Diablo 4: Everything We Know About The Spiritborn Class

Diablo 4's upcoming Vessel of Hatred expansion includes an entirely new class to the Diablo franchise. Named the Spiritborn, this class aims to blend the fast-paced nature of the Rogue with the most mystical elements of the Druid to create a powerful, dexterous fighter. They move quickly, strike fast, and have some of the most varied buildcrafting options you'll find out of any class.

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While a nature-themed monk sounds easy enough to understand, there are a ton of moving parts with the Spiritborn's kit. Today, we'll be going over everything we know about this upcoming class, covering everything from its viable playstyles to unique Spirit mechanic. And for the theorycrafters in the community, we also cover every single passive, active skill, and skill augment available to the Spiritborn.

What Is The Spiritborn?

The Spiritborn is a new class that will launch with the Vessel of Hatred expansion for Diablo 4. A Spiritborn is a mix between a monk and a druid, manifesting the power of ancestral spirits to unleash a wide variety of melee attacks. They have the most build variety out of any class in Diablo 4 thanks to their unique Spirit mechanic, and they're the first class to wield Glaives, a new two-handed weapon archetypethat features exceptional attack speed.

Every ability in the Spiritborn's kit is tied to a Spirit. There are four Spirits in total, each with a unique playstyle and core power fantasy.

• Eagle: Focuses on mobility. Eagle attacks are quick, apply Vulnerable, and scale well with critical hits. Most of their attacks are highly mobile or enhance your Evade roll.
• Jaguar: Focuses on aggression. Most of their attacks strike multiple times and grant Ferocity, a new buff that increases your attack speed. They scale defenses through dodge chance.
• Gorilla: Focuses on survivability. Gorilla skills stun or knock back foes, generating Barrier and block chance in the process.
• Centipede: Focuses on damage over time (DoT). Centipede attacks drain enemy HP through poison, granting you life steal.

You aren't restricted to a specific Spirit type either. Finding synergies between each Spirit is actually encouraged. For example, a DoT damage build will likely use Centipede skills to inflict poison damage. If you grab the Noxious Resonance capstone, critical hits can detonate poison DoTs which will damage nearby targets. Use an Eagle skill to trigger an easy critical hit, and now you can clear an entire screen of enemies with a simple two-button combo.

These sorts of synergies are what make the Spiritborn truly shine. This class gives you the tools needed to forge your own playstyle. Passive design is much more flexible here than the vanilla classes, and the Spirit Hall passive mechanic allows you to freely swap Spirit tags between attacks, letting you dip into certain passives and Legendary effects that would otherwise be impossible. Synergy is the name of the game here.

You must own the Vessel of Hatred expansion to play as a Spiritborn. The DLC launches on October 8.

Spirit Hall Explained

The Spiritborn's passive mechanic is the Spirit Hall, a collection of passive bonuses that align with each Spirit type. Each Spirit offers one major and one minor passive. You may only have one major and one minor passive at a time. These passive options will most likely be unlocked through the Vessel of Hatred campaign, similar to other class passives like the Necromancer's Book of the Dead.

Your chosen passives can be from different Spirits.

Spirit

Major Passive

Minor Passive

Eagle

Casting an eagle skill grants 2 storm feathers, up to a maximum of 8. When you evade, all storm feathers are fired, dealing 111 lightning damage and making targets vulnerable for 3 seconds.

All skills are now also Eagle skills.

For every 4 meters you move, your critical strike chance is increased by 4%.

This bonus is reset 2 seconds after you critically strike.

Jaguar

Every 4th time you deal direct damage to an enemy with a Jaguar skill, unleash additional slashes dealing 100% of the damage of the 4 hits.

All skills are now also Jaguar skills.

Max Ferocity is increased by 1.

Gain 1 stack of Ferocity whenever you kill an enemy or damage a boss.

Gorilla

Casting a Gorilla skill deals 100% Thorns to enemies you hit and grants a Barrier for 10% of maximum life (10), up to 40%, for 3 seconds.

