Infinite Evade Eagle – Spiritborn Build for Diablo 4 (Season 8)

Build Introduction

The core idea for this Infinite Evade Spiritborn is to constantly reset your Evade cooldown, mainly through Accelerated Thunderspike. Surprisingly, the main damage does not come from the skill itself but from using Evade almost nonstop, made possible by the Eagle as our primary Spirit Guardian. The Aspect of Disobedience helps with gear pressure at higher difficulties and boosts damage with the Aspect of Unyielding Hits.

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Strengths and Weaknesses

Build Requirements

Required Uniques

Sepazontec

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Skill Bar and Skill Tree Points

Recommended

Suggested Skill Bar

ThunderspikeSoarThe DevourerArmored HideRavagerCounterattack

Wondering what comes after Level 60? Head to the Paragon Board section to power up the build even further.

And if you want to see how everything plays out in combat, check out the Rotation and Playstyle section for a quick breakdown. If you are missing skill points, complete Renown Tier 1-3 in every zone.

Spiritborn Class Mechanic – Spirit Hall Choice

The Spirit Hall allows you to combine two different Spirit Guardians or stick with just one. For this build, we go with Eagle as both Spirit Guardian, really focusing on amplifying our Eagle Skills and gaining in mobility.

• Primary: Eagle
  • Casting an Eagle Skill grants 4 seconds of the Storm Feathers Movement Speed bonus. When you Evade, fling up to 8 Storm Feathers for every remaining second, each dealing 125% Lightning damage and making targets Vulnerable for 5 seconds. All Skills are now also Eagle Skills.
• Secondary: Eagle
  • For every 4 meters you move, your Critical Strike Chance increases by 4%. This bonus is reset 4 seconds after you Critically Strike.

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Gear, Stats, Gems, and Runes

The following sections cover all systems that are important if you want to improve the power of your character in the endgame of Diablo 4. 

Legendary Aspects

Each Aspect is listed with its matching gear slot. Do your best to keep each Aspect in the assigned slot. Remember to salvage Legendary Items with higher Aspect values to unlock them in the Codex of Power, and then imprint them onto gear pieces with the preferred affixes. For best results, combine these Aspects with the right stat priorities.

Gear Slot	Gems/Runes	Aspect / Unique	Legendary Aspect / Unique Power
Helm	Cem Tzic	Loyalty’s Mantle	While your Spirit Hall choices match: Their bonuses are 100% more potent. Skills of their Base Spirit gain x% Vigor Cost Reduction and x% Cooldown Reduction.
Chest	Grand Emerald	Aspect of Disobedience	You gain {x}% increased Armor for 4 seconds when you deal any form of damage stacking up to {x}%.
Gloves		Aspect of Accursed Touch	Lucky Hit: Up to a x% chance for your Skills to inflict Vampiric Curse on enemies. Enemies afflicted with Vampiric Curse are also Vulnerable. Vampiric Curse’s stored souls deal x% increased damage.
Pants	Grand Emerald	Aspect of Interdiction	Gain x% Block Chance per Resolve Stack.
Boots		Rakanoth’s Wake	When you cast a Skill with a Cooldown, you explode, dealing {x} Fire damage.
Amulets(50% bonus)	Grand Skull	Aspect of Redirected Force	Gain increased Critical Strike Damage equal x% of your Block Chance. Blocking doubles this bonus for 10 seconds.
Ring	Grand Skull	Aspect of Unyielding Hits	Casting a Gorilla Skill increases your Weapon Damage by x% of your Armor for 3 seconds.
Ring	Grand Skull	Edgemaster’s Aspect	Skills deal up to {x}% increased damage based on your available Primary Resource when cast, receiving the maximum benefit while you have full Primary Resource.
Weapon (200% bonus)	Bac Gar	Sepazontec	Your Basic Skills deal x% increased damage and always use their 3rd attack. Every 3rd cast of a Basic Skill strikes three times.

Great alternative Aspects to use while you are still gathering the recommended ones are the Duelist’s Aspect and the Aspect of Exhilaration. The Duelist’s Aspect boosts Ferocity, which synergizes perfectly with the Aspect of Exhilaration, increasing the chance to reduce Evade cooldown for each stack of Ferocity gained.

Curious how this build compares to other endgame options? Take a look at our Endgame Build Tier List.

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Stat Priority and Tempering Affixes

Affixes on the same line are considered to be equally important. Bolded affixes are the most important targets for Masterworking upgrades. Be sure to check our Tempering and Masterworking guides for more details about these topics. Want to jump back up to the gear table?

