Diablo 4 Evade Spiritborn build guide

The Evade Spiritborn is one of the most versatile and mobile builds in Diablo 4 Season 10. It centers around the Spiritborn’s exceptional agility and combat flow, while leveraging the Eagle Spirit Hall’s synergy. This setup is ideal for fast endgame clears, particularly in The Pits, where it performs with minimal difficulty. Its high Vulnerable uptime and efficient clearing capabilities make it a top choice among Spiritborn players.

The Evade Spiritborn’s core mechanic is super simple: your Evade ability not only boosts survivability but also acts as a damage source. Its cooldown is almost instant. By combining Accelerated Thunderspike and Sepazontec, you can deal insane amounts of damage while evading enemies.

The Eagle Spirit Guardian amplifies this effect by dealing Lightning damage whenever you use Evade, releasing multiple Storm Feathers, and applying Vulnerable to enemies. This makes Evade the core mechanic of this build, even though Thunderspike is the primary damage skill.

In this guide, we break down how to create the Evade Spiritborn build and what else you need to make it work.

Pros and cons of the Evade Spiritborn

Pros

Extremely agile and fast-attack rotations
Continuous Evade allows for great defense and offense
High Vulnerable uptime
High Critical Strike scaling
Simple gameplay for easy execution

Cons

Requires specific gear to work (Sepazontec)
Performance of the build depends on having at least two Evade charges
High-end gear and aspects required for unlocking full potential

Spirit Guardian setup

The Evade Spiritborn dishes out massive amounts of Critical Damage (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

The Evade Spiritborn benefits from its twin Eagle Spirit Hall setup for maximum efficiency and synergy:

Primary: Eagle – Casting an Eagle Skill or Evading fires six Storm Feathers, each dealing 140% [x] Lightning damage and applying Vulnerable for five seconds. This can only occur once every 0.5 seconds. The Storm Feathers Movement Speed bonus is doubled and always active.
Secondary: Eagle – Every other cast is a guaranteed Critical Strike and grants you a 20% [x] Vulnerable Damage bonus for five seconds.

Together, these bonuses ensure that every Evade inflicts the maximum amount of damage while keeping a near-constant Vulnerable uptime on the enemy.

Diablo 4: Best Uniques and Aspects for the Evade Spiritborn

Here are the best Uniques and Aspects you need for the Evade Spiritborn:

1) Sepazontec (Weapon)

Implicit Modifiers

Unique Modifiers

+35.0% Chance for Basic Skills to Deal Double Damage
+4 to Follow Through
+242 Dexterity
+6.0% Basic Lucky Hit Chance

Unique Effect

Your Basic Skills deal 120% increased damage and always use their third attack.
Every third cast of a Basic Skill strikes three times.

2) Loyalty’s Mantle (Helm)

Unique Modifiers

+65 All Stats
+12.5% Movement Speed
10.0% Damage Reduction
+3 to Velocity

Unique Effect

While your Spirit Hall choices match:

Their bonuses are 100% more potent.
Skills of their Base Spirit gain 60% Vigor Cost Reduction.
Skills of their Base Spirit gain 60% Cooldown Reduction.

3) Rakanoth’s Wake (Boots)

Implicit Modifiers

Attacks Reduce Evade’s Cooldown by 1.5 seconds

Unique Modifiers

+23.0% Movement Speed
8.8% Cooldown Reduction
+20.0% Resistance to all Elements
+75.0% Non-Physical Damage

Unique Effect

When you cast a Skill with a Cooldown, you explode, dealing 1950 Fire damage.

4) Aspect of Disobedience (Chest)

You gain 0.8%[+] increased Armor for four seconds when you deal any form of damage, stacking up to 46.0%[+].

5) Aspect of Unyielding Hits (Ring/Amulet)

Casting a Gorilla Skill increases your Weapon Damage by 30% of your Armor for three seconds. Maximum 1500 bonus Weapon Damage.

Stat priorities

Dexterity
Critical Strike Chance
Armor
Movement Speed
Elemental Resistance
Chances for Basic Skills to deal double damage

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Skill setup for the Evade Spiritborn

The Evade Spiritborn build revolves around turning the Evade ability into your primary damage dealer (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

Recommended Skill setup

Thunderspike (Accelerated Thunderspike)
Ravager (Replenishing Ravager)
Armored Hide (Reinforced Armored Hide)
Counterattack (Reinforced Counterattack)
Scourge (Enhanced Scourge)
The seeker (Exalted Seeker)

Recommended passives

Focal Point
Apex
Mirage
Unrestrained Power
Endurance
Fueled
Perseverance
Patient Guard
Auspicious
Resilient
Brilliance
Acceleration
Potent
Furnace
Resolution
Spiritual Attunement
Sustenance
Supremacy
Intricacy