All skills are now also Gorilla skills.

Maximum Resolve is increased by 2.

When you have at least 5 stacks of Resolve, you are Unstoppable.

Centipede

Hitting an enemy with a Centipede skill reduces their damage by 2.5% and slows them by 10% for 3 seconds, stacking up to a maximum of 8 times.

All skills are now also Centipede skills.

Heal for 1% of your maximum life for every nearby enemy you've poisoned in the last 3 seconds, up to 5%.

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All Spiritborn Skills And Passives

There are a total of 24 skills to use as a Spiritborn, most of which are evenly split between the four spirit types. You can freely mix and match these abilities as you see fit, but while leveling the Spiritborn and coming to grips with its complexity, you might want to stick with the same set of skills to start. Keep in mind that your major passive gives every skill a second spirit tag, allowing you to benefit from passives that otherwise woulstatic.aayyy.com/topic/dn/'t apply.

Before we cover how each skill works, you might notice that some skills refer to some new keywords. Here's what they do:

• Vigor: The Spiritborn's unique resource. It starts at zero and builds up as you use basic skills. Certain passives also generate Vigor.
• Resolve: Increases your damage reduction by 20% while active. Taking direct damage consumes a stack. You can hold up to 8 stacks.
• Ferocity: Increases your attack speed by 5% per stack. This effect stacks up to 4 times, each lasting for 4 seconds.

All skill damage values listed below are for a Level 30 character. Values are subject to change.

Basic Skills

Skills

Rock Splitter

Rush at a target and clobber enemies in front of you, dealing 17 damage.

Your 3rd attack strikes enemies around you, dealing 33 damage.

Gorilla, Generates 11 Vigor

Enhanced

Rock Splitter increases your block chance by 15% for 5 seconds. When you block, you gain 11 Vigor

Accelerated

Rock Splitter increases your Thorns by 13 for 5 seconds and your 3rd attack deals 100% of your Thorns to enemies.

Sharp

Rock Splitter's 3rd attack knocks enemies back and grants Resolve per enemy hit.

Thunderspike

Quickly jab forward with a piercing strike, dealing 17 damage.

Your 3rd attack pierces further, dealing 26 damage and reducing your Evade cooldown by 5 seconds.

Eagle, Generates 9 Vigor

Enhanced

Thunderspike generates 5 additional Vigor if you have moved in the last 2 seconds.

Accelerated

When you Evade, you attack with Thunderspike along the way and make enemies Vulnerable for 2 seconds.

Sharp

Thunderspike's 3rd attack strikes back again, pulling in and knocking back distant enemies for 3 seconds.

Thrash

Dive at an enemy and slash into it, dealing 11 damage.

Your 3rd attack unleashes a rapid series of slashes around your target, dealing a total of 29 damage.

Jaguar, Generates 8 Vigor

Enhanced:

After killing an enemy, your next Thrash generates 10 additional Vigor, up to 10 casts of Trash.

Accelerated

Thrash continues to unleash its 3rd attack if cast again within 1.5 seconds.

Sharp

Thrash's 3rd attack grants a stack of Ferocity.

Withering Fist

Dart at and jab an enemy, dealing 5 damage and applying 35 poisoning damage over 6 seconds.

Your 3rd attack bursts on your target, damaging surrounding enemies and slowing them by 30% for 3 seconds.

Centipede, Generates 9 Vigor

Enhanced

You gain 1 Vigor per second for every nearby enemy poisoned by Withering Fist, up to 10.

Accelerated

Enemies poisoned by WIthering Fist deal 20% less damage.

Sharp

Withering Fist's 3rd attack spreads its poison to 3 nearby unaffected enemies. Hitting a Vulnerable enemy will also spread that effect to all hit.

Core Skills

Skills

Crushing Hand

Smash down next to you, creating 2 shockwaves on either side that overlap and each deal 28 damage.

