Quill Volley Eagle Spiritborn Endgame Build Guide - D4 Maxroll.gg (2024)

Welcome to the Quill Volley Eagle Spiritborn Endgame Guide! This build relies on Eagle Skills and represents a ranged attack powerhouse. Our main skill, Quill Volley, fires several feathers than fan out and can shotgun enemies at close range, creating a superb mix of AoE and single target damage. Combined with Rebounding we can hit enemies up to 20 times with a single attack to trigger various effects such as Potent and lucky hit procs.

While the build relies on Eagle skills to deal damage, we choose primary Gorilla and secondary Jaguar in our Spirit Hall to benefit from barriers, powerful passives and easy access to Unyielding Hits. Together with Harmony of Ebewaka we gain a massive damage bonus by combining these different spirits in the same setup.

This build doesn't need much to get started besides one Dungeon Codex Power, but Spiritborn has access to many strong aspects that amplify this build. Our primary objective in this case is creating an infinite resource engine as soon as possible to spam Quill Volley while triggering Rod of Kepeleke every attack. This can be achieved with Ring of the Midnight Sun and sources of Resource Generation, supercharging the build in the lategame. Early on, we start with Vital Strikes and multiple ability-based Vulnerable sources or Accursed Touch and then transition to Prodigy's Tempo once the above setup is achieved.

All in all, the Quill Volley Eagle Spiritborn is an amazing allrounder that progresses through the Torment difficulties easily and can deal with anything the game throws at you. Let's get started!

Note

This build guide assumesyou have a Level 60 Character and unlocked Torment 1. To get there, level up with one of our Spiritborn Leveling Guides. See how this Build compares against others with our various Build Tier Lists.

Season Theme

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Season 6 is the Season of Hatred Rising. It features the Zakarum Remnants faction which hunts Realmwalkers, massive behemoths that roam outdoor zones and beckon Mephisto's hellspawn. Participate in these zone events and take down the Realmwalkers to spawn a portal to a Seething Realm. There you can acquire Seething Opals, new consumables that stack with Elixirs for a XP buff and the chance to gather extra rewards when defeating enemies. The types of Opals are:

  • Seething Opal of Equipment
  • Seething Opal of Gold
  • Seething Opal of Materials
  • Seething Opal of Torment
  • Seething Opal of Socketables

Use these Opals at all times to earn reputation with the Zakarum Remnants faction and unlock further rewards.

Learn more details about the season theme in our full Season Guide.

Skills & Gameplay

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  • Quill Volley is our main ability. We either spray into packs or delete elites and bosses from close range. In the lategame, we use this ability non-stop while pressing our other cooldowns from time to time.
  • Ravager adds chip damage against targets we hit but more importantly allows us to dash into packs using Quill Volley and increases resource generation while active. This is an important part of the infinite resource engine with Ring of the Midnight Sun and we aim for 100% uptime.
  • Armored Hide is our defensive tool and main source of Resolve. Keep an eye on your stacks and activate it as needed for a powerful defensive buff from Perseverance and offensive with Colossal + Redirected Force.
  • Scourge grants us lots of extra damage but more importantly negates the life drain of Jacinth Shell. Since we usually want to stay close to enemies and shotgun them with Quill Volley , we use the Kry rune to trigger Vortex, keeping enemies grouped up.
  • The Hunter is our Ultimate Ability. It does a moderate amount damage on its own but is mainly used for mobility and a range of offensive buffs: Supremacy, Resolution and Harmonious Hunter.
  • Counterattack grants us extra dodge and crit damage and can be used actively to negate nearly all incoming damage most of the time.
  • Before the above final setup comes online by acquiring either Accursed Touch or Ring of the Midnight Sun, we play with Soar (over Armored Hide), The Seeker (over The Hunter), Rock Splitter (over Counterattack) and Vital Strikes (over Prodigy's Tempo) to solve our resources.

Skill Rotation

  • Spam Quill Volley at all times to deal damage. For tanky elites and bosses, get into melee range for the shotgunning effect.
  • Keep up Ravager and Armored Hide as much as possible (reset by Prodigy's Tempo).
  • Activate Scourge for extra damage when nuking elites and packs.
  • Press Counterattack to dodge all incoming hits (doesn't work against ground effects).
  • Activate The Hunter as often as possible for various buffs like Supremacy and Resolution or to move to the next pack.

Spiritborn Spirit Hall

Primary: Gorilla allows us to build barriers and trigger Unyielding Hits easily with all of our attacks

Secondary: Jaguar provides us with easy access to Ferocity for more Attack Speed and further synergies like Potent & Furnace once we acquire Harmony of Ebewaka

Learn more details and how to unlock this system in our full Spiritborn Spirit Hall Guide.

