This Diablo 4 Malignant Hearts tier list will help you in choosing the best and worst hearts for Season 1. Since there are only so many malignant sockets available on jewelry during the season, you’ll want to make sure that you pick the Malignant Hearts with the best effects. There are 32 Malignant Hearts in total, and some of them are locked behind World Tier 3 and 4. So you’ll likely swap some Hearts in and out as you level your seasonal character. Here’s our picks for the best and worst Malignant Hearts for Diablo 4 Season 1.
Diablo 4 Malignant Hearts tier list for Season 1
The following is a tier list for the Malignant Hearts available throughout Season 1:
- S-Tier
- Creeping Death, Ignoring Pain, The Constrained Beast, The Vile Apothecary, Tal’Rasha
- A-Tier
- The Picana, Tempting Fate, Revenge, Determination, The Calculated, Punishing Speed, Inexorable Force, The Sacrilegious, The Decrepit Aura, The Great Feast, Omnipower
- B-Tier
- The Dark Dance, The Lionheart, Prudent Heart, The Malignant Pact, The Barber, Focused Rage, Resurgent Life, The Moonrage, Frozen Terror, Cluster Munitions, The Clipshot, Spellbreaking
- C-Tier
- Retaliation, The Agitated Winds, Trickery, Spite
To explain our top picks, Creeping Death is a great boost to many DoT effects like poison, which was not nerfed in the latest patch. Both Ignoring Pain and The Constrained Beast have the chance to save your character from a nasty hit or CC effect.
In addition, The Vile Apothecary for the rogue is an incredible way to stack all of the Imbuement effects at once, so you may want to invest some skill points in all of them if you manage to get it. Meanwhile, Tal’Rasha for the sorcerer is a relatively easy way to get the class’s attack power back in shape after getting nerfed hard from the 1.1 patch. All it takes is dealing damage with all three elements to keep the damage boost from Tal’Rasha active.
One honorable mention is the potential combo between Dark Dance and Omnipower for the sorcerer. So long as you have a way to regenerate life from Dark Dance, these two Malignant Hearts together along with a skill like Frozen Orb could easily clear mobs in one fell sweep.
