The Touch of Death Endgame Spiritborn build is the best poison build out there. Learn how to play it here.
The new Spiritborn class from Diablo 4’s Vessel of Hatred expansion has many powerful and interesting builds. However, its poison builds are among the best for boss killing in the game. One such build, the Touch of Death Spiritborn build, melts through the endgame while being nearly unkillable. Best of all? Players only need two items to make it work, and the playstyle is very laid back.
However, even simpler builds can get complex in Diablo 4, and many players would rather follow a guide so they can spend maximum time playing the game. Keep reading for a step-by-step guide to building the Touch of Death Spiritborn including: how to allocate ability points, the most important stats and items, Spirithall bonuses, Paragon Boards and Glyphs, Runewords, and even Mercenary choices. Why The Touch Of Death Spiritborn Build Is Powerful
The Touch of Death Spiritborn is a powerful boss-killing build with insane survivability. While it somewhat lacks speed farming capability due to lower mobility than the average Spiritborn Build, players running it can still expect enemy packs to melt like paper once in range. The secret to this build’s success lies in the existence of the Insatiable Aspect, and the upgrades available to the ability in the skill tree – mainly Poised Touch of Death. Finally, while many working versions of the build use other items, this variant of the build further buffs Touch of Death by using Craze of the Dead God.
The Insatiable Aspect is an offensive Aspect that increases the duration of Touch of Death’s spawned swarms with each kill and causes them to explode when the player overcaps the number of active swarms. This turns an ability that would otherwise struggle to clear packs and deal AoE damage into a versatile skill without compromising its single target damage.
Additionally, upgrading the Touch of Death skill with the poised modifier turns it into a core skill. While its Vigor cost is quite high in this form, its damage is high enough to match. Players can also use careful Temper choices to make its Vigor cost negligible – spamming the ability as they please. Craze of the Dead God then takes the ability to insane levels by adding up to three ranks (pre-Greater Affix and Masterworking) of Touch of Death. Touch Of Death Spiritborn Ability Points & Skill Tree
The skill tree for this build relies on several defensive abilities alongside Touch of Death as the main damage dealer. While items will provide further ranks of many abilities, this section will strictly go into how many points to spend on each node.
This build’s basic ability is Rock Splitter, taken for its’ Enhancement to increase Block Chance and Vigor generation. Block will be a big part of the defensive capability of this build.
Rock Splitter (1/5)
Enhanced Rock Splitter
This build takes no abilities from the Core node, as we’ll be converting Touch of Death into our Core Skill. Instead, buy passives to unlock the next node.
Vigorous (3/3)
Velocity (1/3)
In the Focus cluster, Toxic Skin is going to be the build’s main way to become Unhindered – important for a build that lacks mobility skills – and will provide bonuses to Touch of Death’s Poison Damage while active.
