This is a Spiritborn Centipede leveling build and guide for Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred (D4). Read on to learn more about the Spiritborn Centipede leveling build as well as tips for leveling the Spiritborn class in the Vessel of Hatred expansion and Season of Hatred Rising!

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Spiritborn Centipede Leveling Build

Centipede Build Summary

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Summary			Skill Progression			Aspects and Affixes
Gems and Runewords			Mercenary			Playstyle

Build Summary
Centipede Leveling Build
	Focus: Leveling, Farming
High DPS and Crowd Control Excellent Mobility High Cooldowns

This build makes use of Stinger and Touch of Death to spread and apply poison to your enemies, while having the Eagle as your primary and secondary Spirit Hall specialization to proc Ferocity and deal more damage.

The combination of Scourge and Armored Skin makes this build a bit tanky, which gives you enough survivability to overwhelm your enemies with poison. We recommend this build for those who are still leveling to reach the endgame and help you get started on Torment difficulties.

Centipede Build Skills and Passives

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Summary			Skill Progression			Aspects and Affixes
Gems and Runewords			Mercenary			Playstyle

Active Skills
Basic Skill Tree ┗ Withering Fist (1/5) 　┗ Enhanced Withering Fist 　　┗ Accelerated Withering Fist
Core Skill Tree ┗ Stinger (5/5) 　┗ Enhanced Stinger 　　┗ Rampant Stinger ┗ Vigorous (1/3) 　┗ Balanced Exertion (3/3)
Focus Skill Tree ┗ Focal Point Focal Point (1/3) 　┗ Apex (3/3) 　┗ Diminishment (3/3)
Defensive Skill Tree ┗ Armored Hide (1/5) 　┗ Enhanced Armored Hide ┗ Scourge (1/5) 　┗ Enhanced Scourge 　　┗ Reinforced Scourge ┗ Antivenom (2/3) 　┗ Nourishment (3/3)
Potency Skill Tree ┗ Touch of Death (5/5) 　┗ Enhanced Touch of Death 　　┗ Invasive Touch of Death ┗ Vehemence (3/3) ┗ Ravenous (3/3) 　┗ Oppressive (3/3) ┗ Brilliance (3/3) 　┗ Acceleration (3/3)
Ultimate Skill Tree ┗ The Devourer (5/5) 　┗ Harmonious Devourer 　　┗ Exalted Devourer ┗ Resolution (1/3) 　┗ Spiritual Attunement (1/3) 　　┗ Supremacy (3/3) 　┗ Sustenance (1/3) 　　┗ Initiative (3/3) 　　┗ Intricacy (3/3)
Key Passives Skill Tree ┗ Noxious Resonance (1/1)

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Centipede Build Skill Progression

At the early levels, focus on unlocking and upgrading all your skills, especially Stinger and Touch of Death as these will provide most of your damage. If you do not have Touch of Death yet, we recommend prioritizing Stinger until you have access to Touch of Death.

Once you reach the Ultimate and Key Passive skill trees, prioritize getting The Devourer and Noxious Resonance as this will be your highest damaging poison skill and allows your Poisoning effects to scale with Critical Strike Damage.

For your Passives, you will want to prioritize Balanced Extortion, Apex, Ravenous, Oppresive, Brilliance, and Acceleration to help increase the damage you deal in tandem with your Centipede skills and Eagle skills from the Spirit Hall specialization.

Centipede Build Specialization

Primary Spirit	Secondary Spirit
Eagle (Level 15) Casting an Eagle Skill grants 4 seconds of the Storm Feathers Movement Speed bonus. When you Evade, fling up to 8 Storm Feathers for everyone remaining second, each dealing 125% Lightning damage and making targets Vulnerable for 5 seconds. All Skills are now also Eagle Skills.	Jaguar (Level 30) Maximum Ferocity is increased by 1. Gain 1 stack of Ferocity whenever you kill an enemy or damage a Boss.

Eagle is the best specialization for the Primary slot and Jaguar for the Secondary slot in this Centipede build since it gives you access to Vulnerable and Ferocity, which increase attack speed and damage, respectively.

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Centipede Build Best Aspects and Affixes

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Summary			Skill Progression			Aspects and Affixes
Gems and Runewords			Mercenary			Playstyle

