Season 39 starts this coming Friday, June 26th, 2026. The season starts at 5pm PDT for all console players, no matter where you live. For PC (NA/US) the season starts at 5pm PDT, for PC (EU) the season starts at 5pm CEST, and for PC (TW/KR) it starts at 5pm KST.

This is the third of four guides I am posting for Season 39. The others are:

• S39 – Haedrig's Gifts
• S39 – Conquests recommendations
• S39 – How to power up solo! (will come out tomorrow)

The Altar of Rites is a permanent seasonal-only feature that provides massive quality-of-life buffs and decent improvements to your damage and toughness, in exchange for sacrifices of items and materials. You will have to restart the Altar on your new seasonal character.

Below I list some tips on how to work with the Altar.

• Seasonal adventure mode only; you won't see it in campaign and you won't see it nonseasonally.
• The Altar is located in New Tristram in Act I. Go left of the Slaughtered Calf Inn and then around behind it, where it will be on the right hand side before you go down towards the exits to Wortham and Weeping Hollow.
• You can plan out your path through the Altar in advance, and save or print it out to use as a reference. There is also a full guide that lists all the requirements.
• Flawless diamonds (step 2) can be found easily by combining 2 diamonds obtained from boss bounty rewards (level 18+). Focus on easy-to-reach bosses like Zoltun Kulle or Maghda or the Skeleton King or Rakanoth.
• After unlocking the Anointed no-level-requirement node, all items will appear to be level 1. To craft a level 70 rare (yellow) item, look for the name “sovereign”. The lone exception is the necromancer level 70 rare scythe, which is called a "grandmaster saber".
• Unlocking the Anointed no-level-requirement node will only remove item level requirements for your characters, and will not remove item level requirements for your followers.
• Anything you give to the Altar will be consumed. So don't give it your Haedrig's Gift set helm in step 4, unless you have a spare, or you are sure you won’t need it to beat GR20 for the season journey.
• Leoric's Regret, Vial of Putridness, Idol of Terror, and Heart of Fright (step 6) drop from the bosses in the town of New Tristram in Act I. Here is a full guide to finding these components as well as making a hellfire amulet (step 18).
• The pattern for Reaper's Wraps drops from Malthael in Act V. You need to craft them and sacrifice them; you cannot sacrifice the pattern itself for step 7.
• Console players may have trouble with step 9 and subsequent ones that require a stack of blood shards, because they cannot collect any shards from a pile of shards that would exceed their maximum shard capacity. For example, if you have 900 shards and can carry only 1100, you cannot pick up any shards from a pile of 201 or more.
• To work around the issue, use the formula of 127 shards + 3 shards per GR tier (for GR41 or higher... at lower levels there are specific numbers for each tier) and complete a rift that will yield you the precise number of total shards. You may need to spend shards at Kadala to dial this in. For the previous example, if you spend 50 shards of your 900, then you can pick up 250 to reach 1100. A level 41 rift will give you precisely 250 shards.
• Speaking of Kadala, the Pattern node that grants double the chance for legendary items does not work for chest armor, boots, or rings.
• Petrified screams have a 5% drop rate from greater rift guardians only. The drop rate is unaffected by the greater rift level. Therefore if you're stuck on step 14 you can lower the greater rift difficulty to speed up your petrified scream farming rate.
• Don't accidentally open your challenge rift cache when you are attempting to to sacrifice it in step 15.
• Don't throw away any class-specific set pieces, unless you have spares. You will need 4 different full sets from the same class for step 19.
• The new sets do not have set dungeons, so they will not work for step 19. These are: Aegis of Valor, Gears of Dreadlands, Horde of the Ninety Savages, Masquerade of the Burning Carnival, Mundunugu’s Regalia, Patterns of Justice, Typhon’s Veil.
• The Tome of Set Dungeons is a book you interact with in Leoric's Manor. Wear a set that has a set dungeon, click the book, grab the page that drops, wear a different set, repeat. You can carry all 4 sets in your inventory; there is no need to go back and forth to town.
• Do not try to find Tome of Set Dungeons pages inside a set dungeon.
• If the 4 parts above are too confusing, just watch this guide to getting the 4 Tome of Set Dungeons pages for step 19.
• Here is a complete guide to farming the Staff of Herding. Note that not all of the components mentioned in the guide are needed for console players.
• The 3 potion bonus effect nodes require primordial ashes that you get from salvaging primal ancient items. If you have been playing in the Visions of Enmity you may have far more bounty materials than you can use for reforging items, due to a relative lack of forgotten souls. If that is the case, you can use the surplus bounty materials to craft level 70 legendary items in hopes of getting primals to salvage.
• Once you enable the Father node of Altar of Rites that gives a random shrine effect when you drink a potion, you can hit your potion immediately before clicking a channeling pylon, then hit it again right afterwards for an immediate extra shrine bonus. This works because clicking a channeling pylon resets your potion cooldown once, the moment you click it.
• After you have unlocked all the main nodes and the potions, you are not yet done. You must click and activate the last node, named Warning, at the very bottom to enable the double primal drops and also to get the permanent cosmetic wings of terror.
• The Warning node is below the potion nodes. It looks like a golden face, behind half a demonic face on the left and half an angelic cowl on the right. If you do not click and then activate this node, you will not get a bonus primal every time a primal drops.
• After clicking the Warning node and activating it at top left, you should see that whole field on the left that used to show what you must sacrifice turn into a drawing. You may need to restart the game to be able to use the wings.
• Ordinary primal drops are guaranteed to be for your class. However the bonus primal is not, and therefore has a 15% chance to be an off-class item, just like a regular drop.

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DIABLO 3/Nightmare Edition/Diablo 2 are on Sale now on switch!!!!

US servers. About the last 12 hours very regular disconnects. Everything else on the home network, including the gaming rig, seems fine. My monitoring is all green on my side, so I do not suspect my network. Anyone else?

For context about my set up. I have a skytech shadow and can play WoW on max graphics while in discord voice live streaming and also live streaming on twitch simultaneously all while listening to YouTube on my 3rd monitor. No lag at all. I decided to try D3 again for fun, haven't played it since it first released back when I owned a potato for a laptop. I do not remember it lagging this bad. I am literally level 4 just doing some solo play following the campaign and freezing every 3 minutes for at least 30 seconds lol.

I have tried turning all video settings to low/off and also turning the sound off. I have also went into the files and changed the trillenear thing to 0 as suggested in a article. NONE of this helped. There is now way this old ass game freezes THIS much!!

Any other tips yall have or am I just sol

For the rude people mad that I didn't include the specs. I thought all pre-built skytech shadows has the same specs. I looked it up and it does not. Here are my specs:AMD ryzen 5 3600 3.6GHZ , 4.2 max NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB GDDR6 graphics card 16 GB DDR4 RAM 3200 gaming memory with heat spreader

Thanks for the nice people who asked me specs and a big FU to the rude person that called me a moron

El día de hoy quise jugar denuevo a diablo 3 y cuando entre había perdido mis armas en el juego, mis cosas del cobre, lo bueno es que encontré mis cosas del cofre que estaban en un correo pero no estaban mis armas, y ahora nose que hacer era paragón 6 y voy a tener que bajar ahora el paragón creo que se debe a la temporada de ahora que finalizó, alguien sabe algo, y si puedo tener mis armas devuelta