Talk:Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen/@comment-71.163.9.215-20130430144002/@comment-184.107.107.130-20130430163840

It's dropped by wraiths. The red clouds that hover possess you. (The red version of the purple clouds in DD vanilla). They drop Maleficient Heart shards most of the time, but they can also drop Maleficient Heart (rare drop). I'm guesstimating the drop rate for Maleficient heart is around 7%.

I only started seeing those guys after beating Daimon's Awakened form and they mostly spawn in the Center Stratum (around the tower zone that leads to Dark Abbey)