With Season 28, the final season of Diablo 3, Blizzard Entertainment pulled out all the stops to make it as intense and crazy as its farming, grinding, and dungeon-crawling players could enjoy. With the hardest challenges yet, the Altar of Rites takes you all across the map to collect a wide breadth of materials. Here’s how to beat this intense final obstacle of Diablo 3, Season 28.
Where is the Altar of Rites in Diablo 3?
Despite Blizzard Entertainment patch notes implying otherwise, the Altar of Rites is not located in the Festering Woods. Instead, it’s easily found in New Tristram. During Seasonal gameplay, it will take over the location where Artisan Myriam usually stands during the story campaign, right behind the Slaughtered Calf Inn.
In-game, the Altar of Rites is described as an unsettling, Eldritch-style construction, which seems to have its own eerie intelligence. It was found while excavating around New Tristram and now, for Season 28, just sits there. Menacingly. The main feature of the Altar of Rites, though, is that you can sacrifice various crafting materials and gear items to get special buffs.
All seals and potion powers at the Altar of Rites
The unlock system for the Altar of Rites works in tiers, like a skill tree, meaning that you can choose how you work through the seals. However, whichever way you work through your seals, the sacrificial prices do not change. That means that matter what seal you pick to unlock third, you’ll always sacrifice one Greater Rift Key and 10 Death’s Breath. You can get many of these crafting materials and items by grinding through Nephalem/Greater Rifts. However, a few unique cases, like the Staff of Herding, will need more specific instructions. You’ll have to chase Rift Guardians around the different Acts to unlock some seals, or beat Challenge Rifts for others.
Related: How to make The Staff of Herding in Diablo 3
Seal/legendary potion power costs:
| Sacrifice Order | Price | Location |
| 1 | 10 Reusable Parts | -Salvaged from common gear items -Dropped by enemies across Sanctuary |
| 2 | 1 Flawless Diamond (or greater), 15 Arcane Dust, 20 Reusable Parts | -Dropped by enemies across Sanctuary |
| 3 | 1 Greater Rift Key, 10 Death’s Breaths | -Dropped by level 70 Rift Guardians from normal Nephalem Rifts |
| 4 | Any Class-Specific Set Helm | -Dropped by enemies and chests on Torment level 1 or higher |
| 5 | 20 Forgotten Soul, 10 of each bounty material† | -Salvaged from Legendary gear items |
| 6 | 1 Leoric’s Regret, 1 Vial of Putridness, 1 Idol of Terror, 1 Heart of Fright | -Dropped once the Infernal Machine Realms of Discord, Choas, Turmoil, and Fright are defeated |
| 7 | Reaper’s Wraps | -The plans for Reapers Wraps are only dropped by Malthael |
| 8 | 30 Forgotten Souls | -Salvaged from Legendary gear items |
| 9 | 1,100 Blood Shards | -Dropped by Horadric Caches and Rift Guardians |
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| 10 | 1 Flawless Royal Ruby, 20 Death’s Breaths, Ring of Royal Grandeur | -Dropped by Horadric Caches from Act I-IV |
| 11 | 1 Flawless Royal Emerald, 30 of each bounty material | -Dropped by enemies throughout the game |
| 12 | 20 Greater Rift Keys, 1 Ramaladni’s Gift | -Dropped by level 70 Rift Guardians from normal Nephalem Rifts |
| 13 | 1,300 Blood Shards | -Randomly dropped in Torment level 1 worlds and higher |
| 14 | Petrified Scream | -Only dropped from Greater Rift Guardians |
| 15 | Challenge Rift Cache | -Beat a Challenge Rift from the main menu |
| 16 | 250 Forgotten Souls | -Salvaged from Legendary gear items |
| 17 | 1,400 Blood Shards | -Dropped by Horadric Caches and Rift Guardians |