Slot	Targeted Gear Affix	Tempering Affixes
Helm	All Stats Movement Speed Damage Reduction Ranks to Velocity	N/A
Chest	1. Dexterity 2. Armor 3. Maximum Life	Spiritborn Endurance (Defensive): Ranks to Auspicious Natural Schemes (Utility): Barrier Generation
Gloves	1. Critical Strike Chance 2. Dexterity 3. Armor	Eagle Finesse (Offensive): Storm Feathers Potency Natural Schemes (Utility) – Barrier Generation
Pants	1. Maximum Life 2. Armor 3. Dexterity	Spiritborn Recovery (Defensive): Ranks to Resilient Natural Schemes (Utility) – Barrier Generation
Boots	Movement Speed Cooldown Reduction Resistance to All Elements Non-Physical Damage	N/A
Amulet	1. Dexterity 2. Total Armor 3. Ranks to Brilliance	Eagle Finesse (Offensive): Storm Feathers Potency Centipede Efficiency (Resource): The Devourer Cooldown Reduction
Rings	1. Critical Strike Chance 2. Maximum Life 3. Dexterity	Eagle Finesse (Offensive): Storm Feathers Potency Centipede Efficiency (Resource): The Devourer Cooldown Reduction
Weapon	Chance For Basic Skills to Deal Double Damage Ranks to Follow Through Dexterity Basic Skill Lucky Hit Chance	N/A

The priority order of Resistances is Lightning > Poison > Fire > Cold > Shadow.

Make sure to reach the Armor Cap of 1,000 for survivability. However, as this builds scales with armor, we benefit from having more than the minimum. This applies to any build using the Aspect of Unyielding Hits, where higher armor increases overall damage. Furthermore, in higher difficulties, there will be a penalty to armor and resistance, so you will need a higher amount to compensate for the loss.

Looking for progression beyond gear? See our Paragon recommendations or Runewords Synergy next.

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Uniques and Mythic Uniques

Below, you will find information on Uniques and Mythic Uniques that are useful and recommended for this build. If a Unique or Mythic Unique is not listed here, it is NOT recommended and won’t benefit this specific build in any way.

Uniques

Listed below are the recommended and optional Unique Items for this build.

• Sepazontec (Required): Your Basic Skills deal 25-50% increased damage and always use their 3rd attack. Every 3rd cast of a Basic Skill strikes three times.
• Loyalty’s Mantle (Highly Recommended:) While your Spirit Hall choices match: Their bonuses are 100% more potent. Skills of their Base Spirit gain 20-60% Vigor Cost Reduction and 20-60% Cooldown Reduction.
• Rakanoth’s Wake (Recommended): When you cast a Skill with a Cooldown, you explode, dealing {x} Fire Damage.

Mythic Uniques

The Perma Evade Eagle Thunderspike Spiritborn does not require any Mythic Uniques!

If you are interested in target farming Mythic Uniques, check out our How to Farm Mythic Uniques guide. Or you can return to the Build Requirements.

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Gems and Runewords

Listed below are the recommended Gems and Runewords to socket into your gear.

Gems

Weapon Gems	Armor Gems	Jewelry Gems
N/A We use Bac Gar instead.	Grand Emerald For more Dexterity	Grand Skull For more Armor

Runewords

Runewords are unlocked during the Vessel of Hatred campaign and replace gems in gear. Improve your build by combining a trigger Rune of Ritual and an effect Rune of Invocation. You can equip up to two Runeword pairs (four Runes) at a time. For a detailed guide on Runewords, check out our Runewords Guide!

Here are the recommended Runeword combinations for the Rushing Claw Spiritborn endgame build:

Runeword Combination	Runeword Effects
Cem Tzic	Cem – Gain: 75 Offering. Cast Evade. Tzic – Requires: 200 Offering (Overflow: Increase damage by 1% per Offering). Cooldown: 1 second. Evoke the Spiritborn’s Concussive Stomp, dealing damage and Knocking Down enemies.
Bac Gar	Bac – Gain: 50 Offering. Travel 5 meters. Gar – Requires: 25 Offering (Overflow: Gain Multiple Stacks). Cooldown: 1 Second. Gain 2.5% Critical Strike Chance for 5 seconds, up to 25%.

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Paragon Board

Paragon unlocks at Level 60 and plays a big role in endgame progression. The following Legendary Nodes and Glyphs are recommended for this build. Keep in mind that each Glyph’s information and radius listed below is for the Level 46 version.

Need a refresher on how the skills are set up? Click here to return to the Skill Tree section.

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Boss Powers (Season 8)

During Season 8, you can unlock and rank up Boss Powers using Spectral Ash earned from Apparition Incursions, which provide powerful bonuses to support your build as you level.

Slot	Boss Power & Drop Location	Effect
Main Power	Urivar’s Lobbed Bombs (Urivar)	After you Cast an Ultimate Skill, lob 4 bombs that deal 400% Fire damage. Gain 15% Cooldown Reduction.
Modifier	Sinerat’s Flames (Incursion)	Gain 5%[x] increased damage to all Elements. For each 1% of an Element’s Resistance from bonuses, gain 0.2%[x] increased damage for that Element, up to a maximum of 15.5%[x].
Modifier	Kirma’s Sparks (Incursion)	Your Evade Cooldown is reduced by 5%, increased by 0.2% for each 1% Lightning Resistance from bonuses you have, up to a maximum of 11%.
Modifier	Hatred’s Embrace’s Haste (Incursion)	Gain 5%[+] Critical Strike Chance, increased by 0.5%[+] for each 1% of Shadow Resistance you have, up to a maximum of 12%[+].

