The Spartan Spear Build
A tanky Spartan warrior built around the Spear and Staff weapon types and the Chance to Ignore Half Damage stat. By stacking that stat past 100% across the Staff of Hermes, gear, and Masteries, you take half damage from every single hit, which makes you nearly impossible to kill. From that immovable base you melt enemies with stacked Warrior damage, fire conversion, and full-health crit bonuses, leaning into the post-1.12 critical-hit meta with Battlecry of Ares and Overpower Attacks for boss and conquest burst.
Damage
Battlecry of Ares +50% multiplier, full-health crit stacking, fire on every spear hit. Melts Athenian soldiers.
Survivability
100%+ Chance to Ignore Half Damage = permanent half damage from everything, plus a 30% health shield. Near-immortal.
Boss
Overpower Attacks under Battlecry of Ares delete mercenaries and win conquest battles.
The core of the entire build and the only weapon in the game that rolls Chance to Ignore Half Damage, which is what lets you cap that stat at 100%. Engrave it with Weapon Damage becomes Fire Damage so every strike carries fire automatically, and lean on its low-chance 30% health shield for an extra survival layer. Mandatory.
How to Obtain
Head slot. This is an Epic piece transmogged to the Spartan look. What matters is the engraving roll, not the base item, so re-roll it toward the target stats below to feed both the ignore-damage cap and full-health crit.
Combat Strategy
- ▸Make sure your Staff of Hermes is engraved with Weapon Damage becomes Fire Damage so every strike carries fire without a manual buff.
- ▸Engage with Charged Heavy Attacks to break enemy defenses and stagger the front line.
- ▸Use Spartan Kick to knock priority targets off ledges, walls, or boats for an instant fall-damage kill.
- ▸Chain fast spear melee strikes to proc fire damage and trigger critical hits on every hit.
- ▸Stay at full health so your Crit Chance and Crit Damage at Full Health perks keep firing.
- ▸Drop Ring of Chaos into clustered groups for area fire damage while you reposition.
- ▸Activate Battlecry of Ares for the 50% damage multiplier and damage immunity for the duration.
- ▸Chain Overpower Attacks into mercenaries and tough targets to delete them inside the window.
- ▸Save this window for mercenaries, bosses, and conquest captains where the burst matters most.
- ▸Use Second Wind to heal straight back to full whenever you drop below it.
- ▸Lean on the Damage Dealt Restored as Health mastery to refill passively as you attack.
- ▸Returning to full health re-triggers your full-health crit perks, so healing is also a damage reset.
- ▸Position fights near cliffs, rooftops, or ship decks so Spartan Kick can one-shot through fall damage.
- ▸Keep Chance to Ignore Half Damage above 100% at all times, since it is what makes the build feel invincible.
- ▸Run conquest battles aggressively. Battlecry immunity and Overpower bursts let you carry the whole fight.
Sources
Verified: 2026-06-11 · All content is original with full credit to original creators.