List of all 32 diablo iv Malignant Hearts, including Vicious, Brutal, Devious, and Wrathful types with their specific effects and class usage.
There are 32 diablo iv Malignant Hearts in total, categorized into four groups: Vicious, Brutal, Devious, and Wrathful. Each group offers distinct bonuses. Vicious hearts enhance offense, Brutal hearts focus on defense, Devious hearts provide utility, and Wrathful hearts are ultimate-themed and only appear on World Tier 4 or higher.
Malignant Hearts and Their Effects:
- 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. Usable by All classes.
- 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. Usable by All classes.
- Tempting Fate (Vicious): Offensive-World Tier III: You gain 40-60% Critical Strike Damage but your Non-Critical Strikes deal 20-15% less damage. Usable by All classes.
- 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%. Usable by Barbarian.
- 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. Usable by Druid.
- The Sacrilegious (Vicious): Offensive: Walking near a Corpse automatically activates an equipped Corpse Skill every second, dealing 40-30% reduced damage. Usable by Necromancer.
- 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. Usable by Rogue.
- Tal’Rasha (Vicious): Offensive: For each unique element you deal damage with, you deal 7-12% increased damage for 3-10 seconds. Usable by Sorcerer.
- The Lionheart (Brutal): Defensive: You gain 10% Barrier Generation. You Heal 3-7 Life per second while you have an active Barrier. Usable by All classes.
- 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. Usable by All classes.
- 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. Usable by All classes.
- Resurgent Life (Brutal): Defensive: While below 40-60% Life, you receive 50-60% more Healing from all sources. Usable by Barbarian.
- The Agitated Winds (Brutal): Defensive: When 8-13 Close enemies, automatically cast Cyclone Armor. This cannot occur more than once every 10-20 seconds. Usable by Druid.
- 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. Usable by Necromancer.
- 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. Usable by Rogue.
- Spellbreaking (Brutal): Defensive: After taking Elemental damage, gain 20-40% Resistance to that element for 5 seconds. Usable by Sorcerer.
- Determination (Devious): Utility: Resource draining effects are 40-50% less effective. In addition, gain 3.0-8.0% increased Resource Generation. Usable by All classes.
- Retaliation (Devious): Utility-World Tier III: Deal 510-680 Fire damage to surrounding enemies whenever a Crowd Control effect is removed from you. Usable by All classes.
- The Calculated (Devious): Utility-World Tier III: After spending 150-200 of your Primary Resource, your next attack Stuns enemies hit for 2 seconds. Usable by All classes.
- 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%. Usable by Barbarian.
- Inexorable Force (Devious): Utility: Up to 30-50 Distant enemies are pulled toward you while you have an Ultimate Skill active. Usable by Druid.
- 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. Usable by Necromancer.
- 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. Usable by Rogue.
- 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. Usable by Sorcerer.
- 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. Usable by All classes.
- 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. Usable by All classes.
- 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. Usable by All classes.
- Wrathful Malignant Hearts are the most powerful and are only found on World Tier 4 or higher.
- Consider the class-specific Malignant Hearts for synergistic effects with your build.
- Malignant Hearts can be socketed into specific Malignant gear slots.
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