Touch of Death Centipede 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 doesn't rely on resources very much but uses Rake as a backup option to trigger Prodigy's Tempo. It's good to include some resource recovery so you can spam it as needed. You can add the following to reach a point where your resources feel comfortable:

• Vigorous
• Velocity
• Vigor per Second rolls on Helm, Chest and Boots

• Noxious Resonance is usually an enabler for Crit / Poison combo builds, but in this case, it's only used to trigger Insatiable pops from Touch of Death spamming which are the main damage source in this build.
• Whenever Noxious Resonance triggers, the Touch of Death infection counts as "expired", hatching a swarm instantly.

The most important stat on Ring of the Midnight Sun is the Vigor restore percent! Ring of the Midnight Sun restores 20 - 50% of the Vigor spent in the last two seconds. The ring tracks how much is spent on your buff bar and consumes the buff on your next crit, so you can't scale its effect by attacking quickly. The higher the roll the easier it will be to reach enough resource generation to fully restore your Vigor each attack. If you don't have enough resource generation you will do no damage!

To find out how much resource generation your Ring of the Midnight Sun roll needs to fully restore your Vigor follow this formula:

• (100% / Ring of the Midnight Sun roll) - 100%

Here is a table showing Ring of the Midnight Sun roll and the required Resource generation to fully restore Vigor:

Resource Generation:
When calculating resource generation it is important to remember resource generation is multiplicative.
Here is the formula for calculating resource generation:

Resource generation = ((100% + Source 1) x (100% + Source 2) x (100% + Source 3) …) - 100%

• ((100% + Vigorous) x (100% + Measured Ravager) x (100% + Rare node) x (100% + Magic node) x (100% + Magic node) x (100% + Magic node) x (100% + Temper) x (100% + Int)) - 100%

I strongly suggest aiming for a Ring of the Midnight Sun roll of 40% or higher

Rod of Kepeleke "chance to hit twice":

• Grants Payback a chance to deal double damage
• Doesn't work for Quill Volley
• Only replicates one of the two hits for Rake
• Only replicates one of the two hits for Crushing Hand
• Allows Touch of Death to reinfect from swarms
• Allows Stinger to replicate a full swing once per attack at a surrounding poisoned target

Rod of Kepeleke "cast at maximum size":

• Adds 2 feathers to Quill Volley
• Enlarges Crushing Hand to 200% size
• Enlarges Stinger to 200% size
• Enlarges Rake to ~400% size
• Enlarges Payback to ~double the size
• Does nothing for Touch of Death
• Does not stack with any size tempers

• Touch of Death swarms hatch after 9 seconds. This duration can be extended with Touch of Death Swarm Duration tempers.
• Even though you have a cap of 3 swarms, these swarms can only replace each other after their entire duration has run its course or you kill the target, leading to a long delay before dealing any damage in most situations.
• This waiting time is bypassed when Noxious Resonance, removes the Touch of Death from the target instantly and popping Insatiable without delay.
• For high end content with fights lasting multiple minutes, this delay doesn't have a huge impact as it only slows you down at the start.

• Jacinth Shell effectively reads the same as "75% cooldown reduction" or "300% 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)

• 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.

• The stacks from Drive have individual timers and don't refresh when a new stack is acquired.
• While running non-stop at movement speed cap (200%), you can reach up to 7 stacks.
• In order to reach close to the maximum damage bonus, it's required to move very fast at all times including mobility skills such as Soar, Rushing Claw or The Hunter.

• The stacks from In-Fighter have individual timers and don't refresh when a new stack is acquired.
• With a 5 second timer for 9 stacks, you need to dodge or block a hit roughly twice per second in order to keep the bonus at maximum.

• 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 (but its barrier doesn't scale with max. life)
• 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)

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.