Benitot's Spellbinder The Grim Knight guide

[Medea Fleecestealer]

First of all you can read poinas’ pwning with spirit guide to better understand the power of spirit mastery.
So why choose a spellbinder instead of a spellbreaker. Well defense makes you an unkillable tank, paired with spirit mastery’s ability to kill anything in seconds you get a deadly combo. I like tank classes, not having to worry about constatly having to hit things to stay alive makes things less stressful. I mean if you go dual wield even a crow can hurt you, that won’t happen with a spellbinder, you won’t have to worry about lesser mobs.
As a spellbinder we will focus on being able to do enough damage to take down trash mobs quickly. For bosses, on legendary especially we will focus on severely debuffing and tanking them, while having a chance to one shot them, while the liche king and outsider do the big damage.
Act 1
level 2 choose spirit mastery. Since we choose spirit mastery we will lack strength early on, so favor items that give bonus strength instead of dexterity. Intelligence should be ignored. Our stat point distribution is 1:1 str/dex. But you don’t have to always use your points, keep 4-6 for the time being in case you lack strength to equip an item.
1 point in spirit mastery, 1 point in death chill aura, 1 point in life drain
About affixes you need to look for for now: look for accursed or dreadful jewleries, they give bonus vitality damage.
Also look for hardy, robust, hale jewelry to boost your strength. My setup was one robust ring, one accursed ring and one dreadful amulet for quite some time. Give vitality damage more importance for now. It will change later.
For weapons look for of feasting suffix, it gives attack damge converted to life, some vitality damage and bonus life leech. But also don’t choose this suffix at the cost of damage, go for bigger damage.
also visit the merchants as often as you can, look for honor guard’s amulet and indomitable amulets, they will be helpful in some situations. Also look for +skills amulet even though you wont need them that much early on.
level 3
3 points in spirit mastery
You should reach level 4 before getting the medicines waylaid quest if you killed all monsters till now.
1 point in spirit mastery, 1 point in vision of death, 1 point in spirit ward
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=0&m1=5-1-1-0-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
There is a graveyard to the west of the guy who gives you the quest, you can test your new skills against the undeads.
Level 5 put all points in spirit mastery
level 6 2 points in spirit mastery, 1 point in cascade
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=0&m1=10-1-1-0-0-1-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
Was level 6 when defeted nessus, put 1 point in liche king
level 7 3 points in liche king
Got labyrinth helm in a chest near a ruin.
level 8 before reaching the village of tegea.
1 point in lich king, 1 point in defense mastery, 1 point in armor handling
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=1&m1=10-1-1-0-0-1-1-1-0-5-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
I decided to put 1 point in armor handling to reduce strength requirement so I can equip the labyrinth helm.
Level 9 3 points in spirit mastery.
Level 11
Found frostbite on halcyon coast.
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=1&m1=16-1-1-0-1-1-1-1-0-5-0-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
There is one thing you can do now if you want to get more gold and improve your gear. You can make runs on polyphemus. With ravages of time, necrosis and liche king he will go down quite easily.
Now put points in necrosis till its maxed.
Got mindlash from a group of fire magi.
Got a hardened outrider’s buckler and a tough outrider’s tunic.
Once you reach the olive grove you can make runs on the spider boss. It’s really easy to reach it and defeat it. You may get some nice gear.
level 14
1 point in necrosis maxing it, 1 point in death nova and 1 point in spirit bane. There’s a lot of undeads on the way to the gorgon queens so this will be helpful
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=1&m1=16-1-1-0-1-1-1-1-0-5-1-0-8-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
level 15
1 point in batter, 1 point in life drain, 1 point in cascade. Now max cascade when you level up.
Cascade will suck against automati and traps but it will be very effective against minotors and demons plus thanks to necrosis it will do good damage to undeads.
level 18
2 points in cascade, 1 point in life drain
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=1&m1=16-1-3-0-1-1-1-10-0-5-1-0-8-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=1-0-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
The last rebirth in the labyrinth is a good place to farm for mechanaical parts, venom sac and bat fag if you need these charms to complete an artifact. Reached level 19 while farming for charms, was also farming the gorgons but no luck with the stonebinder’s cuffs. add 3 points in life drain.
For fighting the minotor lord bring a scroll of the storm withches.

