Rake – Spiritborn Build for Diablo 4 (Season 8)

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 Unique Loyalty’s Mantle helmet. Resulting in massive single target and AoE damage from Jaguar skills. 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

Loyalty’s Mantle

Ring of the Midnight Sun

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

RavagerRushing ClawArmored HideThe HunterRock SplitterRake

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 endgame build, we pick the Jaguar as both the primary and secondary Spirit Guardian, as this synergizes extremely well with Loyalty’s Mantle.

• Primary Spirit Guardian: Jaguar
  • Every 15th time you deal direct damage to an enemy with a Jaguar Skill, unleash an additional strike dealing 15% of the damage you have dealt to them in the last 0.5 seconds. All skills are now also Jaguar skills.
• Secondary Spirit Guardian: Jaguar
  • Maximum Ferocity is increased by 1. Gain 1 stack of Ferocity whenever you kill an enemy or damage a Boss.

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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	Grand Emerald	Loyalty’s Mantle	While your Spirit Hall choices match, their bonuses are 100% more potent and Skills with that Base Spirit cost x% less and have x% reduced Cooldowns.
Chest	Tam Que	Aspect of Reactive Armor	Gain 10% block chance. Blocking an attack from a close enemy has a x% chance to cast a free Concussive Stomp at them.
Gloves		Aspect of Redirected Force	Gain increase critical strike damage equal x% of your Block chance. Blocking doubles this bonus for 10 seconds.
Pants	Xol Tzic	Aspect of Interdiction	Gain x% Block chance per resolve stack.
Boots		Duelist’s Aspect	Maximum Ferocity increased by 1-5.
Amulets(50% bonus)	Grand Skull	Aspect of Unyielding Hits	Casting a Gorilla Skill adds x% of your Armor to all attacks for 3 seconds.
Ring	Grand Skull	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	Aspect of Wild Claws	Rake manifests a Spirit Jaguar which also casts Rake at a random enemy, dealing x% Base damage.
Weapon (200% bonus)	Grand Emerald	Aspect of Plains Power	Lucky Hit: Up to a 25% chance to create a Mystic Circle for 10 seconds. Casting a Jaguar Skill in Mystic Circles empowers them to keep your Ferocity at Maximum and increase your damage by {x}% per stack while you remain within.

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. Ranks to Armored Hide 2. Armor 3. Maximum Life	Worldly Endurance (Defensive): Maximum Life Jaguar Innovation (Utility): Rake Size
Gloves	1. Ranks to Rake 2. Critical Strike Chance  3. Resistance to All Elements	Worldly Finesse (Offensive): Critical Strike Damage Jaguar Innovation (Utility): Rake Size
Pants	1. Armor 2. Maximum Life 3. Resistance to All Elements	Worldly Endurance (Defensive): Maximum Life Jaguar Innovation (Utility): Rake Size
Boots	1. + Evade Charges 2. Movement Speed 3. Vigor per Second	Natural Motion (Mobility): Movement Speed Worldly Fortune (Utility): Lucky Hit: Chance to Stun
Amulet	1. %Dexterity 2. Total Armor 3. Ranks to Furnace	Worldly Endurance (Defensive): Maximum Life Jaguar Finesse (Offensive): Jaguar Damage
Rings	1. Attack Speed 2. Critical strike Chance/Damage 3. Lucky Hit: Chance to Make Enemies Vulnerable	Jaguar Efficiency (Resource): The Hunter Cooldown Reduction Jaguar Finesse (Offensive): Jaguar Damage
Weapon (Quarterstaff)	1. Critical Strike Damage 2. Maximum Life 3. Dexterity	Jaguar Augments (Weapons): Chance for Rake to Extra Hit Jaguar Finesse (Offensive): Mystic Circle Potency

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.

• Loyalty’s Mantle (Required): While your Spirit Hall choices match, their bonuses are 100% more potent and Skills with that Base Spirit cost x% less and have x% reduced Cooldowns.
• 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.

Mythic Uniques

• Ring of Starless Skies (Recommended): Spending your Primary Resource reduces the resource cost of your Skills and increases your damage by x% for 3 seconds, up to x%.

We recommend the Ring of Starless Skies only in combination with higher endgame gear, where Vigor sustain should be less of an issue.

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	Grand Skull For more Armor

For Jewelry Gems, simply use any gem that provides armor or the resistance you lack the most.

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
Tam Que	Tam – Gain: 25 Offering. Cast a non-Channeled Core Skill. Que – Requires: 300 Offering (Overflow: Increased Duration). Cooldown: 1 Second. Evoke the Druid’s Base Earthen Bulwark, granting yourself a Barrier.
Xol Tzic	Xol – Gain: 100 Offering. Evoke power from another Class. 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.

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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	Grigoire’s Lightning Square (Grigoire)	After you cast a Core Skill, lightning tiles outward for 1.2 seconds dealing 250% Lightning damage per strike.
Modifier	Wandering Death’s Chest Beam (World Boss)	Your Main Boss Power instantly Executes Non-Boss enemies hit with less than 15% Life. When you Execute enemies you gain 25 Primary Resource.
Modifier	Avarice’s Explosive Ore (World Boss)	Activating your Main Boss Power spends all your Primary Resource to increase its damage by 0.01%[x] per Resource point spent.
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 +70%.

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 or just take Rushing Claw
• 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. By using the Jaguar as main and secondary Spirit Guardian in combination with the Loyalty’s Mantle, the Aspect of Wild Claws, and the powers of Ravager and The Hunter, you will deal strong single target and AoE damage.

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. To maximize this, you should use Rock Splitter roughly every 5 seconds to maintain the increased block chance:

1. Rushing Claw to slash through enemies and to get close.
2. Armored Hide for survivability.
3. Use The Hunter Ultimate to gain Ferocity and increase your damage to Injured enemies.
4. Ravager for additional damage.
5. Spam Rake!
6. Use Rock Splitter to gain block chance every 5 seconds, and generate Vigor.

Runewords Synergy

• Tam Que: This combo rewards active Core Skill usage. Tam grants you 25 Offering every time you cast a non-Channeled Core Skill, letting you build up Offering naturally as you deal damage. 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 Tzic: 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 200 Offering, Tzic triggers a Concussive Stomp, dealing AoE damage and knocking enemies down. With Overflow, extra Offering increases the stomp’s damage. Great for burst damage and crowd control.

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 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:

• Rushing Claw: Base Damage increased from 50% to 80%.
• Aspect of Wild Claws: Damage increased from 45-65% to 65-85% of Rake’s Base damage.
• Aspect of Plains Power: Legendary ranks increased from 8 to 21. Damage increase per stack of Ferocity increased from 2.0-4.1% to 2.0-5.0%.
• Fixed an issue where casting The Hunter could cause the Wanderer to get partially stuck under the ground.
• Fixed an issue that allowed for snapshotting of the Resilient Passive.
• Fixed an issue where some of the text on the Que rune was displaying in the incorrect font style.

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: 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.