Diablo 4's 'Evade to Win' build allows you to cartwheel through hell with 100 MPH speed.
I'm no Diablo lore specialist, but I can't recall anything in the ancient tomes that talked about warriors from spirit realm cartwheeling their way through hell. Diablo 4's spiritborn class is a new take on an old tactic.
While I was writing my Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred Review, I heard rumblings regarding this build. The concept is simple: You just spam your evade button until there are no more dungeons left. Spiritborn's evade cooldown is reset when you use their skill three times in a single row. The Sepazontec staff counts every cast as a third attack. This resets your evade, and restarts the loop.
You may stun a few demons but you need to do some serious damage before you can make this build lethal. You can do this by activating the spiritborn's eagle-specialization, or spirithall, which will cause electrified feathers flying out of you every time you dodge. Anyone who has used a spiritborn knows how powerful these little things can be for the little effort they require.
Diablo 4 streamer Wudijo didn't create the build but he used to speedrun to max level a character in order to be one of the first players to complete the new Dark Citadel Co-op raid. In a video he made about the build, Wudijo suggests keybinding evade to the scroll wheel to avoid breaking a finger by repeatedly pressing it. He says that the game is fast enough to not need to mount your horse while you are roaming through the open world.
"Let's wait and see how long [this build] lasts, because it doesn't seem to be bugged but it does appear to be overtuned," said he. "I have never seen anything like this."
If you're interested, Wudijo's videos links to a complete guide for the build of Maxroll.
Blizzard usually leaves overperforming builds alone, until their regularly scheduled mid-season patch. But it's possible that it will knock this one down slightly if it overshadows all the other builds. You could argue that the fact that it requires a rare drop to function keeps it balanced against other builds that are released with less. I will definitely be trying this in my never-ending quest to sample the weirdest builds. If Blizzard would please wait until I did that, I'd really appreciate.
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