Act 2
As our goal is also to create the talisman of the jade emperor artifact you will have to farm for these items in act 2:
1 Arcane Formula – Song of the Serpent
1 Essence of the Udjat of Horus
1 Rigid Carapace
1 Scroll of Elemental Shielding
Now we start investing in defense mastery.
Got arcane formula song of serpent in the tomb before memphis.
level 22 before reaching memphis, 2 points in defense mastery, 1 point in shield charge
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=3&m1=16-1-6-0-1-1-1-10-0-5-1-0-8-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=11-0-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
We keep investing in defense mastery, put 1 point in rend armor and 1 point in disruption as soon as you can.
Level 27 before fighting the telkine
after getting the 2 skills points from Imohtep put 1 point in battle awareness and 1 point in iron will.
At this point I made a few runs on the telkine to complete the udjat of horus relic, I also got the ardent greaves and a few other epic items including the electrum charm which gives 10% primary resistance 10% chance of 50 reduce resistance and some arcane formulas.
The telkine is very easy to defeat, I always mind control a statue from the last group of 3 statues. At this point I dont have battle awareness always on, I just activate it before fighting the telkine. Completed song of serpent artifact.
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=5&m1=16-1-6-0-1-1-1-10-0-5-1-0-8-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=24-0-1-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
Level 28 on act 3, keep investing in defense mastery.
On this act I recommend farming for at least 1 essence of shen nong dark medicine and at least 2 monkey king trickery. It will become usefull later on.
Finally got an amulet that gives +1 to spirit skills. Wont be using it for now, am using a dreadful amulet.
Was level 29 when fighting barmanu. i had a honor guard’s amulet that I swapped for fighting him. He is very easy when you ahve good stun resistance just avoid his meteors.
made some runs on him till I reached level 30, now we have one more useful skill.
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=5&m1=16-1-6-0-1-1-1-10-0-5-1-0-8-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=32-0-1-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0-0-1-1-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
I got the epic shield flamward and shrieking helm, I also got blood stone on act2 so already have items to give me over 40% life leech resistance and fire and lightning resistance when I’ll fight typhon.
Level 31 3 points in ravages of time
reached level 32 at jade palace portal, 3 points in deathchill aura.
Defeated yaoguai very easily and made a few runs on him.
Level 33 before entering the forest of the ancients.
2 points in deathchill aura maxing it and 1 point in ravages of time. So we look like this:
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=5&m1=16-6-6-0-5-1-1-10-0-5-1-0-8-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=32-0-1-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0-0-1-1-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
Olympus
For the first group of undead activate spirit ward. The automati take time more time to kill, they have very high vitality resistance i guess plus I think they must have high armor or something.. For the group of cyclops I used my indomitable amulet with demon blood, cast vision of death, shield charge, batter, life drain. I mind controlled one cyclop from the last group. I had the sacred crescent shield from the peng boss on the great wall, had blood stone ring and I bought a helm of solidity in chang’ang. So have over 40% life leech resistance and 40% energy leech resistance. I swapped these items before fighting typhon, clicked on the mastery shrine then on the energizing shrine while the cyclops was distracting typhon. Summoned a liche king and went in colossus form. Was an easy fight. Thans to deathcill aura, batter and my mountaineer’s armor typhon was really slow.
Did some typhon runs to complete my shen nong and monkey king relics. Found some epic items among those Glaevin’s breastplate, jade bracers and captain’s signet
Reached Level 34 before reaching rhodes, 3 points in ravages of time maxing it.
Act 4
On act 4 I recommend socketing one of your jewelries with demon blood, vitality resistance completion bonus.
level 35 before reaching medea’s grove, 3 points in spirit mastery
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=5&m1=19-6-6-0-8-1-1-10-0-5-1-0-8-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=32-0-1-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0-0-1-1-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
level 36 before fighting the gray sisters. 3 points in spirit mastery.
i found a keen mbuti’s advocate of the winds. That’s getting better 🙂 Socketed it with essence of shen nong dark medicine 33% slow attack bouns, it will be helpful against formicid captains.
Level 37 before completing the enemies’ captain quest. 2 points in spirit mastery, 1 point in wraith shell.
Before entering the realm of hades we will visit a mystic to but back all the points from life drain. There are a lot of range units there and for life drain to do decent damage we have to get clos to them, no longer effective at this point. I swapped my accursed ring for a hale one and socket it with monkey king trickery. swap my dreadful amulet for a defender’s one scoketed with demon blood, vitality resist bonus. With my defender’s shield I now have +2 to defense skills. Now I change my skills to this
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=5&m1=24-6-0-0-8-1-1-0-0-5-1-0-8-1-1-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=32-0-1-1-1-0-0-8-1-0-6-1-0-1-0-0-1-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
with +2 to defense skill 1 point in pulverize , 1 point in shield smash give 20% chance of one of the shiled passives to proc. With the mbuti’s advocate and liche king I do pretty good damage. Jsut use quick recovery when there are plenty of range units.
Defeated charon very easily, he’s an undead anyway, just don’t stand on the holes in the bridge. I made a some runs on charon since he is so easy, in fact I even made xmax runs since he really isn’t a threat. I mind control a troglodyte before fighting him. I like doing boss runs but it may not be to everyone’s liking, got to level 38 while doing runs. It was worth it though, got templar’s zeal, got a grim folg of carnage from a troglodyte but most importantly got arcane formula soul shiver.
1 point in disable, 2 points in spirit mastery.
level 39 3 points in spirit mastery.
level 40
At level 40 you should already get the 2 skill points from dust of the titan quest so now we look like this
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=7&m1=32-6-0-0-8-1-1-0-0-5-1-0-8-1-1-0-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=32-0-1-1-1-0-0-8-1-0-6-1-0-1-1-0-1-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
Both masteries are now maxed and put 1 point in death ward and summon outsider.
Archers hit pretty hard but we have vision of death and quick recovery to handle them. If you meet with a dactyl, remeber you can mind control them, think that’s the best strategy against them plus they really pawn.
level 41 when fighting hades, 3 points in liche king
Hades was very easy, he went down really fast, got dienekes’ iron boots from hades, made some runs till I reached level 42. Put 3 points in liche king. That’s it for normal difficulty.
Thats my gear at the end of normal:

About those 2 deaths. The first one was really silly, I was in the temple of marduk near a blade trap 2 djins cast squall on me and the the trap fires its blades and i got one shoted by a stupid blade trap. Think I got hit by more than one projectile. The second death was against a dactyl of course, he surprised me and I didn’t have the right reflex, I ran  In fact the easy way to deal with it is simply mind controlling the dactyl
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Epic
Our goal is also to create the talisman of the jade emperor artifact so this is what you should farm in act one:
1 Embodiment of the Golden Fleece
1 Embodiment of the Valor of Achilles
2 Embodiment of Archimedes’ Mirror
2 Epic Turtle Shell
1 Arcane Formula – Jade Idol(don’t worry if you don’t get it on act1, it also drops on act2, the telkine there drops it quite often)
1 Arcane Formula – Raven’s Shadow
1 Arcane Formula – Kingslayer
1 Greater Scroll of the Djinn
After defeating nessus put 1 point in liche king. Got shield of the korybantes on my very first nessus run, thats a huge update at that point especially for a defender. got ring of gaia on the second run. Made a few runs and completed epic valor of achilles.
Level 43
at level 43 I got into a dilema, should i continue putting points in liche king or not. The thing is I plan on getting an epic stonebider’s cuff and Ill probably get a hallowed helm as well, also have an amulet that gives +1 to spirit skills. There are also mastery shrines. All this means I could potentially get +8 to siprit skills. So decided to put 3 points in death nova instead. You choose what you want to do anyway.
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=8&m1=32-6-0-0-8-1-1-0-0-12-1-0-8-1-4-0-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=32-0-1-1-1-0-0-8-1-0-6-1-0-1-1-0-1-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
Got Atropos’ assistant, a legendary axe from a skeleton. Got blessings of the gods in a chest of the wrecked boat quest. Got bellerophon’s leggings fron arachnea.
level 44 close to 45 when fighting the gorgons. Got chieftain’s pelta, an epic shield that grants battle standard. Put it in secondary slot. Decided to start farming for a pair of stonbinder’s cuffs using xmax mod. Quickly reached level 45
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=8&m1=32-6-0-0-8-1-1-0-0-12-1-0-8-1-8-0-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=32-0-1-1-1-1-0-8-1-0-6-1-0-1-1-1-1-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
Decided to keep farming till I reach level 46, was close to reaching level 46 when i finally got a pair of epic stonebinder’s cuffs.
level 46
1 point in resilience, 2 points in defensive reaction.
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=8&m1=32-6-0-0-8-1-1-0-0-12-1-0-8-1-8-0-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=32-0-1-1-1-1-0-8-1-1-6-1-0-1-1-3-1-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
level 47 before fighting the telkine. put 3 points in defensive reaction.
Ok so I decided to farm for the missing arcane formula and relics. I got raven’s shadow from talos, it also dropped from the telikne. Decided to make xmax runs on the telkne. On my second run I got Rhesus’ Whitewashed Armor, also got polaris later on. Got arcane formula king slayer.
Act 2
Was level 48 when I got to egypt
2 points in defensive reaction, 1 point in pulverize.
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=8&m1=32-6-0-0-8-1-1-0-0-12-1-0-8-1-8-0-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=32-0-1-1-1-1-0-8-1-1-6-1-0-1-1-8-1-1-0-1-2-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
Bought a scroll of the djinn and completed kingslayer artifact.
On epic look for jewelry with the ..of smiting suffix. I didn’t think it was great before, 3% chance of reducing enemies health, but with a couple of those you already see a difference. Atropos’ assistant also has a 2%chance of 75% reduction to enemy’s health. You don’t have to always use the jewelry, you can just swap them during boss fights for a chance of one shotting them.
We will be putting points in shield passives till they reach level 6 with +skills items. Starting with pulverize, disable comes last
level 50
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=10&m1=32-6-0-0-8-1-1-0-0-12-1-0-8-1-8-0-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=32-0-1-1-1-1-0-8-4-1-6-1-0-1-4-8-1-1-0-1-4-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
Manticore went down in about 10 seconds without outsider
Level 51 when fighting the telkine, 3 points to disruption, when you get the 2 skill points reward max disruption
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=12&m1=32-6-0-0-8-1-1-0-0-12-1-0-8-1-8-0-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=32-0-1-1-1-1-0-8-4-1-6-1-0-1-4-8-1-6-0-1-4-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
Made a couple of xmax runs on the telkine, got arcane formula jade idol and murk crawlers.
Act 3
On act 3 you will have to farm for these items:
1 Arcane Formula – Ebony Globe
1 Embodiment of Guan-Yu’s Grace
1 Epic Saber Claw
level 52 1 point in iron will, 2 points in armor handling
level 53 3 points in armor handling maxing it.
took down the dragon liche in 2 hits 🙂 Got arcane formula ebony globe.
When fighting the dragonians make sure you have decent pierce resist, it should not be in the negative. Anyway you have quick recovery, vision of death and mind control.
I steamrolled through olympus killing typhon in like 5 seconds. The only threat are the cyclops, I had a ritual amulet but their scream is pretty dangerous.

[Medea Fleecestealer]

Act 4
Farm for an embodiment of rage of ares to complete ebony globe artifact.
Got to level 54 when entering rhodes, decided to put 3 points in colossus form, that’s not mandatory but i planned on doing some secret passage runs as i got the overlord from hades on normal. There’s a pair of boots that drops frequently in the SP, blackbeard’s booties. Gives a lot of resistance, DA and total damage, definetly a huge boost to your character if you don’t have anything better.
You can already reach 95% shield block, 100% shield recovery if you have +4 to defense skills. You can for example socket an act 4 defender’s shield with epic turtle shell, you don’t have to be wielding it always, you can just swap it when things gets rough, in normal conditions you can just use wichever shield you ahve that gives you nice bonuses.
level 55
In most cases you are at level 55 when you complete epic. I was at level 55 when i defeated the gray sisters because of all the farming i did. If You are completing epic then put 1 point in rally and synergies and the 2 points you get from quest into dark covenant and synergy. Adrenaline+rally+dark covenant is a killer combo.
I decided to put 1 point in dark covenant, 2 points in unearthy power.
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=12&m1=32-6-0-0-8-1-1-0-1-12-1-0-8-1-8-2-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=32-0-1-1-6-1-0-8-4-1-6-1-0-1-4-8-2-6-0-4-4-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
Got phorkos’ trident in the tower of judgment.level 56 before fighting cerberus.
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=14&m1=32-6-0-0-8-1-1-0-3-12-1-0-8-1-8-2-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=32-0-1-1-6-1-1-8-4-1-6-1-1-1-4-8-2-6-1-4-4-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
level 57 when entering hades palace. Steamrolled through the palace, dactyls and heroes went down in seconds, even hades was down very quickly, here’s a screenshot of my party, all 4 elysian warriors survived, the poor hades didn’t had much time to land a hit.
That’s how I looked at the end of epic.
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=14&m1=32-6-0-0-8-1-1-0-5-12-1-0-8-1-8-3-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=32-0-1-1-6-1-1-8-4-1-6-1-1-1-4-8-2-6-1-4-4-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
Thats it, think I stayed on epic long enough, to legendary now, let the fun begin 🙂
legendary
On legendary you can easily reach 100% shield block/recovery. I had polaris from epic and bought a pelta of focus so I could already get permanent quick recovery.
About shield now, though i am currently using a shield of focus, you should use a hale shield later on. Spellbinder doesn’t have a lot of health for a melee character and also lacks strength.
All you have to do now is max your skills and upgrade your items. For weapons look for murderous/veteran of devouring, socket with shen nong reduce attack speed completion bonus.
Body armor should be veteran of the gods socketed with mechanical parts, if you don’t have any good uniques. Easiest way to get this is farming the gorgon sisters (thanks to irma for this tip)
helm should be hallowed of stability if you get one (again easiest way is farming the gorgon sisters)
Act 1
Farm for arcane formula conqueror’s mark
1 legendary turtle shell (You will actually need at least a second one for your shield though)
Arcane formula talisman of the jade emperor can drop from the hydra else you get it on act 3.
Gorgon queens
I farmed the gorgon sister using massbosses mod, thats 30 gorgon queens in one run. To be able to do that you must have permanent quick recovery with 100% shield block and shield recovery. I had polaris from epic and a shield of focus to do that. You should also have high poison resistance, had chiron’s loop and murk crawlers to deal with that.
I got a weightless stonebinder’s cuffs, a hallowed gorgon crown of impetus, a veterans gorgon sash of hereos amongst other items.
Got hares’ wrath for completing the giant limos quest, thats a nice spear with ADcth.
The Hydra
For fighting the hydra I use chiron’s loop and murk crawlers. Got arcan formula conqueror’s mark and talisman of the jade emperor and a lot of other legendary items and devine arcane formulas. So now I only need an incarnation of the jade emperor serenity to complete my artifact.
Here’s a little clip of my spellbinder beating the hydra

Act 3
Resus whitewashed armor is a great piece of equipment but unfortunately in late act 3 monster start hitting hard, on olympus there are some of the hardest hitting monsters in the game so I had to swap it for a veteran’s armor socketed with mechanical part for speed bonus. The bonus damage resistance and %DA will make you much more resistant. If you have items that can boost damage resistance like seal of hephastus it will also help.
Typhon
Was level 62 when fighting typhon.
Ironically the incarnation of the jade emperor relics refused to drop, i had to do countless Typhon runs to get them to finally complete my artifact. Got armor of achilles and verdant plate from typhon. Here’s how I look entering Rhodes.
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=19&m1=32-6-0-0-8-1-1-0-6-14-1-0-8-0-10-8-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=32-0-1-1-6-1-1-8-6-1-1-1-6-1-6-8-2-6-2-8-6-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
My OA sucks at this point but I’ll buy a veteran’s weapon of devouring as soon as I find one. Still using blackbeard’s booties, yeah try to find boots better than these. Will be farming the secret passage for pendant of immortal rage or cerberus’ collar. Will try to farm for a better pair of stonebinder’s cuffs, a purifying one would be good for me.
At this point I could do xmax typhon runs pretty easily. I just have to hit waiting for the rings of smiting to do thier job. Here’s a video of my spellbinder doing an xmax run using the above gear

