Altar of Rites

All 30 seals of the Altar of Rites with their bonus, connections and line of the poem, exactly as they appear in the game files of patch 2.8.0.

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Game data · Patch 2.8.0

Minor seals

Gateway

Your Kill Streak timer duration and reward bonus are doubled.

Unlocks: Mirror, Anointed
Mirror

Pools of Reflection last for the entire Season and are not removed by death.

Requires: Gateway

Unlocks: Force, Shadow

Sacrifice: Flawless Diamond or greater — Sacrifice any Diamond of Flawless or greater quality to unlock the next seal.
Anointed

Items have no level requirement.

Requires: Gateway

Unlocks: Exodus, Command
Force

+100 Damage

Requires: Mirror

Unlocks: Blood

Sacrifice: Any Class Set Helm — Sacrifice any class-specific, six-piece set helm to unlock the next seal.
Shadow

+5% Missile Damage Reduction

Requires: Mirror

Unlocks: Blood
Exodus

+10% Movement Speed (Uncapped)

Requires: Anointed

Unlocks: Blood
Command

Increase damage against elites by 5%.

Requires: Anointed

Unlocks: Blood
Blood

Picking up Health Globes grants a shield for 5% of your maximum health for 7 seconds. Max stacks 5.

Requires: Force or Shadow or Exodus or Command

Unlocks: Numb, Nature, Prowess
Tenacity

+5% Damage

Requires: Numb

Unlocks: Malice
Stillness

Double the amount of Death's Breaths that drop.

Requires: Numb

Unlocks: Malice
Vigor

Critical hits grant resource.

Mana: 15
Essence, Hatred, Spirit, Wrath: 5
Arcane Power, Fury: 3

Requires: Nature

Unlocks: Omen
Bountiful

Double the amount of Bounty Caches that drop from completing bounties.

Requires: Nature

Unlocks: Omen
Reach

Progress orbs from Nephalem and Greater Rifts are picked up automatically within 60 yards.

Requires: Prowess

Unlocks: Revelation
Reverence

Reduces the damage taken from elites by 5%.

Requires: Prowess

Unlocks: Revelation
Numb

+5% Melee Damage Reduction.

Requires: Blood

Unlocks: Tenacity, Stillness
Nature

Increases your highest elemental skill damage bonus by 5%.

Requires: Blood

Unlocks: Vigor, Bountiful
Prowess

Increase damage against elites by 5%.

Requires: Blood

Unlocks: Reach, Reverence
Carrion

Pets pick up Death's Breath.

Requires: Malice

Unlocks: Mother

Sacrifice: Ancient Hellfire Amulet
Reaper

Elite packs drop one additional progress orb.

Requires: Malice

Unlocks: Mother
Roar

Increase damage done to Bosses by 5%.

Requires: Omen

Unlocks: Mortal

Sacrifice: Ancient Puzzle Ring
Husk

Pets pick up and salvage common, magic, and rare items.

Requires: Omen

Unlocks: Mortal
Elegance

Increase your chance to Dodge by 5%.

Requires: Revelation

Unlocks: Father
Pattern

Double the chance to find a legendary item purchased from Kadala.

Requires: Revelation

Unlocks: Father

Sacrifice: Whisper of Atonement (Rank 125) — Sacrifice a Whisper of Atonement at Rank 125 to unlock the next seal.
Malice

+5% Damage

Requires: Tenacity or Stillness

Unlocks: Carrion, Reaper

Sacrifice: Any Augmented Weapon — Sacrifice any augmented weapon to unlock the next seal.
Omen

Gain immunity to crowd-controlling effects.

Requires: Vigor or Bountiful

Unlocks: Roar, Husk
Revelation

Gain passability.

Requires: Reach or Reverence

Unlocks: Elegance, Pattern

Major seals

Mother

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.

Requires: Carrion or Reaper
Mortal

When you drink your health potion, all enemies within 25 yards deal 25% less damage.

Requires: Roar or Husk
Father

When you drink your health potion, gain a random shrine effect.

Requires: Elegance or Pattern

Final seal

Warning

When a primal item drops, a second random primal item drops as well.

Sacrifice: The Final Seal — Complete all sacrfices to unlock this seal.

Only seven sacrifices are stored in the game client; the server sets the others.

