Appreciate a video like this that focuses on info, a bit of speculation, and not just giving out solutions. It's perfectly fine to give out solutions, it's just rare to find content where that isn't the focus
Yeah, I like how you work on the class, showing potential. With this being a much more complex beastie, it will take a wide understanding to get the most out of it, all the help we can get is appreciated and that is what these are giving us. This looks very cool, and I hope this next season is longer, so we have more time to play with the many variations that the class can present.
But in any any ARPGS You don't need to understand anything just copy maxroll top tier SB day one and press all buttons when they cooldown and go BLASTING!.
I was so burned out after a couple weeks of last season. I'm glad I took a break because now I'm looking forward to playing again. I'm leaning towards poison, but I'll give the other two a try.
This video is like sitting in a classroom learning about Spiritborn. I love the way you break things down to help us understand everything about the class. No one teaches like Raxx! Thank you for helping us get the most out of the game!
I really enjoy this video and how you are giving us the ideas to figure it out ourselves. I get super bored really quick just following other peoples build guides, and even if it isn't the most optimized, I often end up tweaking and playing with builds just to see what I can come up with and have fun with. This is a great video here showing some of the ideas and leaving it open ended to encourage others to do the same thing. I mean, yeah it's fun to build the meta and be godly for a while, but at the end of the day I think it's more rewarding to figure out the combinations yourself and experience that wow moment first hand.
since you asked for feedback here's my 2 cents: it's not that I cant go into max roll build planner, look at the spirit born tree and read every skill and theory craft, it's the fact that I have to then read every node on the para board, I have to look at all the leg aspects, I have to look at all the unique aspects. This gets too time consuming, as you said there are layers to theory crafting and building thus for someone who works full time, had other commitments it's not possible to sit and put in a few hours just doing this. For people like this, me, this type of video is perfect. even a one hour video would be fin for me, if it saved me hours or researching on my own. You dint make a build in this video but you gave me the possibilities, so when I play the game I will keep an eye open, I will know how skills and these class mechanics can be tied together. Thanks! already I know which mythic will be meh for spirit born and which ones will be godly, or which ones I can outright skip. for example almost every class and build can use starless, I can see how with all the return of vigor I could bypass starless entirely. etc.
I am so glad you explained how the types of SB 'animal' plays into the skills, and how adding other animal spirits helps on the skill tree. Best part of vid
Love your video style. It helps greatly to hear about your thought process when creating or manipulating a character. Always well done. Thank you for your work.
Always love these videos! Its a mix of your giving ideas but also explaining enough to understand but not spoiling the ending. Its a like a really good show that leads you along the story with details and takes you on a journey, but leaves the ending open to interpretation. Amazing as always.
Absolutely love this kind of video. Exactly what I was looking for, to get some overview that will help me experiment vs just mindlessly following a step by step guide (that will come into play later when all my experiments fail terribly :D)
Thanks Raxx! Always great at breaking down the info for monkey brains like myself. I was going to roll rogue again for the 6th season in a row, but you've convinced me to try this first!
Well explained. I can see why people weren't excited at the surface, but when I started theory crafting (not an expert or anything) I discovered how special it was compared to what was in the game before. I'm not following a build guide for leveling, as I think I've come up with something clever on my own. It won't be meta or anything but it's the first time that building has been interesting and I want to try out my weird little thing before I need to be efficient and optimized for the hardest content. I would love to see the vanilla classes get the same treatment, maybe a revamp of one per season to "open it up" to this kind of depth.
Its very easy to understand and follow Raxx, that's why he is the king of the guides. Lookin forward to some easy 1 button, destroy everything build guides, for us casuals.
Cheers Raxx, the amount of builds we will be able to play around with and make is going to be crazy, it's got me thinking that's for sure, Also any vids u make a helpful and entertaining keep dishing them up.
