Evade Spiritborn Leveling Guide for Diablo IV Season 12 - Slaughter

The Season 12 theme brings Killstreaks and Bloodied Items to Diablo 4. Slay enemies in succession to begin a streak that grants increasingly greater benefits based on which affixes you roll on your gear in addition to seasonal reputation and experience. Tiers are divided as follows: Killstreak (0-99) - Carnage (100-249) - Devastation (250-499) - Bloodbath (500-999) - Massacre (1000-9000) - Fresh Meat! (9001+). For most instanced content types, you can typically expect to reach up to the 4th tier (Bloodbath). Additionally, you can find Bloodied Sigils for Nightmare Dungeons, Infernal Hordes and Lair Bosses that offer greater challenges and rewards (introducing "pseudo Torment 5").

Bloodied affixes are bonus affixes that can randomly roll on gear and come in three categories: Rampage (armor), Feast (weapons), Hunger (jewelry). The first two offer minor combat effects while the latter boosts specific loot drops, which doesn't impact your build. Recommended affixes for this build are:

• Rampage: %Dexterity, Movement Speed, Max Life
• Feast: Gain Berserking
• Hunger: Increase chance for Hunger Items (to get more amulets)

To get started as an Evade Spiritborn, focus the most on upgrading your weapon as its damage is the base for all further damage calculations, if given a choice between weapon types then choose a Polearm for higher base damage. Otherwise, follow the priority list below. While you don't have all of the desired temper manuals available, simply try to get anything useful on your gear until you get the right ones. For example, % Damage, Devourer Cooldown Reduction, Vulnerable Damage, etc. all work as long as you activate their conditions. Vulnerable damage is the better choice of all those, as enemies are always vulnerable. Likewise, you can temper multiple defensive options such as Resistances, Life, Armor to fill gaps in your survivability. Tempering low level gear is relatively cheap and the results can be very impactful.

The Codex of Power is a collection of Legendary Aspects you can imprint onto Rare or Legendary items at the Occultist. They unlock after completing specific Dungeons located around Sanctuary or salvaging items with these powers. Check out our Map Tool to locate these Dungeons.

For leveling, there are a few powers that can significantly help you if you have the funds to imprint them. In addition, keep an eye out for powerful Unique items you may find for this or other builds. You can also gamble obols, or barter with Pale Marks, to gain Legendary gear. More about bartering can be found here.

Must-have Dungeon unlocks

1. None.

Nice-to-have Dungeon unlocks

1. Retribution - Abandoned Mineworks - Kehijstan
2. Disobedience - Halls of the Damned - Kehjistan
3. Haste - Seething Underpass - Nahantu
4. Might - Dark Ravine - Dry Steppes

Other useful Legendary Aspects (drop/gamble)

1. Unyielding Hits
2. Redirected Force
3. Conceited
4. Vehement Brawler's
5. Alacrity
6. Layered Wards
7. Interdiction
8. Hectic
9. Crowded Sage
10. Assimilation

What to Gamble - Obols & Pale Marks

Great Uniques for this build

1. Loyalty's Mantle
2. Wushe Nak Pa
3. Temerity

As you level up, you may get lucky and find some great random drops. Some of these can massively amplify your power and speed up the leveling by switching to another build. Keep in mind that there are many more Aspects and Uniques that can be useful to multiple builds; this just lists some of the most impactful ones. While we usually recommend starting with Endgame Builds around Paragon 100, you often can make them work earlier with these drops:

Build-defining Aspects

• Unyielding Hits & Redirected Force are massive multipliers for damage.
• Hectic is great for cooldown reduction.
• Retribution is great for early increase in damage pickup as a dungeon unlock for your Codex.

