Diablo 4 starts the new Season 7 with some bugs. A few of them ensure that certain builds and classes become extremely strong. Actually, Blizzard does not want to intervene with something like that. Here it is obviously necessary and even players are correct.
Which class is it about?
That is why wizards were so strong: With Season 7, the witch powers came as a new season mechanics. These are passive skills and gems that reinforce builds and serve as enormous multipliers.
One of these witch powers is decay. The effect ensures that other witch powers add additional damage over a certain duration. Once the power has increased far enough, she can put opponents immediately.
However, there is obviously a mistake here that leads to absurd scales. The damage figures rise into trillions, even partially negative.
Mekuna, an expert and one of the best diaablo players in the world, shows a fireball building for the magician in a video on YouTube. The build in itself is more likely to be located in midfield or even underneath, but does the group at level 150 without any problems.
Blizzard deactivates the witch power, works on a solution
Now the developers have reacted. As the Community Manager Adam Fletcher explains in the official forum, you are already working on a fix. It should appear in the course of the coming week.
If a bugfix is possible on the server side, it should be all as quickly as possible via hotfix. Otherwise, a fix is postponed shortly after Patch 2.1.1 of February 4, 2025. In the meantime, the witchcraft is now deactivated. You can still get them, but not equip them.
Blizzard actually pursues politics to fix a bug during a season if he influences the game experience of others or the performance. This does not seem to be the case here.
Nevertheless, players, for example on Reddit, agree that a bugfix is the right decision. Another season like Season 6 with the completely broken Spiritborn is not healthy for the game.
Shortly before, Blizzard has fixed a mistake with such a witch power in the current Season 7. And there too, it has hit a class that has been one of the rather weak: The currently best build in Diablo 4 has been so absurd by a bug – Blizzard reacts