Diablo 4 Season 7 start time, date countdown, rewards, new runes, updates and more

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Diablo 4 Season 7, otherwise known as Season of Witchcraft, is ready to begin. This is an exciting new chapter for the game that is set to introduce a flurry of Witch Doctor skills to D4, albeit without the class. The release date and time countdown for when Diablo 4 Season 7 will start is nearly over, and there’s plenty to look forward to including more free and premium rewards, new runes, and big updates.

Diablo 4 Season 7 release date

The release date for Diablo 4 Season 7, Season of Witchcraft, is January 21st. This is confirmed on the game’s official X account.

Below is everything touted for the new D4 chapter:

  • Witchcraft powers:
    • Harness 25 different powers across different schools of witchcraft:
      • Eldritch (firebat servants)
      • Psyche (vengeful spirit)
      • Growth & Decay (poison frog servant)
      • Lost (Piranhado)
  • The Headrotten (new enemies)
  • Headhunts
  • Occult gems (Seasonal socketables)
  • Enhanced Whispers (more powerful rewards)
  • The armory (save & swap builds)
  • QoL updates:
    • Welcome back boosterClass quest update
    • Greater affix update
  • New uniques and legendaries:
    • 8 new unique items
    • 8 new legendary affixes
  • Runes:
    • Three new runes
    • 15+ updated runes
  • Free battlepass
  • Premium battlepass
  • New pet
  • Accelerated battlepass new emote
Image credit: Blizzard

When does Diablo 4 Season 7 start?

The release time for when Diablo 4 Season 7, Season of Witchcraft, will start is 10AM PT/1PM ET/6PM GMT on January 21st. This start time comes courtesy of Blizzard’s Master The Occult overview.

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Ahead of the upcoming chapter’s launch, Blizzard’s Rod Fergusson said in an interview that future expansions won’t, and shouldn’t be, “isolated stories”. The developer also responded to criticism against D4 and the series’ direction by saying players are too “consumptive” and don’t actually want classic Diablo to return.


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Diablo 4 Season 7 release time US

  • 10AM PT on Tuesday, January 21st
  • 1PM ET on Tuesday, January 21st

Diablo 4 Season 7 start time UK

  • 6PM GMT on Tuesday, January 21st

Countdown

Below is a visual countdown to when D4 Season of Witchcraft will start:

Battle Pass rewards

As per usual, the new D4 chapter will have a free and premium battle pass. There are 90 rewards in total, and this is split into 28 free tiers, and 62 premium tiers.

Per Blizzard, the free tiers include ernable Smoldering Ashes that can be spent on the following Season Blessings:

  • 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.

As for the premium battle pass, there is the Grand High Witch Armor set to unlock. There is also the Nightwinder Mount and Nightwinder Mount Armor, which unlocks at tier 90.

New runes

Below are the three new runes for Diablo 4 Season 7:

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

D4 Season of Witchcraft updates

Blizzard has outlined some general updates for Diablo 4 arriving as part of Season of Witchcraft. For one, the Tree of Whispers has a new and better layout that will stick around past the end of Season 7.

The developer is also making each Class mechanic quest completion account based. This means “Once you’ve completed the Class specific quest once, it’ll be completed for any new Character of the same class”. It also means “You’ll unlock your specific Class mechanic at the Level where the Class mechanic quest would have become available”.

In addition to the above, Blizzard is improving Greater Affixes. Per Blizzard, “When a unique item has more Greater Affixes, the minimum roll of the unique power will be increased per Greater Affix”.

Check out the full patch notes to see all the Season of Witchcraft changes.

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Diablo 4

  • Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X
  • Genre(s): Action, Action RPG, RPG