Build-defining Uniques

1. Wushe Nak Pa - amplifies Eagle Main Hall (EMH) damage significantly.
2. Jacinth Shell - amplifies multiple Endgame Builds via massive increase in armor and cooldown reduction.
3. Loyalty's Mantle - amplifies EMH damage and lowers The Seeker's cooldown when combined with Eagle Secondary Hall (ESH).
4. Temerity - provides massive increase in defensive survivability via barriers from healing (that you do from Vital Strikes).

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 Evade Spiritborn focuses on the following combos:

Best in Slot

• Cem +Tun - Stuns enemies and additional damage, which pairs well with Retribution.
• Cir +Gar - Provides additional Critical Strike Chance.

Alternative choices

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

• Qua - Increase movespeed, if you're not at the cap, to increase damage from Brilliance
• Zec - Reduces the cooldown of your Ultimate skill.
• Que - Druid's Earthen Bulwark grants a Barrier and later synergy with Viscous Shield and/or Conceited.
• Mot - Dark Shroud helps with direct damage reduction.
• Xal - For extra defense via increased maximum life.
• Igni - Another good way of generating offering.
• Wat - Decrepify helps with stagger and defense. It executes enemies at 10% HP and can be combined with Xol in your other Runeword to generate large amounts of offering.
• Qax - For doubling your damage.

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 you with Fortify, Stuns, some extra damage, more Armor and reduces incoming damage with Provoke. Beware that he's not present when playing in groups, that you lose his benefits.

NOTE: You can use Subo instead, if you are wanting his ability to see monsters on the mini-map.

Call Aldkin, to cast Field of Languish when you cast any skill in combat to reduce incoming damage. This also only happens when his reinforcement timer is off of cooldown.

In Diablo 4, you can level by completing the Campaign, collecting Grim Favors for the Tree of Whispers, completing Helltide activities, grinding Dungeons, clearing Strongholds, fighting in the Undercity of Kurast or interacting with the Seasonal Mechanics. While there are many ways to level up in Diablo 4, not all of them are equal.

As you approach level 60 with the Evade Spiritborn, you unlock higher item power gear that represents a massive jump in character power. This is a good time to refresh your setup with new tempers and imprints. At level 60, Paragon Levels and The Pit unlock. Work towards Tier 10 to enter Torment 1, where the Endgame begins.

If you plan on continuing to use Evade with an Endgame guide, start to transition to the Endgame Starter variant and begin hunting for the Unique Wushe Nak Pa. Once you have it, you need to make a few changes. First you need to add +Seeker charges on your Rings, switch your Ultimate skill to Seeker with 5 skill points and upgraded to Harmonious Seeker to guarantee critical strikes.

At this point, your setup should look roughly like the Endgame Starter Variant before you dive into min/maxing with Uniques, Mythics & Masterworking. With better gear, more levels and Glyphs, you can push further and eventually unlock higher difficulties for increased rewards.

This step marks the end of the leveling guide. Below is the Paragon setup to get you started in Torment difficulty, but ideally, you should now transition towards the endgame version of this build or choose another of your liking.

Use the slider to see progression steps. By Paragon 150, you should be getting ready to transition to an Endgame Build. By Paragon 200, leveling slows down significantly and all important Rare clusters, Legendary nodes and Glyph sockets should be unlocked. Legendary nodes provide a massive damage increase and it is more important for you to reach all four nodes prior to even unlocking Glyph sockets on your fourth & fifth Paragon Boards.

Afterwards, you can min/max your build with minor tweaks and by picking up additional smaller nodes.

NOTE: If you don't feel like rotating your Paragon boards going from Paragon 100 -> 150, then you can just use the layout from Paragon 150 and follow the progression as close as you can from Paragon 100 and onward.

NOTE: The Paragon "Board Rush" method is the most effective and powerful min/max outcome, where you unlock all 4 Legendary nodes prior to even focusing on all 5 Glyphs.

To Level 15

1. Spirit
2. Jagged Plume
3. Talon
4. Colossal
5. Canny

To Level 46

1. Jagged Plume
2. Talon
3. Canny
4. Spirit
5. Colossal