucky hit chance roll.
- Touch of Death gives you another option for healing to increase your survival, as well as more Lucky Hit Chance.
- You need as many Evade charges as possible because this version relies on lucky hits. You aren’t guaranteed to restore a charge every time you Evade. You might go multiple Evades without procing Exhilaration, but one skill can restore multiple evade charges when lucky hitting multiple targets.
FAQ & Mechanics
Once a guide is released, many players have questions on why and how we are approaching certain choices. In this section you can find the answers to the questions that have been asked the most.
Where are the previous versions?
Do I have enough cooldown reduction for the Mythic variant?
Does Unyielding Hits work for this build?
What can I do to improve survivability?
What happened to the The Seeker Variant?
How can I trigger Unstoppable?
Which adjustments should I make on Hardcore?
Consumables
Mechanics
Harlequin Crest, Sepazontec, or Exhilaration
Attack Speed Caps
Stagger
Video Guide
Summary
Evade Eagle Spiritborn is a fun highly mobile build that's great for speed farming, and strong enough to push pits! This might be the most fun build I've seen in a long time. Who needs to stop and attack when you can Evade, Soar, and sprint through all of the content!
Go now, and slaughter... the demonic horde.
Credits
Written by Insnebob
Reviewed by Wudijo