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Rock Splitter Spiritborn Leveling Build Guide

Season 13

Spiritborn

Leveling

Melee

Beginner Friendly

By Raxxanterax

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Updated on May 5, 2026

May 5, 2026

Build Overview

The Gorilla Spiritborn Leveling Build makes one with the monkey, as you fly around smashing enemies with Rock Splitter proccing your Thorns damage on hit. You have incredible mobility, toughness and damage with this build and will cruise to level 70 with no issues. No Legendary Aspects are required to make this function well, making it a great starter build.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Giant Monkey
Great Damage
Practically Immortal

Slow Start

Assigned Skills

Primary

Secondary

Primary Spirit

Secondary Spirit

We take Gorilla for the Thorns Multiplier that syngergizes with Shattered Stone Rock Splitter.

The secondary Jaguar power helps us stack Ferocity for mega Attack Speed.

Equipment

HelmBulwark's Aspect

Chest armorAspect of the Fortress

GlovesAspect of Unyielding Hits

PantsAspect of Glynn's Anvil

BootsWildbolt Aspect

AmuletAspect of the Expectant

Ring 1Aspect of Lapa's Scripture

Ring 2Ferocious Aspect

WeaponEdgemaster's Aspect

Equipment Priority

The most important to upgrade along the way is your weapon by far. Constantly equip weapon upgrades and consider tossing a cheap Tempering on them to increase your damage.

It's unlikely to come across many of these Legendary Aspects while Leveling up. Luckily you don't need any of them to level with ease. Use whatever you have that helps in anyway and look out for the ones listed in the planner. Always put the strongest Aspect you find on your Amulet or Weapon for the boost to it's power.

Most of your items along the way aren't going to have 4 stats on them and It's usually more important to equip upgrades as opposed to chasing the suggested bonuses. To put it simply you want to be looking out for:

Offensive

Dexterity
Damage (or Vulnerable Damage)
Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage
Attack Speed

Defensive

Life
Life on Hit
Life on Kill
Thorns
Armor
Resistances
Movement Speed

Tempering

In general you can Temper decent items for cheap early on and can put Damage, Thorns or Toughness options. Keep in mind It's common to replace items often while leveling up, so it may be wise to hold off on Tempering all together until you're around level 50+ to save time spent in town as well as materials.

Talismans

Talisman Priority

Skill Tree

Available

0 (0)

Spent69 (14)

Leveling Path

Mercenary

Subo is hard to beat since he gives you a Map Hack, Movement Speed and Vulnerability.

Aldkin is your Reinforcement because Fields of Languish gives you 20% Damage Reduction when standing in the purple cloud it creates. You have to level with him a bit to unlock this skill - until then use Haunt.

How it Plays

Spam Rock Splitter as your primary source of Damage. It's a generator so you can spam it infinite and have no concern for resources.

Use Soar to jump from pack to pack.

Cast Ravager to gain Ferocity and help generate more Resolve stacks.

Armored Hide gives you Resolve stacks, Barrier and more Thorns Damage. When you have it up Evade through packs of enemies to smash them with an AOE Thorns Blast.

Scourge is used to apply Weaken and Vulnerable, make sure to get this up on Elites and Bosses Especially. The Poison damage it provides isn't too shabby either.

Get The Protector down whenever you're fighting Elites or Bosses to smash them to pieces.

How it Works

You're stacking Resolve stacks, Thorns and Ferocity to become a rapidly punching, high toughness killing machine. There are several Aspects you can find to boost your Toughness and Damage tremendously so be on the look out for the ones in the planner above.