I was avoiding most spiritborn info on purpose, but the moment i saw the gorilla centipide interaction in one of the very first revealed details, i knew im definitely going gorilla centipide poison thorns sustain
Honestly surprised you didn't mention it near the end with the bit on "Harmony of Ebewaka", but if you use Harmony and "Wushe Nak Pa" you can make a build that has very high uptime on nearly every skill having all 4 halls, or 120%x dmg from Harmony. From quick messing with it, a Centipede/Gorilla using all the Jaguar Skills except the Eagle Ult you can basically live with all 4 Spirit Halls non-stop, while generating Ferocity and Resolve constantly. Can mess around with the halls and skills used, but the ult almost has to be Eagle or Jaguar to have decent uptime. Also important to note, you want all of your primary damage abilities to be the same, and not matching your Ultimate or your Halls, otherwise you would be losing 30% of the bonus from Harmony on those casts.
The exploit glyph pairs perfectly with The Key passive Vital Strikes. Not only do you get permeant vulnerability you get a 2% heal on hit and guaranteed 5 vigor on every strike you make. Going on what you were saying with having your basic skills triggering Payback you will want to be using the Unique weapon Sepazontec which gives you a reason to use your basic skills.
Thanks for the video explaining things but at the same time allowing the players to explore decisions themselves leading to greater satisfaction from self driven decisions
Great video thank you for the effort. I always start a season as Sorc but with the announced changes, then learning more about spirit born, I think I might break tradition and try it out. I was worried everyone will be playing SB, and they will, but the # of combos seems so insane that I doubt everyone will be cookie cutter! Keep the content coming.
This is the first time since launch I've actually wanted to fully theory craft my own build(s) from scratch. Honestly, I don't even want to look at guides for Spiritborn this whole season
I stopped playing D4 shortly after launch. Watched two of your vids, re-subscribed (sorry lol), and purchased it again for my Steam deck. Great vids, thanks for the hard work you put into them all. Hoping Barbarian isn’t as DOA as one of your recent video speculates.
Rod of Kepeleke will be the only weapon for a Prodigy's Tempo build outside of 3 cases. 1) The unique aspect doesn't interact properly with the key passive. 2) There is some dumb bug bringing back kajillions of damage that another weapon enables 3) They completely rework the weapon. The reasoning is simple and surface-level. Prodigy's Tempo gives skill ranks to all skills (damage/cooldown/DR/duration) for spamming basic skills and reduces active cooldowns for spamming core skills. Rod of Kepeleke turns all core skills into basic skills. Unless the interaction is bugged or intentionally prevented, Kepeleke will allow you to spam core skills for both effects, doubling the effectiveness of the key passive. As far as if Prodigy's Tempo will be a viable choice, that remains to be seen.
Can't wait for the weapon and board class. They can even make it a Javazon/Spearzon x Paladin Hybrid just to make it feel unique. Archetype be like Mars from Dota2. Lore is a student of the D2 Amazon from Skovos. They can call it the Myrmidon.
I think I'm going with an Eagle build. I love moving around the map super fast and exploding everything. I made a build on maxroll and I'm hoping it turns out strong! I'm looking forward to just figuring out my own build for SB instead of just following a guide. As a D3 monk main, I hope I love the SB!
The coolest combination I think would be jaguar and centipede because if we find a way to poison stuff at jaguar speed and then spawn Mr Bukake + Noxious resonance, we just one shot screens at a time. On the other hand Jaguar Gorilla sounds crazy OP because of the insane DR bonuses gorilla gives. But the first idea I just really want to delve deep into because I've got a thing for marked for death builds. Like PoE's lightning conduit was pretty busted on release and you'd basically just run around shocking shit just to apply a massive shock multiplier, and then pressing the kill button and it'd completely obliterate everything it was one of the most fun builds I've played in the game in my opinion.
i hope the healing legendary paragon node isnt trash or too short range. having a build with exponential scaling on healing received sounds like a fun idea that hasnt been explored yet. especially now that potion healing nodes have been replaced with general healing nodes
Regarding Vital Strikes, I have to assume that applying vulnerable status is per player character--how much do you guys want to bet Blizzard didn't make sure that the Vital Strikes key passive doesn't remove vulnerable on the monster entirely, instead of per player? Because if it's 'player applies vulnerable, everyone benefits from vulnerable,' then classes that depend on vulnerable for damage will have their damage output affected by being in a party with/near a Spiritborn with Vital Strikes.
