Diablo 4 - How To Get All Malignant Hearts Season 1

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Malignant Hearts are a brand-new item in Season 1 of Diablo 4 and they can completely transform your build.

By Joey Carr on

Season 1 of Diablo 4 is here, and if you're choosing to create a new character in the Seasonal Realm, you will have access to a flurry of fresh content. In addition to a new questline, unique items, and legendary Aspects, you can find Malignant Hearts, which are essentially a new form of Aspects. Malignant Hearts can only be inserted into specific sockets on rings and amulets and come in four different types: Vicious Red, Brutal Blue, Devious Purple, and Wrathful Black.

The different types of Malignant Hearts add specific bonuses to your jewelry in Diablo 4. There are 32 total Malignant Hearts, so you will have some work to do in Season 1. However, before you can even consider what pieces of jewelry to kit out with a Malignant Heart, you need to know how to find them in Diablo 4.

Malignant Hearts are only available in the Seasonal Realm, meaning you need to create a new character to gain access to them. With your new character, you can make your way to the town of Kyovashad in Fractured Peaks and speak with a new NPC named Cormond. Cormond will lead you on the Season 1 questline, which involves hunting down the new corrupted enemies, called Malignants.

As you might expect, Malignant enemies are your source of Malignant Hearts. However, unlike other items in Diablo 4, you won't be able to simply pick up the hearts as a piece of loot. Instead, you need to defeat a Malignant monster, which will be classified as «Partly Corrupted.» Once you defeat one of these monsters, you will see a heart drop, but you can't capture it unless you have the Cage of Binding.

The Cage of Binding is used to perform a ritual