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Even as the youngest class in Diablo 4, Spiritborn has been around for over a year, resulting in numerous powerful builds created by players, who update these builds according to the season.

Different Spiritborn builds have different strengths; some focus on single-target damage, while others help you level up faster. However, for quickly clearing multi-layered endgame events like The Pit, Rake Spiritborn build is the most reliable.

Based on this, we'll show you how to craft this build in the still-running Diablo 4 Season 10 and utilize it to progress quickly within The Pit, farming more rewards.

Rake Spiritborn Build Overview

This build relies on a variety of unique items and Spiritborn-specific mechanic, Spirit Hall, to function. It excels at dealing AoE damage, making it better suited for dealing with groups of enemies rather than single bosses.

However, because it requires multiple damage-dealing gear, this build cannot be paired with enough armor, resulting in a lack of defensive capabilities.

Another tricky aspect of Rake Spiritborn Build is the need for precise timing of triggering various effects to maximize the value of skills and gear, making it somewhat difficult to use.

However, once you overcome these challenges, you can deal primary damage by triggering Jaguar's Spirit Hall multiple times per second, then utilize the stacking buffs from various gear to further increase damage output.

Building upon this, choosing Eagle as the secondary Spirit Hall increases clearing speed. Through continuous dodging and instant repositioning, you can quickly unleash burst damage, even in Torment 4 difficulty, rapidly clearing large groups of monsters.

As an additional reminder, the skill choices for this build in Season 10 can largely follow the strategies used in previous seasons, primarily including the following skills:

• Rake
• Ravager
• Armored Hide
• Vortex
• Toxic Skin
• The Hunter

Which Gear Is Needed?

As we've already mentioned, this build is gear-intensive, so you'd better follow our recommendations for farming and equipping Diablo 4 items, and don't easily change your item lineup.

Let's start from top to bottom, beginning with the helmet. Fortunately, Season 10 introduced Chaos Armor, so just choose the best Spiritborn-available Chaos Armor you can get - don't forget to add affixes that provide damage and agility boosts.

As for the chest armor, Razorplate is actually an essential item for the entire build to function. It can be obtained by farming the boss Lord Zir, and equipping it increases your Thorns damage.

For the gloves slot, we recommend Aspect of the Moonrise, which allows you to increase your attack speed by dealing damage to enemies. Combined with the massive damage from your abilities, you'll become a high-speed monster-killing machine on the field.

Here's a list of more gear pieces and the corresponding affixes or Masterworking effects:

• Pants - Harmony of Ebewaka (Chaos Armor version): Provides all attributes, movement speed, and damage reduction with advanced affixes.
• Boots - Hesha E Kesungi: The affix needs to increase the gorilla's skill level and attack speed, and reduce ultimate skill cooldown.
• Weapon - Aspect of Wild Claws: Ensures free damage and extra hit chance trigger.
• Amulet - Aspect of Adaptability: The affix needs to increase resource bonuses.
• Ring 1 - Aspect of Redirected Force: The affix needs to increase dexterity, maximum health, and overpower damage.
• Ring 2 - Aspect of Unyielding Hits: The affix needs to increase dexterity, elemental resistance, and damage, and reduce resource consumption and skill cooldown.

Besides the gear pieces mentioned above, another essential item is Rod of Kepeleke.

As a Spiritborn-exclusive quarterstaff, this gear's Chaos Armor version receives a 0.90% critical strike damage boost, allowing it to unleash even greater power when paired with other gear.

Best Chaos Perks

As another core seasonal mechanic of Season 10, every build available in that season should have a best Chaos Perks combination (maximum 4 can be combined.).

Combined Strikes

For Rake Spiritborn build, the core perk should be Combined Strikes. It allows core abilities to not only attack multiple times but also deal a 40% damage boost.

While this perk also increases the core ability cooldown by 10 seconds, the core ability cooldown is reset when the basic ability attacks for the third time based on Rod of Kepeleke.

This allows you to continuously unleash wide-area core abilities, combining damage and attack speed boosts to quickly clear enemy groups.

Brawn Over Brains

This perk instantly grants you 200% increased maximum health, 100% increased healing received, and 125% overpower damage. The downside is a 25% reduction in maximum resistances, with armor providing a maximum damage reduction of 60%.

While the reduced resistances make you more vulnerable, enemies will practically never get close, as your survivability and damage output are significantly increased, allowing you to eliminate enemies before the resistance debuff takes effect.

Unstable Power

This perk unleashes chaotic magic on your basic abilities, guaranteeing a Critically Strike and Overpower effect, while increasing damage output by 50-100%. However, there is a 3-second cooldown on this power.

Combined with Rod of Kepeleke, your core abilities are treated as basic abilities, thus guaranteeing all your spells will crit.

Back Off

When you cast any skill, this perk reduces damage taken by nearby enemies by 30% while increasing your damage to all other enemies by 100-200%, making it suitable for ranged combat.

Based on this, as long as you maintain a mid-to-long range from enemy groups and ensure accurate positioning, you can deal double damage to all enemies.

Practical Effect Of This Build

Pit of the Artificers is a timed endgame event that requires you to kill a sufficient number of enemies within 15 minutes to summon a boss. Only after killing the boss is a level completed, so speed and damage output are crucial.

While Rake Spiritborn Build is somewhat lacking in dealing with single-target bosses, our recommended crafting strategy is sufficient until level 140. After that, if you want to use this build to delve deeper into The Pit, you will need to upgrade your gear and affixes.

