Stinger Centipede Spiritborn Leveling 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.

Spirit Hall

At level 15, you can unlock your class mechanic called Spirit Hall. There you may choose one out of the four spirit guardians for both the primary and secondary slots. In this case, you go with Eagle (primary) and Jaguar (secondary). The first allows your evade to shoot out feathers that deal a good amount of flat damage and apply Vulnerable. Try to get boots with "Attacks reduce Evade cooldown" on them to benefit from this effect even more. It also allows you to pick up Eagle passives such as Brilliance and Acceleration. The second hall bonus gives you easy access to Ferocity for extra attack speed and Invasive Rushing Claw cooldown resets.

Key Passive

Noxious Resonance is your key passive of choice. It converts your Poisoning effects from damage over time into instant-damage explosions, consuming the DoT on the target. Together with the rest of your kit, this Key Passive creates an absolute AoE monster, so most of the optimizations in this build are tailored towards single-target damage from this point forward. To get the combo to work, aim for some rolls of Critical Strike Chance on your gear.

Ultimate Cluster

The Devourer is your ultimate until you reach endgame. You already bring some Poison synergies to buff it and while active it usually takes care of most enemies on its own. Unfortunately, it falls off in the lategame and we replace it with The Hunter at max level for the Ferocity stacks and other benefits The Hunter provides. Regardless of which skill you're using, you benefit from passives such as Supremacy and Resolution for more damage.

Final Journey to Level 60

At this point, most of the key synergies are unlocked and the gameplay loop is almost complete. As you level up, you unlock a lot of extra points that go into various offensive and defensive passives or max out certain skills. Check out the skills progression above to see where to put your points as you go, but feel free to deviate from the order displayed as necessary. For example, you can pick up Auspicious earlier for extra defense or leave out some of the Ultimate passive cluster nodes until later if you find yourself rarely using The Devourer.

Endgame Skill Swaps

The endgame build looks different from the leveling build due to additional synergies you unlock later. Among other small adjustments on the tree, you need more defense so you replace Soar to pick up Resolve generation and related bonuses such as Armored Hide, Maximum Resolve Stacks tempers and Perseverance. Second, your basic attack Thunderspike gets replaced by Rock Splitter and you switch your primary spirit hall bonus to Gorilla. Find all the details in Stinger Centipede Spiritborn Endgame Guide.

Spirit Hall

Primary: Jaguar adds a lot of extra damage for direct-damage attacks.

Secondary: Centipede provide tons of healing, giving us an easy time on a Poison build.

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 a Stinger Centipede 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 acquire 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.

Tip: For the early game, Elemental Surge Weapon Tempers are very powerful due to their high base damage, especially if you are twinking. If you find these, you may want to keep imprinting them on your weapons for an easy time.

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 we 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. Pestilence (Hallowed Stones - Nahantu)

Nice-to-have Dungeon unlocks

1. Haste (Seething Underpass - Nahantu)
2. Turbulence (Ruined Wild - Nahantu)

Great Uniques for this build

1. Harmony of Ebewaka
2. Ring of the Midnight Sun
3. Peacemonger's Signet
4. Mother's Embrace

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 Thorns and Thrash Endgame Builds)

Build-defining Uniques

1. Sepazontec (enables Rock Splitter Thorns and Thrash Endgame Builds)
2. Loyalty's Mantle (greatly enhances multiple Endgame Builds)
3. Jacinth Shell (greatly 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 Stinger Centipede Spiritborn focuses on the following combos:

Best in Slot

• Lith + Que - We aim for high uptime on Earthen Bulwark for extra defense and synergy with Viscous Shield
• Tam + Kry - Grouping up enemies is a big damage boost because Pestilent Swarms spiral outwards, hitting enemies multiple times at the center
• Tal - In Pit Pushing where boss damage matters more, we replace Kry to spawn even more swarms and use Vortex on our skill bar

Alternative choices

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

• Wat - Decrepify helps with stagger, defense and allows execute at 10% HP. When combined with Xol in your other Runeword it also generates large amounts of offering
• Cir - Generates offering by spamming Stinger
• Poc - Another way of generating offering
• Xal - For extra defense
• Mot - Generates Dark Shroud for extra defense
• Ohm - War Cry provides a substantial damage buff

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: Raheir

He provides us with Fortify, Stuns, some extra damage, more armor for Unyielding Hits and prevents us from getting oneshot every 30 seconds thanks to Valiance. Beware that he's not present when playing in groups and make sure you remain armor capped without him.

Reinforcement: Varyana

We choose Earth Breaker for extra crowd controls.

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

Coming soon.

The Stinger Centipede Spiritborn creates a fun mix of Poison explosions and a Hammerdin feel with Pestilence Swarms that decimate everything in its path.

• Unlock Pestilence for the Codex of Power and start blasting!
• Get resource recovery where possible.
• Poison up enemies to hit them all at once with Stinger.
• With Noxious Resonance, you can convert your DoTs into hits and blow up packs immediately.
• Stack critical strike chance, attack speed & defenses on your gear.
• Become the Swarm!

Written by wudijo