Altar of Rites

The Altar of Rites is a new mechanic added in Season 28 of Diablo 3. In essence, it works as a talent tree that will give boosts that are useful for all of your characters, no matter what Class they are. Each talent in this tree will cost resources, with the resources becoming more rare the more nodes you unlock.

diablo 3 rite of sanctuary — *A look at the full talent tree (Altar of Rites)*

The Altar of Rites

In order to use this new system, you will need to go to the Altar of Rites. The Altar can be found in the Festering Woods just outside of Tristram, and can be accessed at level 1. From here, you can sacrifice certain items to unlock a Seal, giving you a new passive bonus.

There are 26 Seals, and 3 Legendary Potion Powers.
- Seals will give you a passive bonus, while the Legendary Potion Powers will give extra effects to your Legendary Potion when used.
- Unlocking every Seal and Legendary Potion Power will unlock a final Seal, giving you the account-wide Wings of Terror cosmetic wings.

In order to be able to unlock a seal, the seal above it must be unlocked first.
- For example, if you want to unlock Seal B or C, Seal A must be unlocked first.

The cost of unlocking a Seal will depend on how many Seals you have already unlocked, not on the Seal itself.

Every single Seal and Legendary Potion Power can eventually be unlocked, but will require quite a bit of farming.
- Because of this, it is better to go straight for the Seals you want, as soon as possible.

All of your Altar of Rites progress carries over to ALL of your Seasonal characters.

Below are the powers for each Seal and Legendary Potion Power in the Altar of Rites:

Seal	Description
A	Your Kill Streak timer duration and reward bonus are doubled.
B	Pools of Reflection last for the entire Season and are not removed by death.
C	Items have no level requirement.
D	+200 Damage
E	+25% Missile Damage Reduction
F	+25% Movement Speed (Uncapped)
G	Increase damage against elites by 15%.
H	Picking up Health Globes grants a shield for 5% of your maximum health for 7 seconds. Max stacks 5.
I	+25% Melee Damage Reduction.
J	Increases your highest elemental skill damage bonus by 10%.
K	Increase damage against elites by 20%.
L	+20% Damage
M	Double the amount of Death’s Breaths that drop.
N	Critical hits grant resource: Mana: 15 Hatred: 5 Wrath: 5 Arcane Power: 3 Fury: 3 Spirit: 5 Essence: 5
O	Double the amount of Bounty Caches that drop from completing bounties.
P	Progress orbs from Nephalem and Greater Rifts are automatically picked up within 60 yards.
Q	Reduces the damage taken from elites by 25%.
R	+30% Damage
S	Gain immunity to crowd-controlling effects.
T	Gain passability.
U	Pets pick up Death’s Breath.
V	Elite packs drop one additional progress orb.
W	Increase damage done to Bosses by 25%.
X	Pets pick up and salvage common, magic, and rare items.
Y	Increase your chance to Dodge by 15%.
Z	Double the chance to find a legendary item purchased from Kadala.
AA (Potion)	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.
AB (Potion)	When you drink your health potion, all enemies within 25 yards deal 25% less damage.
AC (Potion)	When you drink your health potion, gain a random shrine or the Dimensional Power pylon effect.
AD	When a primal item drops, a second random primal item drops as well.

Below are the costs to unlock each Seal. The cost increases the more Seals you unlock, regardless of the Seal itself.

Seal Number	Cost
1	10 Reusable Parts
2	1 Flawless Diamond (or greater), 15 Arcane Dust, 20 Resuable Parts
3	1 Greater Rift Key, 10 Death’s Breaths
4	Any Class Specific Set Helm
5	20 Forgotten Souls, 10 Khanduran Runes, 10 Caldeum Nightshade, 10 Arreat War Tapestry, 10 Corrupted Angel Flesh, 10 Westmarch Holy Water
6	1 Leoric’s Regret, 1 Vial of Putridness, 1 Idol of Terror, 1 Heart of Fright
7	Reaper’s Wraps
8	30 Forgotten Souls
9	1,100 Bloodshards
10	1 Flawless Royal Ruby, 20 Death’s Breaths, Ring of Royal Grandeur
11	1 Flawless Royal Emerald, 30 Khanduran Runes, 30 Caldeum Nightshade, 30 Arreat War Tapestry, 30 Corrupted Angel Flesh, 30 Westmarch Holy Water
12	20 Greater Rift Keys, 1 Ramaladni’s Gift
13	1,300 Bloodshards
14	Petrified Scream
15	Challenge Rift Cache
16	250 Forgotten Souls
17	1,400 Bloodshards
18	Ancient Hellfire Amulet
19	Four Tome of Set Dungeon Pages from your class
20	Ancient Puzzle Ring, 50 Khanduran Runes, 50 Caldeum Nightshade, 50 Arreat War Tapestry, 50 Corrupted Angel Flesh, 50 Westmarch Holy Water
21	500 Death’s Breaths, 300 Forgotten Souls
22	1,500 Bloodshards
23	Whisper of Atonement Rank 125
24	Any Augmented Weapon
25	Staff of Herding
26	1,600 Bloodshards

Below are the costs for the Legendary Potion Powers. Although you need to unlock the corresponding Seals to unlock them, the costs with these are independent of how many Seals you’ve unlocked so far.