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News Tag: Diablo 4 Malignant Hearts

  • Diablo 4: How To Get The Most Out Of Your Malignant Hearts In Season 1?

    Posted: Aug 03, 2023

    Here, we’re gonna go over Season 1, the Malignant. We’re gonna learn all about the Caged Hearts and the new questline, and, of course, some tips and tricks from me on how to dominate. 

    Cormand & The Malignant

    Our adventure begins right away by the waypoint in the starting town, Kyovashad, where we quickly learn that Malignance has spread across Sanctuary. 

    Shortly after, we find our hero, Cormond, and his wagon, just south of the Ked Bardu waypoint in the Dry Steppes, to aid us. 

    He teaches us a ritual to capture these corrupted enemies’ Hearts, which we ultimately socket into our jewelry to become far more powerful. 

    Malignant Hearts

    There are four different Heart types that correspond with specific socket colors. 

    The blue Brutal Hearts provide defense, which is critical for the endgame content and Hardcore players. 

    The Vicious orange Hearts grant you offensive powers to slay your enemies. 

    The red Devious Hearts provide utility, increasing your quality of life in different ways. 

    And finally, the most powerful of them all, the gray Wrathful Hearts can be socketed into any-color socket and provide extreme powers that completely transform your character. 

    It’s also important that these Hearts increase in power as you climb to higher World Tiers, and they provide you armor to keep you alive. So, essentially, you’ll always be hunting for better Hearts along your journey, until you find the perfect combination for your build. 

    I have found a lot of these Caged Hearts so far in my journey, but I want to show you a few of them that I’ve really enjoyed. 

    So, the first one is this Vicious Heart (Caged Heart of the Dark Dance), which has an offensive power. When you’re above 60% life, you occasionally charge life instead of resources for your skills in order to do significantly more damage. It’s a nice way to deal way more damage if you have the appropriate defenses. 

    Caged Heart of Revenge is an incredible defensive Brutal Heart. It’s gonna suppress a lot of the damage that you get, and then it’s eventually going to explode and detonate a bunch of fire damage whenever you use a defensive skill against your enemies. 

    And finally, seeing one of the Wrathful Hearts (Caged Heart of Creeping Death). This is something that I’m absolutely planning to use against Uber Lilith. Because against Unstoppable monsters and Staggered bosses, they’re going to take 130% more damage from your damages over time. Poison her down with Poison Imbuement and hopefully watch her health bar just erode away. 

    Maligant Tunnels

    The next thing we want to talk about is: where do we find these Malignant monsters and these Caged Hearts to get the powers that you need? 

    First of all, you’re gonna find them in a lot of your regular activities. For example, when you get into the endgame, you can find these Malignant monsters in your Nightmare Dungeons. And as you climb to the higher World Tiers, you can even find the Wrathful ones. 

    But there’s also a way to target-farm them, and that is with Malignant Tunnels. So, if you check your map and zoom in, you will find these little gates with the little green leaves at the top, and these are Malignant Tunnels that you can run through. They are very quick and you can reset them very easily. For example, the Dindai Hollow, the Ravening Pit, and the Den of the Blighted

    And another thing to understand at the end of these is if you have Invokers, you can actually activate a final Malignant monster of your choosing at the end. So, I’m using the Imbuement powers here to absolutely destroy. 

    This is World Tier 4 on Hardcore, by the way, and absolutely destroying everything. What we’re looking for in these Malignant Tunnels are the Elites. 

    When you run through these Malignant Tunnels, there’s an Elite marked with a skull. And after he dies, you’re gonna see he’s gonna drop his Heart. You will randomly pick up a Wrathful Heart, a Caged Heart or other rarer hearts. It all depends on your luck.

    Elites are more powerful enemies that can randomly spawn anywhere you encounter regular monsters in Diablo 4. KIll them when you come across them. This way you can randomly pick up some Hearts again. 

    And after these Elites dies, if you don’t have any Invokers (the Diablo 4 Items you can craft), the strategy here is you can escape and Leave Dungeon, and then, once you’re outside of the dungeon, hit J and then reset it. You can come right back in. 

    But if you have an Invoker, you can press forward. Now you have two choices. If you have a Wrathful Invoker, which is the best thing that you can get, you can click this and spawn a Wrathful monster. I don’t have one, which is too bad, but I do think I have a Brutal one. 

    So, if I click this, it’s going to allow me to target-farm may be a Brutal defensive power that I really want. His Heart is gonna drop on the ground. Only had to kill him once. This is making it easy on me. And there we go, we got the Lionheart power. 