Gorilla, Drains 30 Vigor

Enhanced

Crushing Hand grants a Barrier equal to 10% of the damage it deals for 2 seconds, up to 50% of your maximum life.

Advantageous

Enemies hit by both strikes of Crushing Hand are knocked down for 2 seconds.

Rampart

Crushing Hand's radius increases by 5% for every stack of Resolve you have, up to 40%.

Quill Volley

Hurl 5 feathers that pierce through enemies, each dealing 21 damage.

Eagle, Drains 35 Vigor

Enhanced

Quill Volley makes enemies Vulnerable for 3 seconds if they are hit with at least 3 feathers at once.

Advantageous

Quill Volley hurls out 3 additional feathers and deals 30% increased damage to each enemy per hit.

Rampart

Quill Volley's feathers fly 50% further and converge on your target with 0.20% additional critical strike chance for each point of Vigor you had on cast.

Rake

Conjure claws that rake through enemies in front of you, dealing 22 damage before exploding for an additional 44 damage.

Jaguar, Drains 30 Vigor

Enhanced:

Casting Rake grants a stack of Ferocity.

Advantageous

Hitting at least one enemy with Rake reduces your longest active cooldown by 0.5 seconds.

Rampart

Rake's Vigor cost is reduced by 2 per stack of Ferocity you have.

Stinger

Strike a small area, dealing 78 damage to enemies within as well as all surrounding poisoned enemies.

Centipede, Drains 40 Vigor

Enhanced

Stinger applies 50% of its base damage as poisoning over 6 seconds to all enemies hit.

Advantageous

If Stinger strikes a Vulnerable enemy, it heals you for 10% of your maximum life. If you are Healthy, it makes enemies Vulnerable for 3 seconds.

Rampart

Stinger deals 5% increased direct damage to Elites for each nearby poisoned enemy.

Passives

Follow Through

Your basic skills deal [10/20/30]% increased damage. Double this bonus for 3rd attacks.

Vigorous

Casting a core skill increases all Vigor generation by [5/10/15]% for 3 seconds.

Velocity

Generate [3/6/9] Vigor each second while moving if you have dealt damage in the last 5 seconds.

Focus Skills

Skills

Vortex

Create a cyclone that pulls enemies inward, followed by a crushing downdraft that deals 39 damage.

Eagle, 12 Second Cooldown

Enhanced

Casting Vortex increases the damage of the next skill cast by 20%.

Measured

While you have an active Barrier, your Vortex deals 200% additional damage and knocks enemies down for 3 seconds.

Replenishing

Critical strikes with Vortex reduce its cooldown by 1 second.

Soar

Fly into the air, creating a cloud which makes enemies at your target location vulnerable for 5 seconds before you crash down upon them, dealing 56 damage.

Eagle, 15 Second Cooldown

Enhanced

The next hit against an enemy struck by Soar is a guaranteed critical strike. If Soar hits no enemies, you instead gain 50% increased movement speed for 3 seconds.

Measured

Soar makes you Unstoppable for 3 seconds.

Replenishing

Soar's cloud remains around you for 7 seconds after landing and continues to make enemies Vulnerable.

Ravager

Passive: Minimum Ferocity increased by 2.

Active: Unleash a savage roar, causing all your attacks to trigger additional strikes, dealing 67 damage for 6 seconds.

Jaguar, 20 Second Cooldown

Enhanced

Ravager's duration is extended by 2 seconds per kill while active. This bonus is reduced by 0.25s per kill, to a minimum of 0.5 seconds.

Measured

While Ravager is active, your core skills instantly dash to your target and all Vigor generation is increased by 30%.

Replenishing

Ravager passively stockpiles any healing you receive, up to 40 stacks. While active, Ravager spends stacks to strike Elite enemies up to 4 additional times.

Toxic Skin

Passive: Enemies that attack you are poisoned for 33 damage over 3 seconds.

Active: Your toxins overflow, applying poisoning in a trail while making you Unhindered for 5 seconds.

