Malignant coming soon to Diablo 4 on July 20 at 10 A.M. This season introduces 32 Malignant Hearts that provide build-altering bonuses. How it may or may not change our builds? In our D4 season 1 Malignant Hearts guide, we talk about requirements and tips to craft for all classes.

Diablo 4 Season 1 Malignant Heart Guide - How To Get Malignant Hearts For All Classes In D4

There are four types of Hearts, each with its own hue and special ability. For the length of Season of the Malignant, the standard Sockets of Jewelry you receive will be replaced with unique Malignant sockets whose hues correlate to the colors of each Heart. Since wrathful hearts are so uncommon, they can be put in any available Socket. You can collect these various heart types when you battle certain seasonal monsters, and you can also salvage them to use in making new ones. What it means is it’s going to be a relatively massive power creep in the first season. Read our Diablo IV Malignant Heart crafting guide, we tell you how to get them fast.

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Diablo 4 Malignant Heart Tier List - Best Malignant Powers Ranked In D4 Season 1

Diablo 4 Season 1 Malignant Heart Effects

Each of the 32 Malignant Hearts packs a punch with the bonuses they provide you. Wielding the very core of the rot-infused husks you’ve slain across Sanctuary is essential to bringing about safety. Below you’ll find a full list of each Malignant Heart broken out by Class. For our example, the stats you see reflect what a Level 20 character would receive as a drop. As your Seasonal character grows in Level, so too will the power of the Malignant Hearts that drop for them. Unless specified, the Heart can be acquired by playing in any World Tier in the Seasonal Realm.

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• The Picana (Vicious, Offensive): Critical Strikes electrically charge the enemy for 0.75-2.50 seconds, causing lightning to arc between them and any other charged enemies dealing 68-136 Lightning damage.

• The Dark Dance (Vicious, Offensive-World Tier III): Every 5 seconds while above 60% Life, Core Skills cost 68-51 Life instead of your Primary Resource. Skills that consume Life deal 10-20% increased damage.

• Tempting Fate (Vicious, Offensive-World Tier III): You gain 40-60% Critical Strike Damage but your Non-Critical Strikes deal 20-15% less damage.

• The Lionheart (Brutal, Defensive): You gain 10% Barrier Generation. You Heal 3-7 Life per second while you have an active Barrier.

• Revenge (Brutal, Defensive-World Tier III): 10-20% of incoming damage is instead suppressed. When you use a Defensive, Subterfuge or a Macabre skill, all suppressed damage is amplified by 250% and explodes, dealing up to 1360-2040 Fire damage to Nearby enemies.

• Prudent Heart (Brutal, Defensive-World Tier III): You become Immune for 2.0-4.0 seconds after you lose more than 20% Life in a single hit. This effect can only occur once every 110 seconds.

• Determination (Devious, Utility): Resource draining effects are 40-50% less effective. In addition, a gain of 3.0-8.0% increased Resource Generation.

• Retaliation (Devious, Utility-World Tier III): Deal 510-680 Fire damage to surrounding enemies whenever a Crowd Control effect is removed from you.

• The Calculated (Devious, Utility-World Tier III): After spending 150-200 of your Primary Resource, your next attack Stuns enemies hit for 2 seconds.

• The Malignant Pact (Wrathful, Super): Cycle through a Malignant bonus every 20 kills:

• Vicious: Gain 20% Attack Speed.

• Devious: Core and Basic Skills have a 15% chance to fully restore your Primary Resource.

• Brutal: Every 21 seconds, gain a Barrier absorbing 85-102 damage.

• Creeping Death (Wrathful, Super): Your damage over time effects are increased by 30-40% for each different Crowd Control effect on the target. Unstoppable monsters and Staggered bosses instead take 110-130% increased damage from your damage over time effects.

• The Barber (Wrathful, Super-World Tier III): Critical Strikes and all subsequent damage within 2.0-4.0 seconds is absorbed by your target. Then, the absorbed damage erupts onto surrounding enemies. Stored damage is increased by 10% per second.

Barbarian

• Focused Rage (Vicious, Offensive): After spending 100-60 Fury within 2 seconds, your next Non-Basic Skill's Critical Strike Chance is increased by 20-30%.

• Resurgent Life (Brutal, Defensive): While below 40-60% Life, you receive 50-60% more Healing from all sources.

• Punishing Speed (Devious, Utility): Your Skills have a 20-30% chance to Knock Down all enemies for 1.25 seconds when that Skill's Attack Speed is higher than 35-20%.

• Ignoring Pain (Wrathful, Super-World Tier IV): Incoming damage has a 5-15% chance of being ignored and instead Healing you for 17-68.

Druid

• The Moonrage (Vicious, Offensive): Kills have a 5% chance to summon a Wolf Companion to your side for 20-30 seconds. In addition, gain +3 to Wolves.

• The Agitated Winds (Brutal, Defensive): When 8-13 Close enemies, automatically cast Cyclone Armor. This cannot occur more than once every 10-20 seconds.

• Inexorable Force (Devious, Utility): Up to 30-50 Distant enemies are pulled toward you while you have an Ultimate Skill active.

• The Unconstrained Beast (Wrathful, Super-World Tier IV): When you are hit with a Stun, Freeze or Knock Down effect, there is a 40-60% chance to automatically activate Grizzly Rage for 3 seconds.

