Diablo 4 Carry Run

Diablo 4 Season 10 officially launches on September 23rd, marking a truly frenetic month. With updates for Diablo 4, Path of Exile 2, and even Last Epoch all stacked together, choosing which one to add is undoubtedly a daunting task for players.

However, Diablo 4 Season 10 will be the last one to update, which will arrive at the end of September, giving players ample time to prepare for Season 10. At the start of each season, your character won't have any Diablo 4 gold or gear, so you'll need a farming build to help you cultivate resources. The PTR have had a particularly powerful farming build: Evade Spiritborn. Its fast movement speed, high damage, and excellent survivability make it a truly impressive build worth trying.

Pros And Cons

Evade Eagle Spiritborn build's damage is incredibly high, allowing you to melt even Torment 4 bosses in seconds. Additionally, since you're constantly dodging, you can avoid most attacks, making this build highly survivable. This build relies heavily on skills, so it can still function smoothly even without Mythic items, though the damage might be lower.

While this build is relatively simple to play, you do need to be mindful of your skill sequencing, especially ensuring you don't interrupt Armored Hide, which is crucial for survival. Another point that isn't necessarily a drawback is that there aren't any Chaos Perks specifically suited to this build, but feel free to adjust if you find a better option.

Evade Eagle Spiritborn Gears

• Helm: Harlequin Crest (Amethyst and Amethyst)
• Chest Armor: Shroud of False Death (Bac and Ohm)
• Gloves (Chaos Armor): Loyalty's Mantle
• Pants (Chaos Armor): Wushe Nak Pa (Amethyst and Amethyst)
• Boots (Chaos Armor): Fists of Fate
• Amulet: Conceited Aspect (Skull)
• Ring 1: Vehement Brawler's Aspect (Skull)
• Ring 2: Aspect of Unyielding Hits (Skull)
• Weapon: Aspect of Redirected Force (Cem and Que)

The recommended gear includes two Mythic items, and they can increase your damage or provide cooldowns. They're certainly powerful, but even if you don't have these Diablo 4 items, this build will still work well. But if you get them, the build will be more effective in Torment 4 and The Pit.

This set includes three pieces of Chaos Armor, which significantly boosts your damage. However, Chaos Rifts have a very random drop rate, so you might not get exactly what you're looking for in time. If you have enough Diablo 4 gold, you can trade with other players, which is a more efficient way to get them.

Evade Eagle Spiritborn Skills

• Scourge: Enhanced Scourge
• Armored Hide (Rank 1): Enhanced Armored Hide and Reinforced Armored Hide
• Ravager (Rank 1): Enhanced Ravager and Replenishing Ravager
• Thunderspike (Rank 5): Enhanced Thunderspike and Accelerated Thunderspike
• Counterattack (Rank 1): Enhanced Counterattack and Reinforced Counterattack
• The Seeker (Rank 5): Harmonious Seeker and Exalted Seeker
• Primary Spirit and Secondary Spirit: Eagle

Evade Spiritborn's skills are the core of the entire build, with Thunderspike being the most important. Its third attack resets Evade's cooldown, while Accelerated Thunderspike allows you to cast Thunderspike upon dodging automatically.

Another key skill is Alacrity, a Chaos Perk. It allows you to trigger Thunderspike's effect with just two attacks, allowing you to reset Evade's CD. So, you can rely on these combinations to dodge constantly.

Spiritborn's Spirit Hall pick is Eagle, which received a rework in Season 10. Its feathers deal significant damage, improving your monster farming efficiency. Armored Hide, on the other hand, provides survivability for Spiritborn. The other skills are mostly unnecessary unless your character's damage is low.

So, the skill sequence is: Evade, trigger Thunderspike twice, reset Evade's cooldown, then Evade again, achieving nearly unlimited dodge streak. Whether in Helltide or Chaos Rift, you can use this method to spam monsters for rapid farming.

Evade Eagle Spiritborn Chaos Perks

• A Beast Cornered (Unique): For every 10% health lost, your damage increases by , and damage received decreases by 5%. It also uses health to replace resources you spend, but will no longer consume health when your health drops below 10%.
• Alacrity (Spiritborn Magic): Your basic skills gain +10-30% attack speed, your dash range is increased by 50%, and you now attack 3 times every 2 attacks.
• Accelerating Chaos (Magic): Lucky Shot: When you damage an enemy, you have up to a 10% chance to trigger a Chaos Burst, dealing 200-400% damage. Chaos Bursts that hit an enemy have their cooldown reduced by a random amount of 0.5 seconds.
• Marred Guard (Legendary): You can no longer heal when your health exceeds half. You gain maximum all elemental resistances, increased armor, and a shield boost.

Alacrity is the most crucial Chaos Perk, while A Beast Cornered and Accelerating Chaos increase your damage. Marred Guard isn't a particularly good choice, so you might want to explore other Chaos Perks.

