Yesterday, Season 1 in Diablo 4 started, and soon many players faced a new problem. The products of a new game mechanic clutter the inventory, but we will tell you what you can do about it.
- With Season 1, a new type of gemstone was introduced: Malevolent Hearts. They are the special game mechanic in Season 1 and are dropped after a hard fight by Malevolent Monsters.
- You can insert the hearts like gemstones into certain socket slots in amulets and rings, instead of the gemstones you would normally use.
- Collecting the hearts has shown that it can quickly fill up, because: There are not only 4 different colors, but also different effects that the hearts can have.
You cannot stack the Malevolent Hearts, so they clutter valuable space in the inventory and stash. However, there are a few things you can do so you can continue to collect important loot and not have everything blocked by Malevolent Hearts.
This will remind many of the space problem due to gemstones. There was a trick to save space:
Here’s what you can do:
There are a few ways to create space in your inventory and stash or not waste it at all.
Leave Legendary Items Behind
Yes, you read that correctly. But they are quite valuable at the beginning, right? Correct. And because they are so valuable, there is a delivery service for them in Diablo 4. If you find Legendaries or Uniques, you can comfortably leave them behind because: They will be sent to your stash during loading sequences when leaving areas.
You will find your items in the cities where a stash is available – recognizable by the chest symbol on the map. But be careful, the chest for the delivered legendary items only has 10 slots, so you should empty it from time to time.
Break Down Malevolent Hearts
You can also break down Malevolent Hearts that you do not want to use. This will give you Secret, which you can use to create new hearts or so-called Seekers. You use Seekers to target specific enemies:
Insert Gemstones into Item Sockets
To save space, you can simply insert the gemstones into the empty sockets of the equipment items you want to break down. When breaking down, you will receive the materials of the items as well as the inserted gemstones back.
Alternatively, you can also just leave them behind, or only take the gemstones with higher quality levels.
Don’t Be a ‘Loot Mess’
At the beginning, you start with your season character, with an empty inventory, empty chests, no money, and no materials. Of course, it’s important to gather everything anew to be able to work on your build. Nevertheless, it is not always sensible to take every item.
Experience has shown that you can forgo one or the other piece of equipment. You will still eventually get the materials you need for upgrading.
An upgrade of your equipment is not worth it at the beginning since you will continuously find new, better items. So it’s worth it if you have materials in abundance and want to take the boosts, as well as if you are sure you want to keep the items.
The desire for an extra pouch for gemstones existed before the season; instead, more materials were added. Whether anything will change regarding this remains to be seen.
Tonight at 8 PM, another stream will take place in which the developers will address the adjustments of the season update and the strong criticism that arose along with the patch notes:
