Rake – Spiritborn Build for Diablo 4 (Season 9)

Build Introduction

This endgame build for the Spiritborn is all about boosting the Jaguar’s Rake skill through our Spirit Hall choices in combination with the required Uniques Harmony of Ebewaka and Rod of Kepeleke. Resulting in massive single target and AoE damage from Rake. Additionally, the Ravager adds even more damage, while also helping with mobility and Vigor generation, creating a fast-paced and fierce playstyle.

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Strengths and Weaknesses

Build Requirements

Required Uniques

Ring of the Midnight Sun

Rod of Kepeleke

Harmony of Ebewaka

Required Aspects (Non-codex)

Aspect of Wild Claws

Duelist’s Aspect

Want to know more about the Uniques supporting this setup? Jump to the Uniques section.

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Skill Bar and Skill Tree Points

Recommended

Suggested Skill Bar

ScourgeVortexThe HunterArmored HideRavagerRake

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.

• Primary Spirit Guardian: Gorilla
  • Casting a Gorilla Skill deals 100% Thorns to enemies you hit and grants Barrier for 5% of Maximum Life, up to 30%, for 3 seconds. All Skills are now also Gorilla Skills.
• Secondary Spirit Guardian: 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	Xol Jah	Harmony of Ebewaka	According to your secondary spirit hall choice, your skills are all additionally jaguar, eagle, gorilla, or centipede skills. Your skills deal x10-30% increased damage per spirit type they have.
Chest	Grand Emerald	Hectic Aspect	After casting 5 Basic Skills, one of your active cooldodwns is reduced by 1-2.5 seconds.
Gloves		Aspect of Redirected Force	Gain increase critical strike damage equal x% of your Block chance. Blocking doubles this bonus for 10 seconds.
Pants	Grand Emerald	Duelist’s Aspect	Maximum Ferocity increased by 1-5.
Boots		Yen’s Blessing	Casting a skill has a 40-60% chance to cast a non-mobility, non-ultimate skill that is currently on cooldown. Can only occur once every 8 seconds.
Amulets(50% bonus)	Grand Skull or Luminate Eye	Aspect of Unyielding Hits	Casting a Gorilla Skill adds x% of your Armor to all attacks for 3 seconds.
Ring	Grand Skull or Idol From Below	Ring of the Midnight Sun	When you Critically Strike, you regain x% of the Vigor you’ve spent in the last 2 seconds. Gain Counterattack’s Passive Effect.
Ring	Grand Skull or Seal of Denial	Aspect of Wild Claws	Rake manifests a Spirit Jaguar which also casts Rake at a random enemy, dealing x% Base damage.
Weapon (200% bonus)	Poc Que	Rod of Kepeleke	Your Core skills are now additionally Basic skills and free to cast. When cast at maximum vigor, your core skills consume all vigor to return to full damage, cast at their largest size, and become guaranteed critical strikes, with x0.1-0.5% increased critical strike damage for each point of vigor spent this way.

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. Maximum Life 3. Armor	Spiritborn Guard (Defensive): Armored Hide Active Duration Jaguar Innovation (Utility): Rake Size
Gloves	1. Ranks to Rake 2. Attack Speed 3. Maximum Life	Sharpened Finesse (Offensive): Basic Skill Damage Eagle Innovation (Utility): Vortex Size
Pants	1. Ranks to Basic Skills 2. Maximum Life 3. Armor	Spiritborn Resolve (Defensive): Total Armor Eagle Innovation (Utility): Vortex Size
Boots	Movement Speed All Stats Resource Generation Resistance to All Elements	N/A
Amulet	1. Ranks to Potent 2. Total Armor 3. %Dexterity	Spiritborn Resolve (Defensive): Total Armor Worldly Stability (Resource): Resource Cost Reduction
Rings	1. Attack Speed 2. Maximum Life 3. Lucky Hit: Chance to Make Enemies Vulnerable	Worldly Stability (Resource): Resource Cost Reduction Sharpened Finesse (Offensive): Basic Skill Damage
Weapon (Quarterstaff)	Critical Strike Damage Maximum Resource Ranks to Vigorous Change for Core Skills to Hit Twice	N/A

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

Make sure to reach the Armor Cap of 1,000. Certain builds that scale with armor may benefit from having more of it. For instance, those that make use of the Aspect of Unyielding Hits. 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.

• Ring of the Midnight Sun (Required): When you Critically Strike, you regain x% of the Vigor you’ve spent in the last 2 seconds. Gain Counterattack’s Passive Effect.
• Harmony of Ebewaka (Required): According to your secondary spirit hall choice, your skills are all additionally jaguar, eagle, gorilla, or centipede skills. Your skills deal x10-30% increased damage per spirit type they have.
• Rod of Kepeleke (Required): Your Core skills are now additionally Basic skills and free to cast. When cast at maximum vigor, your core skills consume all vigor to return to full damage, cast at their largest size, and become guaranteed critical strikes, with x0.1-0.5% increased critical strike damage for each point of vigor spent this way.
• Yen’s Blessing (Recommended): Casting a skill has a 40-60% chance to cast a non-mobility, non-ultimate skill that is currently on cooldown. Can only occur once every 8 seconds.

Mythic Uniques

This Rake build does not require any specific 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
Grand Emerald For increased Critical Strike Damage	Grand Emerald For more Dexterity	Horadric Jewels orGrand Skull For more Armor

In Season 9, you should rather socket Horadric Jewels in your Jewerly. These gems will give you +120 Armor, +6% Resistance to All Elements and a unique power to boost your Horadric Powers. Check out more information in this section.

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!

The following are recommended Runeword combination options for the Rake endgame build of the Spiritborn:

Runeword Combination	Runeword Effects
Xol Jah	Xol – Gain: 150 Offering. Invoke power from another class. Jah – Requires: 250 Offering (Overflow: Store Excess Offering). Cooldown: 2 Second. Replace your next evade with the sorcerer’s teleport, blinking further, dealing damage, and becoming unstoppable.
Poc Que	Poc – Gain: 5 Offering. Spend 5% of your maximum resource. Que – Requires: 300 Offering (Overflow: Increased Duration). Cooldown: 1 Second. Evoke the Druid’s Base Earthen Bulwark, granting yourself a Barrier.

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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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Horadric Spell (Season 9)

During Season 9, you will unlock Horadric Spellcraft, letting you build and bind your own spell to one of your active skills. You can upgrade your spell’s power using Horadric Phials, increasing its impact on your build.

Slot	Power	Effect
Catalyst	Celestial Surge pair it with Rake	Awaken an Oracular Rune that Pulls In all surrounding enemies. A torrent of stars follow that randomly strike the area 20 times for damage each. Rank 10: Stars periodically fall around you and are guaranteed to crash around a Nearby enemy for the same damage.
Infusion	Nebulous Extract	Enemies hit by it deal 5-10% reduced damage for 7 seconds. While equipped, your Shadow Damage Bonus is equal to that of your highest Damage Type Bonus. Rank 5: Deactivates monster Summoner effects for 8 seconds.
Arcana	Bottled Wind	Invoking your Catalyst grants a Barrier equal to 30% of your Maximum Life for 4 seconds. After it dissipates, its essence is bottled back up (+4% each rank).
Arcana	Fractured Core	Your Catalyst deactivates monster Damage Resistance Aura effects for 2.5 seconds, but you take 10% more stacking damage for the same time (+0.5 each rank).
Arcana	Reactive Ooze	After your Catalyst activates, you gain 5% Maximum Resource Generation per second for the next 10 seconds (+3% each rank).

Horadric Jewels

Horadric Jewels can be crafted at the Wayfinder using Horadric Phials and Gem Fragments, once you collected the Horadric Tome for this specific jewel. You can collect these recipes by doing Horadric Strongrooms in Nightmare Dungeons.