Paragon & Glyphs

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Important

Carefully check your Paragon Boards to ensure correct board rotation. Glyphs go from a radius of 3 to 4 at level 15 and from 4 to 5 at level 46. Some of them cannot be activated before reaching these thresholds! Progress through The Pit to rank up your Glyphs.

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.

Tip

Some Glyph position swaps, board changes and other pathing adjustments may occur as you unlock your full potential. The setup displayed by default is the final version of the build before spending additional points that do not significantly impact your character's power.

Glyph Leveling Priorities

Note: Revenge is currently bugged and does not stack its secondary bonus from active thorns triggered from e.g. Gorilla primary spirit hall. It can still stack up the extra damage against bosses from passive thorns and provides us with a valuable resource boost on the Sapping board. You can also use Menagerist in its place for a similar outcome but once the bug is fixed Revenge wins easily.

There are a total of 328 Paragon Points. After reaching level 60, you gain up to 300 Paragon Levels, 24 fromRenown and 4 from Altars of Lilith. Check out our dedicated in-depth guides to learn more about Paragon Boards and Glyphs.

Runes

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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 Quill Volley Eagle Spiritborn focuses on the following combos:

Best in Slot

  • Poc + Que - We constantly spend all of our resources, triggering Earthen Bulwark for extra defense and synergy with Viscous Shield
  • Xol + Kry - Quill Volley relies on shotgunning enemies from close range. Thanks to Vortex we make sure that monsters don't run away after using Scourge

Alternative choices

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

  • Wat - Decrepify helps with stagger, defense and allows execute at 10% HP. When combined with Xol in your other runeword it also generates large amounts of offering
  • Cir - Generates offering by spamming Quill Volley
  • Xal - For extra defense
  • Gar - For more crit (before Rod of Kepeleke)
  • Mot - Generates Dark Shroud for extra defense
  • Ohm - War Cry is a powerful offensive buff
  • Tam - We spam our core skill all the time
  • Jah - To go really fast using Teleport

Learn more about Runes and how they work in our dedicated Runewords Overview and Runewords Tier List.

Mercenaries

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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.

Hired: Raheir

He provides us with Fortify, Stuns, some extra damage, more armor for Unyielding Hits and prevents us from getting oneshot every 30 seconds thanks to Valiance. Beware that he's not present when playing in groups and make sure you remain armor capped without him.

Reinforcement: Varyana

We choose Earth Breaker for extra crowd controls which preferably happens exactly when we cast Scourge so monsters don't run away.

Learn more about Mercenaries and how they work in our dedicated Mercenaries Overview.

Stat Priorities & Item Progression

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To enable the Quill Volley Eagle 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 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

  • 17+ total Quill Volley ranks
  • 100%+ Resource Generation
  • 60%+ Attack Speed
  • 1800+ Dexterity
  • 4,000+ Armor
  • 80%+ All Resistances
  • 6,000+ Life
  • 180%+ Movement Speed

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

Starter

Ancestral

Mythic

Item Progression Goals

Before you dive into the Endgame with the Quill Volley Eagle 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.

Starter

Ancestral

Mythic

Learn more details and how to farm Legendary Aspects and Uniques in our General Farming Guide.

Build Variants

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This section is designed to guide your Quill Volley Eagle 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.

Starter

Ancestral

Mythic

Speedfarming

Pit Pushing

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.

Gear & Skills

  • Early on in your progression, focus on Armor & Resistances to survive. Each Torment difficulty adds a penalty of -250 Armor and -25% All Resistances and it's recommended to keep both capped (1000 Armor, 70+ Res) at all times. As you unlock higher power gear, masterworking levels and more Paragon points, you naturally scale your character into the higher difficulties and can start replacing some of these rolls with offensive or utility stats.
  • Before acquiring Ring of the Midnight Sun, the combo Accursed Touch + Vital Strikes is our ticket to infinite Vigor. If you don't have this aspect yet, check out the first step in the skill tree above that includes Soar & The Seeker instead of Armored Hide & The Hunter, among other smaller adjustments on the tree.
  • Redirected Force scales your damage through Resolve stacks + Interdiction as well as Armored Hide. Keep an eye on your buffs and time your defensive skill to boost it.
  • Unyielding Hits is a massive damage buff that we activate automatically thanks to the Gorilla primary hall bonus. With it we can convert excess armor into more damage and we add as much as we can to the build.
  • Plains Power & Forest Power spawn Mystic Circles that grant us barriers, armor (for Unyielding Hits) and extra damage. Try to make the best use of these circles especially on bosses but don't let them slow you down when they're not in the right place.

The goal here is to progress through the Torment difficulties as you unlock Ancestrals, Paragon points, all Legendary Aspects, Temper mods and the most important Uniques to pilot this build. Some Legendary Aspects are used temporarily to fill slots that may be replaced with more Unique items later on.