And it's not just effective at The Pit, Rake Spiritborn Build also performs well in clearing Infernal Hordes, which also have timed and progress bar mechanics, or in the high-monster-density Season 10 Chaos Rifts.

In short, whether you want to delve deeper into The Pit or farm more loot through Infernal Hordes after Compass to Carnage event begins, Rake Spiritborn Build will be very useful!

Diablo 4 typically releases more boost events at the end of each season to help you complete your seasonal journey or other tasks before the season ends, preventing you from missing out on rewards.

Therefore, with Season 10 ending in about a month, Diablo 4 launched Mother's Blessing and Seasonal Splendor events on October 28th, helping you earn more gold and Infernal Warp within about a week.

The development team originally planned to launch Compass to Carnage immediately after these two events on November 4th, but for unknown reasons, both this event and Patch 2.4.3 have been delayed.

While this change will disrupt your game schedule, it means you have more time to prepare for Compass to Carnage. Below, we'll introduce the new release date and participation method for this event.

Postponed Release Date

Compass to Carnage was originally scheduled for November 4th, as the first two boost events ended on November 3rd. It has been postponed to November 25th and will run until December 2nd - just one week before Season 11 begins.

The reason for the postponement is irrelevant to you, as it doesn't change the fact that the date has been delayed. The only thing to note is that this means the event's nature as a mid-Season 10 boost event has changed to a catch-up event at the end of the season.

While this may result in more farming pressure in Compass to Carnage, you also gain more time to familiarize yourself with the event mechanics and gameplay. Incidentally, the release of patch 2.4.3 has been delayed to November 12th.

What Is Compass To Carnage?

During this event, you can earn more Infernal Compasses by completing related Diablo 4 endgame events, allowing you to unlock and participate in Infernal Hordes more frequently. In addition, you will receive the following two buffs:

• Clearing and sealing Chaos Rifts will grant you more Burning Aether.
• Chaos Waves appearing in Infernal Hordes will bring more enemies.

More Infernal Compass means you can complete more Infernal Hordes challenges, earning rewards by defeating the final boss Bartuc or Fell Council, as well as Viz-Jaq'taar Veneration Reputation points.

More Burning Aether means you can unlock Bartuc boss fight earlier and redeem more rewards after completing Infernal Hordes challenges.

How To Participate In Compass To Carnage?

In fact, the event itself only provides various buffs. To fully utilize these buffs, you still need to complete Infernal Hordes.

First, you need to farm Infernal Compasses by participating in Helltides and Nightmare dungeons. If you can obtain Greater chests in Helltides, or enter Nightmare dungeons using Chaos Rifts-related affixes, you will obtain more compasses, and the drop rate will be more consistent.

It's worth noting that you can also earn Whisper caches by completing bounty missions posted by Tree of Whispers. Greater Collection of Dungeon Keys will reward you with more Infernal Compasses and Nightmare Sigils.

Infernal Hordes are wave-based endgame events, each wave lasting one minute. Infernal Compasses have three rarities; the higher the rarity, the more Chaos Waves are triggered:

• Magic: 6 waves
• Rare: 8 waves
• Legendary: 10 waves

After completing each wave, the game allows you to choose an Infernal Offer, which adds a positive and a negative effect to all subsequent waves. This means the deeper you go into the waves, the higher the difficulty becomes.

During wave clearing, you'll obtain Burning Aether. Collecting 666 unlocks Bartuc boss fight. Defeating this boss rewards you with Spoils of Greater Materials and Season 10 exclusive Chaos Armor.

It's worth noting that Season 10 introduces a new Offer, Chaos Waves, which primarily increases the drop rate of Burning Aether. Generally, one Legendary Infernal Compass can trigger two Chaos Waves.

What Are Aether Events?

When you kill enemies in the current wave, Aether events are randomly triggered. The faster you kill, the more events are triggered. Currently available Aether events include Soulspires, Masses, and blisters that spawn powerful enemies.

Soulspires are the most challenging because they require you to kill enemies within Soulspire circle, but the monsters spawn relatively far apart. Therefore, you need to find ways to gather and pull enemies closer, such as by unlocking Offering The Hungry Spires.

Hellborne deserves additional attention. While not an Aether event, it can be summoned through Infernal Offerings or occasionally appear briefly in Chaotic waves. Defeating it yields a large amount of Burning Aether.

How To Maximize The Value Of Completing S10 Infernal Hordes?

Based on understanding the above mechanics, if you want to fully utilize the benefits of Compass to Carnage and farm Infernal Hordes faster for more rewards, consider the following suggestions:

• Increase your speed by equipping relevant gear to reach Aether event location more quickly.
• Balance your AoE and single-target damage output.
• It's best to challenge it in a group with other players.
• Utilize relevant Infernal Offers or other effects to force enemies to approach you in groups.

When choosing specific Infernal Offers, the following are recommended to unlock first:

• The Exalted Hordes: Increases normal monster damage and accelerates Aether events' spawn rate.
• The Aether Goblins: Increases monster health, and the event also spawns killable Aether Goblins - they drop more Burning Aether.
• The Stalking Devil: Summons Burning Butcher; defeating it grants 100+ Burning Aether.
• The Burning Rain: Generates an additional 9-15 Burning Aether after the current wave ends.
• The Wrath of Hellfire: Generates an additional 15-24 Burning Aether after the current wave ends.

While Chaos Armor is only available in Season 10, the other rewards you gain from Infernal Hordes offer longer-lasting benefits, so you should take advantage of Compass to Carnage boost!

That's all for this time. Please remember the delayed date and don't miss Compass to Carnage! We wish you all the best during the event!