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Spiritborn Reveal Livestream Wrap-Up

Last Updated:July 18, 2024

The Diablo 4 Development Team just had a livestream to reveal the Spiritborn - the new class getting released with the Vessel of Hatred expansion! The Spiritborn reveal was delivered by Brent Gibson (Game Director), Eleni Rivera-Colon (Associate Narrative Designer), Nick Chilano (Art Director), Bjorn Mikkelson (FGame Designer), and Adam Fletcher (Community Director).

A Message from the Maxroll Members at the Reveal!

As a reminder, some of your favorite Maxroll streamers were invited by Blizzard to play and livestream the new Spiritborn class!

wudijo (Twitch)
MacroBioBoi (Twitch)
Raxxanterax (Twitch)

Spiritborn Reveal

The livestream starts with an amazing Spiritborn lore presentation and quick gameplay teaser:

Spiritborn Class Trailer

Spiritborn Concept & Art

Spiritborn Reveal Concept
Spiritborn Reveal Art
Spiritborn Reveal Portrait
  • The idea behind the Spiritborn class is being a kind of Shaman, calling Spirit Guardians to help them in combat.
  • As children, Spiritborn are chosen and train their whole lives to serve these Spirit Guardians and strengthen the bond between the Spirit Realm and Sanctuary. These Spirit Guardians originated through the power of human belief.
  • A challenge was to translate the Spirit Realm into a visual gameplay aspect. Spirit Guardians visuals focus on making them look like they're breaking through the veil.

Spiritborn Gameplay

  • Spiritborn is a Dexterity-focused class specialized in martial arts.
  • Vigor is their resource and it does not passively regenerate.
  • The Spiritborn uses 2-Handed Weapons only. Two new Weapon types are coming in with the expansion:
    • Glaives - Gives inherit bonuse damage to Elites.
    • Quarterstaff - Gives inherit bonus to Block Chance.
  • Spiritborn is a very dynamic class, with a lot of movement and speed based skills.
  • Spirit Guardians empower the Spiritborn and help in battle through both Ultimate skills and empowering the rest of a Spiritborn's skills.
    • The Jaguar is a manifestation of the Hunter, attacking repeatedly and quickly, with ramping and kill streak mechanics like the Ferocity mechanic.
    • The Gorilla brings a very defensive Protector playstyle, using Block and a new mechanic: Resolve, a stacking defensive buff.
    • The Eagle (Seeker) represents precision, bringing a lot of movement and speed capabilities, with a pseudo-ranged playstyle.
    • The Centipede represents the concept of Life and Death and Persistence. It uses damage over time, crowd control and leech mechanics to deal with its enemies.
  • As its class mechanic, you choose two Spirit Hauls tied to specific Guardians, providing boons based on their play style.
  • You can choose to go all-in into a single Spirit Guardian but Blizzard wants you to experiment. Try mixing and matching, or go all in on a single Guardian and choose what works for you!
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Spiritborn Skills

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Skill Tree for the Spiritborn

The skills of the Spiritborn follow in a similar vein as outlined above, following the footsteps of one of the four spirits.

Jaguar (Rezoka)

Gorilla (Wumba)

Eagle (Kwatli)

Centipede (Balazan)

Key Passives

Unique Class Mechanic - Spirit Hall

Spirit Hall Menu

Like the other classes in Diablo 4, when you reach level 15, you will be given a Priority Quest to head out into the world. Once you complete it, you gain access to your Spirit Hall. This is where you can gain buffs from one of the four Guardian Spirits. At level 30 you can choose another. You can pick two of the same to really focus on one over the others, or combine the synergies of two different Spirits for a more well rounded gameplay.

Jaguar
Eagle
Gorilla
Centipede

Spiritborn Itemization

The Spiritborn itemization is being designed around three core tenants of Hybrid, Power, and Subpower Augmentations.

Spiritborn Reveal Hybrid
  • Hybrid Augmentations - Hybrid Augmentations are aspects that enhance different parts of the Spirit Guardians' powers with the goal of making it easier to mix and match and use two Spirit Guardians together in a coordinated effort.
Spiritborn Reveal Power
  • Power Augmentations - Power Augmentations are aspects that are tied to specific skills (e.g., Rake) and enhance the power and abilities of that specific skill.
Spiritborn Reveal Subpowers
  • Subpowers Example - Subpowers are utility skills that help enhance and bring further utility to the existing skills. Essentially, things that add new 'subpowers' (e.g., Stinger now generating a pestilent swarm) to existing skills.

Here are some early Unique items shown off as well.

Spiritborn Reveal Uniques

The Spiritborn is Almost Here!

The Maxroll Diablo 4 Team hopes you enjoyed our Spiritborn Reveal post and can't wait to test out all the new things coming our way with the Vessel of Hatred expansion! Also don't forget that Season 5 is on its way and we're getting ready for it, too!

With that said, head over to our Discord and select the D4 role in #roles to stay up to date with our content development to make the most of your Season 5 experience! Also don't forget to check out our Youtube channel!

Written by: Chewingnom

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Dredscythe & Ehtoka

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