    Also Read: How To Quickly Level Up Necromancer Build In Diablo 4 Season 1?

    Crafting Hearts

    Now, we are back in Kyovashad, just to the left of the waypoint at Cormond’s Workbench, to talk about the final topic, crafting. Of course, no matter what you craft, you need to spend a certain amount of Diablo 4 Gold.

    So, if you open up the workbench, you have a couple of options. 

    First, you can craft the Caged Hearts individually. And when you pick up the Ichors by doing battle, this will let you come here and craft whatever you’re specifically looking for. 

    You can also craft the Invokers. Remember at the end, when we clicked one of the two little growths to activate the Heart? What you’re looking for is the Wrathful stuff, which makes the last part exciting, the Uncertain one, because the Uncertain one has a chance to craft a Wrathful Heart, and this one has a chance to craft a Wrathful Invoker. 

    So we’re gonna Yolo it here. I’m gonna spend all my resources. Can we get a Wrathful one, one time? Never lucky.

  • Diablo 4: How To Use Crazy Damage One Shot Explosions Mechanic From Season 1? - Malignant Hearts & New Season Mechanics Explained

    Posted: Jul 22, 2023

    I just finished a Diablo 4 Season 1 journey. Over the course of this playthrough, we tested all these different Malignant Hearts that we got from the new season themed mechanics. There are 32 Malignant Hearts in the new season, and each of them has the power of an aspect. There are a lot of new mechanics that we need to understand.

    Barber

    Today I want to cover the new Crazy Damage One Shot Explosions mechanic that came out in Diablo 4 Season 1. And showcasing our Black Wrathful Malignant Heart, Barber, from the new season themed mechanics. You can only get this Malignant Heart after completing Malignant Questline in World Tier 4.

    Barber can cast Critical Strike, and your target absorbs the ensuing damage over 2.9 seconds. The absorbed damage then bursts to surrounding enemies. It’s like an AOE trigger, and this explosion increases our damage buff correspondingly, 14 times per second.

    If you ever learned about it in Diablo 3, that hardly changes. It functions similarly to Area Damage, even at a very low level. So even if you invest very little Diablo 4 Gold, you can create millions of damage outputs with this Crazy Damage One Shot Explosions mechanic.

    Crazy Damage One Shot Explosions Showcase

    I’ll show you an instance of my use of this mechanic in Diablo 4 Season 1 here. When I’m attacking a target and I do a crit, we don’t take any damage. It then builds up all the damage I would do to the target and unleashes it in an explosion. With the help of this mechanic, I easily killed all the trash mobs.

    Whenever Aspect of the Expectant is used here, the enemy takes about 1.2 million damage, which is AOE trigger. This mechanic will easily kill all the surrounding monsters.

    We’ve been combining it with Sorcerer Class’s Raiment of the Infinite, and it’s even capable of over 2.6 million damage output. If you’re using Rogue, you can also do this yourself with Trap Skills. We can accumulate damage by using Twisting Blades. I’m not even applying my Trap Skills or any other Diablo 4 Items here to boost the damage buff. But it does 8 million damage already, which is insane, and it has huge potential for expansion.

    So different builds, like all Sorcerer builds, can take advantage of this mechanic to maximize our damage. Whether it’s Sorcerer with Raiment of the Infinite, Whirlwind Barbarian with Aspect of Grasping Whirlwind, or Rogue with Death Trap. There are many other categories that can do the same thing.

    Also Read: Diablo 4: Some New Insane Barbarian Changes In Season Of The Malignant

    Suitable For Teamwork

    The most important thing is that it accumulates all the damage the target takes, not just your damage. So this mechanism also applies to teamwork. Especially, the supporting characters are perfect for Barber.

    Whenever a support character does a crit like a damage dealer, Barber can give him more DPS like other very useful Hearts. The damage it’s been accumulating then creates a massive explosion that deals billions in damage.

    I’m really looking forward to testing these mechanics. I think they have great potential. Especially in the endgame, we used it even during quick farming. Since it can do of damage, it allows us to clear the map quickly like a pretty good high crit and synergy.

    These are just some really nice synergies and mechanics in Diablo 4, and I’m really looking forward to seeing more and more mechanics tested. After that, I will still enter the endgame again, and continue to pay attention to how this mechanism works. Anyway, this Crazy Damage One Shot Explosions mechanism still makes my eyes shine. Hope you all have a great season.

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