Centipede, 15 Second Cooldown

Enhanced

While active, Toxic Skin's poisoning is increased by 100% over 3 seconds.

Measured

While Toxic Skin is active, your poison deals an additional 25% of its damage over time as critical strikes to Vulnerable enemies.

Replenishing

Toxic Skin passively increases thorns damage you deal to poisoned enemies by 100%.

Passives

Apex

You deal [3/6/9]% increased Vulnerable damage. Double this bonus vs. Elite enemies.

Mirage

Gain 100% increased dodge chance during Evade. Whenever you dodge, you gain [5/10/15]% critical strike chance for 3 seconds.

Unrestrained

You deal [3/6/9]% increased damage while Unhindered or Unstoppable.

Swift

Your mobility skill cooldowns are reduced up to [2/4/6] seconds based on how far you travel with them.

Defensive Skills

Skills

Armored Hide

Passive: Gain 1 Resolve every 5 seconds.

Active: Encase yourself, becoming Unstoppable and gaining 100% block chance for 3 seconds.

Gorilla, 25 Second Cooldown

Enhanced

Activating Armored Hide grants you maximum Resolve and increases your Thorns by 64 for the duration.

Adaptive

When you Evade through enemies with Armored Hide active, you deal 100% Thorns to them and heal for 5% of your maximum life per hit.

Reinforced

While active, Armored Hide increases your block reduction by 5% for every nearby enemy.

Concussive Stomp

Stomp in front of you, releasing a shockwave that deals 16 damage and knocks down enemies for 3 seconds.

Gorilla, 10 Second Cooldown

Enhanced

Concussive Stomp grants a Barrier equal to 10% of your maximum life per enemy hit for 3 seconds, up to 100%.

Adaptive

When enemies recover from Concussive Stomp, you dodge their next 3 attacks.

Reinforced

Concussive Stomp gains an additional charge and deals 500% increased damage to Unstoppable enemies and bosses.

Counterattack

Passive: Gain 20% dodge chance and automatically retaliate against close enemies for 89 damage when you dodge their attacks.

Active: Dodge all direct attacksf or 2 seconds.

Jaguar, 15 Second Cooldown

Enhanced

Counterattack's cooldown is reduced by 0.5 seconds per stack of Ferocity you have.

Adaptive

When you dodge a control impairing attack with counterattack, it will reflect that crowd control effect to all close enemies for 2 seconds.

Reinforced

Counterattack passively increases your critical strike damage by 10% for every close enemy.

Scourge

Call fourth a wave of insects that bite enemies, fearing and slowing them for 3 seconds while applying 112 poison damage over 6 seconds.

Centipede, 12 Second Cooldown

Enhanced

Each time you hit an enemy with Scourge, you gain 1% increased damage vs. crowd controlled enemies for 6 seconds, up to 50%.

Adaptive

Lucky Hit: Hitting an enemy affected by Scourge has up to a 50% chance to life steal 35% of the damage done.

Reinforced

Casting Scourge grants 100% of your maximum Vigor over 6 seconds.

Passives

Endurance

Casting a defensive skill grants [5/10/15] Vigor

Perseverance

Gain [1/2/3]% additional damage reduction per stack of Resolve.

Fueled

Gain increased life on kill equal to [5/10/15]% of your maximum life while you have at least 4 stacks of Ferocity.

Antivenom

You gain [15/30/45]% increased poison resistance, and your maximum poison resistance is increased by [5/10/15]%.

Nourishment

Your healing is increased by 25%. Whenever you heal, your poison damage is increased by [2/4/6]% for 3 seconds, up to [10/20/30]%.

Patient Guard

Gain 10% block chance. After standing still for 1 second, you gain [10/20/30]% block damage reduction. Lasts for 2 seconds after you next move.

Auspicious

After not taking damage for 5 seconds, you gain up to [10/20/30]% of your maximum life as a Barrier over 10 seconds.

