Interacting with this heart will respawn the enemy - making them even more difficult to deal with - and summon in a bunch of additional foes. These monsters are extra tough, but drop a special Malignant Heart item when they die. While playing the game normally in season 1, there’s a chance for players to come across a Malignant monster. This, of course, manifests in some powerful new tools for each Diablo class. Cormund wants players to capture corrupted hearts and use them to increase their own power, so they can further purge the blight from the land. At the start of the season, players will receive a summons to the capital city of the Fractured Peaks, Kyovashad, at level 1 to meet Cormund, a new character. After players worked to push back the forces of evil in the main campaign, a new corrupting curse has started to make its way through the rest of the world.

Season of the Malignant takes place after the Diablo 4 campaign and acts as a side story in the world of Sanctuary. Blizzard Entertainment detailed the new seasonal mechanics (alongside the announcement of a new class for Diablo Immortal) during a lengthy livestream on Thursday.

Diablo 4’s first season, Season of the Malignant, is coming to the game on July 20 - just a month and a half after D4’s launch.

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