Thrash Jaguar Spiritborn Endgame Build Guide

Season 7 is the Season of Witchcraft. It features two separate borrowed power mechanics in the forms of Witchcraft Powers and Occult Gems. Both Seasonal mechanics are unlocked and improved by new NPCs found at the Tree of Whispers after collecting resources from Headhunt Zones, Seasonal areas similar to Helltide that appear across Sanctuary.

There are 25 Witchcraft Powers, 6 of which can be equipped at a time. Each Power belongs to one of four Schools (Eldritch, Growth & Decay, Psyche, and Lost), tags that promote synergies within themselves and with Occult Gems. Each School has a single Unique Witchcraft Power, only one of which can be equipped at a time. These Unique Powers max out and gain an additional effect at rank 5, while the other Powers max at rank 21 and gain their bonus effects at various levels. To unlock and improve Witchcraft Powers, defeat Headrotten or complete Whispers within the Headhunt Zones to collect Restless Rot. Lost Powers are an exception, requiring you to randomly encounter a Forgotten Altar in Dungeons to unlock them.

Best-in-Slot Witchcraft Powers

Alternate Witchcraft Powers

• Piranhado - This power can be used as an alternative way to group mobs.
• Aura of Misfortune - Mitigates some incoming damage while boosting your Movement Speed and
• Shaken Soul - Can help apply Vulnerable if you do not have a reliable method.
• Breath of the Coven - This gives you a large amount of Cap 1 Attack Speed (see Attack Speed Mechanics for more details)
• Hex of Shattering - A good source of Damage Reduction
• Hex Specialization - increses the Damage Reduction from Hex of Shattering and grants some more Critical Strike Chance.

Rarely, Headrotten Bosses appear with a still-attached Fugitive Head stolen from the Tree of Whispers. Slay these enemies and return the Heads to Gelena to unlock and upgrade Occult Gems. These Gems are socketable in Jewelry and each provide +160 Armor and +8% Resistance to All Elements so be sure to slot them in for the defensive stats even if they don't synergize with your chosen Witchcraft Powers. More importantly, each Occult Gem grants a unique effect that synergizes with your equipped Witchcraft Powers to provide a variety of Offensive, Defensive, and Utility-based bonuses.

Best-in-Slot Occult Gems

• Mind Wreath - Reduces the cooldowns of Defensive skills
• Moonlight Ward - Extra Defensive stats as your gear is tuned more for Offense.
• Spiral Coin - Helps reset cooldowns through the Wildfire secondary bonus.

Alternate Occult Gems

• Killing Wind - Another way to increase Critical Strike Chance
• Friend of the Bog - Extra Core Stats improve skill damage, Armor, and Resistances, Maximum Life improves defense, and becoming Unhindered helps you move through groups of mobs while also activating Unrestrained Power. This is a great all rounder gem.

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 Scourge on cooldown to maintain the Enhanced Scourge damage buff.
• (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: Gorilla is used to gain more Resolve stacks and to have permanent Unstoppable. Jaguar is taken to activate Loyalty's Mantle Unique effect in the Ancestral variant.

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.

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 Thrash Jaguar Spiritborn focuses on the following combos:

Best in Slot (Mythic)

• Lith - Tzic - Casts Concussive Stomp which activates Unyielding Hits.
• Moni - 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.
• 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.

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. Bastion reduces incoming damage while Ground Slam slows enemies, enabling Binding Morass and Apprehension. Inspiration lets you deal more damage to most enemies Raheir attacks.

Reinforcement: Varyana

Call Varyana, the Berserker Crone as your reinforcement Mercenary when you cast Thrash to activate Bloodthirst and increase your Attack Speed.

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

*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.

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.

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?

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.

How can I trigger Unstoppable?

Gorilla Secondary Spirit Hall grants you Unstoppable as long as you stay at or above 5 Resolve stacks. Armored Hide Passive and Active abilities both help regenerate Resolve, and casting the active grants Unstoppable.

Why don't I have enough stats for Rare Paragon nodes?

Adaptive Stances increases your Core Stats by 50%[+] as you alternate casts from different Base Spirits. Core Stats are Dexterity, Strength, Intelligence, and Willpower and they all have sub stats they increase:

• Dexterity - Skill Damage and Dodge Chance
• Strength - Armor and Critical Strike Chance
• Intelligence - Resource Generation and Resistance to All Elements
• Willpower - Healing Received and Overpower Damage

These Core Stat boosts activate Rare nodes on Viscous Shield and Revealing Paragon boards.

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 you normally would and 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, such as Soothing Spices, Song of the Mountain, and Elixir of Fortitude II.

Mechanics

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

Cap 2

• Accelerating
• Rapid
• Ferocity
• Adaptive Stances

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 temporarily takes 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 regeneration 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.

Unyielding Hits

• 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)

Convergence

• Convergence requires you to stack physical or elemental damage bonuses.
• For the maximum of 30%, you need a total of 150% bonus damage to any combination of two damage types, or simply stack one high enough.
• "Non-physical damage" - while adding to each elemental type in your character sheet - does not function for Convergence. Instead you need to rely on other sources such as Bane, Fulminate and Wildfire.

Jaguar Primary Spirit Hall

Jaguar Primary Spirit hall deals damage equal to 15% of total damage dealt over the last 0.5 seconds, activating every 15 hits from Jaguar skills. All skills are considered Jaguar skills since you have chosen this as your Primary Spirit. This effect can happen multiple times, meaning Attack Speed increases this damage in two ways:

• Increases the amount of damage you do within 0.5 seconds, boosting the damage dealt.
• Increases the rate at which 15 hits happen, boosting the rate Jaguar Spirit Hall activates.

Coming soon.

• 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 enemies.
• Weave skills from different Base spirits every 7 seconds to maintain Adaptive Stances.

Written by DeezyTheMonster
Reviewed by wudijo