Diablo 4 Spiritborn Jaguar Guide

In this comprehensive Diablo 4 Spiritborn Jaguar guide, we delve into its playstyle, skills, potential builds, and more. The Spiritborn is the latest addition to the Diablo 4 class roster, hailing from the Nahantu Jungle and harnessing the mighty power of the guardians of the spirit realm.

The Spiritborn Class Overview

The Spiritborn introduces significant depth and diversity to Diablo 4's build options. Though the Spiritborn won't be available until the launch of the Vessel of Hatred expansion, there is already much to learn and anticipate about this powerhouse.

In this guide, we will break down the Jaguar Spirit, gameplay mechanics, skills, and everything in between.

What are Spirit Guardians

Spirit Guardians are akin to enhanced Spirit Boons from the Druid class. These Spirits grant powerful passive abilities and skills to your character. Some spirits increase attack speed for ramping damage, while others add damage-over-time effects like poison, allowing for various playstyles, including a pseudo-ranged variant of the Spiritborn.

Spirits also tag your skills, similar to how the Claw skill is tagged as a “Werewolf skill.” For the Jaguar Spirit, it adds the Jaguar tag to all of your skills. You can have two Spirits active simultaneously, opening up extensive possibilities for unique builds and gear combinations, making it a theorycrafter's delight.

The Spiritborn Jaguar Playstyle

The Jaguar Spirit embodies ferocity and aggression, tearing enemies apart with high DPS, ramping attack speed, and swift movements. If you crave relentless carnage and non-stop action, the Jaguar Spirit is your ideal Guardian.

Selecting the Jaguar Spirit grants the Guardian's passive, making every fourth Jaguar skill attack unleash a flurry of strikes, dealing massive damage. Many Jaguar skills build Ferocity, a stacking buff that grants 5% attack speed, stacking up to 20%. Building and maintaining this buff is crucial to your DPS and can be creatively used with skills from the other Guardian Spirit.

Spiritborn Jaguar Skills

    Thrash (Basic): Dive at an enemy and slash, dealing 10% damage. The third attack unleashes a rapid series of slashes around your target, dealing a total of 25% damage.

    Rake (Core): Conjure claws that rake through enemies in front of you, dealing 20% damage and exploding for an additional 40% damage.

    Ravager (Focus): (Passive) Increases minimum Ferocity by 2. (Active) Unleash a savage roar, causing all attacks to trigger additional strikes dealing 60% damage for 6 seconds.

    Rushing Claw (Potency): Slash through enemies, striking all enemies along the way twice for a total of 50% damage.

    Counter Attack (Defensive): (Passive) Gain 20% Dodge Chance and automatically retaliate against close enemies for 80% damage when you Dodge their attacks. (Active) Dodge all direct attacks for 2 seconds.

    The Hunter (Ultimate): Bound across the battlefield with the Jaguar Spirit, dealing 50% damage upon landing and rapidly slashing enemies in the area for 200% total damage over 7 strikes.

Animal Pairings and Spiritborn Jaguar Build Ideas

One of the most exciting aspects of the Spiritborn is the various combinations of Spirit Guardians available.

Jaguar + Centipede: This combination focuses on ramping damage with poison and sustaining through lifesteal and health on kill, fitting perfectly with an aggressive playstyle. The Centipede's secondary Spirit ability heals for 1% of maximum HP for each nearby poisoned enemy, making it highly effective in large groups of enemies. Combining this with Touch of Death, a vicious poison damage-over-time skill, creates a living bomb effect when the poison expires or the enemy dies, spreading the poison to nearby enemies.

Pairing this with Rake enhances AoE clear potential, resulting in impressive damage output against large groups.

Jaguar + Eagle: This combination is a no-compromise DPS setup, emphasizing attack speed from the Jaguar with high crit and incredible mobility from the Eagle. This setup can decimate enemies quickly, provided you can avoid being one-shot.

Jaguar + Gorilla: If a glass cannon approach isn't for you, consider this combination for stronger defenses, barriers, and crowd control. This setup provides a brawler-like playstyle, allowing you to jump into fights with reckless abandon and dish out as much damage as you receive.

Conclusion

This is just the beginning of exploring the Spiritborn class in Diablo 4. With its introduction, players will have new opportunities to gather Diablo 4 Gold and Diablo 4 Items to enhance their gameplay. The variety of powerful combinations and the addition of new content with the Vessel of Hatred DLC ensure that Diablo 4 will continue to captivate its players, offering endless possibilities for build customization and in-game achievements. Prepare to dive into the ferocious world of the Spiritborn Jaguar and unleash its full potential.