| 18 | Ancient Hellfire Amulet | – Beat the Infernal Machine event |
| 19 | Four Tome of Set Dungeon Pages from your class | -Collect four full sets for your chosen class |
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| 20 | Ancient Puzzle Ring, 50 of each bounty material† | -Dropped in Nephalem and Greater Rifts |
| 21 | 500 Death’s Breaths, 300 Forgotten Souls | -Dropped by enemies throughout Sanctuary -Salvaged from Legendary gear items |
| 22 | 1,500 Blood Shards | -Dropped by Horadric Caches and Rift Guardians |
| 23 | Whisper of Atonement Rank 125 | -Completing a high-tier Echoing Nightmare run |
| 24 | Any Augmented Weapon | -Use Kanai’s Cube to change the features, damage, etc. of a weapon |
| 25 | Staff of Herding | -Collect the Black Mushroom, Leoric’s Shinbone, Wirt’s Bell, Liquid Rainbow, and Gibbering Gemstone. Combine in Kanai’s Cube to make the staff |
| 26 | 1,600 Blood Shards | -Dropped by Horadric Caches and Rift Guardians |
| 27 | 55 Primordial Ashes | -Salvaged from Primal Ancient items |
| 28 | 110 Primordial Ashes | -Salvaged from Primal Ancient items |
| 29 | 165 Primordial Ashes | -Salvaged from Primal Ancient items |
| 30 | Once all other seals/powers are cleared | -Finish all the missions |
Seal/Legendary Potion Power Buffs:
When sacrificing to the Altar of Rites, there are 26 seals and four potions. They all have a wide range of different helpful buffs, so let’s just give a quick overview:
| Space in the Seal Tree | Seal/Potion Power Buff |
| Tier 1 | Your Kill Streak timer duration and reward bonus are doubled |
| Tier 2 | Pools of Reflection last for the entire Season and are not removed by death |
| Tier 2 | Items have no level requirement |
| Tier 3 | +200 Damage |
| Tier 3 | +25% Missile Damage Reduction |
| Tier 3 | +25% Movement Speed (Uncapped) |
| Tier 3 | Increase damage against elites by 15% |
| Tier 4 | Picking up Health Globes grants a shield for 5% of your maximum health for 7 seconds. Max stacks |
| Tier 5 | +25% Melee Damage Reduction |
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| Tier 5 | Increases your highest elemental skill damage bonus by 10% |
| Tier 5 | Increase damage against elites by 20% |
| Tier 6 | +20% Damage |
| Tier 6 | Double the amount of Death’s Breaths that drop |
| Tier 6 | Critical hits grant resource: Mana: 15, Hatred: 5, Wrath: 5, Arcane Power: 3, Fury: 3, Spirit: 5, Essence: 5 |
| Tier 6 | Double the amount of Bounty Caches that drop from completing bounties |
| Tier 6 | Progress orbs from Nephalem and Greater Rifts are automatically picked up within 60 yards |
| Tier 6 | Reduces the damage taken from elites by 25% |
| Tier 7 | +30% Damage |
| Tier 7 | Gain immunity to crowd-controlling effects |
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| Tier 7 | Gain passibility |
| Tier 8 | Pets pick up Death’s Breath |
| Tier 8 | Elite packs drop one additional progress orb in Nephalem Rifts |
| Tier 8 | Increase damage done to Bosses by 25% |
| Tier 8 | Pets pick up and salvage common, magic, and rare items |
| Tier 8 | Increase your chance to Dodge by 15% |
| Tier 8 | Double the chance to find a legendary item purchased from Kadala |
| Tier 9 | Potion A– When you drink your health potion, you manifest one of three runic circles on the ground that grant increased damage, increased cooldown reduction, or increased resource cost reduction |
| Tier 9 | Potion B– When you drink your health potion, all enemies within 25 yards deal 25% less damage |
| Tier 9 | Potion C– When you drink your health potion, gain a random shrine or the Dimensional Power pylon effect |
| Tier 10 | Potion D– When a primal item drops, a second random primal item drops as well |
