Spiritwalker Boss Companion Endgame Build

This build focuses on one thing: Getting the biggest, meanest, most powerful Boss Beast possible. You will be focusing all of your passives, gear, and effort into creating a single powerful Companion that will destroy Bosses in seconds, letting you breeze through endgame content!

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If you are looking for a guide to play through the campaign with, check out our Spiritwalker Companion Leveling guide, linked below!

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Strengths and Weaknesses

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Build Mechanics

Mighty Silverfist, and eventually his Map Boss variant Zekoa, the Headcrusher will be your Companion of choice. This opens up powerful Critical Strike scaling,while using support companions Wild Protector‘s Spirit Bear Companion and Wolf Pack. Evasion and Deflection will help you avoid and mitigate damage, and the general benefits of playing with Minions or Companions let you focus on avoiding the most dangerous attacks from bosses, so you can explore all the new content with ease!

You will use several supports to make Sniper’s Mark turn into a Utility powerhouse, enabling Shock with Charged Mark, Armour Break with Mark for Death, and amplifying the damage of your Companions’ Critical Strikes.

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The Perfect Companion

At later stages in the game you will be looking to tame the Map Boss version of Mighty Silverfist, Zekoa, the Headcrusher. He can be found in the Riverside and Rupture maps specifically. This Boss is identical to the Mighty Silverfist in every way with one exception: Using Tablets on the map can cause it to have Rare Monster Modifiers, 4 of which can be stored in your Tame Beast Skill Gem when it is captured. Here is the process for capturing your ideal Companion: Zekoa:

• First, find either a Riverside or Rupture Map on your Atlas
• Add Rare Tablets with “Unique Monsters have 1 additional Rare Monster Modifier” or Cruel Hegemony Unique Tablets (the more you add, the more modifiers the Boss will have
• Use Jado as your Atlas Master, with the Passive “Partial Translations”, to have a chance to double the effect of those tablets
• Clear to the Map Boss and check its Rare Modifiers listed below its health bar. Here are a list of the modifiers you want, in priority order:
  • Extra Crits.
  • Enrage/Periodically Enrages/Hasted.
  • Extra Damage as “x”, ideally Chaos Damage.
  • Shroud Walker/Soul Eater.
• If you run with fewer than 6 Modifiers on your Waystone, you can deliberately die when fighting the Boss to reroll their modifiers. Obviously, don’t do this in hardcore, but it is lower difficulty and lower cost per attempt, and offers multiple potential sets of modifiers per map.

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Ascendancy

1. Wild Protector provides you with a Spirit Bear Companion that will Intimidate, Maim, Knockback and Shred Armour, while also dealing quite good damage and helping with clear
2. The Natural Order is the primary focus of the build, allowing you to Tame Unique Beast Bosses and enabling the whole build.
3. The Catha’s Balance grants 60% of your main hand Weapon’s damage to all of your companions, giving you a very powerful and scalable way to increase your build power with more and more investment as you push deeper into the Endgame.
4. Idolatry requires very specific planning, gearing and some expensive Idols, but will scale your damage and allow you to not only have all of your Companions, but also powerful Spirit Reservation Skills.

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Skill Tree

This interactive skill tree will provide you with an overview of the final state of the build. When assigning travel Attribute Nodes, you will want to account for the requirements of your Skill Gems and Gear, and may have to respec some nodes as you find upgrades and progress.

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Gem Info

In the Planner below, you will find a full list of Skill Gems and their Support Gems listed in order from highest to lowest priority, top to bottom, left to right. When choosing where you should use currency such as Perfect Jeweller’s Orbs, or when shopping for high-value Lineage Support Gems, you can use this table as a guide. Make sure you remember to Quality your Skill Gems as well, as many of the Skills in this build benefit significantly from Quality.

If you don’t have a Rattling Sceptre you should use a Purity Sceptre with the recommended Support Gems, and add 2x Skeletal Reaver Minion as targets for your Pain Offering, using the Support Gems for Skeletal Warrior Minion.

You should only run 1 copy of Upwelling II, either in your Purity sceptre if you are using one, or Wind Dancer if you are not. If you cannot fit Hulking Minions on your Companion: Zekoa then instead use Minion Mastery.

Before you have a Extra Crits mod for your Zekoa, the Headcrusher, you will want to replace Supercritical with Heft, or Minion Mastery if you aren’t using Hulking Minions.

Skill Rotation

As a Companion build, you will be focusing mostly on maintaining buffing and debuffing supportive skills while focusing on your positioning and letting your minions do most of the work. Here’s how to use the supportive skills in the most effective way:

• Cast Despair underneath any large packs of dangerous monsters, or underneath Boss monsters just before they spawn.
• Cast Sniper’s Mark periodically on any Rare or Boss monsters to enable all of it’s Utility Support Gems, and to keep your Mana from reaching full to enable Upwelling II on Wind Dancer.
• Cast Pain Offering for a significant damage steroid when fighting static encounters, such as during League Mechanics, or when fighting against Bosses.