Necromancer

• The Sacrilegious (Vicious, Offensive): Walking near a Corpse automatically activates an equipped Corpse Skill every second, dealing 40-30% reduced damage.

• The Decrepit Aura (Brutal, Defensive): When at least 5 enemies are near you, gain an aura that automatically curses surrounding enemies with Decrepify for 5-15 seconds.

• Frozen Terror (Devious, Utility): Lucky Hit: Up to a 10-20% chance of inflicting Fear for 2.5 seconds. Feared enemies are Chilled for 20% every second.

• The Great Feast (Wrathful, Super-World Tier IV): Each Minion drains 1.0-2.0 Essence per second but deals 50-75% increased damage. With no Minions, this bonus applies to you and drains 5 Essence per second.

Rogue

Cluster Munitions (Vicious, Offensive): Lucky Hit: You have up to a 20% chance to launch 3 Stun Grenades that deal 26-32 Physical damage and Stun enemies for 0.50 seconds.

Trickery (Brutal, Defensive): When you use a Subterfuge Skill, leave behind an unstable Shadow Decoy Trap that Taunts enemies. The Shadow Decoy Trap will explode after 6.0 seconds dealing 680-1020 Shadow damage. Cannot occur more than once every 5 seconds.

The Clipshot (Devious, Utility): Lucky Hit: Up to a 20-40% chance for your Cutthroat Skills to Slow by 40% for 3 seconds and your Marksman Skills to Knock Back enemies.

The Vile Apothecary (Wrathful, Super-World Tier IV): Your attacks have a 5-15% chance to apply all Imbuement effects at 40-50% of normal potency.

Sorcerer

• Tal’Rasha (Vicious, Offensive): For each unique element you deal damage with, you deal 7-12% increased damage for 3-10 seconds.

• Spellbreaking (Brutal, Defensive): After taking Elemental damage, gain 20-40% Resistance to that element for 5 seconds.

• Spite (Devious, Utility): When you are afflicted with a Crowd Control effect, there is a 20-40% chance that the same enemy and enemies around you are also afflicted with the same effect for 3 seconds.

• Omnipower (Wrathful, Super-World Tier IV): Core Skills that launch a projectile consume all of your Mana. For every 45-35 extra Mana consumed, you launch an additional projectile, and the damage is increased by 3.0-5.0%.

Diablo 4 Season 1 Malignant Heart Quests

Malignant Monsters are an offshoot of Lilith's evil schemes that have emerged as a new menace. These rotting monstrosities rampage aimlessly around Sanctuary, assaulting anybody within striking distance. The people of Sanctuary, distraught and in terror without the Church of Light's leadership, have looked elsewhere for comfort. 

Cormond, a former priest of the Cathedral of Light, will assist you learn how to capture the Malignant Hearts powering these terrible animals and transform them into build-altering abilities as you research this enigmatic ailment in a new Questline. You must eradicate the cancerous growth from its roots before it spreads and corrupts the entirety of Sanctuary.

You must have finished the campaign on the Eternal Realm or be in the midst of the Season on the Seasonal Realm with at least one character for the new Burning from Within questline to become available. Go to Kyovashad to meet up with Cormond once you're ready to take on the newest danger to Sanctuary.

How To Get Malignant Hearts In Diablo 4 Season 1?

You can't hope to win an argument with a Malignant Monster unless you can turn their Hearts against them. When a Partially Corrupted enemy is killed, it will drop a Malignant Heart. Hearts of the same hue as the monsters they represent are dropped by defeated Malignant Monsters. Capturing one of them requires a ceremony using the Cage of Binding, which may be obtained through the Season's Questline. Enemies who have been somewhat corrupted are a stubborn lot. If a Partially Corrupted opponent tries to steal the Heart, they will be reincarnated as a Fully Corrupted adversary. When vanquished, these fetid agglomerations will drop a Malignant Heart that may be used in place of Normal Gems in Malignant sockets on your Jewelry.

Vicious Heart (Offensive Power)

Drops from Vicious Malignant Monsters or crafted via Cormond’s wagon.

Brutal Heart (Defensive Power)

Drops from Brutal Malignant Monsters or crafted via Cormond’s wagon.

Devious Heart (Utility Power)

Drops from Devious Malignant Monsters or crafted via Cormond’s wagon.

Wrathful Heart (Super Power)

Drops from Wrathful Malignant Monsters or crafted via Cormond’s wagon.

How To Craft Malignant Hearts In Diablo 4 Season 1?

The power of their Malignant Hearts will increase as you face more dangerous Malignant Creatures. If there is a Heart you don't want, you can exchange it for Ichor of the matching hue at Cormond's wagon. Ichor, gathered from weaker Malignant Monsters, is used in the construction and enhancement of Malignant Hearts. When you save a Vicious, Brutal, or Devious Heart, you'll gain 5-15 Ichor, while saving a Wrathful Heart will net you 2-5 Ichor.

It takes 35 Ichor of the other two major Heart colors to create a random Heart of a certain kind. Forging a Vicious heart, for instance, requires 35 Brutal Ichor and 35 Devious Ichor. In exchange, your character will gain a random amount of Vicious hearts proportional to its Level. The Heart you generate at random will always be either for your Class or will be Class-neutral.