You are around level 63 normally when completing legendary
http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Spellbinder&master1=2&master2=5&sa=21&m1=32-6-0-0-8-1-1-0-6-16-1-0-8-0-12-8-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&m2=32-0-1-1-6-1-1-6-6-1-1-1-6-1-6-8-2-6-5-8-6-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
Mind control is pretty useless in legendary act 4 at level 63. I’ll be maxing defiance, yeah a spellbinder isn’t the best reflectionist, we reduce damage and slow things but it is still usefull against bosses. We also lack ranged attack so we get a way to punish those mages and archers who think they are clever by attacking us from a distance.
Decided to post this as I only have one act left to complete. Will be updating when I finish legendary. You should not meet any big problems now. Just get poison resist gear when fighting those demons that drop tourtured soul, cerberus and Hades’ general in the prison of souls.
EDIT:
So after countless SP runs without getting a good amulet, though I found eye of reveries ring, I decided to farm polyphemus for sapros using massbosses mod, that’s 10 of this cyclops in one run. First run i got scepter of thanatos, second run got spinebreaker, was already confident I would get sapros during this session. And indeed after about 10 runs one of them dropped sapros. This means I killed over a hundred of those cyclops. Now I really need to improve my OA because it’s a real pain to have it this low in act 4.
Weapons to look for
green items: Look for murderous of devouring or else veteran’s of devouring, socketed with shen nong. Murderous gives 5% chance of 25% reduction to enemy’ health great since we have spirit mastery and bonus damage and OA. I found out that polythemus drops nice green cyclops club, got a veteran’s of devouring while farming for sapros. I guess barmanu also drops nice maces but really 10 barmanus seems suicidal.
Legendary weapons: sapros the corruptor.
MI: Rancor. The first time i saw this weapon I didn’t think much about it. 5% chance of 50% reduction of enemy’s health seemed bad. also bosses resist this. But since then i understood spirit mastery a little better and this weapon can be a real killer. You want a least a rancor of devouring which shouldn’t be hard to find. socket it with shen nong. I also have a veteran’s rancor and a rancor of reckless power, I could socket them with anubis wrath, still deciding.. A murderous rancor would be gold, but I’ll have to find one first..
Hades
I got fed up of farming the secret passage for cerberus collar or pendant of immortal rage, reached level 64 by doing so. So I used the eye of reveries to boost my OA and used a ring and an amulet of smiting instead, you can also use mark of ares. Rushed to complete the quests and when I defeated cerberus he dropped the pendant of immortal rage, that was perfect.
Here’s the changes at the end of legendary

Here’s my spellbinder during the final assault against Hades. Hades really didn’t stand a chance. The 4 elisian warriors were still alive. Sorry for the lag though..

Base attributes:
STR: 326
INT: 50
DEX: 350
So there it is, you can easily farm Hades on xmax with this setup. Only level 64 with all this farming. You have a lot of time to improve your gear now. Will be investing more points in strength and maybe in health.
Final build
Here is my final setup, if you have any questions feel free to ask.
(LINK MISSING!)
Key items
There are 3 key items for the end build: sapros,pendant of immortal rage and cerberus collar. Your weapon choice will depend on what combo you have. If you have OA problems which could happen if you use pendant of immortal rage favor veteran’s, murderous, trecherous prefix on weapons. Your OA should be 800 or above. If you have cerberus collar you OA problem should be solved then favor murderous prefix for the 5% chance of 25% reduction to enemy’s health and damage bonus.
I reccomend you having two weapons, one for trash mobs and one which you will swap for boss fights.
For trash mobs
Get murderous, veteran’s, tyrant’s of reckless power, anihilation, devouring. Socket it with anubis wrath attack speed completion bonus. If it’s of devouring socket it with valor of achilles attack speed bonus. Same thing if you use a rancor, depending on it’s affixes.

Boss fights
Sapros is your boss killing weapon, it’s the weapon you will swap to fight major bosses. If you don’t have it yet socket whatever weapon of devouring you have, preferably a murderous or a rancor of devouring with shen nong dark medicine, slow attack completion bonus.
guide by Benitot

https://www.kirmiziperfect.com/titan-quest-spellbinder-the-grim-knight-guide/