Thrash Jaguar Spiritborn Endgame Build Guide
Welcome to the Thrash Jaguar Spiritborn Endgame Guide! This is a melee build focused on the Basic Skill Thrash leveraging Accelerated Thrash to repeat the 3rd attack as long as you continue fighting. You use The Hunter to overcap your Ferocity stacks to greatly increase your Attack Speed as you dash from pack to pack.
You use Moonrise and Adaptability as you would in any other Basic Skill build, however Redirected Force allows you to turn defense into offense by stacking Block Chance. Even though Block Chance is capped in your stats menu, Redirected Force takes all your Block Chance into account, allowing you to reach a large multiplier when combined with Interdiction and Max Resolve Tempers.
Sepazontec brings the Thrash Jaguar Spiritborn together by turning the repeated 3rd attacks from Accelerated Thrash into triple strikes that slash in a horizontal pattern. With Thrash Size tempers, these hits overlap and triple your damage output. The high hit rate activates Jaguar Spirit Hall at a breakneck pace, shredding apart your enemies.
Once you find Loyalty's Mantle, Jaguar Primary Spirit Hall procs become much stronger and the play pattern becomes much smoother. The Hunter, Ravager, and Counterattack will always be available to use when needed for their various buffs. The Hunter helps keep you at max Supremacy stacks as well.
Continue reading this Thrash Jaguar Spiritborn Endgame Guide to learn how to become the Jaguar and unleash a barrage of claw strikes and slashes on your enemies.
Requirements for this build
Sepazontec
This build guide assumes you have a Level 60 Character and unlocked Torment 1. To get there, level up with one of our Spiritborn Leveling Guides. To see how this Build compares against others, check out our various Build Tier Lists.
Season Theme
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:
- Seething Opal of Equipment
- Seething Opal of Gold
- Seething Opal of Materials
- Seething Opal of Torment
- Seething Opal of Socketables
Use these Opals at all times to earn reputation with the Zakarum Remnants faction and unlock further rewards.
Learn more details about the season theme in our full Season Guide.
Skills & Gameplay
- Thrash is your primary damage ability. With Sepazontec equipped it strikes an area in front of you, dealing it's damage over 5 hits. After your 3rd cast you perform a triple strike which is repeated indefinitely due to Accelerated Thrash, resulting in 15 hits per cast. This activates the Jaguar Primary Spirit Hall effect after each of your casts to deal 15% of recent damage dealt as additional damage.
- Vortex is used to pull in all enemies and bring them into the overlap area of Thrash. It is your lowest cooldown skill of a different Base Spirit, so it's your primary activator for Adaptive Stances. Replenishing Vortex further reduces the cooldown of Vortex as your Critical Strike Chance increases, allowing frequent casts of the skill.
- Armored Hide passively regenerates Resolve over time to ensure you always have its Damage Reduction and increased Block Chance from Interdiction. When cast, it maxes your Resolve stacks and increases your Block Chance to 100%, applying your Block Damage Reduction to all direct damage and further increasing the Critical Strike Damage boost from Redirected Force.
- Counterattack is primarily used for Reinforced Counterattack to passively increase your Critical Strike Damage as you fight groups of enemies. Do not cast it often as Redirected Force requires you to Block to double its bonus, but it is great to dodge large incoming attacks while holding your ground.
- Ravager adds additional hits every 0.5 seconds against all targets. This will slightly speed up Jaguar Primary Spirit Hall activiations. It is also a great source of Lucky Hits which are required to reduce your active cooldowns through the Wildfire additional bonus.
- The Hunter is your Ultimate skill of choice. Each cast brings you to 4 above your maximum Ferocity stacks to greatly increase your Attack Speed. It is the best Ultimate for maintaining Supremacy and Resolution since you can reset its cooldown when you kill enemies.
Skill Rotation
- Call The Hunter to fill your Ferocity stacks and activate Supremacy. Continue activating it to move from pack to pack.