Key Passive

Best-in-slot gems

Emerald (Grand) – +40 Dexterity
YulGar – GarGain 5% Critical Strike Chance for five seconds, up to 25%.
BacLac – Invoke the Barbarian’s Challenging Shout Skill, taunting enemies and reducing your damage taken for three seconds.
Skull (Grand) – +240 Armor

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Gameplay loop

The Evade Spiritborn is easy and simple to play in Diablo 4 (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

The Evade Spiritborn build revolves around its ability to stay mobile across the battlefield. Here’s an optimal gameplay loop:

Use Scourge and Ravager to apply buffs, increasing damage output.
Spam Evade to trigger Storm Feathers and Thunderspike.
Apply Armored Hide as needed to get a much-needed damage reduction and Unstoppable.
Cast The Seeker ultimate when available.

Paragon Board and Glyph choices

Boards

1) Drive – After moving 10 meters, you deal 6.0% [x] increased damage for 10 seconds. This can stack up to 10 times.

2) Convergence – You deal bonus damage equal to 7.5% [x] of your combined bonuses to Physical, Fire, Lightning, Cold, Poison, and Shadow damage, up to a total of 60% [x].

3) Viscous Shield – You do 2% [x] increased damage for every 3% of your Maximum Life you have as a Barrier.

4) Sapping – When you cast three Gorilla, Jaguar, Eagle, or Centipede Skills with the same Spirit in a row, you restore 15% of your Vigor and deal 60% [x] increased damage for five seconds.

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Best Glyphs

Here are the best Glyphs for the build:

1) Talon
2) Fulminate
3) Canny
4) Jagged Plume
5) Spirit

Diablo 4 Season 10 update variations

Chaos Perks

A Beast Cornered – For every 10% Life you are missing, you gain 10-20% [x] increased damage and 5% damage reduction. Spending Resources also drains a percentage of your Life equal to 30% the Resources spent, refunding those Resources. This cannot reduce you to below 10% Life.
Crazy Brew – Your Healing Potion is infused with the power of Chaos, granting you 100% Resource Cost Reduction, 40-80%[+] increased Attack Speed, and 40-80[+] increased Movement Speed for four seconds. Your Healing Potion has a 15-second cooldown, and you can drink it at full Life.
Marred Guard – You can no longer be healed above 50% Life. You gain 5-10% Maximum Resistance to All Elements, +10-20% Armor, and 50-100% increased Barrier and Fortify Generation.
Alacrity – Your Basic Skills gain 10-30%[+] increased Attack Speed, the dash range is increased by 50%, and the third attack now happens every second attack.

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Season 10 Chaos Armor setup

Season 10’s Chaos Armors allow you to mix and match items. To maximize this build’s potential, aim to acquire the following items tailored for optimal synergy.

1) Band of First Breath (Helm)

Implicit Modifiers

+37.5% Lightning Resistance
+130 Armor

Unique Modifiers

+26 Vigor when Resolve is Lost
+11.0% Critical Strike Chance
10.0% Maximum Life
+4 Maximum Resolve Stacks

Unique Effect

Casting Evade consumes one stack of Resolve to increase your damage dealt by 48%[x] for five seconds.
Gain Armored Hide’s Passive Effect.

2) Sepazontec (Helm)

Implicit Modifiers

Unique Modifiers

+17.5% Chance for Basic Skills to Deal Double Damage
+2 to Follow Through
+121 Dexterity
+3.0% Basic Lucky Hit Chance

Unique Effect

Your Basic Skills deal 144% increased damage and always use their third attack.
Every third cast of a Basic Skill strikes three times.

3) Loyalty’s Mantle (Gloves)

Unique Modifiers

+65 All Stats
+12.5% Movement Speed
10.0% Damage Reduction
+3 to Velocity

Unique Effect

When your Spirit Hall choices match:

Their bonuses are 100% more potent.
Skills of their Base Spirit gain 72% Vigor Cost Reduction.
Skills of their Base Spirit gain 72% Cooldown Reduction.

4) Fists of Fate (Pants)

Unique Modifiers

+51.8% Lucky Hit Chance
+8.7% Critical Strike Chance
+8.7% Attack Speed

Unique Effect

Lucky Hit: Up to a +51.8% Chance to Make Enemies Vulnerable for three seconds
Your attacks randomly deal 1% to 360% of their normal damage.

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The Evade Spiritborn is ideal for high-speed gameplay, as it is capable of dishing out tremendous amounts of Critical Damage and Vulnerability on enemies. This build remains unmatched when it comes to mobility and clearing.

While the gear requirement might keep the Evade Spiritborn unoptimized, once you use all the right items, you will have one of the most stable and optimized builds in the Spiritborn class.

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