Payback Spiritborn Endgame Build Guide for Diablo IV Season 12 - Slaughter

If you are fresh in Torment 1 coming from a leveling guide, this is where you begin. Since only some Aspects can be guaranteed from Dungeon unlocks for the Codex of Power, focus on acquiring the additional aspects via gambling with Murmuring Obols or Pale Marks in the Mercenary Den.

• Early on in your progression, focus on stacking Maximum Life to survive. As you unlock higher power gear and Paragon points, you naturally scale your character into the higher difficulties and can start replacing some of these rolls with offensive stats or uniques.
• Rod of Kepeleke and a Ring of the Midnight Sun with at least 47% or 50% Vigor refund as well as enough resource generation to make Ring of the Midnight Sun refund 100% of your Vigor are required to start playing this build as this combination is what lets us constantly spend and refund our entire pool of Vigor.
• Early on use Vortex instead of Scourge so that you have a way to pull enemies together until you get Hesha e Kesungi. Because your not using Scourge you'll have to Poison enemies with Toxic Skin for the Thorns damage bonus.
• Your also going to want to use Ravager with Measured Ravager instead of Armored Hide for an early source of resource generation to help reach the 100% required to full refund your Vigor with Ring of the Midnight Sun.
• Early on you also should also use Varyana as your reinforcement for the increased attack speed from Bloodthirst and Gorilla Primary Spirit Hall instead of Eagle for some extra Barrier generation and Thorns damage.
• Use Poc + Que to generate more Barrier and Cir + Ceh or Thul as an early way to apply Vulnerable until you switch to using Eagle Primary Hall.

To enable the Payback 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 Extra Size Tempers, Attack Speed, Critical Strike Chance and more, have caps that may affect your priorities according to the items and Paragon points available at that moment.

Recommended Consumables: Soothing Spices, Scents of the Desert Afternoon, Queen's Supreme & Elixir of Resourcefulness II.

It is critical that Ring of the Midnight Sun fully restores your Vigor every time you hit. If it doesn't you won't do any damage. You will need at least 100% resource generation with a perfect 50% roll on Ring of the Midnight Sun. Here are a few data points showing Ring of the Midnight Sun roll and the required Resource generation to fully restore Vigor:

• 35% roll on Ring of the Midnight Sun requires 186% resource generation
• 40% roll on Ring of the Midnight Sun requires 150% resource generation
• 50% roll on Ring of the Midnight Sun requires 100% resource generation

This means that a good affix on Ring of the Midnight Sun is required to have a chance of making the combo with Rod of Kepeleke work. Resource Generation stacks multiplicatively with each source. In this build sources are: Intelligence, Vigorous, Measured Ravager, Paragon nodes on the Sapping board. This leaves you with Vigorous ranks from Rod of Kepeleke and/or Resource Generation tempers on jewelry to finish the rest.

With good endgame gear, one of these is enough, but before that you may need to add extra tempers and masterwork crits ranks to achieve this result. Stacking more Resource Generation after you have reached the critical point no longer provides any benefit, and if you are overshooting, you instead want to go with Resource Cost Reduction (tempers on Rings), which increases the damage done by Rod of Kepeleke's consumption effect. Learn more about this interaction in the mechanics section below.