Horadric Jewel	Effect
Idol From Below	You gain 6%[x] primary stat, 8%[x] maximum life and you are always Unhindered. However, you will be hunted in Sanctuary’s darkest places by Jewel Guardians who were entombed to protect this relic.
Seal of Denial	While you have two or more Arcana from the School of Denial equipped, gain 30%[x] more Barrier, Fortify and Thorns.
Luminate Eye	Your Catalytic Skill gains 25%[+] Cooldown Reduction.

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: Skill Cast
• Reinforcement Skill: Bloodthirst

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Build Mechanics

Rotation and Playstyle

Similar to other endgame builds for the Spiritborn, this one is mechanically straightforward and should be easy to learn and play, making it ideal for those times when you just want to grind the endgame without worrying about perfecting your gameplay. The main mechanic of this build is to boost Rake‘s damage as much as possible as you use Varshan’s Boss Power to inflict extra damage everytime you use The Hunter.

Furthermore, Rake’s damage gets another extra boost from the Aspect of Redirected Force, which increases Critical Strike Damage based on your block chance. Using Gorilla-tagged skills helps raise that block chance even more.

1. Vortex in order to gather your enemies around you.
2. Scourge to slow and poison them.
3. Rushing Claw to slash through enemies and to get close.
4. Armored Hide for survivability.
5. Use The Hunter Ultimate to gain Ferocity and increase your damage to Injured enemies, as well as trigger Urivar’s Lobbed Bombs and the modifier ofVarshan’s Life Steal power.
6. Ravager for additional damage.
7. Spam Rake!

Runewords Synergy

• Poc Que: This combo rewards spending resource. Poc grants you 5 Offering every time you spend 5% of your maximum resource, which should stack up when you use Rake, thanks to the Rod of Kepeleke which makes it spend all your resource. Once you hit 300 Offering, Que automatically triggers Earthen Bulwark, giving you a strong Barrier to absorb hits. Thanks to Overflow, the more Offering you stack up, the longer your Barrier lasts, making you tankier the harder you go on offense.
• Xol Jah: This setup focuses on quick Offering generation and big impact. Xol grants you 100 Offering every time you evoke a power from another class (ie. everytime your first runeword triggers). Once you reach 250 Offering, Jah triggers the next time your evade, making you Teleport like the Sorcerer. This gives you additional mobility and grants you Unstoppable.

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 the Rake Spiritborn build:

• 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 9 Updates

For a full overview of what is new in Season 9, please take a look at our comprehensive season hub.

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

• Harmonious Hunter:
  • Damage bonus to Injured decreased from 100%[x] to 50%[x].
  • Reduced maximum Ferocity gained from 4 to 2.
• Exalted Hunter:
  • Previous (on PTR): Killing an enemy while The Hunter is present reduces this cooldown by 5 seconds. Hitting a boss reduces its cooldown by 1 second.
  • Now: Killing an enemy while The Hunter is present has a 40% chance to instantly reset its Cooldown. This chance is halved after each consecutive reset.
• Paragon Board – Convergence:
  • Previous: You deal bonus damage equal to 20%[x] of your 2 highest bonuses to Damage with Physical, Fire, Lightning, Cold, Poison, and Shadow combined, up to 30% total.
  • Now: You deal bonus damage equal to 3.5%[x] of all your bonuses to Damage with Physical, Fire, Lightning, Cold, Poison, and Shadow combined, up to 30% total.

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

• June 28th, 2025: Added Horadric Spell and Jewels for Season 9.
• May 14th, 2025: Adjusted the build with a new Skill Tree and Paragon boards. Uniques, Gear requirements, Runewords and Boss Powers were updated.
• April 26th, 2025: Updated for Season 8. Added Boss Powers.
• January 18th, 2025: Updated Tempers and added Witchcraft Powers and Occult Gems for Season 7.
• October 13th, 2024: Updated Runewords and Skill Tree:
  • Removed 1 point from Dominant and Armored Hide. Added Concussive Stomp and Enhanced Concussive Stomp instead.
• October 3rd, 2024: Guide theorycrafted and created for Vessel of Hatred, Season 6.