Most Diablo 4 seasons will introduce a new mechanism that is only available in that season in conjunction with the new main storyline of the current season. These mechanisms generally provide you with special powers as your seasonal combat assistants in various ways to help you get a unique combat experience in the new season.
For the recently launched Diablo 4 Season Of Witchcraft, this new mechanism is the power of witchcraft. Although other new content has been introduced in this season, none of them are as attractive as the power of witchcraft. However, if you want to get these powers, you must first complete a pre-quest called Poison in the Roots, and then you can start to obtain these unique witchcraft skills to enhance your character by collecting Grim Favors and Restless Rot.
Based on this, we will introduce you how to solve this task in step-by-step order.
Step 1: Solve The Brazier Puzzle
When you have collected enough Grim Favors through the main quest of Season 7, you can go to Tree of Whispers to start Poison in the Roots quest. Once there, you’ll see three witches trying to perform a ritual, which will allow your character to begin gaining witchcraft power, but the ritual can’t be completed without your help.
It’s worth noting that talking to Gelena in Tree of Whispers not only opens Poison in the Roots but also allows you to make Occult gems with her - provided you have enough materials for making them. But before that, completing the quest is the top priority.
The entire ritual looks like a circle of three braziers and three twisting snakes assembled by the witches, and your first step is to light the braziers around the circle in the order of the old names of Tree of Whispers. The witches will say part of the old names in the correct order, as follows:
- Bottom Left Brazier: Ayh
- Bottom Right Brazier: Yew
- Top Brazier: Oun
After all the braziers are lit correctly, some enemies will appear around, and defeating them in time will drop Diablo 4 Gold and open the next step of the quest for you. Fortunately, these enemies are not very difficult.
Step 2: Get And Use Nangri Blood
In addition to the enemies mentioned above, you will also need to kill the writhing snakes quickly in the ritual circle the moment you light the last brazier. When they die, they will drop an in-game item called Nangri Blood, as well as health potions that can help you fight other subsequent enemies.
After obtaining all three bottles of Nangri Blood, you need to walk along the ritual circle to any of the braziers you just lit and sprinkle Nangri Blood you have along the way as you continue to walk around the circle. Immediately afterwards, as the flame of one of the braziers goes out, the area begins to rumble, which means that Nangri Blood has begun to work.
Next, the real ritual will begin, as you have completed all the steps required to start it. However, to enter the last part of Poison in the Roots quest, you must still resolve a fierce battle.
It is worth noting that the use of Nangri Blood does not need to be selected in advance from the inventory, you can directly scatter it around the ritual circle.
Step 3: Complete The Ritual
As Nangri Blood spreads, enemies that spawn in the area will try to disrupt the purification ritual. All you have to do is kill them to prevent them from entering the ritual circle and contaminating the ritual. These enemies will continue to spawn until the gray bar in the ritual circle is exhausted. You can adjust your attack and defense strategies based on this progress bar.
Since these enemies spawn from all directions, you must try to get as close to the ritual circle as possible to kill any enemies in time. For this reason, it is recommended that you try to use skills that can attack in a large area so that small waves of enemies can be eliminated before they get close to the ritual circle. The class that is most suitable for this stage should be Necromancer, because they can use minions to create obstacles for enemies.
As the progress bar enters the final stage, ordinary enemies will begin to give way to more dangerous elite monsters. Since they have unique properties and abilities, and these abilities will appear randomly, you need to be fully prepared before they arrive.
Fortunately, you don’t have to consume extra energy to protect the witches in the ritual circle, because they will not be attacked by enemies, so you don’t have to worry about them dying throughout the ritual. At the end of the ritual, a small boss will appear, spawning and commanding more remaining minions until the gray progress bar in the ritual circle becomes empty, at which point all enemies will immediately die and drop rewards for you, which also means the successful completion of the mission.
In addition to the normal rewards, you will also receive a Legendary Cache, which contains good loot, and may even contain a new unique item or other powerful gear in Season 7. If you talk to the witch again next, they will hint that you may encounter more rituals later.
In the following season journey, you can exchange more witchcraft power by giving more Grim Favors to these witches, and continue to advance the main storyline of Season Of Witchcraft to get more rewards by finding and completing more main quests. Good luck!
