We know pretty much everything we know Diablo 4's Season of Witchcraft, the upcoming seventh season of the game. Blizzard recently appeared all new content, and big changes coming to the game with the new season.
Last night, the Diablo team held their first livestream of the year to dig a little deeper into some of the finer details of class balances, gameplay tweaks, and many of the updates that have been made . from December PTR.
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Class rebalancing is always one of the most exciting aspects of any new Diablo 4 season. Season of Witchcraft is no different, and it is especially true in this case because this is the first season where the new Spiritborn class is going to see some big changes.
The Spiritborn is the class introduced by the Vessel of Hate expansion. It launched to coincide with the start of Season 6, so the class hasn't yet spent enough time in players' hands to confirm any major changes to the way it plays.
Once people started playing with it, however, it became clear that it was far and away the most powerful class in that season. Even putting aside the stupid prank players took advantage of it early (before they settled)the real power of the The various properties of Spiritborn just put it a row above the rest.
Instead of changing that meta mid-season, Blizzard decided to let players have their fun with the Spiritbornbut he warned that much of what players relied on to create their room-clearing properties will have changed in Season 7.
Well, we are now days away from the end of Season 6 and the beginning of Season 7, and of course the Spiritborn has had much of its power removed. The only surprise? It still looks like one of the most powerful classes!
The Spiritborn was already strong in the 2.1 PTR patch, and Blizzard hasn't made any major changes to that version – other than fixing unexpected synergies that caused season 6 power spikes. That said, Razor Wings will have a new feature building. play with, as well as a new look that should make that build more feasible.
On the flip side of that, the Sorcerer has emerged as the weakest class in the Season 7 PTR, so Blizzard took a handful of its victims. Searing Heat, and Icefall are two legendary Paragon nodes that got some love, too, mainly to make them compatible with a wider range of builds. Sorcerers are also getting two Uniques this season that seem to be designed for lightning builds.
Elsewhere in the field, other classes have seen a few tweaks. The Druid has seen what could be the biggest change yet. The early game of the class has traditionally been characterized by slow resource regeneration. Season 7 flattens that curve, thanks in part to some updates to the Spirit Boon. Blurred Beast has been reworked (again) to help shred build as well.
Barbarian's Hammer of the Ancients has been tweaked again, which should add to the power enabled by the unique new chest added to the game – for your earthquake building needs. Whirlwind has also seen numerical buffs.
For all the nitty gritty details, check it out the 2.1.0 patch notes on the official blog. The season of Witchcraft begins on Tuesday, January 21st.