- Cast Ravager on cooldown to maintain the buff and additional hits from Replenishing Ravager
- Cast Vortex whenever you need to group enemies and especially after activating Plains Power, to refresh Adaptive Stances Core Stat buff, and gain a Movement Speed boost outside of combat.
- Activate Armored Hide anytime it is off cooldown to maintain maximum Resolve stacks, increase damage through Block Chance, and refresh Adaptive Stances Core Stat buff as needed.
- Attack with Thrash to teleport to your targets and deal damage. Try to cast it once every 1.5 seconds to maintain triple strikes from Accelerated Thrash.
- Use Counterattack as needed to Dodge large incoming attacks.
- (On difficult Elites and Bosses) If The Hunter is available to cast and enemies are approaching Injured status, cast your Ultimate after they reach this threshold to get full value from Harmonious Hunter.
Spirit Hall
Primary: Jaguar adds a lot of extra damage for direct-damage attacks.
Secondary: Jaguar is taken to activate Loyalty's Mantle Unique effect.
Unlocking the Spirit Hall
Once you reach level 15, you have to complete a short quest 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.
Learn more details and how to unlock this system in our full Rogue Specialization Guide.
Paragon & Glyphs
Carefully check your Paragon Boards to ensure correct board rotation. Glyphs go from a radius of 3 to 4 at level 15 and from 4 to 5 at level 46. Some of them cannot be activated before reaching these thresholds! Progress through The Pit to rank up your 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.
Some Glyph position swaps, board changes and other pathing adjustments may occur as you unlock your full potential. The setup displayed by default is the final version of the build before spending additional points that do not significantly impact your character's power.
Glyph Leveling Priorities
To Level 15
- Hone
- Ritual
- Spirit
- Wildfire
- Colossal
- Canny (for Speedfarming Variant)
To Level 46
- Wildfire
- Ritual
- Spirit
- Hone
- Colossal
- Canny (for Speedfarming Variant)
There are a total of 328 Paragon Points. After reaching level 60, you gain up to 300 Paragon Levels, 24 from Renown and 4 from Altars of Lilith. Check out our dedicated in-depth guides to learn more about Paragon Boards and Glyphs.
Runes
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 Thrash Jaguar Spiritborn focuses on the following combos:
Best in Slot (Mythic)
- Lith - Wat - Decrepify helps with Stagger, defense, and allows you to execute enemies at 10% HP. When combined with Xol in your other Runeword it also generates large amounts of Offering.
- Xol - Que - Earthen Bulwark grants a large Barrier, keeping you safe in fights and allowing better uptime on Viscous Shield.
Alternative choices
As long as you haven't unlocked the final setup or found the top runes, you can also benefit from these options:
- Bac - Consistently generates Offering in Speedfarming
- Cir - Generates offering when spamming Thrash
- Xal - For extra defense
- Mot - Generates Dark Shroud for extra defense
- Ohm - Grants moderate uptime of War Cry to increase damage
- Zec - Reliable way to reset The Hunter
- Gar - This Rune brings you closer to 100% Critical Strike Chance, boosting the effectiveness of Redirected Force, Furnace, and Spirit.
- Tzic - Casts Concussive Stomp which grants you a Barrier and activates Unyielding Hits.
Learn more about Runes and how they work in our dedicated Runewords Overview and Runewords Tier List.
Mercenaries
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 assits you from time to time in certain situations.
Hired: Raheir
Raheir offers your Thrash Jaguar Spiritborn unparalleled defense that in turn buffs your offense. Valiance saves you in dire situations. Shield Charge and Provoke Taunt enemies and keep them grouped near Raheir and Mocking Lure increases the damage you deal to these grouped enemies.
Reinforcement: Varyana
Call Varyana, the Berserker Crone as your reinforcement Mercenary when you cast Thrash to activate Bloodthirst and increase your Attack Speed.
Learn more about Mercenaries and how they work in our dedicated Mercenaries Overview.
