Soar Spiritborn Endgame Build Guide

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:

Use these Opals at all times to earn reputation with the Zakarum Remnants faction and unlock further rewards.

Skill Rotation

• Start with your buffs Ravager, Armored Hide, and Counterattack
  • Keep your buffs up as they provide defense and offense for this build.
• Cast The Hunter.
• If you need to heal Scourge.
• Now you can start spamming Soar.
• (On Bosses) Before you start the boss fight:
  • Heal yourself.
  • Get Barrier from Auspicious.
  • Wait for your cooldowns to finish.
  • Cast Scourge right away in order to heal when Jacinth Shell starts to damage you.
  • (On Bosses) Cast Soar as close to the boss as you can in order to ensure every Spirit Feather hits.

Spirit Halls

Primary: Gorilla provides a Barrier for every attack to help negate Jacinth Shell.

Secondary: Eagle provides you with easy access to more critical strike chance.

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

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 Soar Spiritborn focuses on the following combos:

Best in Slot

• Xol + Kry - Group them up with Vortex, and cast Scourge to get massive heals. Remember the price you pay for Jacinth Shell.
• Yul + Que - Earthen Bulwark provides a Barrier to negate Jacinth Shell.

Alternative choices

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

• Xal - For extra defense. Who doesn't want more health?
• Wat - Decrepify helps with stagger, defense and allows execute at 10% HP.
• Gar - Over 65% critical strike chance along with Mirage will have you at 100% critical strike chance.
• Jah - Because what is better than even more mobility?

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: Varyana

She provides you with movement speed for Brilliance, increased attack speed with Hysteria, and another source of healing (Taste of Flesh) to help with Jacinth Shell.

Reinforcement: Aldkin

You choose Field of Languish for extra damage reduction, and slowing enemies which happens when you cast Scourge in order to stop them from running away.

To enable the Soar 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

Item Progression Goals

Before you dive into the Endgame with the Soar 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.

This section is designed to guide your Soar 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.

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.

Am I doing as much damage as possible?

Your damage comes from each Spirit Feather. You need to make sure each Spirit Feather hits the boss by standing as close as possible to them.

If Soar doesn't move you from your current location the animation is much faster. This is much easier for mouse and keyboard as you can hover over you character when you cast Soar.

• Make sure all Spirit Feathers hit the boss.

• Ensure Soar doesn't move you from your current location.

What can I do to improve survivability?

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.
• Make sure you use Scourge to heal.
• Your Mercenary Varyana provides healing from Taste of Flesh.

How can I trigger Unstoppable?

Soar Spiritborn have multiple ways to trigger Unstoppable. Keep Armored Hide up 100% of the time gives you Unstoppable.

Which adjustments should I make on Hardcore?

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.

Consumables

Recommended Elixir

Elixir:

• Elixir of Advantage II
• Elixir of Resourcefulness II
• Elixir of Fortitude II

Recommended Incense

• Type I
  • Song of the Mountain
  • Desert Escape
• Type II
  • Soothing Spices
  • Reddamine Buzz
• Type III
  • Chorus of War

Mechanics

Recalling Feathers + Spirit Feather

When you cast Soar Recalling Feathers spawns 10 Spirit Feathers in an area around you, and then Turbulence casts Vortex which triggers the second part of Recalling Feathers recalling all the feathers to you. Each feather deals damage to every enemy it passes through. You must make sure each feather hits the boss in order to do as much damage as possible. Each feather you pick up reduces the cooldown of Soar by .5 seconds thanks to Empowered Feathers. If the cooldown of Soar is under 5 seconds you can cast it repeatedly.

If Soar doesn't move you from your current location the animation is much faster.

Attack Speed Caps

• 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
• Moonrise
• Artillery Shrine

Cap 2

• Adaptive Stances
• Rapid
• Ferocity
• Accelerating

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

Stagger

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.

Soar Spiritborn is a fun build great for speed farming, and carrying nightmare dungeons. The build is played as melee because Recalling Feathers pulls feathers in dealing maximum damage to the enemy closest to the caster. With a lot of mobility from Soar, and has good area of effect clear with Vortex pulling enemies in.

Go now, and slaughter... the demonic horde.

Written by Insnebob

Reviewed by Wudijo