Balazan Quill Spiritborn Endgame Build Guide for Diablo IV Season 12 - Slaughter

The Season 9 theme is the Sins of the Horadrim. This season allows you to craft unique Horadric Spells using three different components: a Catalyst, an Infusion, and three Arcana. You earn Catalysts and Infusions through the Seasonal Questline, and Arcana can be found while exploring Nightmare Dungeons. You choose a Skill as the trigger for your Horadric Spell. Once in Torment I or higher, Horadric Jewels can be crafted, which replace the Gems in your Jewelry, adding additional power to your build.

We use Disintegrate because it has a short cooldown and combines well with Vortex, assigned to The Hunter.

We use Corrosive Vapor since we use the Wildfire glyph for its cooldown reduction effect, which allows us to benefit from its Fire damage for more output.

• Reactive Ooze - Allows us to continuously attack even directly after triggering Qax.
• Fractured Core - Removes the damage resistance aura so that we can delete all packs instantly.
• Bottled Wind - Important defensive tool and great to boost our damage through Viscous Shield.

• Invigorating Helix - Can be swapped in for content without damage resistance auras such as Lair Bosses or Infernal Hordes to gain Fortify.

• Idol From Below - Offers a great stat line and periodically spawns Elites for additional Pit progression.
• Seal of Denial - Used for the massive boost to both Thorns and Barriers.
• Luminate Eye - This helps us use The Hunter more often.
• (Pit Push) Scornful Light - Replacing Luminate Eye, we deal more damage with this.

Use the slider to see the 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.

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 Balazan Quill Spiritborn focuses on the following combos:

Best in Slot

• Ahu + Qax - The 100% damage bonus double dips for Jaguar, giving us a massive damage buff that we can keep up near permanently after any target reaches 80% HP thanks to the high lucky hit of this build
• Poc + Que - Earthen Bulwark grants extra defense and synergy with Viscous Shield
• (Speedfarming) Igni + Jah (replacing Poc + Que) - Teleport allows us to go even faster and jump from pack to pack or over cliffs
• (Bossing) Neo + Qax - Allows us to get the effect even at the start of a boss fight

Alternative choices

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

• Cir - Generates a large amount of offering regularly
• Tam - We spam our core skill all the time
• Kry - To group up enemies more often
• Neo - Another good source of offering if you keep up barriers
• Bac - Another alternative for offering generation

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.

He provides us with extra All Resistances, regularly applies an extra damage buff through Inspiration and prevents us from getting oneshot every 30 seconds thanks to Valiance. Beware that he's not present when playing in groups, so make sure you remain resistance capped without him.

We choose Field of Languish for extra damage reduction.

To enable the Balazan Quill Spiritborn to perform optimally, hunt for these stats on your gear with good rolls and aim to Temper ⚒️ & Masterwork Crit ↑ them accordingly. The green arrow ↑ indicates which affix is most impactful to Masterwork Crit, and it does not indicate how many Masterwork Crits you need on that particular affix. 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

• 163.80%+ Attack Speed bonus*
• 2,400+ Dexterity
• 160%+ Movement Speed

• 950+ Armor
• 75%+ All Resistances
• 12,000+ Life

* This means 65% from 13 stacks of Ferocity and 98.80% from gear, Paragon and Elixir of Advantage II combined.

Recommended Consumables: Soothing Spices, Reddamine Buzz, Spiral Morning & Elixir of Fortitude II. Alternatively use Song of the Mountain or Elixir of Advantage II to cap out your Armor or Attack Speed if necessary.

Before you dive into the Endgame with the Balazan Quill 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 Balazan Quill 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.