Quill Volley Eagle Spiritborn Endgame Build Guide

If you are fresh in Torment 1 coming from a leveling guide, this is where you begin. 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 penalty of -250 Armor and -25% All Resistances 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.
• Before acquiring Ring of the Midnight Sun, the combo Accursed Touch + Vital Strikes is our ticket to infinite Vigor. If you don't have this aspect yet, check out the first step in the skill tree above that includes Soar & The Seeker instead of Armored Hide & The Hunter, among other smaller adjustments on the tree.
• Redirected Force scales your damage through Resolve stacks + Interdiction as well as Armored Hide. Keep an eye on your buffs and time your defensive skill to boost it.
• Unyielding Hits is a massive damage buff that we have to activate every 3 seconds with Armored Hide or Rock Splitter. With it we can convert excess armor into more damage and we add as much as we can to the build.
• Plains Power & Forest Power spawn Mystic Circles that grant us barriers, armor (for Unyielding Hits) and extra damage. Try to make the best use of these circles especially on bosses but don't let them slow you down when they're not in the right place.

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, your Armor & Resistance values are constantly shifting. Ensure to stay capped at with at least 1000 Armor and 70%+ Resistances for the difficulty you're currently in to maximize survivability.
• Focus on reaching high Armor, Attack Speed, Ranks to Potent & Quill Volley as your primary damage attributes on gear.
• Rod of Kepeleke is the first major upgrade. With it we no longer need to worry about resources and can switch to the endgame skill tree. However, just casting your Core Skill for free is only the beginning as we aim to gain the guaranteed empowered crit on every hit later on. In addition, this item allows you to benefit from buffs to Basic Skills like Basic Damage tempers, Basic Skill Ranks on pants, Follow Through and potentially Prodigy's Tempo.
• At this point we replace Rebounding with Moonrise for more damage and speed.
• Ring of the Midnight Sun is the second piece of the resource puzzle. With a good roll and enough extra Resource Generation, it's possible to fill your entire resource bar at once after Rod of Kepeleke consumed it all, creating an infinite loop of full and empty resources between every attack. In order to achieve this, we combine the bonus from Intelligence, resource tempers on jewelry, Measured Ravager and paragon nodes like Opportunist on the Sapping.
• Resource Generation bonuses multiply with each source, so with a 50% Ring of the Midnight Sun roll you actually need less than a combined nominal 100% bonus from other sources. If you are not hitting the full resource reset on every attack, add or masterwork Resource Generation tempers or rank up Vigorous. See more in the Mechanics section below.
• Harmony of Ebewaka is an incredible damage buff to our Gorilla + Jaguar Spirit Hall combo as we combine a total of 3 Spirit types in this build. At this point we pick up Furnace on the tree.
• Yen's Blessing (alternatively Rakanoth's Wake) is almost exclusively used for its huge all resistance bonus but also comes with a good amount of movement speed and helps us to reach the Resource Generation target. With it we can focus on stacking armor instead of resistances for Unyielding Hits.

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

• For lower end content we can hypercharge our cooldown reduction by adding Harlequin Crest and Jacinth Shell.
• Jacinth Shell massively speeds up your cooldown recovery. With it you can keep up all of your buffs permanently with ease but it comes at a hefty life cost. With Quill Volley, we hit enemies very frequently to heal up with its life on hit and Scourge, but it will leave you at low HP when out of combat. Play around your barriers to survive and for example use healing potions when entering a boss arena.
• We also switch to Adaptive Stances to gain back some of the damage of switching the chest piece among other adjustments on the tree.

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. For the meta full bug abuse version to clear 150s easily, check out the variant for it.

Gear & Skills

• This setup is largely the same as the mythic variant.
• At this point, you should have the gear required to play the Overpower variant, which is even better suited for high end progression.
• 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 they can freely retaliate and it's difficult to keep them into the right position for shotgunning.

This setup offers an alternative to the Unyielding Hits armor stacking by including Banished Lord's Talisman instead. With enough bonuses to Maximum Resource it's possible to get a guaranteed Crit + Overpower every attack. The main advantage of this setup is that it's way easier to achieve than perfect min/maxed gear for the original version but both end up at a similar power level.

Gear & Skills

• The gameplay and setup are largely the same as before and adjustments can be made similar to the Speedfarming or Pit Pushing variants.
• Without Unyielding Hits, we no longer prioritize stacking armor and just aim for the cap of 1000 in Torment 4.
• For Banished Lord's Talisman to work, we need to have (275 - (base cost of skill)) resources. Quill Volley costs 35 so the target is 240.
• Maximum Vigor: You get 100 base, 30 from Spiritual Attunement, from 20 Magic Nodes & 8 from a Rare Node on the Sapping board for a total of 158 baseline.
• We need another 82 Maximum Vigor from Rod of Kepeleke and the buff of Hubris slotted into the Sapping socket combined (changes with Glyph level). If you can't reach that, you can also add Tibault's Will, Harlequin Crest or Elixir of Resourcefulness II.
• Maximum Life and Fortify are powerful damage scalars for Overpower damage. This build achieves Fortify with Shield Charge from Raheir in solo play or Assimilation or party buffs in groups.

Gear & Skills

• This setup runs neither capped armor nor capped resistances, so beware that you may be squishy when your defenses or barrier are down. You can close the gaps with incenses if you have to.
• There's no Ring of the Midnight Sun to instantly fill up the entire Vigor bar between attacks. Instead we rely on "Lucky Hit: Chance to restore resources" from gloves to do the same. This allows more damage scaling at the cost of consistency and makes the setup wonky to play, especially in small scale combat.
• Most of the setup is similar to the Overpower variant, but this one is more optimized to push into the highest tiers.
• Thanks to the heavy double and triple-dipping of multipliers your mileage may vary greatly when your gear is not perfect. Unlike in other builds, slight changes in your setup can have a massive impact on the overall performance.

List of bugs this build leans into:

• Viscous Shield, instead of giving you a 0-33% damage multiplier bonus, multiplies its benefit by the factor of (max life / base life). With base life 400 and typical endgame setups reaching ~30k+ you can expect to get roughly a 2000-3000% dmg increase instead of 33%. This also means that any time you lose any barrier, your damage suffers greatly. To reach these life values, we invest heavily into Resilient and Maximum Life that would otherwise be wasted.
• Jaguar, instead of dealing 15% true damage of the last 0.5sec, double dips on various damage multipliers, including the above bugged out Viscous Shield.
• Fell Soothsayer's, instead of dealing less damage per kill when chain reacting, actually deals more damage thanks to double dipping (triple dipping with the above) of various damage multipliers, allowing you to oneshot any enemy in the game including Pit 150 bosses. This also means that single target bosses that don't spawn adds to chain react from are much harder to kill and you may have to leave the run.
• Instead of capping at 100%, Interdiction with many Resolve stacks allows you to go above and get more damage with Redirected Force.
• Maximum Resolve stacks, instead of tempering to 2 and masterworking to 6 on a triple crit, actually masterwork to 13 for a much bigger than normal benefit from the above and Colossal.

Paragon

Compared to the original, the Paragon board changes slightly to pick up more armor and resistances to get closer to the caps.