A full list of all Malignant Hearts available in Diablo 4
Looking for a full list of all 32 Malignant Hearts in Diablo 4?Diablo 4Season 1 is live, and it brings a powerful new mechanic that can enhance your builds: Malignant Hearts. Malignant Hearts are basically new types ofgems, but they have unique powers that align more with those you get fromLegendary Aspects.
In this guide, we’ll provide a full list of all 32 Malignant Hearts and their effects inDiablo 4Season 1. We’ll then highlight the best Malignant Hearts, so that you know which ones to focus on when crafting a new build over the coming months.
Diablo 4 Malignant Hearts list
Below, you’ll find a full list of all 32 Malignant Hearts available in Diablo 4 Season 1:
Certain Malignant Hearts are already outshining the rest, providing a huge power boost to their respective classes. If you’re hoping to complete all of the Seasonal challenges, including fighting Uber Lilith and reaching level 100, then you’ll need to know which Malignant Hearts will help you most.
Below, we’ll break down the best Malignant Hearts in Diablo 4:
One of the worst effects to have in a Nightmare Dungeon is “Resource Burn”, which makes enemies drain your Primary Resource whenever they deal damage. WithDetermination, you can make Resource Burn far less impactful, with a flat reduction to resource-draining effects and increased Resource Generation.
The Malignant Pactis perhaps the most interesting effect, cycling through three different powers every 20 kills.
For those who use damage over time effects,Creeping Deathis incredibly strong. It boosts damage over time by 30-40% for each different Crowd Control effect on the target, which can clearly stack to massive amounts of damage if you’re a CC-heavy build.
TheCorpse Explosion Necromancerin particular could benefit well from this, if you build around Darkness damage which inflicts over time.
Ignoring Painis unique to the Barbarian, and it’s incredible It gives you a 5-15% chance to ignore incoming damage and instead heal for 17-68 Life. The Life gain is a small amount at higher levels, but the maximum 15% chance to ignore damage is going to prove incredible on every World Tier. Expect this to be an essential Malignant Heart on any Barbarian build throughout Season 1.
Grizzly Rage grants you Unstoppable, which removes any status effects, making it a very strong Ultimate skill. WithThe Unconstrained Beastequipped, you get a 40-60% chance to automatically trigger Grizzly Rage for 3 seconds whenever you are hit with a Stun, Freeze, or Knock Down effect.
That means you will have a roughly 50% chance to automatically negate any of these three status effects, and get the additional effect of Grizzly Rage that boosts your Spirit Regeneration by 28%.
The Great Feastis a brilliant Malignant Heart for any Necromancer in Season 1. However, the effect is slightly different depending on whether you’re using Minions or not.
Those using Minions will have their Essence drained by 1-2 points per second for each Minion. However, all Minions will also deal 50-75% extra damage. Those without Minions will instead get the bonus damage applied directly to themselves, but they’ll drain 5 Essence per second.
It clearly incentivizes using Minions rather than keeping that damage for yourself, but it’s a huge power boost regardless. The Necromancer was already dealing massive damage before Season 1, and this is set to make endgame content even easier.
The Rogue’sVile ApothecaryMalignant Heart gives all of your attacks a 5-15% chance to apply all Imbuement effects at 40-50% of normal potency.
While the Imbuement effects on offer here are weaker than those you’d usually trigger yourself, having up to a 15% chance to activate them for free could massively increase your damage and inflict the Chilled, Poisoned, and Infected status effects all at once.
That wraps up our guide on Diablo 4 Malignant Hearts. If you’re busy researching before you dive into the new Season, then make sure to also take a look at ourDiablo 4 Necromancer builds,Rogue builds,Druid builds,Barbarian builds, andSorcerer buildsguides so that you can find a powerful new playstyle to enjoy. Make sure to also check out ourDiablo 4 interactive mapto find Dungeons,Altars of Lilith, and other important collectibles and POIs throughout the Season.
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