Diablo 4: How To Farm Baneful Heart

If you’re trying to summon the Blood Maiden, you’ll need plenty of Baneful Heart in Diablo 4. Here’s how you can farm the resource.

Diablo 4
Diablo 4 (Source: Blizzard Entertainment)

Baneful Heart is an important resource you’ll need to farm in Diablo 4 if you intend to summon and face off against Blood Maiden. This particular boss that players got to see first during the Helltide update is a great source of high-quality and rare loot. So, players looking to get the best items might have to summon and defeat Blood Maiden several times to get their hands on specific drops.

However, the lack of guaranteed sources for the Baneful Heart can be disheartening. Still, if you’re ready to devote enough time, there are some activities that have higher chances of dropping Baneful Heart. In this guide, we’ll point you to some of these sources so that you can easily farm Baneful Heart in Diablo 4.

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How To Get Baneful Heart in Diablo 4

Fighting the Blood Maiden
Fighting the Blood Maiden (Source: Blizzard Entertainment and Inverius Gaming/YouTube)

Since the Blood Maiden boss was introduced in the Helltide content, it would make sense that the chances of receiving Baneful Heart are also the highest in Helltide events. So, when you open Tortured Gifts, you have a 15% standard probability of receiving the item. Each Tortured Gift that doesn’t contain the resource further increases your chances of receiving one from the next opening.

However, doing this continuously can be difficult because opening them can be quite expensive. Also, you can only get the in-game currency needed to open Tortured Gifts by defeating the Blood Maiden, which makes it even harder. One option is to join in with other players who are farming items from Blood Maiden and pick up any shards that you can after the boss is down. A pet can help you easily gather all of the shards. These shards act as the currency, which can then allow you to open the Tortured Gifts chest.

Besides that, you have a 1% chance of receiving a Baneful Heart by defeating Helltide Assassins and Hellborne enemies. Each time one of them doesn’t drop the item, the chances of a drop go up from subsequent Helltide Assassins and Hellborne foes. If a World Boss appears in Helltide, you will receive 3x Baneful Heart from defeating that boss. You can also use alternate ways to farm the resource, although they aren’t quite as reliable. For instance, killing Helltide Harbingers or opening Local Event chests might help you get a stockpile of the Baneful Heart item too.

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