Malthael

Malthael
"Death is beyond your reach."
Basic Info
Title	Aspect of Death
Role	Bruiser
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	Diablo
Price	750 / 10,000
Release Date	June 13, 2017
Base Stats
Attack Type	Melee
Health	1962
Health Regen	4.086
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.6875
Attack Speed	0.91
Attack Range	1.5
Attack Damage	82
Data Page

Malthael, the Aspect of Death, is a melee Bruiser Hero from the Diablo franchise.

Once the Aspect of Wisdom, Malthael abandoned Heaven after the Worldstone's destruction. In secret, he had resolved to end the Eternal Conflict by becoming a Reaper of Souls and eliminating everything affected by demonic corruption, including humanity.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to Diablo universe.

Malthael was the Archangel and Aspect of Wisdom, one of the five Angel Aspects, and was born from one of the virtues of the great titan Anu at the beginning of time. However, his connection to the largest artifact, the Worldstone, depleted when he discovered it was stolen. Out of all the five members of the Angiris Council, he abstained from voting for the fate of the planet of Sanctuary. Malthael soon left the High Heavens after Tyrael reduced the Worldstone to pieces in one blast and after being corrupted by Baal the Lord of Destruction and last of the Prime Evils. Twenty years afterward, he later betrayed the Angiris Council and Heavenly Host, and then became the Archangel Angel and Aspect of Death.

Gameplay

Malthael is a Bruiser who marks his enemies, shredding away high Health enemies.

Strength

• Sustained Damage
• Percent-Based Damage
• Punishes Melee
• Self-Sustain

Weaknesses

• Crowd Control
• Burst Damage
• Poke Damage

Abilities

See Data page for a table of scaled values at key levels.

Reaper's Mark

Basic Attacks cleave in an area in front of Malthael and afflict non-Structure targets with Reaper's Mark for 4 seconds. Marked enemies are revealed and take damage equal to 2% of their maximum Health every 1 second.

---

Type: Percent damage, Status effect

Scaling: -

Affects: Non-Structure enemies

Properties: Attack Modifier, Damage over Time, Percent damage, Revealed, Splash

Radius: 3.25

Arc: 170 degrees

---

• If Multiple Malthaels are on a team, they each apply and refresh their own Mark separately. However, the effects of all Reaper's Marks are shared: the damage does not stack, and all Malthaels can interact with a target that has Reaper's Mark regardless of whether or not they own a mark on the target.

Q

Soul Rip

25 Mana Cooldown: 2 seconds

Extract the souls of nearby enemies afflicted by Reaper's Mark, dealing 100 damage and healing Malthael for 25 per target hit. Heroic targets heal Malthael for an additional 4% of the Hero's maximum Health.

---

Type: Spell Damage / Healing

Scaling: 4.00% (damage) / 4.00% (healing vs. non-Heroes) / - (healing vs. Heroes)

Affects: Non-Structure enemies / Self

Targeting: No target

Cast time: Instant

Radius: 6.5

---

• Can only be activated if there is at least one enemy affected by Reaper's Mark within the Ability's radius.
• Healing from each target is dealt in a separate instance, and bonus healing from Heroes is dealt in yet another instance, separate from the base heal.

W

Wraith Strike

30 Mana Cooldown: 5 seconds

Instantly teleport through an enemy afflicted by Reaper's Mark, dealing 59 damage and refreshing Reaper's Mark.

---

Type: Spell Damage / Movement: Teleport

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Non-Structure enemies

Targeting: Unit target

Cast time: Instant

Range: 6.0

---

• Can only be activated if there is at least one enemy affected by Reaper's Mark.
• Malthael teleports to the opposite side of the target from his location at 1.5 distance.
• Puts Malthael's Basic Attack on full cooldown (1.1s) without using it upon activation.

E

Death Shroud

50 Mana Cooldown: 8 seconds

After 0.25 seconds, unleash a wave of dark mist that applies Reaper's Mark to enemies it hits.

---

Type: Status effect

Scaling: -

Affects: Non-Structure enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Piercing Skillshot, Clamping

Cast time: 0.25 + 0 seconds

Range: 11.25

Hitbox: 3 x 1.75

Missile speed: 10

R

Tormented Souls

20 Mana Cooldown: 60 seconds

Unleash a torrent of souls, continually applying Reaper's Mark to nearby enemies for 4 seconds. When Tormented Souls is cast and when it expires, reset the cooldown of Wraith Strike.

---

Type: Status effect

Scaling: -

Affects: Non-Structure enemies

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 5.0

R

Last Rites

100 Mana Cooldown: 70 seconds

Apply a death sentence to an enemy Hero that, after 2 seconds, deals damage equal to 50% of their missing Health.

❢ Repeatable Quest: Enemies killed between the application of Last Rites and within 1.5 seconds of it dealing damage permanently reduce its cooldown by 5 seconds, to a minimum of 20 seconds.

