I just finished a Diablo 4 Season 1 journey. Over the course of this playthrough, we tested all these different Malignant Hearts that we got from the new season themed mechanics. There are 32 Malignant Hearts in the new season, and each of them has the power of an aspect. There are a lot of new mechanics that we need to understand.
Barber
Today I want to cover the new Crazy Damage One Shot Explosions mechanic that came out in Diablo 4 Season 1. And showcasing our Black Wrathful Malignant Heart, Barber, from the new season themed mechanics. You can only get this Malignant Heart after completing Malignant Questline in World Tier 4.
Barber can cast Critical Strike, and your target absorbs the ensuing damage over 2.9 seconds. The absorbed damage then bursts to surrounding enemies. It’s like an AOE trigger, and this explosion increases our damage buff correspondingly, 14 times per second.
If you ever learned about it in Diablo 3, that hardly changes. It functions similarly to Area Damage, even at a very low level. So even if you invest very little Diablo 4 Gold, you can create millions of damage outputs with this Crazy Damage One Shot Explosions mechanic.
Crazy Damage One Shot Explosions Showcase
I’ll show you an instance of my use of this mechanic in Diablo 4 Season 1 here. When I’m attacking a target and I do a crit, we don’t take any damage. It then builds up all the damage I would do to the target and unleashes it in an explosion. With the help of this mechanic, I easily killed all the trash mobs.
Whenever Aspect of the Expectant is used here, the enemy takes about 1.2 million damage, which is AOE trigger. This mechanic will easily kill all the surrounding monsters.
We’ve been combining it with Sorcerer Class’s Raiment of the Infinite, and it’s even capable of over 2.6 million damage output. If you’re using Rogue, you can also do this yourself with Trap Skills. We can accumulate damage by using Twisting Blades. I’m not even applying my Trap Skills or any other Diablo 4 Items here to boost the damage buff. But it does 8 million damage already, which is insane, and it has huge potential for expansion.
So different builds, like all Sorcerer builds, can take advantage of this mechanic to maximize our damage. Whether it’s Sorcerer with Raiment of the Infinite, Whirlwind Barbarian with Aspect of Grasping Whirlwind, or Rogue with Death Trap. There are many other categories that can do the same thing.
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Suitable For Teamwork
The most important thing is that it accumulates all the damage the target takes, not just your damage. So this mechanism also applies to teamwork. Especially, the supporting characters are perfect for Barber.
Whenever a support character does a crit like a damage dealer, Barber can give him more DPS like other very useful Hearts. The damage it’s been accumulating then creates a massive explosion that deals billions in damage.
I’m really looking forward to testing these mechanics. I think they have great potential. Especially in the endgame, we used it even during quick farming. Since it can do of damage, it allows us to clear the map quickly like a pretty good high crit and synergy.
These are just some really nice synergies and mechanics in Diablo 4, and I’m really looking forward to seeing more and more mechanics tested. After that, I will still enter the endgame again, and continue to pay attention to how this mechanism works. Anyway, this Crazy Damage One Shot Explosions mechanism still makes my eyes shine. Hope you all have a great season.