Bastion

Gain [+X] Thorns. While you have a Barrier, your Thorns are increased by 30%.

Potency Skills

Skills

Payback

Smash enemies in front of you, dealing 112 damage.

When attacked, you have a 35% chance to reduce Payback's active cooldown by 1 second.

Gorilla, 12 Second Cooldown

Enhanced

Each time an enemy attacks you, the damage they take from Payback is increased by 5% for 60 seconds, up to 75%.

Invasive

Becoming control impaired while Payback is on cooldown makes it free to cast and grants you Unstoppable for 3 seconds. Can only occur once every 30 seconds.

Poised

Payback passively grants you Vigor when you take damage. Payback is now a core skill and consumes all available Vigor to increase its damage by 0.5% for each point spent.

Razor Wings

Whirl out a cluster of razor sharp spirit feathers that rebound back, dealing 78 damage each way.

Eagle, 3 Charges, 10 Second Cooldown

Enhanced

Razor Wings makes enemies Vulnerable for 5 seconds when hitting with a critical strike or from behind.

Invasive

Razor Wings consumes 3 charges to send out a spiral of 3 wings at once.

Poised

Razor Wings has a 10% chance to regain a charge when they hit an enemy a second time. Double this chance if you are an active Barrier.

Rushing Claw

Slash a short distance through an enemy, striking all enemies along the way twice for 56 total damage.

Rushing Claw's cooldown restores all charges.

Jaguar, 4 Charges, 20 Second Cooldown

Enhanced

Enemies hit by Rushing Claw take 10% increased damage from Rushing Claw, up to 80%.

Invasive

Using Rushing Claw's last charge will instantly refill all charges by consuming 4 stacks of Ferocity.

Poised

When Rushing Claw hits an Elite enemy, you gain 25% increased dodge chance for 3 seconds.

Touch of Death

Strike an enemy and infect them, dealing 5 damage and applying 336 poison damage over 9 seconds.

When the infection expires or the host dies, a swarm hatches and seeks enemies for 9 seconds, dealing 11 damage per hit. Up to three swarms may be active.

Centipede, 15 Second Cooldown

Enhanced

Touch of Death's infection heals you for 2% of your maximum life per second, up to 18% of maximum life. You heal any remaining when the swarm hatches.

Invasive

Touch of Death's swarm bursts every second, applying 30% of its base poison damage over 6 seconds to surrounding enemies.

Poised

Touch of Death is now a core skill which costs 70 Vigor and has no cooldown.

Passives

Resilient

Casting a Gorilla skill grants [5/10/15]% increased maximum life for 10 seconds.

Dominant

Gorilla skills deal [5/10/15]% increased damage to knocked down targets and have a 5% chance to execute them if they are not a boss.

Brilliance

Eagle skills deal [1/2/3]% increased damage for each 20% movement speed you have.

Acceleration

Casting an Eagle skill grants [5/10/15]% increased movement speed for 3 seconds.

Potent

Hitting enemies with Jaguar skills increases the damage they take from you by [0.1/0.2/0.3]%, up to [10/20/30]%.

Furnace

Jaguar skills deal [2/4/6]% increased critical strike damage per stack of Ferocity.

Ravenous

Your Centipede skills deal [5/10/15]% increased damage. Double this bonus vs. healthy enemies.

Oppressive

Your Centipede skills deal [10/20/30]% increased damage to crowd controlled enemies and gain 50% increased crowd control duration.

Ultimate Skills

Skills

The Protector

The Gorilla Spirit protects an area for 6 seconds, continuously smashing surrounding enemies for 89 damage and granting you Barrier for 15% of your maximum life every 1.5 seconds.

Gorilla, 45 Second Cooldown

Harmonious

The Protector's strikes deal 300% damage to non-Elite enemies and reduce the damage you take from Elite enemies by 30% for 6 seconds.

Exalted

The Protector's area persists for an additional 6 seconds. While in the area, you are Unstoppable and any enemies or small missiles inside are slowed by 80%.