---

Type: Percent damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Non-Vehicle Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Percent damage

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Range: 5.0

---

• Mathematically, kills a target which is at less than or equal to 1/3 of maximum Health.
• Damage is based on missing Health when the Mark expires after 2 seconds.
• The Mark cannot be removed, but the damage can be avoided with effects that grant damage immunity, like entering the Hall of Storms, or entering Stasis or Invulnerability, at the time of its expiration.
• While Last Rites is available, enemy Heroes within 12 radius of Malthael are indicated by a red skull above them if the damage from Last Rites would be enough to kill them.

Talents

1

Death's Reach

Increase Wraith Strike's range by 35%.

---

Bonus range: 2.1

On a Pale Horse

Gain an additional 20% Movement Speed while mounted.

Fear the Reaper

Cooldown: 25 seconds
Active: Activate to increase Movement Speed by 25% and pass through other units for 4 seconds.

---

Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Movement Speed

Cast time: Instant

4

Die Alone

Soul Rip deals 50% more damage if it hits only one Hero.

---

Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Ability

---

• If any number of non-Heroic targets are also hit, the bonus damage still applies, but only to the Hero.

Throwing Shade

Increase Death Shroud's range by 33%, reduce its cooldown by 3 seconds, and reduce its Mana cost from 50 to 30.

Death Shroud's initial impact deals 2% maximum Health as damage to non-Structure enemies.

---

Type: Percent damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Non-Structure enemies

Properties: Percent damage

Bonus range: 3.75

Black Harvest

❢ Quest: Apply Reaper's Mark to Heroes for a total of 180 seconds.

❢ Reward: Permanently increase Reaper's Mark's duration by 2 seconds.

---

• If multiple Malthaels are in a team, Black Harvest starts to gain stacks only when the Hero with the Talent has applied a Reaper's Mark to the enemy Hero. However, once applied it continues to gain stacks even after the Hero's personal mark has expired, as long as the target is afflicted by any Reaper's Mark.

7

Cold Hand

Soul Rip Slows enemies by 20% for 2.5 seconds.

---

Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Slow

Massacre

Wraith Strike now damages and applies Reaper's Mark to enemies around its target.

---

Type: Status effect

Affects: Non-Structure enemies

Radius: 4.0

---

• Also applies bonus damage from Mortality.

Touch of Death

Cooldown: 20 seconds
Active: Activate to reduce healing received by Heroes afflicted by Reaper's Mark by 50% for 4 seconds.

---

Type: Healing modifier

Affects: Enemy Heroes

---

• Affects all active Reaper's Marks, including those placed by other Malthaels.
• Healing reduction stacks additively with other healing modifiers that can affect the healing received by the target Hero.

10

Tormented Souls

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Unleash a torrent of souls, continually applying Reaper's Mark to nearby enemies for 4 seconds. When Tormented Souls is cast and when it expires, reset the cooldown of Wraith Strike.

Last Rites

Cooldown: 70 seconds
Apply a death sentence to an enemy Hero that, after 2 seconds, deals damage equal to 50% of their missing Health.

❢ Repeatable Quest: Enemies killed between the application of Last Rites and within 1.5 seconds of it dealing damage permanently reduce its cooldown by 5 seconds, to a minimum of 20 seconds.

13

Soul Siphon

Increase Soul Rip's bonus healing from Heroes to 4.75% of the Hero's maximum Health.

Ethereal Existence

Gain 10 Physical Armor per enemy Hero afflicted by Reaper's Mark, up to a maximum of 30.

---

Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Physical Armor

---

• Benefits from all Reaper's Marks, including those placed by other Malthaels.
• Stacks additively with itself, but not with other positive Physical Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Inevitable End

Cooldown: 20 seconds
Active: Activate to become Unstoppable for 2 seconds, but remove all active Reaper's Marks.

---

Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Unstoppable

---

• If multiple Malthael's are in a team, only affects Reaper's Marks placed by the Malthael that activates the Ability.

Shroud of Wisdom

Cooldown: 20 seconds
Active: After 2 seconds, gain 50 Spell Armor for 4 seconds.

---

Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Spell Armor

---

• Does not stack with other positive Spell Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

16

Soul Collector

Reduce Soul Rip's cooldown by 0.5 seconds and increase its range by 25%.

---

Bonus range: 1.625

Mortality

When damaging a Hero, Wraith Strike deals bonus damage equal to 8% of the Hero's maximum Health.

---

Type: Percent damage

Affects: Enemy heroes

Properties: Percent damage

---

• Also affects enemies hit by Massacre.

Memento Mori

Reaper's Mark deals 60% increased damage after afflicting an enemy for more than 4 seconds.

---

Type: Bonus damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Ability

---

• Duration requirement is per target.
• If multiple Malthaels are in a team, the damage increase only applies while the personal mark from a Malthael with Memento Mori has met the time requirement and remains on the target.

20

Reaper of Souls

Increase Tormented Souls's duration by 2 seconds. While Tormented Souls is active, Hero Takedowns refresh the duration.

