Quill Volley is the best build for Spiritborn 3rd season in a row

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I’ve already made this post but I’m making it again because people have had more time on the PTR to limit test and well… results are in Spiritborn mains… hope you enjoy another season of using Vortex, Spamming Quill Volley and hunting for Rod 3rd season in a row.

I decided i wanted to main the Spiritborn class because I enjoyed Assassin in D2, Monk in D3 and Monk in WoW… but I’m really… really… just flat out disappointed how we have this class that blizzard can’t get us any build diversity…i don’t want Spiritborn to be broken like it’s launch season but the devs do a great job shifting other class meta build in and out of meta… why isn’t this possible for the Spiritborn.

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I’ll be starting S8 with a Spiritborn Evade build, just like this season. Though I had a QV SB in S6, once I got it to the point that it would WTFBBQ everything, it stopped being fun. I didn’t even bother rolling one this season even though QV was “brought in line” because for me, the Evade playstyle is more fun.

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The monk was my go to in D3 I played most of the seasons with the monk. For S8 I will start with the SB Quill Volley.

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Well either you talk yourself into being “forced” into a build or you choose to do something different.

In S6, i had a lot of fun with my homebrew thrash build, until i hit the ceiling just scraping into T4. Then i did my own k rod build with stinger and smashed T4 and finished everything i wanted to do.

In S7, i made a crushing hands build for my girl and she smashed through T4 and all objectives that matter.

Why even play if you think you have no choices and it won’t be fun?

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How can this be a surprise if the class is the only one that still requires you pay for the DLC?

They have no reason to incentivize otherwise. If you want the most powerful class, pay for it.

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This is not relevant to the OP. Try again.

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thats pretty much how i usually play as well. Of course i pay a little attention to the meta - but then i end up adjusting builds to my liking.

Usually i focus on what the necro has to offer, so yea, s6 and s7 for sure wasnt a hard pick for me. generally try to decide in the A tier builds and see what i could enjoy.

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Relax friend, blizz lost their lead class designer, they need time.

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So i play Quill Volley or significantly play a weaker build on the weakest class of the season.

I’m already not even close to things like blood wave necro why hamper myself even more.

The devs just need to do a proper job of buffing other spiritborn builds

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Okay. Hold your breath for that one.

Meanwhile…

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They want to get all builds in a bit tighter pit range.

Seems they’re able to bring upper outliers into range but don’t have the right resource allocation to be on top lower outliers.

Class / build balance lead to be across all capabilities and manage all the interactions imo. Outlined in more detail elsewhere.

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It’s the most fun build I’ve played in the game so that’s fine. I would like a league where summons are near top tier though.

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But will it quill? :skull_and_crossbones: ← :thinking:

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This. It’s the norm. They do NOT do a good job of shifting. Take any class. Let’s say: sorc. Blizzard builds will die for whole seasons while they boost certain other things. They do NOT keep builds viable season through season. They DO let whole sections of the skill tree die for seasons at a time.

And you wait and see if they ever deem to make whole swaths of the skill tree viable again.

Yay.

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This will never happen. If they cant adjust/fix something they make it a feature and add the word “hatred” to it.

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I played a Counterattack Protector of the Prime build. Was pretty fun but then I changed to another build for s8 research. S8 is pulling me into direction of Necromancer, so I’m not sure when I’ll be on SB in seasonal.