The Seeker

The Eagle Spirit swoops down and deals 22 damage. After a short delay it blasts off, dealing 336 damage.

Eagle, 3 Charges, 30 Second Cooldown

Harmonious

The Seeker's first hit knocks enemies down for 4 seconds, and the second hit is a guaranteed critical strike.

Exalted

The Seeker constantly makes all nearby enemies Vulnerable while active.

The Hunter

Bound across the battlefield with the Jaguar Spirit, dealing 56 damage upon landing and then rapidly slashing enemies in the area for 224 total damage over 7 strikes.

Jaguar, 45 Second Cooldown

Harmonious

The Hunter overfills your Ferocity for 4 stacks and causes you to deal 100% increased damage to injured enemies for 8 seconds.

Exalted

Killing an enemy while The Hunter is present has a 15% chance to instantly reset its cooldown and cause your next cast within 8 seconds to repeat its 7 strikes an additional time, up to 4 times.

The Devourer

The Centipede Spirit emerges, blasting enemies in a line for 156 damage and spitting at others for 44 damage. Lasts for 15 seconds.

Gorilla, 45 Second Cooldown

Harmonious

As it emerges, The Devourer launches 10 toxic globs that apply 117 poison damage over 6 seconds wherever they land.

Exalted

While The Devourer is active, if a non-boss enemy's remaining life becomes poisoned, they die instantly and unleash a Pestilent Swarm that deals 33 damage per hit to enemies it passes through.

Passives

Resolution

Casting an Ultimate skill grants [5/10/15]% increased damage to Elites for 3 seconds. Double this bonus if you are only fighting one enemy.

Sustenance

Hitting enemies with Ultimate skills heals you for [2/4/6]% of your maximum life.

Spiritual Attunement

Your maximum Vigor is increased by [10/20/30] while you have an Ultimate skill equipped.

Intricacy

Upon casting an Ultimate skill, the last Potency, Defensive, or Focus skill you cast prior becomes free to cast for [1/2/3] second(s).

Initiative

Casting an Ultimate skill makes you Unstoppable for [1/2/3] second(s).

Supremacy

Any enemy you kill while an Ultimate skill is active grants a stack of Supremacy, each increasing your damage by [1/2/3]%, up to [10/20/30]%.

When an Ultimate skill ends, you gain 5 stacks of Supremacy, but you begin to lose one stack every second.

Capstone Passives

You may only allocate one capstone passive.

Skills

Vital Strikes

You deal 100% increased damage to Vulnerable enemies.

After making an enemy Vulnerable, your next direct hit to them heals for 2% of your max HP, generates 5 Vigor, and removes the Vulnerable effect.

Adaptive Stances

The base Spirit of a skill grants bonuses (see below). Casting a skill of a new different base Spirit swaps to the new bonus and increases all damage by 30% for 5 seconds.

Eagle skills grant 30% movement speed.

Gorilla skills grant 30% damage reduction.

Jaguar skills grant 30% attack speed.

Centipede skills grant 30% life steal.

Prodigy's Tempo

Every 3rd consecutive cast of the same basic skill increases all skill ranks by +2 for 5 seconds.

Every 3rd consecutive cast of the same core or potency skill reduces all skills' active cooldowns by 10%, increased by 2% for each of their skill ranks.

Noxious Resonance

Your critical strikes cause enemies to burst 100% of their total poison on them as poison damage to those around them.

Spiritborn Items

Every Spiritborn has access to the new Glaive and Quarterstaff weapon archetypes. Glaives have an implicit that increases your damage to Elites, while Quarterstaffs grant a hefty boost to your block chance and block mitigation. Both weapons strike rather quickly with a base attack speed of 1.0, the same as a greatsword.

Spiritborn may only equip one weapon at a time.

And as you'd expect from a new class, the Spiritborn has access to a wide range of exclusive Legendary affixes and Unique items. Every new Spiritborn item we currently know of can be found in the image gallery above.

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