Sinful Spear Guide

For patch - 5.0.0

Spear in all its glory

Guide Book

The Sinful Spear build takes advantage of the inherent debuff capability of the spear paired with the debuff extension of Sin.

This build will heavily rely on debuffs and dots.

Gearing

First of all the perks in the tables are ordered based on the most important perk in the first slot. So if you have to sacrifice any perk, you sacrifice perk 3.

This my ideal setup, but you dont have too run this exact setup. Here are some alternatives to certain items:

Weapons

Named Item Type Gem Perk 1 Perk 2 Perk 3 Acquisition-Links
Spear Japser (runeglass) Penetrating Backstab Plagued Crits Attunement
Sin Hatchet Any-Runeglass Keenly Jagged Refreshing Move Penetrating Backstab Colossus of Memnon

Armour

Named Weight Item-Type Perk-1 Perk-2 Perk-3 Acquisition-Links
Bergan's Gaze Medium Helmet Health Shirking Heals Elemental Aversion PvP Track
Dragatacht Medium Chest Health Shirking Heals Elemental Aversion PvP Track
Frigid Dawn Gloves Heavy Gloves Elemental-Aversion Enchanted Ward Shirking Heals Glacial Tarn
Iron Heart Heavy Legs Refreshing Enchanted Ward Shirking Heals PvP Track
Freezeframe Medium Boots Health Fortifying Perforate Elemental Aversion Winter Rune Forge

Jewelry

Named Item Type Perk 1 Perk 2 Perk 3 Acquisition-Links
Tanglevine Amulet Amulet Thrust Protection Shirking Empower Health Elysian Wilds
Deepriver Ring Ring Hearty Thrust-Damage Purifying Heart Siren's Brute
Endless Thirst Earring Empowered Toast Fortifying Toast Healing Heart Savage Divide

Optional

This my ideal setup, but you dont have too run this exact setup. Here are some alternatives to certain items:

  • Spears

    Plagued crits can be replaced by Fortifying Perforate, Keen Speed, Rogue, Keenly Jagged, etc. You can find a good farmable spear here

  • Spear Weapon Perks

    Leeching Cyclone is optional. It's a pretty decent option, but has sadly been pretty nerfed by the disease buffs.

  • Ring

    You can use mortal empowerment instead of purifying heart.

Heartrune

So for heartrunes we have a couple options.

  • Rending Vines

    Rending Vines is a fantastic offensive and defensive option.

  • Stoneform

    Stoneform is bugged and hasnt been fixed yet. Avoid if possible.

    A very good option, as it allows for much lower con.

Attributes

150 con is pretty safe, but with stoneform you can probably push it too 100.

Strenght Dexterity Intelligence Focus Constitution Example Images
200 250 5 5 150 example
200 300 5 5 100 example

Resistance

We should be looking for 20% thrust resistance 24% fire resistance, 5% strike, 15% slash. We use 4 rubies, 2 onyxes and 2 moonstones to achieve this.

Weapon Tree

Spear

  • Standard Spear

    Opposed to the name might suggest, this is the strongest and most consistent tree. I dont find it as fun as the other options, but I recommend it for most players. Spear weapon tree

  • W enjoyer

    As the name implies this is the most aggresive tree. Spear weapon tree

  • Arena build

    Probably the most fun build, but pretty shit in group fights Spear weapon tree

Hatchet

  • Berserker

    This has been the standard build for a long time and it still holds up. I dont find it as fun as the other option, but I recommend it for most players. Hatchet standard weapon tree

  • Full throwing

    A really powerful option if you can aim. You do lose death defy, so i would recommend going a bit more con, but otherwise its pretty good. Hatchet full throwing weapon tree