Are you playing eternal?

I can see that without malignant hearts on the eternal realm, and the seasonal journey buffs that the nerfs might hit the eternal realm a little harder, but I can’t see why anyone would be playing eternal instead of season 1.

In d3 I never touched eternal characters after seasons started

I think the issue might be that the devs brought seasons out too soon. I wonder if they waited a year or 6 months, when more people where done with their first characters and ready to make a new one, it wouldn’t feel so bad.

If you’re level 69, this must be an eternal character. Try abandoning that character and refilling and see how the game feels.

I was getting malignant hearts right from the beginning of the game when following the new seasonal quest line