Even though its vampire season, Diablo 4 has the next best thing: witches. In the next season, everyone will tap into the eldritch energy deep within themselves and wield unique powers, like summoning a giant frog and a swarm of burning bats.Starting on Jan. 21, Diablo 4 will look a lot different than an action RPG with plain old sorcerers and barbarians running around. Theres a whole grimoire of new unique powers that will disappear when the season ends. And itll be the first time since season 3 that Blizzard is intentionally bending the classic hack-and-slash style of the game instead of solely introducing a new permanent feature although there are a few of those, too.Diablo 4s campaign introduces you to a big, morally ominous tree known as the Tree of Whispers. It whispers unspeakable knowledge to people in exchange for their head when they inevitably die. There are all sorts of reasons the trees been haunted since day one, but in the Season of Witchcraft its losing heads and it needs your help to get them back.Your seasonal character will join the coven of witches that protect it and hunt down the new Headrotten monsters to please the tree. A new seasonal quest will walk you through the details, but youll be traveling to infested regions of the open world to slay Headrotten and learn witch powers. Some of them offer passive bonuses like movement speed or extra damage, while others are more powerful, like the ability to summon a frog that licks monsters with a poisonous tongue and then explodes into more poison. There are also rare Lost Powers that you have to find in dungeons and one of them lets you spin up a tornado made of piranhas called a Piranhado.Blizzard has a list of other quality-of-life improvements coming with the season, including the ability to save and swap between different character build loadouts. Class balance changes are coming, too, and will be discussed on a stream this Thursday. The recent Vessel of Hatred expansion brought the Spiritborn to the game and it didnt take them long to hit record-breaking damage numbers that made the rest of the classes look like fools. Theyre first on the chopping block, but I wouldnt be surprised if the new witch powers send them right back to the top again.