One of Diablo 4’s favorite mechanics from Season 10 is making a comeback in Season 11, but not in the way most players expected.
The 
Melted Heart of Selig has been reworked to bring back the really cool 
Mana Shield effect from Season 10’s Chaos Perks, and the community is split: is it genius or a missed opportunity?
The New Melted Heart of Selig
The reworked Mythic Amulet now acts as a pseudo-Mana Shield, redirecting incoming damage to your resource pool instead of your health, and on top it offers major resource generation, +primary stat scaling, but at a cost. You will have 75% reduced life.
Here is a quick breakdown of what changes:
- Previous: Gain 60 Maximum Resource. When taking damage, 75% is Drained as 2 Resource for every 1% of Maximum Life you would have lost.
- Now: Each point in your Primary Stat increases your Primary Resource by 3%[+] but you have 75% reduced life. Any damage you would take is dealt to your Primary Resource before your life. If you have not taken damage in 6 seconds, your Resource regenerates to full over 3 seconds.
- Resource Generation increased from 15% to 100%.
- Damage Reduction affix replaced with +% of primary stat.
- Developer’s Note: Taking damage during the 3 second regeneration phase does not cancel the full regeneration.
Essentially, it is Mana Shield reborn, but tied to an amulet slot.
Mana Shield for Everyone… Except Sorcerer?
That is where the controversy begins. Many players love seeing the return of the Mana Shield concept, but Sorcerers, the class who used it the most during Season 10, feel like they are losing out.
The amulet slot is one of the most valuable slot for Sorcerer builds, often already used for powerful bonuses and unique aspects. So it might not be the best to replace all that just to gain the Mana Shield effect.
Others pointed out that the item could be best-in-slot for builds that scale with maximum resource.
The new Melted Heart of Selig definitely turns the old Mana Shield into a more universal mechanic that can be used by more builds, but maybe at a cost for Sorcerers. We will know soon enough if it becomes the next must-have mythic or not. We will definitely test it out during the PTR if we can!