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Gearing

NOTE: Due to the massive amount of new crafting options, along with the new base types, adjustments to base values, core system formulas, etc., it is impossible at this time to provide a completely accurate list of the Best-in-Slot gear affixes and Socketables. As more information becomes available, we will update this section of the guide extensively, so make sure to check back and refresh the page frequently to ensure you have the most up-to-date information!

Gear Affixes

In the table below, you will see a breakdown of the most important affixes for each gear slot, as well as what unique items the build uses. These are listed in order of priority, so consider your gearing options carefully.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Make sure that you are capped at 75% Elemental Resistances and meet all Attribute Requirements when you are changing gear pieces.

Slot	Base	Prefix	Suffix
Main Hand	Tyranny’s Grip (Unique Spear)	1. % increased Physical Damage	Visit the Verisium Anvil and Upgrade it twice to increase its damage.
Off Hand	Rare Sceptre (Rattling Sceptre)	1.% increased Minion Damage 2. Allies in your Presence deal # to # added Attack Physical Damage 3. Allies in your Presence deal # to # added Attack Damage (any element)	1.+Level of Minion Skills 2. Allies in your Presence have % increased Attack Speed 3. Allies in your Presence have % increased Critical Damage Bonus
Helm	Rare Helm (Evasion Base)	1. # Maximum Life 2. % Evasion Rating 3. # Evasion Rating	1. +Level of Minion Skills 2. % Resistances as needed 3. # Attributes as needed
Body	Rare Body Armour (Evasion Base)	1. # Maximum Life 2. % Evasion Rating 3. # Evasion Rating	1. % Resistance as needed 2. # Attributes as needed 3. Hybrid Resist/Attributes/Deflect damage reduction
Gloves	Rare Gloves (Evasion Base)	1. # Maximum Life 2. % Evasion Rating 3. # Evasion Rating	1. % Evasion gained as Deflection Rating 2. % Resistance as needed 3. # Attributes as needed
Boots	Rare Boots (Evasion Base)	1. % Movement Speed 2. # Maximum Life 3. % Evasion Rating	1. % Evasion gained as Deflection Rating 2. % Resistance as needed 3. # Attributes as needed
Belt	Rare Belt (Breach Crafted)	NOTE: We don’t currently have a list of available Breach modifiers For now, fix Resistances and get Life if possible.
Rings	(Breach Crafted)	NOTE: We don’t currently have a list of available Breach modifiers For now, fix Resistances and get Life if possible.
Amulet	(Breach Crafted, Deli?)	NOTE: We don’t currently have a list of available Breach modifiers For now, fix Resistances and get Life if possible.	1. +Level of Minion Skills

Instilling Your Amulet

To gain access to the ability to instill your Amulet, you will need to progress the Delirium Questline in the Endgame mapping system. Early on you will want to Instill Vile Mending to improve Minion survivability, and after acquiring a From Nothing for Blackflame Covenant you will change your Instill to Right Hand of Darkness.

Unique Items (Work in Progress)

Tyranny’s Grip – This early game spear can be Runeforged TWICE at the Verisium Anvil, scaling its flat damage to very high levels. It is also, as of the time of writing, a cheap option. Simply buy the base item with as close to perfect % increased Physical Damage as you can, upgrade it twice, and quality it to get your Endgame weapon.

High Budget Options

From Nothing (Blackflame Covenant) will allow you to pick up some very valuable nodes surrounding it, allowing you to change your instill to Right Hand of Darkness.

Mageblood is always an option, but has a highly varied potential modifier pool. If you can afford one of these you will need to adjust your build based on the Legacy of the Mage modifiers it has.

Augments (Work in Progress)

This table will show you what Augments are used for each gear slot.

Slot	Socketable
Main Hand	Greater Rune of Leadership
Off Hand	Primate Idol / Warding Rune of Bodyguards (if no Carved Majesty)
Helm	Idol of Ralakesh / Idol of Egrin
Body Armour	Hawk Idol / Rabbit Idol
Gloves	Carved Majesty / Snake Idol
Boots	Fix gearing issues here with Resist or Attributes

Jewels

This build can leverage strong affixes on Sapphires to scale your Boss Beast’s Critical Hits to insane levels.

• % Increased Minion Crit Damage
• % Increased Minion Damage
• % Increased Companion Damage
• % increased Minion Resistances

In addition to regular Jewels, you could also pursue Unique jewels such as Heart of the Well, though it has incredibly high variability of affixes, or Prism of Belief (Tamed Companion) for additional skill levels up to the maximum cap of Level 40.

Flasks and Charms

The recommended setup for your flasks and charms is:

• Life Flask – % Recovery applied Instantly | % reduced Charges per use
• Mana Flask – % of recovery applied instantly | % reduced Charges per use
• Charms – Thawing Charm, Gold Charm, Silver Charm
  • Also grants # Guard | % reduced Charges per use

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Changelog

• June 1st, 2026: Added Instills, other minor edits
• May 30th, 2026: Build Guide created for Path of Exile 2 (0.5 Update)