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Diablo IV

Diablo 4 Malignant Hearts List, Effects, and Class Usage

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Craig Robinson

With the Diablo 4 Season 1 launch, Blizzard has revealed what to expect from the new Malignant Hearts feature. These new Malignant Hearts are new powers players can socket into special items, which will be awarded once you finish the seasonal quest, and begin to collect hearts from Corrupted enemies and Malignant Tunnels. If you’re interested in finding out which ones you want to get for your build, here’s a Diablo 4 Malignant Hearts list, containing all hearts in Diablo 4 Season 1.

Diablo 4 Malignant Hearts List: All 32 Hearts And Their Effects

Here is a list of all 32 Diablo 4 Malignant Hearts, showing you what they are and what you need to do to get them. Image via Blizzard Entertainment.

In total, you will find 32 Diablo 4 Malignant Hearts on this list. These 32 Hearts are split into four groups of eight, with them all functioning slightly differently. The four groups are called Vicious, Brutal, Devious, and Wrathful. Vicious is your more offensive-themed Malignant Hearts, while Brutal are defensive powers, and Devious are utility themed. The last Malignant Heart theme is Wrathful, which are considered more ultimate themed gems, which are only seen on World Tier 4 or higher, making them the more big ticket hearts, if you will.

Malignant Heart Type Effect Class
"The Picana" iconThe 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. All
"The Dark Dance" iconThe 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. All
"Tempting Fate" iconTempting Fate Vicious Offensive-World Tier III: You gain 40-60% Critical Strike Damage but your Non-Critical Strikes deal 20-15% less damage. All
"Focused Rage" iconFocused 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%. Barbarian
"The Moonrage" iconThe 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. Druid
"The Sacrilegious" iconThe Sacrilegious Vicious Offensive: Walking near a Corpse automatically activates an equipped Corpse Skill every second, dealing 40-30% reduced damage. Necromancer
"Cluster Munitions" iconCluster 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. Rogue
"Tal’Rasha" iconTal’Rasha Vicious Offensive: For each unique element you deal damage with, you deal 7-12% increased damage for 3-10 seconds. Sorcerer
"The Lionheart" iconThe Lionheart Brutal Defensive: You gain 10% Barrier Generation. You Heal 3-7 Life per second while you have an active Barrier. All
"Revenge" iconRevenge 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. All
"Prudent Heart" iconPrudent 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. All
"Resurgent Life" iconResurgent Life Brutal Defensive: While below 40-60% Life, you receive 50-60% more Healing from all sources. Barbarian
"The Agitated Winds" iconThe Agitated Winds Brutal Defensive: When 8-13 Close enemies, automatically cast Cyclone Armor. This cannot occur more than once every 10-20 seconds. Druid
"The Decrepit Aura" iconThe Decrepit Aura Brutal Defensive: When at least 5 enemies are near you, gain an aura that automatically curses surrounding enemies with "Decrepify" iconDecrepify for 5-15 seconds. Necromancer
"Trickery" iconTrickery 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. Rogue
"Spellbreaking" iconSpellbreaking Brutal Defensive: After taking Elemental damage, gain 20-40% Resistance to that element for 5 seconds. Sorcerer
"Determination" iconDetermination Devious Utility: Resource draining effects are 40-50% less effective. In addition, gain 3.0-8.0% increased Resource Generation. All
"Retaliation" iconRetaliation Devious Utility-World Tier III: Deal 510-680 Fire damage to surrounding enemies whenever a Crowd Control effect is removed from you. All
"The Calculated" iconThe Calculated Devious Utility-World Tier III: After spending 150-200 of your Primary Resource, your next attack Stuns enemies hit for 2 seconds. All
"Punishing Speed" iconPunishing 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%. Barbarian
"Inexorable Force" iconInexorable Force Devious Utility: Up to 30-50 Distant enemies are pulled toward you while you have an Ultimate Skill active. Druid
"Frozen Terror" iconFrozen 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. Necromancer
"The Clipshot" iconThe 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. Rogue
"Spite" iconSpite 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. Sorcerer
"The Malignant Pact" iconThe 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. All
"Creeping Death" iconCreeping 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. All
"The Barber" iconThe 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. All
"Ignoring Pain" iconIgnoring Pain Wrathful Super-World Tier IV: Incoming damage has a 5-15% chance of being ignored and instead Healing you for 17-68. Barbarian
"The Unconstrained Beast" iconThe 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. Druid
"The Great Feast" iconThe 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. Necromancer
"The Vile Apothecary" iconThe 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. Rogue
"Omnipower" iconOmnipower 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%. Sorcerer

And there you have it. You now know what all the Diablo 4 Malignant Hearts do, so you can start theory-crafting the builds you want to run in Season 1!

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    Blizzard Entertainment
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    PC, PS4, PS5, XB One, XB X|S
  • Genre
    Action RPG
  • Guide Release
    15 March 2023
  • Last Updated
    11 November 2023
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