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, we have to be a lot more mindful about resources, but Vital Strikes helps a great deal. Use Evade to fire free Storm Feathers and regain Vigor.
• Redirected Force scales your damage through Resolve stacks 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 triggers automatically via Gorilla. With it we can convert excess armor into more damage and we add as much as we can to the build (up to 5000).
• 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 attack 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 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 board.
• 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 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

• Straying from the standard setup, you can optionally hypercharge your cooldown reduction by adding Harlequin Crest, Rakanoth's Wake and Jacinth Shell for easy lower end content. Just be aware that this removes the Jaguar tag and Furnace no longer functions.
• 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. You can heal with 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.

Gear & Skills

• For high tier pushing, we replace Ring of the Midnight Sun with Ring of Starless Skies. This removes the guaranteed resource refill on every attack, but averages out to more DPS thanks to the amazing stats, extra skill ranks, bonus damage effect and the resource cost reduction allows Rod of Kepeleke to consume more for a bigger multiplier.
• For this to work, you also need another pair of gloves with "Lucky Hit: Chance to Restore Resources" which now fuels your Rod of Kepeleke. Fortunately, Quill Volley has a high combined Lucky Hit Chance from all its feathers, so this resource effect triggers reliably even on single targets. This means that your damage output now fluctuates with the number of enemies hit, and single target bosses die much slower than those that spawn adds.
• We swap our Spirit Hall to Jaguar (main) + Gorilla (secondary) because monsters live longer. To get barriers, we now use Ahu + Que instead of a mobility combo.
• To synergize with all of the above, we replace Moonrise with Rebounding. While this looks weaker on paper, the roughly doubled amount of Lucky Hit procs makes up for the difference.
• Without Ring of the Midnight Sun, we no longer need points in Counterattack and redistribute them for more damage.
• 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.

Paragon

We replace Revenge with Menagerist since we no longer apply thorns damage reliably.

This is an alternative lategame setup if you want to try something different, based on stacking up Poison DoTs with Andariel's Visage and detonating them with Noxious Resonance. Thanks to the poison novas from the helm and passive, this build has incredible AoE damage scaling to the moon in large monster packs, but falls off against high tier bosses. However, it's still a relatively competent build that can farm and push at acceptable levels. The playstyle and skill setup remain largely the same compared to typical Quill Volley builds, but the Core Skill no longer deals any significant damage. Instead, we focus purely on procs to scale their damage output.

Gear & Skills

Paragon

Boss Powers

• Spirit Hall: Farming = Gorilla + Gorilla, Pushing = Jaguar + Gorilla
• Unfortunately, Unyielding Hits doesn't work for Andariel's Visage and only increases its tooltip, so we no longer stack armor.
• Barriers are triggered from Forest Power and either Gorilla (farming) or Que & Tzic (pushing).
• Especially in high tier pits, focus on making large pulls to benefit from the combined AoE scaling of Andariel's Visage and Noxious Resonance (more targets = more novas = more DPS per target). Beware of champions (damage reduction aura monsters) as they can take a long time to kill and may lag out the game if you pull too many monsters at once. Try to skip these as much as possible.
• Stack a lot of Critical Strike Damage in order to boost Noxious Resonance.
• Fists of Fate is a crucial item for this build, as all of our damage relies on the procs from Andariel's Visage. Luckily, the glove's unique effect doesn't affect the poison novas, so you can focus entirely on getting a good roll of Lucky Hit Chance.
• Without Prodigy's Tempo, Jacinth Shell is required to reset our cooldowns quickly, and Cooldown Reduction now becomes a valuable stat. In particular, focus on high tempers for The Hunter cooldown reduction. To get started, you can also add a third temper on a normal ring with Plains Power instead of Ring of Starless Skies, but you have to be more careful with your resources (use a potion and more Scourge uptime).
• Beware that Jacinth Shell drains your HP quickly. This is not noticeable in combat, but without fighting enemies you lose all of your life in seconds. A good way around it for speedfarming is to focus less on max. HP rolls on your gear and instead add a few life regeneration rolls (Boots, Pants, Ring) to counteract the life drain while moving from pack to pack. In addition, don't faceroll all your cooldowns when you don't need them, e.g. when you are about to spawn the boss portal in the pit, and use health potions in those downtimes to walk in with enough HP to get the fight started.
• If you have resource issues, focus more on pressing Scourge on cooldown, use Elixir of Resourcefulness II and make sure to allocate Sapping + other resource paragon nodes on that board as soon as possible.
• As you min/max your setup, aim to keep your resistances and armor capped. Don't forget you can use consumables, too!

This is a variant that deals damage only with boss powers instead of attacks. The main combo works like this:

• Accursed Touch applies perma Vulnerable
• Flesh Reaper's Disruption (main) triggers on every vulnerable target hit
• Varshan's Life Steal (modifier) triggers on every main power activation
• Ergo: Every hit applies Varshan DoT, which deals all the damage

The build works as soon as you have the above combo online and can be played from level 1. Everything else is built around maximizing the number of hits and generic damage multipliers in order to scale it to the moon. With a lategame setup, you can reach 100+ hits per second per target, with each hit applying the Varshan DoT to all surrounding enemies. Hence why this build absolutely shreds through dense monster packs but then falls off at the boss unless they spawn additional adds (relevant starting in Pit 100+).

Gear & Skills

Paragon

Boss Powers

• This build can be very laggy in high density/high pit tier situations. You need to manage lag and not pull too much while making sure you have all important buffs up when you press Vortex.
• We focus on stacking Attack Speed on gear and through Ferocity + The Hunter in order to trigger Varshan's Life Steal and Jaguar as often as possible. Aim for 85% AS from gear + Paragon and 15% from Elixir of Advantage II to max out cap 1.
• Since we have 14 Ferocity stacks, we use Plains Power to spawn Mystic Circles which we scale through tempers and Ritual. These are a HUGE damage bonus (x4-5) in lategame, so it's important to play around their 10sec timer in pushes (cooldown is shown on the buff bar).
• Cap armor/resistance with Song of the Mountain and Soothing Spices if necessary.
• Resource recovery is solved through "Lucky Hit: Chance to Restore Primary Resource" on Gloves, Ring & Amulet. In addition, we have Reinforced Scourge as a backup in case you run out completely. This can occasionally happen when fighting a single target boss and getting a Qax proc without a follow-up Lucky Hit to restore Vigor. If you are struggling a lot with resources, replace this Rune with Ohm, Mot or Xal.
• Since this setup runs Ahu to trigger Qax, you will deal roughly double damage after the first 20% of a boss fight (not a problem in AoE encounters). In addition, you deal around quadruple damage in the last 35% of the fight (thanks to Harmonious Hunter), so there is a significant ramping experience.
• It's worth highlighting that the damage scales significantly with more targets and higher number of hits per second. In some cases, the targets you attack may simply be too small or your positioning may be off, losing out on some of the side quills that would otherwise produce more hits, so pay special attention when bosses move around. The best boss to get in a high tier pit push seems to be by far Drowned Seahag, followed by other add-spawning bosses.