The altar’s poem

Each places their hand on the altar and speaks a vow. — Gateway

Blood and light leave the fingertips of each, pooling in the basin. — Mirror

Shadows swirl in between the mixture, forming an unwavering pattern. — Anointed

The blood catches fire. — Force

Ash and smoke descend and fill the basin. — Shadow

The white brilliance dims to scarlet. — Exodus

Black dust coalesces with the continued stream of offerings, becoming clay that cures gray. — Command

Thick tendrils extend toward each offered hand and encase them in pallid flesh. — Blood

The hand that offered blood eagerly awaits the approaching mass with clawed fingers outstretched. — Numb

Probing tentacles quickly recoil from the hand as they brush against its bent barbs. — Tenacity

Delicately, the talon flattens itself in the crevasse formed by the encompassing mass. — Stillness

The clawed hand’s subtle lure invites the clay to return. — Malice

Blood mingles into gashes left in the clay as it weaves past protruding thorns on the hand. — Carrion

A serpentine umbilical wreathes the wrist and nurtures the amalgam. — Reaper

As the lifestream passes through, the cord recoils and severs itself. — Mother

The hand that offered light attempts to recoil in horror but cannot withdraw. — Prowess

In defiance, the gauntlet grips the encompassing clay and presses in its will. — Reach

As the grip loosens, a vessel forms around a spire pressed out of fear. — Reverence

Light collects in the void surrounding the spire offering a still reflection. — Revelation

The vessel’s shape begins to change, finding the space between the rigid armor. — Elegance

Fingers restrict the shifting clay and support the light-filled void. — Pattern

In isolation, the spire stands witness to the petrified structure that sustains its form. — Father

They exert the clay into an infantile shape after their own image. — Nature

Breath to take in and expel both odors foul and pleasant. — Vigor

Hunger to taste the bitter and sweet. — Bountiful

Vision to chart the lights amid the shadow. — Omen

Ears to hear songs of sorrow and glory. — Roar

Skin to strike in pain and caress with pleasure. — Husk

Each a gift and a curse to forever reign over the Eternal Conflict until its end. — Mortal

Choose wisely, ye firstborn, for your nature is conflict unending. — Warning

Layout: one trunk, three branches

The altar has 30 seals: 26 minor seals, 3 major seals and the Final Seal. It starts with Gateway, which has no prerequisite. Gateway unlocks Mirror and Anointed, which in turn lead to Force and Shadow and to Exodus and Command. Those four converge on Blood. From Blood, the altar splits into three branches of seven seals each, and every branch ends in a major seal:

via Numb to Mother
via Prowess to Father
via Nature to Mortal

For every seal, the list names the seals it comes from and the ones it unlocks, so you can trace any path from Gateway to the end of a branch.

What the seals do

Minor seals grant flat values or special rules: +100 damage from Force, +5% damage each from Tenacity and Malice, 5% more damage against elites each from Command and Prowess. Four seals double something: Gateway the Kill Streak timer duration and reward bonus, Stillness the amount of Death's Breath that drops, Bountiful the Bounty Caches from completed bounties and Pattern the chance of a legendary from Kadala. All three major seals trigger when you drink your health potion: Mother creates one of three runic circles, Mortal makes all enemies within 25 yards deal 25% less damage, and Father grants a random shrine effect. The Final Seal, Warning, makes every primal item that drops come with a second random primal item.

Sacrifices: only seven in the client

Only 7 seals have their sacrifice in the client's game files: Mirror (a Flawless Diamond or better), Force (a helm from a six-piece class set), Malice (any augmented weapon), Carrion (an Ancient Hellfire Amulet), Roar (an Ancient Puzzle Ring), Pattern (a Whisper of Atonement at rank 125) and Warning, which requires all sacrifices to be completed. The sacrifices for the other 23 seals are set by the server. That is why the list shows none for them instead of guessing.

The poem

Each seal carries one line of a poem. Read in its intended order, the poem follows the path through the altar: first the trunk from Gateway to Blood, then the branch to Mother, then the branches to Father and to Mortal. Warning closes it with the line "Choose wisely, ye firstborn, for your nature is conflict unending."

by eRnstl

Frequently asked questions

How many seals does the Altar of Rites have?

30: 26 minor seals, 3 major seals (Mother, Father and Mortal) and the Final Seal, Warning.

Why is the sacrifice missing for most seals?

Only 7 sacrifices are in the client's game files. Those for the other 23 seals are set by the server, so we don't list them.

What does the Final Seal do?

Warning makes every primal item that drops come with a second random primal item. It unlocks once all sacrifices are completed.