The Witchcraft system is the main focus of Season 7, allowing you to access strong mystical powers categorized into three schools of sorcery. These powers can be bought, upgraded, and used to complete the tougher season challenges.
You will most likely need to complete the seasonal questline to unlock the Witchcraft system. Additional details will be added as they become available.
Witchcraft System
Witchcraft is the new core mechanic for Season 7. You can equip 6 Witch Powers: 5 standard powers and 1 unique power. Drawing from the dark magic of Hawezar, these powers can improve your character builds, working similarly to how Vampiric Powers functioned in Season 2.
To manage your Witchcraft Powers, a dedicated tab is available in the Character window. Unlocking these powers requires visiting the Coven’s Altars at the Tree of Whispers, but upgrades can be performed directly in your inventory.
Three Schools of Hawezar Sorcery
Witchcraft features 24 Witch Powers, divided into three main schools and a set of rare Lost Powers. Each school focuses on specific themes:
- Eldritch Powers (7 Powers): Offensive powers using destructive energies and polymorphy. They are characterized by the purple swirl/fire on their icon. Examples include summoning bats, dealing elemental damage, and triggering explosions.
- Psyche Powers (6 Powers): Defensive and debuff-focused abilities that manipulate the mind and spirit. You can recognize those powers by the pink star on their icons. These provide barriers, reduce incoming damage, and interrupt enemy attacks.
- Growth & Decay Powers (7 Powers): Powers that can heal and harm. They are easy to recognize with the green skull on the interface. They can summon poisonous frogs, increase the power of your servants, minions, and companions, or heal yourself as you deal damage.
- Lost Powers (4 Powers): These are more rare and versatile. You can find them with the blue animal skull on their icons. They can boost the effectiveness of other Witchcraft powers.
Among the 24 powers, 4 are Unique Powers (one per school and one Lost Power). Unique Powers are harder to obtain and limited to Rank 5, while standard powers can be upgraded to Rank 20.
Witchcraft Powers
Eldritch Powers
| Power Name & Type | Power Description | Power-Up Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Firebat Servants (Summon) | A deadly swarm of Firebats swarm enemies every 3 seconds, inflicting 20% total Fire damage over 1 total attacks. | At Rank 6 and above: Enemies are stunned for 3 seconds after being hit 5 times by your Firebat Servants. |
| Abyssal Resonance | Every 250 Resource 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 and above: The 3rd 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 and above: 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 deal x% increased damage against Headrotten. | At Rank 10 and above: This damage bonus now extends to all monsters. |
| Shaken Soul | Eldritch Effects apply Vulnerable to enemies for x seconds. | At Rank 10 and above: Damage from Psyche and Growth & Decay Effects will also apply Vulnerable at half the duration. |
| Hex of Flames (Hex) | Lucky Hit: You have up to a x% chance to apply Hex of Flames. Hex of Flames deals 400% additional Fire damage each time you deal damage to the target. | At Rank 7 and above: Hex of Flames explodes dealing damage to all nearby enemies when you land a critical strike. |
| Doom Orb (Unique) | An ominous orb of pure Eldritch energy circles you damaging any enemy it touches for 400% Fire damage. Doom orb may launch itself at distant enemies before returning. | At Rank 5 and above: Kills or damage to bosses empower the orb’s damage by 5%. After 100%, the Orb explodes, dealing 5200 damage to nearby enemies before reforming 3 seconds later. |
Psyche Powers
| Power Name & Type | Power Description | Power-Up Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Twilight Warding | Every x seconds, gain a Barrier for 5 seconds absorbing 100 damage. | At Rank 12 and above: Twilight Warding reflects enemy projectiles while active. |
| Life Link | 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 and above: For 10 seconds after using a Defensive, Macabre or Subterfuge Skill, any linked damage will be a guaranteed critical strike. |
| Hex of Shattering (Hex) | 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 and above: When a Hex effect is applied to Headrotten, all damage will be guaranteed critical strikes for 5 seconds. |
| Aura of Misfortune (Aura) | Enemies near you have a x% chance for their attacks to be interrupted. Does not work on bosses. | At Rank 5 and above: Auro of Misfortune increases your Movement Speed by 5% and Slows enemies by 30%. |
