Igneous Core drops are your ticket to Diablo 4’s newest endgame boss.
Diablo 4’s newest boss summoning item, Igneous Core, is your ticket to the Vault of the Loom and its boss: the Echo of Malphas. The robotic demon drops powerful loot for you and your construct companion, but takes a bit of preparation. If you’re near level 100 and are in world tier 4, you’ll need to cycle through the new seasonal activities in order to get a chance at fighting the season’s big bad.
Igneous Cores were added to Diablo 4 after season 3’s launch and replaced the old way of summoning Echo of Malphas, AKA “Uber Malphas”. You need seven Igneous Cores and 250 Shattered Stone to enter his lair, the Vault of the Loom. But if you want to open the bonus chests at the end for a chance at one of the two ridiculously powerful construct companion Tuning Stones, you’ll want to bring four to five Pearls of Warding with you as well.
In your quest to obtain Igneous Cores, you’ll come across plenty of other seasonal items, including the Shattered Stones you need and the Governing and Tuning Stones for your robot spider companion. Plenty of other players will be doing the same thing and will give you more chances at finding Igneous Cores.How to get Igneous Core items
Here’s the simplified loop for farming Igneous Cores, which I’ll explain in detail below:
Find and deactivate Igneous Obelisks in the open world to earn Elemental Cores
Use three Elemental Cores and 50 Shattered Stone on Voltaic Braziers to summon a Herald of Malphas
Defeat Heralds of Malphas for a chance to find an Igneous Core
Repeat until you have seven Igneous Cores and enough Shattered Stone
Season 3’s open world Arcane Tremors are the main source of Igneous Cores and you can always find them by zooming into different areas of the map.
