Touch of Death - Deathborn

This Centipede Endgame Build focuses on optimising the Touch of Death Damage whilst staying tanky enough to beat all end game content.

Check the How It Works Section and FAQ below to learn how the Touch of Death Spiritborn blasts all Endgame Content.

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Levelling Guide: Withering Fist - Poisonborn / Others: Tier List + Endgame Guides

The main focus here is to apply attacks as Fast as Possible so that the Insatiable Aspect will activate causing Touch of Death to Spawn Swarms on Killing an Affected Enemy or Expiration.

The Rod of Kepeleke allows us to Critical Strike on demand as long as we have full resource whilst allowing us to hit much harder and synergises nicely with the Aspect of Adaptability for Double Dipping Damage Multipliers.

The following steps are the recommended Build Rotation for skill usage:

• Cast Ravager to gain Lock On Movement and 30% Resource Generation.
• Cast Armored Hide for 100% Block Chance.
• Cast Counterattack for 100% Dodge Chance.
• Cast Scourge for up to 50% Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies.
• Cast The Protector for Barrier Generation, Unstoppable and Immense Damage Output.
• Cast Touch of Death liberally around the other skills.

Repeat each step as necessary

Build Overview

This Touch of Death Spiritborn focuses on optimising the damage from the Rod of Kepeleke in combination with the Insatiable Aspect whilst staying tanky enough to beat all End Game Content. It does this through the following:

• The Rod of Kepeleke allows Touch of Death to be a Basic and Core skill.
• Touch of Death Spawns Swarms on Killing an Enemy or Expiring via the Insatiable Aspect.
• Utilising the Three Spirit Halls, Jaguar, Centipede and Gorilla via the Harmony of Ebewaka.
• Counterattack for 100% Dodge Chance in combat.
• 100% Block Chance using Armored Hide.
• Scourge for Crowd Control and up to 50% Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies.
• The Protector for incredible Utility including the Pull In from the Hesha e Kesungi.
• Maxing Attack Speed through Aspects, Equipment, Paragon and Ferocity.
• Barrier for extreme tankiness.

Check out the In-Depth Explanations below for further details on the build.

Extra Details

This build went to ~Pit 105+ in the Season 12 PTR with Decent Equipment, Max Glyphs and Decent Blooded Affixes but had some room for improvement so should go a little higher.

With the correct gear this build should easily beat all the Hardest Content In The Game without issue.

Masterworking

Check out the Masterworking Guide for full information on how Masterworking functions.

Boss Drops

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FAQ

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How much Resource Generation Do I need?

With the introduction of Season 11 and the reduction of Resource Generation Sources across the board it has now become very difficult to enable you to activate the Rod of Kepeleke on Every Single Hit which is where our Big Damage comes from.

The Easiest way to achieve this is to use the Ring of the Midnight Sun which escaped the Resource Source Nerfs and can still Restore 50% Resource Spent in the Last 2 Seconds on a Critical Strike. The pairs excellently with the Rod of Kepeleke because this will spend 100% when at Maximum Resource to guarantee a Critical Strike.

This means that we need to achieve 100% Resource Generation on the build along with a Maximum Rolled Ring of the Midnight Sun at 50% to enable a 100% Activation Rate when attacking with the Rod of Kepeleke.

You can obtain the Resource Generation required from various sources including:

• • Intelligence
  • Resource Generation Tempers
  • Vigorous
  • Measured Ravager
  • Shroud of False Death
  • Melted Heart of Selig

How Much Attack Speed Do I Need?

Aim for 100% Attack Speed on Equipment, Aspects, Paragon, Mercenaries and Elixirs.

You can only attain Attack Speed in Attack Speed Bucket 2 via Ferocity and Adaptive Stances if using a Jaguar Skill so we prioritise Ferocity since we are using a Gorilla Skill.

We achieve this by stacking Ferocity through the use of the Jaguar Secondary Spirit Hall.

Why do I remove all Resource Cost Reduction Modifiers In The Pushing Variant?

Season 12 only

With Season 12 introducing Blooded Affixes we have access to a Resource Cost Reduction per Kill Streak Tier modifier which can be obtained on all 5 Armour Slots.

It's important to know that on the PTR these all Added Together to count as 1 Singular Source of Resource Cost Reduction. This means that you get No Diminishing Returns if you have Only these equipped and have a Kill Streak active.

There comes a point where having Resource Cost Reduction anywhere on your Equipment causes you have have Less Resource Cost Reduction because of the way that multiple sources lead to Diminishing Returns.

Optimal Game Play would see someone use an Elixir of Resourcefulness before having a Kill Streak active and then swapping to either an Elixir of Advantage or Elixir of Fortitude whilst fighting with an active Kill Streak to avoid the diminishing returns as the Resource Cost Reduction can go hugely above 100% this way and it scales our Rod of Kepeleke Damage.

9th March 2026 / v2.0

• Updated for Season 12.

5th March 2026 / v2.0.beta

• Updated in preparation for Season 12.
• This can still be used for Season 11 by using Ignoring the S12 Variants.

12th January 2026 / v1.1

• Updated Sanctification Variant to Pushing Variant.
• Updated for Patch 2.5.2.

6th December 2025 / v1.0

• Updated for Season 11.
• Added Cooldown Reduction to Legendary Ring in All Variants.
• Added Sanctifications.
• Added Extra FAQ Info.
• Updated Variants for Smoother Progression.
• Changed The Hunter for The Protector after some thought for Easier Build Progression.
• Swapped Gorilla Spirit Hall for Jaguar Spirit Hall.
• Switched Spirit Halls around so Eagle is Primary and Jaguar is Secondary.

26th November 2025 / v0.9a

• First draft edition update for Season 11.