I would love to see the same variety and power for the other classes (like sorc with fire bolt enchantment) instead of nerfing the shit out of OP builds... which unfortunately Blizzard will do in S7 with the spiritborn for sure... I don't think they will do it in mid-season patch when the expansion/new class is still in the spotlight, but the nerfs will come ... so lets play spritborn now before Blizz will destroy it
Re the payback build you are talking about at 24:45 would that not be super crazy with the unique that makes every basic attack cast always cast the third attack? Crazy class
Pretty much everyone thinks that the second they look at the build options for it. It goes from meh to awesome real quick. Not sure if I will be able to go back to other classes after with this class being built from the ground up with everything they have learned since launch.
Really looking forward to try it, but somehow sad for the other classes (I’m primarily a sorc/necro guy). Still not sure if play spiritborn or minion necro (that should have been hugely buffed on paper)
Word on the street is that Spiritborn is at MINIMUM 10x stronger than every other class and when min/maxed up to 300x stronger. Those aren't made up numbers either. So it is going to feel VERY bad to play Spiritborn and then try to play an OG class.
The fact that you can change skill type so easily through class mechanics kinda makes Druid looks like a joke… We had to farm Vasily and Tempest Roar to change skill type, and you’re telling me Spiritborn does that by clicking an icon? (I haven’t finished watching but that’s my first thought so far.)
Way back when they did the Spiritborn reveal I was just so saddened as a Druid that they can do stuff Druid should be able to do. Spiritborn definitely Druids harder than Druids do.
Hell yeah. Time to return to monke.
That’s what I thought too.
😂same
Return to monke or monke will return to you! 🐵
@@stephensmith4025 must be true then. Our opinion has arrived.
I like the birb, probably will take some centipede stuff. I want to do a thunderbird ult spam build.
best professor on youtube
Appreciate a video like this that focuses on info, a bit of speculation, and not just giving out solutions. It's perfectly fine to give out solutions, it's just rare to find content where that isn't the focus
Yeah, I like how you work on the class, showing potential. With this being a much more complex beastie, it will take a wide understanding to get the most out of it, all the help we can get is appreciated and that is what these are giving us. This looks very cool, and I hope this next season is longer, so we have more time to play with the many variations that the class can present.
But in any any ARPGS You don't need to understand anything just copy maxroll top tier SB day one and press all buttons when they cooldown and go BLASTING!.
I was so burned out after a couple weeks of last season. I'm glad I took a break because now I'm looking forward to playing again. I'm leaning towards poison, but I'll give the other two a try.
Plus there's 3 others to try not just 2
@@stephensmith4025 you got quite a lip on you, boy. You blow your daddy with that mouth?
How'd you not get bored in the first week? Everyone was just running LS and got gear in the first week.
@@stephensmith4025 wow Stephen you’re so cool!! I hope I can be more like you 😎
@stephensmith4025 do your parents still cut your meat for you?
This video is like sitting in a classroom learning about Spiritborn. I love the way you break things down to help us understand everything about the class. No one teaches like Raxx! Thank you for helping us get the most out of the game!
I really enjoy this video and how you are giving us the ideas to figure it out ourselves. I get super bored really quick just following other peoples build guides, and even if it isn't the most optimized, I often end up tweaking and playing with builds just to see what I can come up with and have fun with. This is a great video here showing some of the ideas and leaving it open ended to encourage others to do the same thing. I mean, yeah it's fun to build the meta and be godly for a while, but at the end of the day I think it's more rewarding to figure out the combinations yourself and experience that wow moment first hand.
Yes, these kind of videos are very welcome, they explain what's behind the crafting, not just tell to pick this and the other.
We can only hope Blizzard goes over the other 5 classes to polish them more.
Thats really needed if you ask me.... Do one or two classes each Season
Let's see what poe 2 has where you can play as centipede, gorilla, jaguar and eagle skills.
since you asked for feedback here's my 2 cents: it's not that I cant go into max roll build planner, look at the spirit born tree and read every skill and theory craft, it's the fact that I have to then read every node on the para board, I have to look at all the leg aspects, I have to look at all the unique aspects. This gets too time consuming, as you said there are layers to theory crafting and building thus for someone who works full time, had other commitments it's not possible to sit and put in a few hours just doing this. For people like this, me, this type of video is perfect. even a one hour video would be fin for me, if it saved me hours or researching on my own. You dint make a build in this video but you gave me the possibilities, so when I play the game I will keep an eye open, I will know how skills and these class mechanics can be tied together. Thanks! already I know which mythic will be meh for spirit born and which ones will be godly, or which ones I can outright skip. for example almost every class and build can use starless, I can see how with all the return of vigor I could bypass starless entirely. etc.
I am so glad you explained how the types of SB 'animal' plays into the skills, and how adding other animal spirits helps on the skill tree. Best part of vid
Love your video style. It helps greatly to hear about your thought process when creating or manipulating a character. Always well done. Thank you for your work.
Thanks for being cognizant of the timings. These videos are great. I know folk say you shouldn’t be teaching us the WHY, but I love it.
Thank you for keeping it as short as possible while still being informative
Thanks Raxx. THIS was the overview I needed. Looking forward to jumping in!
Thanks for making me excited to try Spiritborn.
Always love these videos! Its a mix of your giving ideas but also explaining enough to understand but not spoiling the ending. Its a like a really good show that leads you along the story with details and takes you on a journey, but leaves the ending open to interpretation. Amazing as always.
This was a great video. It was nice to kind of see the high level theorycrafting basics.
Absolutely love this kind of video. Exactly what I was looking for, to get some overview that will help me experiment vs just mindlessly following a step by step guide (that will come into play later when all my experiments fail terribly :D)
This is exactly what i needed which no other creator nailed like you did, bravo Rax, keep going man!
Thanks Raxx! Always great at breaking down the info for monkey brains like myself. I was going to roll rogue again for the 6th season in a row, but you've convinced me to try this first!
Well explained. I can see why people weren't excited at the surface, but when I started theory crafting (not an expert or anything) I discovered how special it was compared to what was in the game before. I'm not following a build guide for leveling, as I think I've come up with something clever on my own. It won't be meta or anything but it's the first time that building has been interesting and I want to try out my weird little thing before I need to be efficient and optimized for the hardest content.
I would love to see the vanilla classes get the same treatment, maybe a revamp of one per season to "open it up" to this kind of depth.
This was seriously so eye opening for the Spiritborn! I’m even more excited! Thank you Professor Rax!
Its very easy to understand and follow Raxx, that's why he is the king of the guides. Lookin forward to some easy 1 button, destroy everything build guides, for us casuals.
This is such a great video, it could’ve been 10 hours long, and I would’ve watched the entire thing! 🔥
Raxx: Makes a new guide
Me: Mandatory lecture before starting a new character
Cheers Raxx, the amount of builds we will be able to play around with and make is going to be crazy, it's got me thinking that's for sure, Also any vids u make a helpful and entertaining keep dishing them up.
I was avoiding most spiritborn info on purpose, but the moment i saw the gorilla centipide interaction in one of the very first revealed details, i knew im definitely going gorilla centipide poison thorns sustain
Can't wait to theorycraft some builds!
Javazon was my fav class in D2. I was hoping for a spear class, this isn't exactly what I had in mind, but i'll take it!
Great video. Was already planning on playing Spiritborn since it's the new class, but now I'm also pretty hyped about it.
Honestly surprised you didn't mention it near the end with the bit on "Harmony of Ebewaka", but if you use Harmony and "Wushe Nak Pa" you can make a build that has very high uptime on nearly every skill having all 4 halls, or 120%x dmg from Harmony.
From quick messing with it, a Centipede/Gorilla using all the Jaguar Skills except the Eagle Ult you can basically live with all 4 Spirit Halls non-stop, while generating Ferocity and Resolve constantly.
Can mess around with the halls and skills used, but the ult almost has to be Eagle or Jaguar to have decent uptime. Also important to note, you want all of your primary damage abilities to be the same, and not matching your Ultimate or your Halls, otherwise you would be losing 30% of the bonus from Harmony on those casts.
Love videos that show you how to make your own build and what to think about.
I really appreciate the tutorial. It'll make it easier when it unleashes.
Yeah I love these kind of videos. Super helpful.
Thank you Raxx for this video!
Really want Rax to do the "crazy/hot matrix" Diablo 4 style.
The exploit glyph pairs perfectly with The Key passive Vital Strikes. Not only do you get permeant vulnerability you get a 2% heal on hit and guaranteed 5 vigor on every strike you make. Going on what you were saying with having your basic skills triggering Payback you will want to be using the Unique weapon Sepazontec which gives you a reason to use your basic skills.
This gives people some confidence to make a build themselves if they have never done so, expect apple on your desk on Monday.
I love fast paced characters, so eagle sounds right up my alley.
Skills varities Looks very very exciting for the SB.
Can’t wait to play it !❤️
Thanks for the video explaining things but at the same time allowing the players to explore decisions themselves leading to greater satisfaction from self driven decisions
this is how you design a class, make everything strong so there is actual choices involved when building, not just pick a skill and take all 3 shouts.
Thanks So Much, it's gonna be a Krazy Season#6
Great video thank you for the effort. I always start a season as Sorc but with the announced changes, then learning more about spirit born, I think I might break tradition and try it out. I was worried everyone will be playing SB, and they will, but the # of combos seems so insane that I doubt everyone will be cookie cutter! Keep the content coming.
This is the first time since launch I've actually wanted to fully theory craft my own build(s) from scratch. Honestly, I don't even want to look at guides for Spiritborn this whole season
I stopped playing D4 shortly after launch. Watched two of your vids, re-subscribed (sorry lol), and purchased it again for my Steam deck.
Great vids, thanks for the hard work you put into them all. Hoping Barbarian isn’t as DOA as one of your recent video speculates.
It makes sense having uniques for each skill used and I think they trying to do that for the Spirit Born.
Really excited to try spiritborn. I planned out a dual basic skill build with Jaguar/Eagle. We will see how it goes in a few days
Good video!! Keep the in-depth info coming!!
This one is so clear to me dam, great job! would be could when you have mastered your build you would make a in depth review on it
Dayum, Spirit bjorn seems interesting. For the first time i might try to make a build for myself before i even play the game.
Really want to try a Basic-Skill/Payback build on the Spiritborn.
Raxx, I really enjoyed this video. Great job man!!
This kind of video is super cool!!! Keep them coming!
This video really feels like a class 😂
Thank you Professor Raxx.
Protest until you release the 10-hour Raxx lecture!
Rod of Kepeleke will be the only weapon for a Prodigy's Tempo build outside of 3 cases.
1) The unique aspect doesn't interact properly with the key passive.
2) There is some dumb bug bringing back kajillions of damage that another weapon enables
3) They completely rework the weapon.
The reasoning is simple and surface-level. Prodigy's Tempo gives skill ranks to all skills (damage/cooldown/DR/duration) for spamming basic skills and reduces active cooldowns for spamming core skills. Rod of Kepeleke turns all core skills into basic skills.
Unless the interaction is bugged or intentionally prevented, Kepeleke will allow you to spam core skills for both effects, doubling the effectiveness of the key passive.
As far as if Prodigy's Tempo will be a viable choice, that remains to be seen.
So hyped Rax! 😎
Wow talk about something fresh😮. Thx Raxx
🙋♂️ I am willing to go to a 10hr Raxx lecture
Can't wait for the weapon and board class. They can even make it a Javazon/Spearzon x Paladin Hybrid just to make it feel unique. Archetype be like Mars from Dota2. Lore is a student of the D2 Amazon from Skovos. They can call it the Myrmidon.
I think I'm going with an Eagle build. I love moving around the map super fast and exploding everything. I made a build on maxroll and I'm hoping it turns out strong! I'm looking forward to just figuring out my own build for SB instead of just following a guide. As a D3 monk main, I hope I love the SB!
The coolest combination I think would be jaguar and centipede because if we find a way to poison stuff at jaguar speed and then spawn Mr Bukake + Noxious resonance, we just one shot screens at a time. On the other hand Jaguar Gorilla sounds crazy OP because of the insane DR bonuses gorilla gives. But the first idea I just really want to delve deep into because I've got a thing for marked for death builds. Like PoE's lightning conduit was pretty busted on release and you'd basically just run around shocking shit just to apply a massive shock multiplier, and then pressing the kill button and it'd completely obliterate everything it was one of the most fun builds I've played in the game in my opinion.
i hope the healing legendary paragon node isnt trash or too short range. having a build with exponential scaling on healing received sounds like a fun idea that hasnt been explored yet. especially now that potion healing nodes have been replaced with general healing nodes
I'm kind of sad that it seems SB does not have a DoT weapon implicit because they can't use axes.
