Diablo 4 Malignant Hearts Types & Powers in Season 1

Diablo 4 Season 1 has a Malignant Hearts mechanic for heroes to increase their character's power further, but exactly what are all the types and effects of Malignant Hearts in Diablo 4, and how powerful are they?

In this guide, we list all the types of Malignant Hearts and their effects, which you can slot into Rings or Amulet slots of the corresponding type, so let's get started!

Diablo 4 Malignant Hearts: Types & Effects

There are a total of 32 Malignant Heart types to farm. These are very powerful and can change your build. We are talking Legendary Aspect level of power here. 

Blizzard recently took to social media and shared the four Malignant Heart types and effects players will encounter in Diablo 4 Season 1.

Put the hearts of your enemies to good use in the Season of the Malignant.

Coming to #DiabloIV on 7/20. pic.twitter.com/wZsvOft7r4

— Diablo (@Diablo) July 13, 2023

The table below outlines the four Malignant Heart types and their power category, in case you can't view the image above.

At the time of writing, the full list of Malignant Hearts (32 in total) has not been revealed. We will share details with our readers as soon as the info is available. 

There are four types of Malignant Hearts, three of which are color-coded by their type. For example, the Vicious Hearts are blue. During Diablo 4 Season 1, jewelry will drop with Infested Sockets of a specific color, and you can socket in a Malignant Heart of a corresponding color for powerful effects. Wrathful Malignant Hearts fit into any color socket and are super powerful and rare. 

Blizzard explains how Diablo 4 players get Malignant Hearts in Season 1:

To keep up with the relentless animosity of Malignant Monsters, you’ll need to turn their Hearts against them. Slaying Partly Corrupted enemies, a type of Malignant Monster, will drop a Malignant Heart. These can be captured by performing a ritual with the Cage of Binding, an item acquired during the Season’s Questline. Partly Corrupted enemies are an unruly sort and won’t go down easily. Trying to capture the Heart will cause the Partly Corrupted enemy to be reborn as a Fully Corrupted enemy. If defeated, these amalgamations of rot will drop a version of the Malignant Heart that can be placed into special Infested sockets in your Jewelry in place of a Normal Gem.

Each Diablo 4 character can have a maximum of three Malignant Hearts equipped at one time on two rings and one amulet.

Check out the official Diablo 4 Season 1 gameplay trailer featuring DiEoxidE below to learn more.

So there you have it, all the Diablo 4 Malignant Heart types, their power category, and the color to socket them into jewelry. If anything changes, we will endeavor to update this article faster than The Butcher can slay an unsuspecting player running Nightmare Dungeons.

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