Evade Spiritborn Leveling Guide

The Season 9 theme is the Sins of the Horadrim. This season allows you to craft unique Horadric Spells using three different components: a Catalyst, an Infusion, and three Arcana. You earn Catalysts and Infusions through the Seasonal Questline, and Arcana can be found while exploring Nightmare Dungeons. You choose a Skill as the trigger for your Horadric Spell. Once in Torment I or higher, Horadric Jewels can be crafted which replace the Gems in your Jewelry, that add additional power to your build.

Endgame Horadric Spell

Optional Arcana

• Potent Alloy - Remove Barriers and knock down enemies.
• Fractured Core - Never deal with annoying Damage Resistance Aura Champions.

Level 1 - 15 Skill Rotation

Your main source of DPS, until you unlock the Eagle Spirit Hall at level 15, is Quill Volley. Make sure to generate Resources with Rock Splitter and hit as many enemies as possible with your Quill Volley. Use Soar to traverse cliffs. Do not forget to use The Hunter every time it comes off cooldown for additional damage or mobility.

Level 15+ Skill Rotation

This is where the fun begins. You start Thunderspike Weaving after your small level 15 respec.

RECOMMENDATION: Bind your Evade in the Controls to "Scroll Wheel Up" and "Scroll Wheel Down" and just scroll up and / or down slowly instead of having to press Evade all the time.

• Evade and Thunderspike Weave.
  • Evade, hold down "Hold Position" (usually SHIFT) and spam Thunderspike all at the same time. "Hold Position" guarantees Thunderspike being cast constantly, even without a target.
  • Unless you are on controller, make sure you are not holding down Thunderspike, else its not an optimal loop.
  • Find a clip explaining Thunderspike Weaving here.
• Use Armored Hide and Counterattack when engaging Elites and Bosses.
• Soar can be used to traverse cliffs.

Spirit Hall

At level 15, you can unlock your class mechanic called Spirit Hall. This is the strongest tool that the spiritborn has at their disposal and can actually carry you all of the way to Torment 4 and high Pits. You choose Eagle (primary) and Eagle (secondary). The Eagle primary Spirit Hall is your main source of damage and scales with Dexterity, Primary Eagle Spirit Hall Potency and Storm Feather Potency on your gear. Every time you evade you create massive amounts of auto-aimed projectiles. Your gear and skills center around reducing the cooldown of your Evade as much as possible. Every third Thunderspike reduces the Evade cooldown and finding boots with the "Attacks Reduce Evade's Cooldown by x Seconds." implicit is a massive boost to your early leveling damage, allowing you to instantly bump up the difficulty to Penitent and smoothing out your Thunderspike Weaving.

Key Passive

Vital Strikes is your key passive of choice for leveling. On top of a great damage boost it also solves life recovery due to Storm Feathers constantly applying Vulnerable.

Final Journey to Level 60

As you make your way to level 60 you pick up various offensive and defensive passives. Check out the skills progression above to see where to put your points as you go.

Spirit Hall

Primary: ‍Eagle allows your Evade to deal damage and apply Vulnerable.

Secondary: ‍Eagle grants you additional Critical Strike Chance.

Unlocking the Spirit Hall

Once you reach level 15, you have to complete a short questline starting in Gea Kul, Kehjistan. A Priority Quest leads you there to help out Tarka. After a few stops outside of town you have to enter the Sacred Hunting Grounds and defeat the Spirit Beast. While inside this dungeon you have to use the emote wheel at two separate stops, once for "Help", once for "Thanks" in order to progress. The boss fight is relatively long and difficult for low level characters, so it's recommended to do this quest on normal. After finishing the quest your secondary Spirit Hall unlocks automatically at level 30.

To get started as an Evade Spiritborn, focus the most on upgrading your weapon as its damage is the base for all further damage calculations. Otherwise, follow the priority list below. While you don't have all of the desired temper manuals available, simply try to get anything useful on your gear until you get the right ones. For example, % Damage, Damage to Close, Vulnerable Damage, etc. all work as long as you activate their conditions. Likewise, you can temper multiple defensive options such as Resistances, Life, Armor to fill gaps in your survivability. Tempering low level gear is relatively cheap and the results can be very impactful.

The Codex of Power is a collection of Legendary Aspects you can imprint onto Rare or Legendary items at the Occultist. They unlock after completing specific Dungeons located around Sanctuary or salvaging items with these powers. Check out our Map Tool to locate these Dungeons.

For leveling, there are a few powers that can significantly help us if you have the funds to imprint them. In addition, keep an eye out for powerful Unique items you may find for this or other builds.

Must-have Dungeon unlocks

1. None.

Nice-to-have Dungeon unlocks

1. Disobedience (Hals of the Damned - Kehjistan)
2. Might (Dark Ravine - Dry Steppes)

Great Uniques for this build

1. Loyalty's Mantle
2. Jacinth Shell
3. Sepazontec (lower damage than a Legendary Weapon due to Tempers)

Jackpot Drops

As you level up, you may get lucky and find some great random drops. Some of these can massively amplify your power and speed up the leveling by switching to another build. Keep in mind that there are many more Aspects and Uniques that can be useful to multiple builds; this just lists some of the most impactful ones. While we usually recommend starting with Endgame Builds at level 60, you often can make them work earlier with these drops:

Build-defining Aspects

• Moonrise & Adaptability (enables Rock Splitter and Thrash Endgame Builds)

Build-defining Uniques

1. Jacinth Shell (amplifies multiple Endgame Builds)

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 Spiritborn focuses on the following combos:

Best in Slot

• Cem + Ton - Spawns auto-aiming Meteorites on top of your enemies.
• Cir + Gar - Provides additional Critical Strike Chance.

Alternative choices

As long as you haven't unlocked the final setup or found the top runes, you can also benefit from these options:

• Jah - Incredible mobility tool.
• Que - Grants a Barrier.
• Xol - Provides tons of Offering but requires your other Runeword to be setup correctly.
• Xal - For extra defense.
• Wat - Decrepify helps with stagger and defense. It executes enemies at 10% HP and can be combined with Xol in your other Runeword to generate large amounts of offering.

In Diablo 4, you can level by completing the Campaign, collecting Grim Favors for the Tree of Whispers, completing Helltide activities, grinding Dungeons, clearing Strongholds, fighting in the Undercity of Kurast or interacting with the Seasonal Mechanics. While there are many ways to level up in Diablo 4, not all of them are equal.

Paragon & 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.

Glyph Leveling Priorities

Evade Spiritborn is a tremendously fun and highly mobile season starter. This build excels at speed, comfiness and power, taking you from Level 15 to Torment 4 with ease, even pushing high tier Pits.

• Evade / Scroll to win.
• Does not require any Legendary Aspect or Unique to get started.
• Scales you from level 15 into high Pits without having to change your build.
• Make sure to check the Armor vendor in any city whenever you level up to acquire the "Attacks Reduce Evade's Cooldown by x Seconds." boots to make the Thunderspike Weaving smoother and instantly bump up the difficulty to Penitent.
• No guarantee for scroll wheels.
• Happy blasting 🚀!

Written by Chronikz