Gear & Skills

  • As you upgrade your gear to Ancestrals with more masterworking levels and reach higher Paragon, your Armor & Resistance values are constantly shifting. Ensure to stay capped at with at least 1000 Armor and 70%+ Resistances for the difficulty you're currently in to maximize survivability.
  • Focus on reaching high Armor, Attack Speed, Ranks to Potent & Quill Volley as your primary damage attributes on gear.
  • Rod of Kepeleke is the first major upgrade. With it we no longer need to worry about resources and can switch to the endgame skill tree. However, just casting your Core Skill for free is only the beginning as we aim to gain the guaranteed empowered crit on every hit later on. In addition, this item allows you to benefit from buffs to Basic Skills like Basic Damage tempers, Basic Skill Ranks on pants, Follow Through and potentially Prodigy's Tempo.
  • Ring of the Midnight Sun is the second piece of the resource puzzle. With a good roll and enough extra Resource Generation, it's possible to fill your entire resource bar at once after Rod of Kepeleke consumed it all, creating an infinite loop of full and empty resources between every attack. In order to achieve this, we combine the bonus from Intelligence, resource tempers on jewelry, Measured Ravager and paragon nodes like Opportunist on the Sapping.
  • Resource Generation bonuses multiply with each source, so with a 50% Ring of the Midnight Sun roll you actually need less than a combined nominal 100% bonus from other sources. See more in the Mechanics section below.
  • Harmony of Ebewaka is an incredible damage buff to our Gorilla + Jaguar Spirit Hall combo as we combine a total of 3 Spirit types in this build. At this point we pick up Furnace on the tree.
  • Jacinth Shell massively speed up our cooldown recovery. With it you can keep up all of your buffs permanently with ease but it comes at a hefty life cost. With Quill Volley, we hit enemies very frequently to heal up with its life on hit and Scourge, but it will leave you at low HP when out of combat. Play around your barriers to survive and for example use healing potions when entering a boss arena.
  • Rakanoth's Wake is almost exclusively used for its huge all resistance bonus but also comes with a good amount of movement speed, additive damage and cooldown reduction. With it we can focus on stackig armor instead of resistances for Unyielding Hits.

This is the final version of the build's progression, including all regular Unique items, Mythic Uniques, Legendary Aspects, Temper mods and Masterworking, leaving you with a great all-rounder build for all content in the game. Additional variants use this as a baseline to optimize around certain activities.

Gear & Skills

  • Tyrael's Might provides us with near-immortality thanks to its high damage reduction and bonus to Maximum Resistances. With it we no longer need to rely on resistances from Rakanoth's Wake and go with regular boots + Duelist's.
  • At this point you should have enough attack speed that Prodigy's Tempo can comfortably reset your abilities while spamming Quill Volley and Jacinth Shell is no longer needed. You're going to be much more tanky and don't have to worry about the constant life drain anymore.

This Speedfarming variant optimizes the build for easy activities like Helltides, Whispers, Nightmare Dungeons and lower Pit Tiers after you have finished the Mythic variant and reached a plateau in your progression.

Gear & Skills

  • For lower end content we can hypercharge our cooldown reduction by adding Harlequin Crest and bring back Jacinth Shell + Rakanoth's Wake.
  • We also switch to Adaptive Stances to gain back some of the damage loss from unequipping Harmony of Ebewaka among other adjustments on the tree.

This setup optimizes the build to push the highest possible Tiers in The Pit after you have finished the Mythic variant and reached a plateau in your progression.

Gear & Skills

  • This setup is largely the same as the mythic variant.
  • When fighting monsters in high tiers of the Pit, remember that after crowd controlling elites for 5 seconds, they become Unstoppable for 8 seconds. This may be the right moment to start kiting them around because they can freely retaliate and it's difficult to keep them into the right position for shotgunning.

FAQ & Mechanics

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Once a guide is released, many players have questions on why and how we are approaching certain choices. In this section you can find the answers to the questions that have been asked the most.

What can I do to improve survivability?

Why am I not doing any damage?

What can I do when I run out of Vigor all the time?

Which adjustments should I make on Hardcore?

Mechanics

Rod of Kepeleke + Ring of the Midnight Sun

Rod of Kepeleke

Jacinth Shell

Unyielding Hits

Mystic Circles

Convergence

Drive

In-Fighter

Counterattack

Ravager

Barrier Generation

Attack Speed Caps

Stagger

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Summary

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The Quill Volley Eagle Spiritborn is a highly mobile allrounder that combines great AoE clear and single target damage.

  • Spray into packs or blast elites from close range with Quill Volley.
  • Combine Rod of Kepeleke and Ring of the Midnight Sun with enough resource generation to proc a guaranteed crit every time.
  • Stack Armor, Attack Speed and Critical Strike synergies.
  • Keep up your Resolve stacks.
  • Go pew pew pew!

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