Stinger Spiritborn Endgame Build Guide

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.

This build has various possible ways of managing resources. Make sure to include some of these:

• Starlight
• Vigorous
• Velocity
• Vigor per Second rolls on Helm, Chest and Boots
• Ring of Starless Skies
• High uptime of Measured Ravager

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.

• Potent is one of the strongest passives in the entire game, ramping up damage in boss encounters which are this build's main weakness while AoE damage is a breeze.
• Even without going for Jaguar primary spirit hall or Harmony of Ebewaka, we can ramp up the damage buff slowly via Ravager and The Hunter.
• If you are doing easy content and bosses melt in seconds, you can replace this passive and pick up other choices. It's only worth it in fights lasting at least half a minute.

• The "Chance to Extra Hit" temper for Stinger doesn't spawn more Pestilent Swarms. These swarms (or their explosions from Noxious Resonance) are the bulk of our damage, making it worth it to instead temper Ravenous on your weapon to buff them.

• Ring of Writhing Moon makes Pestilent Swarms spawn centered on you instead of where you hit with Stinger. While this is a great advantage in easy content where you one-shot everything, it doesn't benefit you very much in situations that matter such as boss fights.
• Pestilent Swarms only last a short time, so you can't stack up a lot to carry them over into another pack of monsters unless you go very fast.
• Because the center of the spawn changes, you can no longer hit your primary targets as much as before. This ring effectively cuts your DPS roughly in half.

• Pestilent Swarms are spawned from effects like Pestilence, Infestation, Ring of Writhing Moon, High uptime of Measured Ravager or Tal.
• Swarms scale with general damage multipliers (e.g. Unyielding Hits, Conceited, Plains Power, Apex, Dexterity) and Stinger's base damage (through skill ranks) with Pestilence.
• They are a Centipede-based subskill and benefit from Centipede damage bonuses such as Centipede Damage tempers, Ravenous and Oppressive.
• Effects that specifically boost your skills but don't actually raise the base damage of Stinger such as Harmony of Ebewaka do NOT work for swarms.
• Pestilence makes swarms spiral outwards from the center of the Stinger AoE. Since they start with small circles, they can hit the same target up to 5 times.
• Ring of Writhing Moon displaces the spawn location to center it on the player, removing this multi-hit effect and reducing damage output.

• Jacinth Shell effectively reads the same as "67% cooldown reduction" or "200% increased cooldown recovery speed" that works in addition to other cooldown reduction effects.
• The drain ticks multiple times per second for partial reductions and stops when you reach 1 HP.
• Drained life does not count as taking damage.

• Unyielding Hits hits adds weapon damage based on your current armor.
• As your armor is reduced by the Torment penalties, so is the damage gain of this aspect.
• The weapon damage added is equal to that from your equipped weapon, which is the base for all further damage calculations and thus adding to it is a massive benefit.
• Unyielding Hits adds a flat amount of weapon damage regardless of base weapon speed, meaning it's more beneficial for faster weapons.
• The total weapon damage can be tracked in the character details.
• To calculate the relative DPS increase, use the following formula:
  • ((Armor x Unyielding %) + (Avg. Weapon Damage)) / (Avg. Weapon Damage)

• Counterattack can stack a maximum duration of 6 seconds, which can be refreshed indefinitely with enough cooldown reduction.
• There is no forced gap or downtime in the 100% dodge effect.
• Some damage over time and ground effects cannot be dodged, even if they hit instead of dealing DoT damage. Most notably, Explosive Elites are very dangerous when your survivability greatly depends on high uptime of Counterattack.

• The Minimum Ferocity is always active, even when Invasive Rushing Claw consumes 4 stacks to refresh its cooldown.
• Hits with other skills create an extra Ravager hit, once per attack per enemy.
• Replenishing Ravager increases the number of hits against elites, dealing the same damage each.
• Replenishing Ravager stacks are filled up by any individual healing source, such as any life steal, life on hit, life regen etc.

Barrier Generation works with:

• Auspicious
• Forest Power
• Enhanced Concussive Stomp
• The Protector
• Earthen Bulwark from Que

Barrier Generation doesn't work with:

• Gorilla primary hall
• Enhanced Crushing Hand

• 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
• Artillery Shrine
• Moonrise
• Hysteria (Varyana)
• Bloodthirst (Varyana)
• Bloodlust (Varyana)
• Myriad Stone

Cap 2

• Accelerating
• Rapid
• Ferocity
• Adaptive Stances

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

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.