| Aura of Lament (Aura) | 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 of Aura of Lament, you gain 3 primary Resource each second. If the initial enemy dies Aura of Lament is passed onto another nearby enemy retaining the duration. Lasts x seconds. Only one enemy may be afflicted at a time. May only occur every 30 seconds. | At Rank 15 and above: You may now apply Aura of Lament to 2 enemies at a time. |
| Vengeful Spirit (Unique, Summon) | 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 and above: When the Vengeful Spirit’s Life is fully depleted, it rushes towards up to 8 enemies healing 2000 Shadow damage. |
Growth and Decay Powers
| Power Name & Type | Power Description | Power-Up Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Poison Frog Servant (Summon) | 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 and above: Poison Frog attacks will pull enemies towards itself and taunt enemies for 1 second. |
| Soul Harvest | Feed 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 and above: Soul Harvest does not lose duration so long as enemies are nearby. |
| Hex of Whispers (Hex) | Dealing damage to an enemy afflicts them with Hex of Whispers that deal x Shadow damage the next time damage is dealt. Afterwards, 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 and above: 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 and above: When your damage over time effect exceeds 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 in size and dealing x% bonus damage. Lasts 15 seconds. | At Rank 11 and above: Your servants, minions, and companions gain 100% critical strike chance while enlarged. |
| Aura of Siphoning (Aura) | Conjure an aura of decay that deals 50% poison damage to enemies every second. | At Rank 10 and above: Each time Aura of Siphoning deals damage, you are healed for 1% of Maximum Life. |
| The Cycle (Unique) | 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 6.0% maximum life. The flower withers away after use. A flower may grow once every 2 seconds per enemy. | At Rank 5 and above: The damage and healing affects all enemies or allies near the flower. |
Lost Powers
| Power Name & Type | Power Description | Power-Up Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Breath of the Coven | Dealing damage or applying a Crowd control effect with any of your witchcraft effects increases your Attack speed by x% for 10 seconds, stacking once per unique Witchcraft effect. Witchcraft effects are Eldritch, psyche, and Growth & Decay. | At Rank 8 and above: Gain 40% Lucky hit chance while bonuses from eldritch, psyche, growth & decay are active at once. |
| Hex Specialization (Hex) | Increase the potency of your Hex effects by x%. | At Rank 10 and above: Increases the critical strike chance by 10% against enemies afflicted by your Hex effects. |
| Aura Specialization (Aura) | The size of your Aura effects are increased by x%. | At Rank 10 and above: Increase the critical strike damage by 50% against enemies inside your Aura effects. |
| Piranhado (Unique, Summon, Hex, Aura) | When an enemy is afflicted by both Hex and an Aura Effect, a Piranhado is summoned, pulling enemies towards it and dealing x physical damage over 12 seconds. May occur once every 20 seconds. | At Rank 5 and above: Piranhado moves itself towards nearby enemies. |
How to Acquire Witch Powers
In order to access Witchcraft, you must collect a new seasonal currency called Restless Rot. This currency can be spent at the Coven Altars near the Tree of Whispers to unlock Witchcraft Powers.
Initially, not all six Witchcraft Power slots will be available. You will need to progress through the Coven’s Favor reputation board to unlock additional slots and gain access to more Witchcraft Powers. Prioritize earning Restless Rot and building Coven’s Favor to fully unlock this system.
Restless Rot Currency
Witch Powers are unlocked using a new seasonal currency, Restless Rot, which can be obtained by:
- Defeating Headrotten enemies in the new seasonal zone, Headhunts.
- Completing Rootholds, micro-dungeons accessed with Whisper Wood sigils found in Whisper Caches and Silent Chests.
- Finishing Whisper Bounties requiring Headrotten kills.
Coven’s Altars
Visit the Coven’s Altars near the Tree of Whispers to craft Witch Powers using Restless Rot. Altars are divided into the three schools previously mentioned:
- Altar of Eldritch
- Altar of Psyche
- Altar of Growth and Decay
Forgotten Altars (Lost Powers)
Lost Powers require Forgotten Altars, which are hidden inside specific dungeons across Sanctuary. Once the dungeon locations are confirmed, we will update the guide.
Upgrading Witchcraft Powers
Once acquired, Witch Powers can then be upgraded directly in your Witchcraft inventory tab. Standard powers scale up to Rank 20, while unique powers cap at Rank 5. Try to focus on upgrading the powers that work best with your chosen build.
It is not possible to reset a Witch Power, so spend your currency carefully!