Angel of Death

Last Rites heals for 100% of the damage dealt, and its current and future cooldown reduction bonuses are doubled.

---

Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Lifesteal

---

• Actually heals for 100% of the damage it would deal, regardless of how much it actually does, if for example the target is overkilled by the Last Rites cast.

Final Curtain

Death Shroud leaves a trail in its wake for 4 seconds, applying Reaper's Mark to enemies in its area.

---

• Benefits from bonus range from Throwing Shade.

No One Can Stop Death

Cooldown: 180 seconds
Active: Activate while dead to immediately respawn at the Altar but increase Malthael's next respawn time by 25%.

---

Type: Resurrection

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Cast time: Instant

Builds and guides

Icy Veins Malthael Guide

Malthael Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire

Malthael Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth

Skins

Malthael Skins
Aspect of Death
Backstory: Once the Aspect of Wisdom, Malthael abandoned heaven after the Worldstone's destruction. In secret, he had resolved to end the Eternal Conflict by becoming a Reaper of Souls and eliminating everything affected by demonic corruption, including humanity.
750 / 10,000 Aspect of Death	Free Spectral	Free Platinum	120 / 75 Toxic	120 / 75 Tarnished
Grave Warden
Backstory: With every corpse interred in his mausoleum, the Grave Warden gains power and influence. His unholy alliance with the Grave Keeper ensures that his collection of souls will continue to grow.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Raven Court skins.
250 / 300	250 / 300 Frozen	250 / 300 Timelost	250 / 300 Angelic	250 / 300 Sinuous
250 / 300 Crimson

Malthael Event Skins
Season's Reapings
Backstory: Also known as the Ghost of Winter Veil Yet-to-Come, Malthael offers those he visits in the cold dark night a glimpse of their future. Unsurprisingly, their "future" is always death.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of holiday skins.
160 / 100	160 / 100 Chilling	160 / 100 Coal	160 / 100 Plum	160 / 100 Hallowed
Xenotech
Backstory: With Mecha Tyrael destroyed, Neo-President Anduin Wrynn knew the return of the Xenotech was inevitable and had prepared accordingly. But could two untested mecha pilots possibly defeat the enemy known as the "Reaper of Worlds"?
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Kaijo world skins.
350 / 600	350 / 600 Apex	350 / 600 Twilight	350 / 600 Umbral	350 / 600 Gamma

Portraits

Malthael Portraits
Carbot Malthael120 / 75	Malthael Emblem75 / 40	Malthael Hero	Malthael Mastery	Mecha Malthael Insignia75 / 40	Season's Reapings Malthael75 / 40	Xenotech Malthael75 / 40

Sprays

Malthael Sprays
Brooding Xenotech Malthael180 / 112	Carbot Malthael120 / 75	Death Rides a Horsie250 / 300	Mecha Malthael Insignia75 / 40	Paper Malthael120 / 75	Taking a Holiday75 / 40	Xenotech Malthael75 / 40
Wireframe Xenotech Malthael75 / 40

Emojis

Malthael Pack 1			Malthael Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Malthael Happy	:malthaelhappy: :malthappy:		Malthael Angry	:malthaelangry: :maltangry:
	Malthael ROFL	:malthaellol: :malthaelrofl: :maltlol: :maltrofl:		Malthael Cool	:malthaelcool: :maltcool:
	Malthael Sad	:malthaelsad: :maltsad:		Malthael Embarrassed	:malthaeloops: :malthaelembarrassed: :maltoops: :maltembarrassed:
	Malthael Silly	:malthaelsilly: :maltsilly:		Malthael in Love	:malthaellove: :malthaelinlove: :maltlove: :maltinlove:
	Malthael Speechless	:malthaelmeh: :malthaelspeechless: :maltmeh: :maltspeechless:		Malthael Surprised	:malthaelwow: :malthaelsurprised: :maltwow: :maltsurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Malthael/Quotes

Trivia

• Malthael made his book debut in The Sin War: The Veiled Prophet (September 2007).
  • His game debut was six and a half years later, in Diablo III: Reaper of Souls (March 2014).
• Malthael is voiced by Paul Nakauchi.
• Malthael's dance is The Roxbury Guys' head bob to the song What Is Love by Haddaway.
• Blizzard considered giving Malthael the trait that was ultimately given to Leoric.
• Malthael is the third angel hero in the game, the first two being Tyrael and Auriel. He was followed by Imperius.

Gallery

• 

  Malthael's artwork

• 

  Malthael's artwork

• 

  Malthael's Bargain

• 

  Grave Warden Malthael

Abilities

• 

  Q: Soul Rip

• 

  W: Wraith Strike

• 

  E: Death Shroud

• 

  R1: Tormented Souls

• 

  R2: Last Rites

External links

• Malthael Hero Week
• Malthael - Heroes of the Storm
• Malthael - Diablo Wiki
• Malthael Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes