Master the Occult in Season of Witchcraft (part 2 of 2)

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New Legendary Aspects and Unique Items

New powerful Unique Items and Legendary aspects arrive to enhance your renowned demon crushing prowess.

Barbarian

Mantle of the Mountain’s Fury Unique Chest Armor

Affixes

• Inherent: 100% Hammer of the Ancients damage for 5 seconds after an Earthquake explodes
• 251-444 Armor
• 3-6 Skill Ranks to Hammer of the Ancients
• 2-4 Skill Ranks of Defensive Stance
• 16-22.5% Chance for Earthquake to Deal Double Damage

Power

• Hammer of the Ancients also forms a seismic line that deals its damage and Slows enemies hit by 60-80% for 4 seconds. Earthquakes it passes through explode for their total damage and are consumed.

Of Incendiary Fissures Legendary Aspect

• Your Earthquakes deal 40-60% increased damage and their damage is converted into Fire.

Druid

Malefic Crescent Unique Amulet

Affixes

• Inherent: 25% Resistance to All Elements
• 8-11% Willpower
• 155-200% Werewolf Critical Strike Damage
• 8-15% Movement Speed while Shapeshifting into a Werewolf
• 1-2 Ranks of Feral Aptitude

Power

• The value of your Lupine Ferocity's consecutive Critical Strike Damage is increased to 150-200% against enemies when consecutively Critical Striking.

Of Wolf’s Rain Legendary Aspect

• Casting Hurricane also spawns a smaller hurricane on your Wolves for 8 seconds. These hurricanes deals 5-15% of Hurricane’s damage for each active Wolf.

Of Electrified Claws Legendary Aspect

• Shapeshifting into a new animal form causes a Lightning Bolt to strike a Nearby enemy dealing Lightning damage. Your Lightning Bolts deal 20-40% increased damage and Stun for 2 seconds.

Necromancer

Indira's Memory Unique Pants

Affixes

• Inherent: Casting Bone Spear Reduces Blood Wave's Cooldown by 2 Seconds
• 16-25% Maximum Life
• 82.5-115% Overpower Damage
• 18.5-30% Damage Reduction While Injured
• 2-3 Ranks of Tides of Blood

Power

• Blood Wave is also a Bone Skill that spawns a Bone Prison at its end point and increases your Blood Skill damage by 40-80% for 8 seconds when cast.
• Bone Spear is also a Blood Skill and will drain 10% Maximum Life each cast after hitting an enemy to consume a surrounding Corpse and launch one new Bone Spear from it.

Kessime's Legacy Unique Pants

Affixes

• Inherent: Casting Blood Wave Fortifies You For 70% of Your Maximum Life
• 187-300% Ultimate Damage
• 9.5-2% Damage Reduction While Fortified
• 16-25% Blood Wave Cooldown Reduction
• 23.5-35% Chance for Blood Wave to Deal Double Damage

Power

• Blood Wave now forms a wave on each side of you. Both waves converge at your feet, Pulling In surrounding enemies and exploding for x damage.
• Each time an enemy is hit by a wave, they take 5-10% increased damage from your Blood Waves, up to 150-300% in total.

Of Distilled Anima Legendary Aspect

• While Soulrift is active, you are Unhindered and gain 1% increased Movement Speed per absorbed soul, up to 30-60%. This lasts for 5 seconds after Soulrift ends.

Bone Duster's Legendary Aspect

• Bone Spear is guaranteed to Overpower enemies within Bone Prison and deals 30-50% increased damage to them.

Rogue

Assassin’s Stride Unique Boots

Affixes

• Inherent: Casting a Mobility Skill grants +100% Movement Speed for 2 seconds
• 35-50% Shadow Resistance
• 10-2% Mobility Cooldown Reduction
• 2-4 Skill Ranks to Mobility Skills
• 3-4 Skill Ranks to Shadow Imbuement

Power

• Mobility Skills are always Shadow Imbued with 40-80% increased potency. Lucky Hit: Damaging an Elite or Boss with a Mobility Skill has up to a 40-80% chance to instantly triggers a free Shadow Imbuement explosion.

Slice and Dice Legendary Aspect

• Twisting Blades' initial hit cleaves. Twisting Blades return 25-45% faster.

Bitter Infection Legendary Aspect

• Enemies infected by Shadow Imbuement take 30-70% of its damage every second. Shadow Imbuement deals 30-70%[x] increased damage.

Sorcerer

Strike of Stormhorn Unique Focus

Affixes

• Inherent: Chance for Ball Lightning Projectiles to Cast Twice is Now Chance to Cast a Super Ball Lightning
• 67.5-108.5% Critical Strike Damage
• 155-250% Ball Lightning Projectile Speed
• 1-3 Skill Ranks of Ball Lightning
• 13-17.5% Chance for Ball Lightning Projectiles to Cast Twice

Power

• Ball lightning splashes on contact for 60-100%[x] increased damage and Stunning enemies for 1 second if it reaches its Maximum Range.
• Super Ball Lightnings are larger, deal 125% more damage, have a higher Lucky Hit Chance, and its Stun duration is increased to 3 seconds.

Okun’s Catalyst Unique Focus

Affixes

• Inherent: Ball Lightning Can Be Cast While Moving
• 24-35% Attack Speed for 5 seconds After Casting a Defensive Skill
• 0.5-1.5% Damage Reduction for Each Active Ball Lightning
• 1-3 Skill Ranks of Ball Lightning
• 13-17.5% Chance for Ball Lightning Projectiles to Cast Twice

Power

• Ball Lightning orbits you, creating a static field that damages all enemies within for 140-180% of Ball Lightning’s damage per active ball, and granting Unhindered while the field is active.

Of Mind’s Awakening Legendary Aspect

• Casting a Pyromancy Skill Immobilizes enemies hit for 0.5-1 seconds. Casting a Shock Skill grants a burst of 15-30% Movement speed for 1 second. Casting a Frost Skill grants a Barrier for 3-6% Maximum Life. While Enlightened, each Skill grants all benefits.

Spiritborn

Sustained War-Crozier Unique Quarterstaff

Affixes

• Inherent: 45% Block Chance
• 132-188 Dexterity
• 610-1142 Maximum Life
• 21-35% Chance for Potency Skills to Deal Double Damage
• 2-4 Skill Ranks to Focus Skills

Power

• Your Focus Skills benefit from all their Upgrades, and they increase the damage of your Potency Skills by 10-20% for 8 seconds, up to 100-200%.

Endless Talons Legendary Aspect

• Razor Wings hitting an enemy increases your Eagle Skill damage by 1%[x] for 4 seconds, up to 30-50%[x]. Razor Wing Critical Strikes grant 3 stacks.

Eternal Updates: The Armory, and More

The Armory

The Armory is here to stay! The ability to effortlessly swap between saved builds in town has arrived and will remain a feature in both Eternal and Seasonal Realms after Season of Witchcraft.

The Armory is a brand-new feature which gives you the option to Save, Load, and Name your favorite builds and the option to select those builds to change your Characters current loadout. The buttons to select each will are named after their function. The Armory is Character bound; you’ll have 5 Loadout slots per character.

At a glance from your Loadout, you’ll be viewing Equipment, Skills, selected Paragon Nodes and Glyphs that make up your saved build. Note: changing between Loadout slots with differing Paragon loadouts does not cost Gold.

To use the Armory, start by selecting an empty slot and save your build to begin. Saving your loadout will capture the following: Equipped Items, Paragon Board and Glyphs, Skill Selections, and Class mechanic. The Armory can be accessed across each major city in Sanctuary, and end-game hubs such as the Citadel, Tree of Whispers, and Training Grounds in Kyovashad.

If an item saved in your armory loadout is no longer available—whether from selling, trading, or salvaging—an icon will indicate the item is missing on the Loadout preview.

The Welcome Back Booster is Here to Stay

We’ve made some incredible updates for players on the Eternal Realm, first of which is that the Welcome Back Booster is here to stay. The ability to instantly boost an eternal realm character to Level 50, complete with Legendary Items, and pre-set class skills will now remain as a permanent feature in-game. For more details on the Welcome Back Booster, read our blog here.

Tree of Whispers and General Updates

The Tree of Whispers has a new and improved layout for Season of Witchcraft, which will remain past the Season’s end.

Additionally, each Class mechanic quest completion is now account bound. Once you’ve completed the Class specific quest once, it’ll be completed for any new Character of the same class. You’ll unlock your specific Class mechanic at the Level where the Class mechanic quest would have become available. For example, after completion of the “True Potential” quest for the Rogue, upon reaching Level 15 on your next Rogue character, you’ll automatically unlock the Specialization mechanic.

For those savvy buildcrafters looking for the perfectly rolled item across Sanctuary, unique items with Greater Affixes are improving. When a unique item has more Greater Affixes, the minimum roll of the unique power will be increased per Greater Affix. This better aligns with the overall power of the item, which makes items with 3-4 Greater Affixes feel really impactful.

New and Updated Runes

For Vessel of Hatred players to employ, the Alchemists of Sanctuary have been toiling to craft new sources of arcane power, use these potent sources of magic for dastardly deeds or enlightened benefaction.

Check the Season of Witchcraft patch notes on January 16 to see all balance updates to Runes.

New Ritual Runes

Nagu Legendary Rune

• 100 Offering generated.
• Maintain at least 1 active Summon for 5 seconds, gaining Offering for each up to 6 Summons.

Igni Legendary Rune

• 25 Offering generated.
• Stores offering every 0.3 seconds. Cast a non-Basic Skill to gain the stored offering. (Up to 500 Offering).

New Runes of Invocation

Chac Rare Rune

• Costs 20 Offering
• 220% weapon damage
• Invoke Druid Lightning Bolts, striking a nearby enemy
• Overflow: Spawn more Lightning Bolts

Unlock Rewards with the Season Journey and Battle Pass

As you cleanse Sanctuary’s soil with the constant flow of demon blood, you’ll earn rewards from the Season Journey and Battle Pass.

The Season Journey is broken into Chapters with tasks to complete. As you progress through the Journey, you’ll earn rewards befitting a defender of Sanctuary such as a Resplendent Spark. The Journey also provides Favor—the resource used to climb through the Battle Pass’ Tiers— earnable simply by playing aspects of the game. Completing the Season Journey will give you Dorian the Raven as a Pet to use in-game, our first avian Pet!

Revitalize Your Soul with New Finery

The Season of Witchcraft Battle Pass begins on January 21, 10 a.m. PST and hosts 90 Reward Tiers (28 Free Tiers and 62 Premium Tiers).

Smoldering Ashes earned from the Free Tiers can be spent on Season Blessings that provide helpful bonuses to beat back Hell’s armies. There are 3 new Blessings for Witchcraft:

• Urn of Whispers: Boost the chance to receive a Greater Collection from Whisper rewards.
• Urn of Masterworking: Boosts the chance for existing sources to drop additional Obducite.
• Urn of Rot: Boost the amount of Restless Rot dropped by slain Headrotten. Use Restless Rot to upgrade your Witchcraft Powers.

The bonuses gained from the 5 Season Blessings only last until Season of Witchcraft ends.

If you get the Premium Battle Pass, not only will the rewards of the Free Tiers be yours to wield, but Grand High Witch Armor Set, Platinum, and more also await you, including the Nightwinder Mount and Nightwinder Mount Armor, which unlock at Tier 90. The Accelerated Seasonal Battle Pass also contains 20 Tier Skips and the Magic of Mushrooms Emote.

Acquire Fabled Threads from Tejal’s Shop

We’re dialing up the heat in the Shop with new Equipment, Armor, Accessories, Mounts, and Mount Armor bundles that will have you slaying in style. Starting on January 21 at 12 p.m. PST, visit Tejal to browse her wares—remember to check back often, as she’ll update her stock throughout Season of Witchcraft.

One such rarefied find from the far reaches of Sanctuary is the Daemon Knight bundle for Spiritborn, which contains the Daemon Knight Armor Set, Soulsreap Glaive cosmetic, Exobane Quarterstaff cosmetic, and Diabolical Anthem Marking for all your Spiritborn characters. This bundle can be purchased from Tejal's Shop for 2,800 Platinum.

Community Guides for Season of Witchcraft

If you need sage guidance in your character’s journey throughout the season, look to our Community guides for tips and insights on builds for every class. From early game levelling, all the way to end-game builds, they’ve got you covered!

Visit our trusted Community resources here:

• Maxroll
• Icy Veins
• Wowhead
• PureDiablo
• Mobalytics

Tune in to the Next Developer Update Stream

Our next Developer Update stream begins on January 16 at 11 a.m. PST and details everything for Season of Witchcraft. Join members of the development team as they go through learnings from the December Public Test Realm, system updates, and more.

Visit our official Diablo Twitch, YouTube, X (formerly Twitter), and TikTok channels to watch live! Following the Stream’s conclusion, we’ll post another article with a video of the chat so you can catch up on the details if you miss them.

May the Witches of Hawezar deem you valiant enough to harness their wicked ways.
—The Diablo IV Team

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