{"id":905102,"date":"2025-12-25T02:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T02:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4HZ5bUzvAtWSWyjqArFTEk"},"modified":"2025-12-25T02:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T02:35:09","slug":"summoning-animal-gods-as-diablo-4s-new-spiritborn-is-so-fun-im-ready-to-leave-the-other-classes-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/summoning-animal-gods-as-diablo-4s-new-spiritborn-is-so-fun-im-ready-to-leave-the-other-classes-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Summoning animal gods as Diablo 4’s new Spiritborn is so fun, I’m ready to leave the other classes behind"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The first new class to come to a mainline Diablo game in 10 years can reach into the spirit realm and throw a giant eagle god at their enemies. The divine bird swoops in with a gust of electrified wind and then lifts off like a lightning strike in reverse. It's probably the coolest looking skill in the game and it's only one of the four guardian spirits you can wield as a spiritborn, a new class debuting with Diablo 4's first paid expansion, Vessel of Hatred<\/a>, on October 8.<\/p>\n

Blizzard didn't give us a ton of time with the spiritborn during a press preview event last week in Irvine, California, but I can already tell my friendship with rogues might be over. The spiritborn are martial artists who command four animal guardians\u2014jaguar, gorilla, centipede, and eagle\u2014from Sanctuary's spirit realm, a domain that Blizzard says is equivalent to the game's depictions of Heaven and Hell. Each one represents a distinct approach to combat and are meant to be mixed together to fit your playstyle. Eagle skills, for example, imbue your attacks with lightning and increase your movement speed. I settled into a build that turned me into some kind of sorceress\/rogue hybrid with volleys of lightning bolts covering the screen every time I dashed toward enemies.<\/p>\n

Class designer Bjorn Mikkelson told PC Gamer that spiritborn are a “vehicle for self expression”, like the other five classes. You'll be able to invest in each spirit guardian as much as you'd like, and the idea is that you'll mix and match them based on the type of player you are, whether you want to race through dungeons or survive a boss fight.<\/p>\n

In the build I played, there were four spiritborn characters to choose from who were locked to level 30 and came with a premade build and mediocre gear. I only had 2 hours to run around a slice of Vessel of Hatred's new jungle region, Nahantu, to try to wrap my head around what will probably be one of the most complex classes in the game.<\/p>\n

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Here's what I gathered after playing a character built around each spirit guardian:<\/p>\n