Stat Priorities & Item Progression
To enable the Thrash Jaguar 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
- 90%+ Chance for Basic Skills to Deal Double Damage
- 80+% Critical Strike Chance
- 20+ Max Resolve
- 8+ Ferocity stacks
- 80%+ Gear Attack Speed (Cap 1)*
- 90%+ Aspect Attack Speed (Cap 2)*
- 30%+ Bonus Lucky Hit Chance
- 1,000+ Armor
- Resistance Capped 70%+
- 6,000+ Life
- 90%+ Thrash Size
- 100%+ Barrier Bonus
*Review Attack Speed Caps information in the FAQ/Mechanics section for an in-depth explanation of the two categories.
Item Progression Goals
Before you dive into the Endgame with the Thrash Jaguar 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.
Learn more details and how to farm Legendary Aspects and Uniques in our General Farming Guide.
Build Variants
This section is designed to guide your Thrash Jaguar 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.
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 250 Armor and 25% Resistance penalty and it's recommended to keep both capped (1000 Armor, 70%+ Resistances) 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. Keep in mind Core Stat increases from Adaptive Stances include Armor and Resistance
- Thrash Size tempers are required to overlap the triple strikes from Sepazontec and maximize your damage. Prioritize adding these tempers to Pants and Boots.
- Prioritize finding Loyalty's Mantle to amplyify Jaguar Spirit Hall Primary and Secondary effects. It drops from Grigoire.
- Duelist's allows you to have up to 25% more Attack Speed than normal from Ferocity.
- Thrash Jaguar Spiritborn uses Redirected Force, Furnace, and Spirit which all boost Critical Strike Damage. Critical Strike Chance affixes and Hone are important to maximize the uptime of these damage boosts.
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, you can focus more and more on replacing Armor and Resistance rolls with better stats, but ensure to stay capped at 1,000+ Armor and 70%+ Resistances for your current difficulty. Keep in mind Core Stat increases from Adaptive Stances include Armor and Resistance.
- Loyalty's Mantle significantly boosts Jaguar proc damage and brings you to 100% Cap 2 attack speed when combined with Duelist's, Adaptive Stances, and Harmonious Hunter.
This is the final version of the build's progression, including all regular Unique items, Mythic Uniques, Legendary Aspects, Temper mods and Masterworking, leaving you with a great all-rounder build for all content in the game. Additional variants use this as a baseline to optimize around certain activities.
Gear & Skills
- This setup uses Shroud of False Death as there are 22 passives useful to the build and they will all be increased thanks to the implicit affix. Keep in mind this will not increase from Masterworking, but it is still a strong affix. The All Stats roll gives a nice boost so some of your other stats such as Critical Strike Chance from Strength, Resistance to All Elements from Intelligence. Resistances are not capped on the stat sheet for Torment IV since the increase to Intelliigence will cover this.
- Add points to Antivenom as needed to cap Resistance if Poison Resistance is lacking. Remove points from Auspicious and Diminishment as needed.
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
- There are no changes from the Mythic setup. Remember to play around Plains Power and pull enemies in with Vortex.
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
- Swap Plains Power for Fell Soothsayer's to improve area clearing. Jaguar Primary Spirit Hall activations can be spread around by Fell Soothsayer's, making short work of any nearby enemies.
- Swap Duelist's for Haste to move from enemy to enemy faster.
FAQ & Mechanics
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.
What can I do to improve survivability?
How can I trigger Unstoppable?
Why don't I have enough stats for Rare Paragon nodes?
Which adjustments should I make on Hardcore?
Mechanics
Attack Speed Caps
Stagger
Unyielding Hits
Convergence
Jaguar Primary Spirit Hall
Video Guide
Coming soon.
Summary
- The Thrash Jaguar Spiritborn boasts tremendous Attack Speed to hit your enemies as fast as possible to proc Jaguar Primary Spirit Hall effect to significantly increase your damage.
- Activate Armored Hide to increase Block Chance and maintain max Resolve.
- Use Vortex to pull in to your Plains Power Mystic Circle.
- Cast Counterattack to avoid large, dodgable attacks.
- Weave skills from different Base spirits every 5 seconds to maintain Adaptive Stances.
Credits
Written by DeezyTheMonster
Reviewed by wudijo