Season of Witchcraft Details
New Seasonal Questline
The new questline this season features the Witches of Hawezar, where you'll collaborate with their coven to help track down the missing Heads of Diablo 4 Gold the Tree of Whispers. To begin the questline, you'll need to go to Gea Kul and speak to the Witch Gelena.
Witchcraft Powers: During your journey along the seasonal questline, you'll unlock the powers of Witchcraft, where you'll find 3 schools of magic to learn:
Eldritch: Wield magic that harnesses destructive energies.
Psyche: Wield the defensive powers of the mind and spirit to create visions, focus your attacks, and induce madness in your enemies.
Growth & Decay
Wield living magic that both heals and harms, boosting Life, Resource. These incantations can create horrific diseases and disruptions.
You might also find long-forgotten magic, and each school will allow you to experiment in different ways. To learn Witchcraft, you'll need to earn a Seasonal reputation with the Coven by completing the new Whisper bounties and earning Restless Rot by defeating Headrotten enemies.
With this currency, upgrade the Altars that you'll find beneath the Tree of Whispers to unlock new powers.
Eldritch Powers
Description
Firebat Servants:A deadly swarm of Firebats swarm enemies every 3 seconds, inflicting 20% total Fire damage over 1 total attack. At Higher Ranks: Enemies are Stunned for 3 seconds after being hit 5 times by your Firebat Servants.
Abyssal Resonance Ev: Every 250 Resources spent, release an explosion dealing 400% Shadow damage. Each explosion triggered within 10 seconds of the last increases the size and damage by 130%. Stacking up to 3 times. At Rank 10: The third explosion pulls enemies towards you before detonating.
Wave of Woe:Release a Wave of Woe when damaging an enemy with your skills. Wave of Woe deals an additional X Shadow damage and echoes this damage to all other nearby enemies of the same type. At Rank 5: Damage is increased by 15% each time damage is echoed and is guaranteed to echo at least 5 times. May strike the same target multiple times.
Purging Touch:Eldritch Effects X increased damage against Headrotten. At Rank 10: This damage bonus now extends to all monsters.
Shaken Soul: Eldritch Effects apply Vulnerable to enemies for X seconds. At Rank 10: Damage from Psyche and Growth & Decay Effects will also apply Vulnerable at half the duration.
Hex of Flames: Lucky Hit: You have up to an X chance to apply Hex of Flames. Hex of Flames deals 40% additional Fire damage each time you deal damage to the target. At Rank 7: Hex of Flames explodes, dealing damage to all nearby enemies when you land a Critical Strike.
Doom Orb: An ominous orb of pure Eldritch energy circles you, damaging any enemy it touches for 400% 300% Fire damage. Doom Orb may launch itself at distant enemies before returning. At Rank 5: Kills or damage to Bosses empower the orb’s damage by 5%. After 100%, the orb explodes, dealing 5,200 damage to nearby enemies before reforming 3 seconds later.
Psyche Powers
Description
Life Li: nk. Automatically link your life force with up to 3 nearby enemies. X of the damage you take is shared with the linked targets as physical damage. Cannot Life Link to enemy Players. At Rank 15: For 10 seconds after using a Defensive, Macabre of Subterfuge Skill, any linked damage will be a guaranteed Critical Strike.
Hex of Shattering: Damage done by your Witchcraft Effects afflicts enemies with Hex of Shattering, causing them to deal X reduced damage for 5 seconds. At Rank 8: When any Hex Effect is applied to Headrotten, all damage will be guaranteed Critical Strikes for 5 seconds.
Aura of Misfortune: Enemies near you have X chance for their attacks to be interrupted. Does not work on bosses. At Rank 5: Aura of Misfortune increases your Movement Speed by 5% and Slows enemies by 30%.
Aura of Lament: When you first strike an enemy, it is afflicted with an Aura of Lament that slows it and other nearby enemies by 70%. For each enemy inside Aura of Lament, you gain 3 Primary Resourcess each second. If the initial enemy die s,the Aura of Lament is passed onto another nearby enemy, retaining the duration. Lasts X seconds. Only 1 enemy may be afflicted at a time. Imay onlyly occur every 30 seconds.
Vengeful Spirit: Every 19 Seconds, a Vengeful Spirit Servant appears for X seconds. While active, all damage taken is instead taken by the spirit. Vengeful Spirit Servant deals 750% damage. At Rank 5: When the Vengeful Spirit’s Life is fully depleted, it rushes towards up to 8 enemies, dealing 2,000 Shadow damage.
Twilight Warding: Every X seconds, gain a Barrier for 5 seconds,bsorbing 100 12: Twilight Warding reflects enemy projectiles while active.
Growth & Decay Powers
Description
Poison Frog Servant: Summon a Poison Frog Servant that attacks and Poisons enemies for 150% damage over 3 seconds. On death, the frog explodes violently, dealing X Poison instantly damage to nearby enemies. This explosion will always Critically Strike. At Rank 5: Poison Frog attacks will pull enemies towards itself and Taunt enemies for 1 second.
Soul Harvest: feeds upon the life force of nearby enemies whenever you use a skill with a cooldown, increasing your primary stat by 3% per monster for X seconds. At Rank 9, Soul Harvest does not lose duration so long as enemies are nearby.
Hex of Whispers: Dealing damage to an enemy afflicts them with Hex of Whispers that deals X Shadow damage the next time damage is dealt. Afterward, Hex of Whispers will jump to another enemy up to a maximum of 6 times. Hex of Whispers may only be applied once every 5 seconds. At Rank 7: After bouncing onto 6 enemies, the hex bounces back to you, granting 15% Fortify and removing all crowd control and negative status effects.
Decay Augmentation: Your Witchcraft Effects deal X of the damage dealt over 5 seconds. The damage type is based on your class. At Rank 10: When your damage-over-time effects exceed 85% of the target’s total Life, they immediately die.
Grow: After casting an Ultimate Skill, your Servants, Minions, and Companions are empowered with dark magics. Growing larger and deals X bonus damage. Lasts 15 seconds. At Rank 11: Your Servants, Minions, and Companions gain 100% Critical Strike Chance while enlarged.
Aura of Siphoning: Conjure an aura of decay that deals 80% Poison damage to enemies every second. At Rank 10: Each time the Aura of Siphoning deals damage, you are healed for 1% of your Maximum Life.
The Cycle Dealing any damage with your skills has a 15% chance to grow a flower from the ground. When an enemy is near, the flower deals X Poison damage to that enemy over 5 seconds. If an ally is near, the flower Heals for 6% Maximum Life. The flower withers away after use. A flower may grow once every 2 seconds per enemy. At Rank 5: The damage and healing affect all enemies or cheap Diablo 4 Gold allies near the flower.