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Diablo 4 Build

Mekuna's Payback Thorns Rank 1

Spiritborn

Season 11

By Mekuna

Updated on Dec 31, 2025

Dec 31, 2025

Build Overview

This is currently one of the strongest Spiritborn builds in the game for Pit Pushing. It cleared Pit 128 and can do higher. It focuses on the Spiritborn's gorilla skill, Payback, to unleash massive AoE damage.
Poised Payback turns the skill into a Core Skill, while the Rod of Kepeleke makes it a Basic Skill, letting us spam it endlessly.

This is a Tower/Pit pushing build that requires full gear to function properly.
I recommend using the Evade build to progress through T1–T4 and endgame content to farm the gear needed for this build.

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Strengths and Weaknesses

Strongest Build
Good Mobility
Big AoE

Can be squishy
Gear dependant

Build Variants

For this build you wanna have as many santification as possible.
The Grandfather, Melted Heart of Selig, Ring of Starless Skies will greatly boost your damage!
If you wanna use this build for general content, remove Melted Heart of Selig sanctification and you should be fine!

Potion, Incenses: Elixir of Resourcefulness, Queen's Supreme, Scents of the Desert Afternoon and Soothing Spices

Assigned Skills

Primary

Secondary

Primary Spirit

Secondary Spirit

Skill Rotation

Use Payback to deal damage
Press The Protector to pull enemies
Keep all your other buff up thanks to Prodigy's Tempo

Aspect & Uniques

HelmHarmony of Ebewaka

Chest armorShroud of False Death

GlovesHesha e Kesungi

PantsTibault's Will

BootsDuelist's Aspect

AmuletAspect of Bristling Vengeance

Ring 1Aspect of Adaptability

Ring 2Ring of the Midnight Sun

WeaponRod of Kepeleke

Sanctification

Sanctification lets you imbue your item with the power of the High Heavens. When you Sanctify an item, it can:

Add a random Legendary power
Upgrade an Affix into a Greater Affix
Add a special Sanctification Affix
Replace one of your Affixes with a Sanctification Affix (only Legendary items)
Add bonus Quality (5-25)

Masterworking

Masterworking (MW) upgrades the quality of an item. Each MW rank increases the base stats and all affixes by 1%, up to 25% at rank 25. Fully Masterworking an item gives an extra 50% upgrade to a random affix, which can even be a Tempering Affix.

Use the Masterworking menu at the Blacksmith. You can reset the final Masterwork, so feel free to reroll it until you hit one of the recommended stats for the extra 50% bonus.

Skill Tree

Available

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Spent59 (12)

Leveling Path

Paragon Board

The priority is to unlock all the Legendary Nodes first, then unlock your Glyphs and their requirements. After that, spend the remaining points based on what you prefer. Nodes around the Glyph usually give more damage, while Max Life nodes are the best for toughness. Other Rare nodes can offer a bit of extra damage or toughness. The last points generally go into main stats.

Glyph leveling priority isn’t too strict:

Level all your Glyphs to 15 first, one by one.
Then take each Glyph to 46, one by one.
Once they’re all 46, level them evenly to 100, the order doesn’t matter too much.