In Season 7 of Diablo 4, there are new gems that you can socket into your items. How to obtain the Occult Gems and how they work can be found here on MeinMMO.
What are Occult Gems? Occult Gems are the new socketable gems in Season 7 of Diablo 4. The gems grant you additional affixes and complement the witch powers – the new seasonal mechanic. Each gem gives you an additional 160 armor and 8% resistance to all damage types.
Where can I get Occult Gems? According to Blizzard, you can craft the Occult Gems at the “Whispering Tree” with the NPC Gelena. She crafts the gems in exchange for the following items:
- “Fleeting Heads,” which you receive from special seasonal enemies, the “Head Rotters”
- “Restless Rot,” which is essentially the reputation in Season 7 – collected through Whisper tasks and killing “Head Rotters”
- Gem fragments
As of now (January 14, 2025), there are a total of 19 Occult Gems in Season 7. Below, we list all the gems along with their functions.
All 19 Occult Gems and Their Functions
Blizzard has announced a total of 19 Occult Gems and has adjusted them again after the PTR (via Blizzard, January 14, 2025). If more gems are added, we will include them in the listing.
- Scandalous Pact: Your non-unique witch powers of the Abominable gain 25% potency.
- Heart of Anima: Your non-unique witch powers of the Psyche gain 25% potency.
- Wish of the Toadlet: Your non-unique witch powers of Growth and Decay gain 35% potency.
- Phantom Thread: You deal 15% more overwhelming damage to cursed opponents.
- Ancient Seal: Your skills in the categories Agility, Corpses, Incarnation, Mastery, Weapon Master, and Wrath deal 25% more damage to cursed opponents.
- Killing Wind: While you have three or more witch powers of the Abominable equipped, you gain 25% movement speed and 15% critical hit chance.
- Ghost Hour: While you have three or more witch powers of the Abominable equipped, every 5 seconds the next core skill you cast receives the label “Abominable”.
- Furious Enigma: Your unique witch powers deal 40% more damage.
- Voice of the Stars: While you have an aura active, your Ultimate skills receive the label “Grimoire” and deal 10% more damage.
- Crown of Thoughts: While you have three or more witch powers of the Psyche equipped, your Defensive, Macabre, and Trap skills receive a 20% cooldown reduction.
- Spiral Coin: While you have three or more witch powers of the Psyche equipped, you gain a 30% bonus to loss of control duration and a 20% chance for lucky hits.
- Horn of Plenty: While you have three or more witch powers of Growth and Decay equipped, you generate 30% more barrier, gain 30% fortification, and have 30% more thorns.
- Vulture Claw: While you have an aura active, your damage-over-time effects deal their damage 50% faster.
- Stretching Finger: Your summoned creatures deal 15% more direct damage to cursed elite foes.
- Abominable Phylactery: While you have a witch power with the label “Summon” equipped and would take lethal damage, that damage is instead prevented. You then gain a barrier equal to 100% of your max health and disable your witch powers with the label “Summon” for 6 seconds. This effect can occur only once every 75 seconds.
- Friend of the Swamp: While you have three or more witch powers of Growth and Decay selected, you gain 10% primary stat, 10% maximum health, and remain continuously unimpeded.
- Moonlight Protection: For each rank of your equipped unique witch power, you receive 3% damage reduction and 0.5% maximum resistance to all elements.
- Dust Stone: For each of your auras and hexes affecting an opponent, that opponent takes 2.5% more damage from you.
- Hunger Void: While you have an aura active, you pull nearby enemies towards you every 8 seconds.
The Occult Gems are the new mechanic introduced in Season 7 of Diablo 4. Another mechanic is the witch powers. You can utilize the powers of witchcraft and learn special abilities. There are three or four different types of witch powers. More about this can be found here: Diablo 4 Witch Powers: How the mechanic works in Season 7