Mercenaries

During the Vessel of Hatred campaign, you will unlock Mercenaries to assist you. While you can choose freely early on, we recommend Raheir as your main companion, and Varyana as Reinforcement.

Raheir Skill Tree choices:

• Core Skill: Ground Slam
• Core Passive: Raheir’s Aegis
• Iconic Skill: Bastion
• Iconic Passive: Inspiration

Varyana Reinforcement choices:

• Opportunity Skill: Any Skill
• Reinforcement Skill: Ancient Harpoons

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Build Mechanics

Rotation and Playstyle

The main mechanic of this Perma Evade build revolves around resetting Evade cooldowns. Accelerated Thunderspike resets your Evade by 5 seconds every third attack, which matches Evade’s base cooldown, giving you an instant reset every time! Together with the Sepazontec unique weapon, our basic attack, Thunderspike, always triggers the third hit, creating a continuous loop of Evade resets. Damage is automatically dealt through Storm Feathers, thanks to choosing the Eagle as our primary Spirit Guardian. As previously mentioned; this build focuses on spamming Evade to maximize damage output. Our selected Runewords amplify this playstyle even further by increasing damage based on movement. Lastly, our ultimate skill, The Devourer, provides extra damage whenever it is off cooldown and is the most effective ultimate for maintaining Supremacy stacks. Since we are also using Intricacy in this build variant, we can use Armored Hide before and again three times after the Devourer to keep the buff from Aspect of Unyielding Hits up.

Below, you will find a quick list of the skills you will have on your skill bar and how they could be used, rather than a strict rotation or priority. This list simply covers the basics, as your main focus will primarily be on using Evade:

1. Press your Evade keybind 24/7!

And then situationally:

1. You can use Soar as a soft teleport to jump across cliffs or gaps.
2. Armored Hide for protection, and before using the Ultimate.
3. Always use The Devourer Ultimate as soon as it comes off cooldown!
4. Use Armored Hide again after the Devourer, for the Intricacy interaction.
5. Counterattack for dodge chance and the increased Critical Strike Damage.
6. Ravager to boost the damage as well, and lastly:
7. Spam Evade all the time unless you need protection or want to boost Storm Feather damage by using one of the other skills.

Runeword Synergy

• Cem Tzic: Cem builds up 75 Offering every time you Evade, making it super easy to farm Offering in this build. Once you hit 200 Offering, Tzic automatically triggers a Concussive Stomp, slamming enemies, dealing damage, and Knocking them Down. Plus, if you overflow Offering, you get bonus damage, making it even stronger since you are keep pushing Evade.
• Bac Gar: This combo is all about rewarding movement. Bac gives you 50 Offering every time you travel 5 meters. Once you have enough Offering, Gar kicks in: for just 25 Offering, you gain +2.5% Critical Strike Chance for 5 seconds, and this effect can stack up. This means the more you move, the more crit you stack, giving you huge burst windows during fights.

Which Elixirs Should You Use?

Visit the Alchemist and craft an Elixir providing any Resistance you need most, or the Assault Elixir to increase Attack Speed. Some Elixirs cannot be crafted and only drop from activities like Helltides or Nightmare Dungeons. Additionally, make sure to keep your health potion upgraded! 

The following Elixirs are useful for most Spiritborn builds:

• Elixir of Precision provides the highest damage output increase.
• Elixir of Advantage increases your attack speed
• Elixir of Fortitude for additional survivability 

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Season 8 Updates

For a full overview of what is new in Season 8, please take a look at our comprehensive season hub.

Here is a quick overview of seasonal changes relevant to this build:

• The Devourer: Rank 5 Bonus capped at 200%[x] damage increase.
• Sepazontec: Damage increased from 50-100% to 80-130%.
• Fixed an issue where Aspect of Unyielding Hits Hits would not properly interact with Sunbird’s Gorget and the Eagle Primary Spirit Hall.
• Fixed an issue where the Intricacy Passive would not correctly remember which Skill was last used after transferring to a new Zone.
• Fixed an issue that allowed for snapshotting of the Resilient Passive.

Obol Gambling

Similar to Kadala in Diablo 3, the Purveyor of Curiosities lets you gamble your Obols for 750 item power gear at Level 60, making them a great way to fill in missing affixes, Aspects, or upgrades. There is also a small chance to receive an Ancestral piece with item power 800.

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Changelog

• April 26th, 2025: Added Boss Powers for Season 8.
• January 18th, 2025: Added Witchcraft Powers and Occult Gems for Season 7.
• October 17th, 2024: Replaced Paragon board images with new tool.
• October 12th, 2024: Updated Paragon Board attachment order.
• October 11th, 2024: Added Paragon Board images and updated Rotation explanation.
• October 10th, 2024: Guide created for Vessel of Hatred, Season 6.