That's the gist of Evade Eagle Spiritborn Build. This is both a farming build and an endgame build (assuming your gear is good enough). This build is useful early in the game, and as you upgrade your gear, you'll be able to not only complete dungeons in under a minute but also annihilate bosses like Belial in seconds.

Although the week-long 2.4.0 PTR is almost over, I believe you've fully experienced the charm of Diablo 4 Season 10 and its potential improvements.

More importantly, if you fully explore the new seasonal mechanics, such as Chaos Perks or Armor, you should be able to discover even more powerful builds! These can be brand new or classic builds enhanced by the new mechanics.

With this in mind, this time we'll introduce three builds from different classes, all benefiting from special Chaos Armor. Assuming the relevant armor isn't nerfed, you should be able to continue utilizing these builds in Season 10.

Boulder Druid Build

One of the most notable features of this build is its excellent survivability thanks to stacking Fortify, while Hurricane of Boulders and continuous poison damage ensure you can utilize it for consistent damage output.

Therefore, despite Druid's lack of strength due to changes in its mechanics over several seasons, Boulder Druid build remains one of the class's most reliable.

In Season 10, to maximize the power of this build, in addition to maintaining Focus and Fortify, it's also crucial to pair it with well-compatible Chaos Armor. Recommended armor for Boulder Druids is the following:

• General - Banished Lord's Talisman: After you consume 275 Primary Resources, your next Core Skill gains an Overpowered effect, increasing your critical hit damage by 72%.
• Druid Exclusive - Vasily's Prayer: Your Earth skill can now be utilized as a Werebear skill, granting you a 6.0% maximum Health boost.

Additionally, while regular gear may not be as effective as Chaos Armor individually, if you want to maximize Chaos Armor's effectiveness, it's best to add the following gear to your build:

• Dolmen Stone: When you cast a Boulder during Dolmen Stone, it will rotate around you. Each time a Boulder rotates, its damage increases by 20-40%. You can have up to 10 Boulders active at once.

Note that in the official Season 10, all of this Chaos Armor and regular gear must be got from farming bosses. While this may take a long time, you will also gain XP and Diablo 4 gold.

Blood Wave Necromancer Build

Blood Wave is also one of the most reliable Necromancer builds. Its strengths include its ability to handle both AoE and single-target attacks, and also has high damage output & strong survivability. However, its weaknesses are its lack of mobility and slightly slow speed.

Based on PTR testing, the recommended Chaos Armor for this build still includes Banished Lord's Talisman. Other essential armor items include:

• General - Crown of Lucion: Each time you use a skill that requires resources, your damage output increases by 18% and resource consumption increases by 30%. This effect lasts for 4 seconds and stacks up to 5 times.
• Necromancer Exclusive - Bloodless Scream: Your Dark abilities freeze enemies for up to 100% and deal 240% additional damage to them. In addition, every 800 times you deal damage to an enemy with a Dark ability, all nearby enemies are feared for 0.25 seconds and then frozen for an additional 3 seconds.

Charged Bolts Sorcerer Build

This build excels at quickly clearing groups of enemies with explosive AoE damage, combining various defensive abilities with crowd control to increase your survivability. However, you'll primarily be expected to utilize it at melee range.

Generally speaking, this build works by continuously casting Charged Bolts, using the lightning damage cooldown to make all abilities almost automatically rechargeable, ultimately unlocking the ultimate skill.

In Season 10, the addition of the following Chaos Armor gives this build further opportunities for improvement:

• Sorcerer Exclusive - Staff of Lam Esen: Charged Bolts actively seek out enemies and last longer. Furthermore, their damage is increased by 48.0% for each second they're active.
• Sorcerer Exclusive - Galvanic Azurite: Your Lightning Damage output magnetizes enemies for 4 seconds, then releases Crackling Energy, increasing all Lightning damage you deal by 72.0%. If two magnetized enemies collide with Crackling Energy, they are pulled together.
• Sorcerer Exclusive - Esadora's Overflowing Cameo: Each level of Shock Energy equipped with Crackling Energy grants 10% increased damage, and enemies struck have a 10% chance to refund one charge. Once your Crackling Energy reaches maximum, you can quickly unleash all of it to attack the nearest enemy, dealing 96% bonus damage.

Which Chaos Perks Are Worth Adding?

While Chaos Armor buffs mentioned above are important, it would be even better if you could add more Chaos Perks to these builds! Like armor, these special perks are divided into general and class-specific perks.

Using the three builds we have introduced here as an example, we recommend adding the following perks to each:

• Boulder Druid Build: Overabundance, Wild Transformations
• Blood Wave Necromancer Build: Grim Reapers, Decimating Desecration
• Charged Bolts Sorcerer Build: Explosive Combinations, Advanced Techniques

In fact, other classes should also have some builds that can be enhanced with the new season mechanics. You can continue to explore them after Season 10 officially launches to gain more combat options. Thank you for reading.