Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Diablo IV players have created a character build that essentially plays itself and turns combat into a screensaver

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The build effectively transforms your spiritborn into a cloud of poison that melts monsters who dare to spawn in the same room as you. It also happens to be one of the fastest builds in the game, capable of clearing one of the hardest dungeons in about a minute.

Like every spiritborn build in Diablo 4 right now, it relies on a handful of bugs that skyrocket the class' damage into the trillions. The most powerful one comes from a Paragon node that is supposed to increase your damage up to a set amount based on how much barrier, Diablo's temporary bonus health, you have. Despite what the tooltip says, the damage increase keeps going up the more health and barrier you have. It's so unbelievably strong and easy to activate that you can combine it with almost any of their skills.

This variant of the uber build uses Toxic Skin, a passive skill that infects enemies with poison, the Wound Drinker ring to boost Toxic Skin's potency, and good old thorns damage. Playing it is quite simple