I love these videos. They help a lot
This class looks like a lot of fun.
Centipede sounds really cool
Love videos like this, I appreciate your work homie
Yes we like these Videos, and Hell yeah you are the Guru at this stuff. Greetings from Munich Germany,
hyped for VOH! Great Vid
I’m really looking forward to making a jaguar build with a quarterstaff lots of dodge and block lots of attack speed. Yes I miss my monk 😂
Regarding Vital Strikes, I have to assume that applying vulnerable status is per player character--how much do you guys want to bet Blizzard didn't make sure that the Vital Strikes key passive doesn't remove vulnerable on the monster entirely, instead of per player? Because if it's 'player applies vulnerable, everyone benefits from vulnerable,' then classes that depend on vulnerable for damage will have their damage output affected by being in a party with/near a Spiritborn with Vital Strikes.
EVERYONE COME ON IN, CLASS IS IN SESSION! UNCLE RAX JUST DROPPED A NEW CLASS OVERVIEW
I need a King of the Jungle build. I know it’ll be damn near impossible but I want all of the spirits lol
Loved this video. Thanks Raxx
These videos are great! Keep doing them!
Sitting in my chair, Kicking my feet. Damn I'm excited to play as a Spiritborn
Here for professor Raxx class .
This whole early access for content creators really kills the hype for release, when some people have already played it for a week.
I'll never understand this take as I don't see how someone else playing a non competitive game a few days before you hurts you at all.
@@tasandmnm69 I wish d4 releases were like poe releases; we go in and no one knows shit, kind of ruins the fun of discovering and watching that live.
@@evovolvo It's pretty easy to just avoid the content creators and other places you can get spoilers.
@@tasandmnm69 Social media algorithms have spoiled stuff for me already. Guess I could not use the computer until launch.
@@evovolvo yeah I get that.
Razorplate is back boys
Poison Thorn is gonna awesome
Love these type videos continue please.
Solid stuff as always. Thank you
I would love to see the same variety and power for the other classes (like sorc with fire bolt enchantment) instead of nerfing the shit out of OP builds... which unfortunately Blizzard will do in S7 with the spiritborn for sure... I don't think they will do it in mid-season patch when the expansion/new class is still in the spotlight, but the nerfs will come ... so lets play spritborn now before Blizz will destroy it
The spirits all sound fun, but, I'm all in on Devourer/centipede........
Yep, great video.
Thanks for the guide keep it up!
Re the payback build you are talking about at 24:45 would that not be super crazy with the unique that makes every basic attack cast always cast the third attack? Crazy class
Can u give us beginner guide on the other classes?
Watch this video got me like 😵💫🧐☠️.. thanks rax .. now I'm going back to my planner and really think
you made me think the new class was kind of meh to maybe the best class in the game, for this season i might do only spiritborn variant alts
Pretty much everyone thinks that the second they look at the build options for it. It goes from meh to awesome real quick. Not sure if I will be able to go back to other classes after with this class being built from the ground up with everything they have learned since launch.
jagwire looks cool
Really looking forward to try it, but somehow sad for the other classes (I’m primarily a sorc/necro guy). Still not sure if play spiritborn or minion necro (that should have been hugely buffed on paper)
Word on the street is that Spiritborn is at MINIMUM 10x stronger than every other class and when min/maxed up to 300x stronger. Those aren't made up numbers either. So it is going to feel VERY bad to play Spiritborn and then try to play an OG class.
Honestly, the skilltree sounds absolutly crazy op....
Awesome vid raxx
Raxx is to Jaguar, as Benedict Cumberbatch is to Penguin.
Great info thanks!
The fact that you can change skill type so easily through class mechanics kinda makes Druid looks like a joke…
We had to farm Vasily and Tempest Roar to change skill type, and you’re telling me Spiritborn does that by clicking an icon?
(I haven’t finished watching but that’s my first thought so far.)
Way back when they did the Spiritborn reveal I was just so saddened as a Druid that they can do stuff Druid should be able to do. Spiritborn definitely Druids harder than Druids do.
Looks like im gonna enjoy gorilla boy