Diablo 4 Season 11 Patch 2.5.2: Spiritborn Class Enhancements

Diablo 4 Season 11 Patch 2.5.2 quietly delivers one of the biggest power spikes Spiritborn players have seen since the class arrived, and it does so by fixing bugs and restoring buffs that were accidentally rolled back. The update not only ensures Spiritborn can properly interact with core systems like the Armory, but also significantly increases damage across key skills, passives, and Paragon nodes, pushing the class even further toward top-tier endgame performance. For anyone invested in Spiritborn during Season of Infernal Chaos and beyond, this patch reads less like a minor hotfix and more like a broad reaffirmation that Blizzard wants the class to feel explosive, consistent, and rewarding to play.

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One of the most important quality-of-life fixes in Patch 2.5.2 is that Spiritborn characters can now use the Armory as intended from the start, instead of being locked out until Spirit Halls are unlocked. That may sound small on paper, but early access to saved loadouts is crucial when experimenting with new builds, especially now that so many Spiritborn options have become viable. This fix also comes alongside a correction to an earlier error where balance changes from Season of Infernal Chaos were unintentionally reverted, meaning Spiritborn players are finally receiving the full benefit of the buffs that were promised during that season’s class overhaul Diablo 4 Items.

The headline upgrades for many players will be the direct skill buffs, particularly to Rampant Crushing Hand and The Devourer. Rampant Crushing Hand’s damage bonus jumps from 3% to 5% per stack, raising its cap from 24% up to a hefty 40%, which makes it a far more attractive pick for sustained damage rotations and synergy with high-hit-count builds. The Devourer is also transformed from a middling option into a real powerhouse, with its line damage increased from 140% to 200% and its spit damage nearly doubled from 40% to 95%, dramatically improving both clear speed and single-target performance when the skill is properly supported.

Harmonious Devourer is another big winner in this patch, seeing its poison damage bonus jump from 50% to 100%, which is a huge deal for poison-focused or damage-over-time-centric Spiritborn setups. When paired with the stronger baseline Devourer numbers, this effectively repositions Devourer-based builds as serious contenders for high-tier content, especially in environments where enemies live long enough for poison stacks to fully tick. Since poison already synergizes well with certain Spirit Hall and item setups highlighted in broader Season 11 coverage, doubling this multiplier gives players more reason than ever to lean into a dedicated poison identity for the class.

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On the defensive and conditional damage side, the Vital Strikes key passive receives a notable bump, with its vulnerable damage bonus rising from 80% to 100%. This change further rewards players who build around consistent vulnerability uptime, which is already a staple of high-end Spiritborn gameplay in Season 11. The effect is especially noticeable in bossing scenarios and The Pit-style content where reliable vulnerable application translates directly into more burst windows and a smoother time deleting priority targets.

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Patch 2.5.2 also contains a suite of Paragon buffs that significantly raise the ceiling on optimized Spiritborn boards. In-Fighter’s damage bonus doubles from 15% to 30%, turning it into a premium node for brawling builds that stay in melee and capitalize on constant engagement. Viscous Shield’s stacking damage bonus climbs from 1% to 2%, meaning defensive layering no longer comes at as steep an opportunity cost and instead feeds back into overall DPS, which fits nicely with the class fantasy of a durable but aggressive front-liner.

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Rounding out the changes are substantial boosts to poison and conditional damage nodes, with Bitter Medicine’s poison damage bonus increasing from 40% to 60% and Revealing’s damage bonus rising from 15% to 30%, now scaling up to 60% instead of 30% at maximum stacks. These upgrades not only elevate poison-centric builds but also make hybrid approaches more rewarding, since investing into these nodes now delivers a much more noticeable return in both mapping and boss encounters.

Combined with earlier Season 11 improvements to Spirit Hall scaling and itemization, the class emerges from Patch 2.5.2 as a significantly more cohesive and explosive package, and Spiritborn mains going into late Season 11 can confidently lean into their favorite archetypes knowing that the numbers finally back up the fantasy.

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