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Gear	Aspect and Affixes
Head	Aspect of Binding Morass Stats: ・Cooldown Reduction ・Ranks to Touch of Death ・Armor Temper: ・Defensive - Worldly Endurance 　┗ Total Armor ・Utility - Centipede Innovation 　┗ Stinger Size
Chest	Raider's Aspect Stats: ・Armor ・Maximum Life Temper: ・Defensive - Spiritborn Resolve 　┗ Armored Hide Resolve Generation Rate ・Utility - Centipede Innovation 　┗ Touch of Death Swarm Duration
Gloves	Insatiable Aspect Stats: ・Attack Speed ・Critical Strike Chance ・Ranks to Stinger Temper: ・Utility - Centipede Innovation 　┗ Touch of Death Swarm Duration ・Offensive - Centipede Finesse 　┗ Pestilent Swarm Damage
Pants	Aspect of Soil Power Stats: ・Armor ・Maximum Life Temper: ・Utility - Centipede Innovation 　┗ Touch of Death Swarm Duration ・Defensive - Worldly Endurance 　┗ Maximum Life
Boots	Aspect of Momentum Stats: ・Attacks Reduce Evade's Cooldown by 1.5 Seconds ・Movement Speed ・Maximum Life Temper: ・Mobility - Natural Motion 　┗ Movement Speed ・Utility - Centipede Innovation 　┗ Stinger Size
Amulet	Reaper's Aspect Stats: ・Ranks to Oppressive ・Attack Speed ・Cooldown Reduction Temper: ・Resource - Centipede Efficiency 　┗ The Devourer Cooldown Reduction ・Offensive - Jaguar Finesse 　┗ Mystic Circle Potency
Ring	Aspect of Creeping Death Stats: ・Attack Speed ・Critical Strike Chance ・Damage Over Time Temper: ・Resource - Centipede Efficiency 　┗ The Devourer Cooldown Reduction ・Offensive - Centipede Finesse 　┗ Centipede Damage
Ring	Aspect of Infestation Stats: ・Attack Speed ・Critical Strike Chance ・Damage Over Time Temper: ・Resource - Centipede Efficiency 　┗ The Devourer Cooldown Reduction ・Offensive - Centipede Finesse 　┗ Centipede Damage
Weapon (Polearm)	Aspect of Pestilence Stats: ・Critical Strike Damage ・Damage Over Time ・Vulnerable Damage Temper: ・Weapons - Centipede Augments 　┗ Chance for Stinger to Extra Hit ・Offensive - Centipede Finesse 　┗ Centipede Damage

Centipede Build Best Gems and Runewords

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Centipede Build Best Gems

Armor	Weapons	Jewelry
Emerald	Amethyst	Diamond

For gems, it's best to slot in Emerald on armor slots to get more Dexterity, Amethyst on weapon slots to get increase Damage Over Time, and Diamond on jewelry slots to get more Elemental Resistance.

Diamonds can be replaced with other gems depending on which resistances you need to get 70% or close across the board.

Centipede Build Best Runewords

Runeword 1	Runeword 2
Poc Que	Zan Tal

The best runewords for the Centipede build are Poc + Que to consistantly grant yourself a barrier for more survivability, and Cem + Tal to continue spawning Pestilent Swarms every time you evade to stack them with Touch of Death.

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Centipede Build Best Mercenaries

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Gems and Runewords			Mercenary			Playstyle

Mercenary	Reinforcement
Subo	Varyana

The best mercenaries for the Centipede Build are Subo, who can give x30% Damage Over Time bonus with Scorched Earth, and Varyana, who can apply Bleed with Cleave and Whirlwind to stack over your Poison and Burn damage.

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Centipede Build Playstyle and Tips

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The Centipede Build playstyle focuses on inflicting poison while having high mobility to get around and survive while enemies fall to your damage over time. The rotation is as follows:

1. Use Withering Fist to dive in and open with Touch of Death to immediately apply poison that spreads on kill.
2. Evade to activate the Aspect of Momentum and trigger Eagle Spirit's Spirit Hall effect, which will apply Vulnerable to enemies.
3. Activate Scourge to fear enemies and increase your damage. Then use Withering Fist to dash around and continuously inflict poison to your surrounding enemies.
4. Cast Touch of Death again before using The Devourer so you can take advantage of the Intricacy passive to let you recast it up to 3 times.

Spiritborn Leveling Tips for Season 6

Season 6 Leveling Tips
Start on Hard Difficulty Choose the Right Spirit Hall Guardian Play Through the Vessel of Hatred Content

Start on Hard Difficulty

Difficulties have been revamped for Season 6 and Hard is one that you can access from the start for more EXP and Gold. If you're following our recommended leveling build and have a good understanding of optimizing early game leveling, we recommend playing on this difficulty. Otherwise, you can choose the Normal difficulty to clear things faster.

Difficulty Tiers and How to Unlock

Choose the Right Spirit Hall Guardian

The Spiritborn's Spirit Hall, which unlocks at level 15 after doing the specialization quest, allows the class to assign all their skills with a Spirit Tag to a specific Spirit Guardian. We recommend equipping Eagle immediately since this gives you access to Vulnerability and Storm Feathers.

At level 30, you will also unlock the Secondary Spirit Hall Slot which allows you equip a second Spirit Guardian that gives spirit-specific passives that can enhance your gameplay. It's best to choose Jaguar to get access to Ferocity, which increases attack speed.

Spirit Hall Specialization Guide

Play Through the Vessel of Hatred Content

If you have the Vessel of Hatred expansion, you can also farm gear and power levels in the Kurast Undercity once you get the build going and get faster clearing monster packs.

Vessel of Hatred Guide

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