Seeing as as far as I can tell you don’t even have a seasonal character how is it even an issue for you
I mean I’ve gotten enough gear to get #200 on my set leaderboard, so that counts for something. However…at paragon 900, I’ve gotten 3 primal ancients, and am only wearing one ancient item – my primal ancient weapon from the recipe.
But it did only take me about 12 hellfire crafts to get that ancient…so I may as well count that as lucky.
Edit: I did just get an ancient chestpiece, so that’s 2. 
(P912)
Well, I looked it up for my own sanity:
| Seal | Cost | Strategy |
|---|---|---|
| A | 10 Reusable Parts | Steal, then salvage your followers’ weapons. |
| B | 1 Flawless Diamond (or greater), 15 Arcane Dust, 20 Resuable Parts | At level 18 do Boss Bounties on Normal to acquire 2 Diamonds, then upgrade them at the Jeweler. |
| C | 1 Greater Rift Key, 10 Death’s Breaths | Complete a Nephalem Rift at level 70. Put Sage’s Journey on your Follower for double Death’s Breaths. |
| D | Any Class Specific Set Helm | Gamble Helms at Kadala at level 70. |
| E | 20 Forgotten Soul, 10 of each bounty material | Do bounties. |
| F | 1 Leoric’s Regret, 1 Vial of Putridness, 1 Idol of Terror, 1 Heart of Fright | Kill the Keywardens in Acts 1-4, which are labeled with a key on your map and highlighted with a Purple Arrow. Then use the keys in the house on the right side of Act 1’s Town to open portals to kill the Ubers. |
| G | Reaper’s Wraps | Kill Malthael in Pandemonium Fortress Level 3 in Act 5 on any difficulty to drop the plan, then craft it at the Blacksmith. |
| H | 30 Forgotten Souls | Farm Greater Rifts and salvage Legendaries. |
| I | 1,100 Bloodshards | Clear Greater Rift 60 solo. |
| J | 1 Flawless Royal Ruby, 20 Death’s Breaths, Ring of Royal Grandeur | Do Act 1 bounties to farm for Ring of Royal Grandeur. Buy Essences from Squirt in Act 2’s town; convert 9 gems into Rubies in the cube to craft a Flawless Royal Ruby at the Jeweler. |
| K | 1 Flawless Royal Emerald, 30 of each bounty material† | Do Act 1 bounties to farm for Ring of Royal Grandeur. Buy Essences from Squirt in Act 2’s town; convert 9 gems into Rubies in the cube to craft a Flawless Royal Emerald at the Jeweler. |
| L | 20 Greater Rift Keys, 1 Ramaladni’s Gift | Farm Nephalem Rifts. |
| M | 1,300 Bloodshards | Complete Greater Rift 80 Solo. |
| N | Petrified Scream | Farm Greater Rifts. |
| O | Challenge Rift Cache | Do the Weekly Challenge Rift. |
| P | 250 Forgotten Souls | Farm Greater Rifts and salvage Legendaries. |
| Q | 1,400 Bloodshards | Clear Greater Rift 90 Solo. |
| R | Ancient Hellfire Amulet | Kill the Keywardens in Acts 1-4, which are labeled with a key on your map and highlighted with a Purple Arrow. Then use the keys in the house on the right side of Act 1’s Town to open portals to kill the Ubers. Then buy the Hellfire Amulet recipe from Squirt in Act 2; craft them until you get an Ancient one. |
| S | Four Tome of Set Dungeon Pages from your class. | Acquire 4 full unique 6 piece sets for different classes. You only need 5 pieces plus a Ring of Royal Grandeur for it to work. Go to Leoric’s Manor in Act 1 and speak to the Tome while wearing them to acquire the 4 pages. Haedrig Gift sets do not count. |
| T | Ancient Puzzle Ring, 50 of each bounty material | Use Cube Recipe 2 to reroll a Puzzle Ring to ancient; then farm bounties. |
| U | 500 Death’s Breaths, 300 Forgotten Souls | Farm Nephalem Rifts. Put on Sage’s Journey on your follower for double Death’s Breaths. |
| V | 1,500 Bloodshards | Clear Greater Rift 100 Solo. |
| W | Whisper of Atonement Rank 125 | Use a Petrified Scream to open an Echoing Nightmare and reach level 125. We suggest teaming up with a powerful party to get this high in this mode. |
| X | Any Augmented Weapon | Use Cube Recipe 10 on any Ancient Weapon to Augment it. Try to use a Whisper of Atonement from an Echoing Nightmare so you don’t lose one of your Legendary Gems. |
| Y | Staff of Herding | This one is a long process. Here’s a video guide. Complete and Fastest Staff of Herding Guide - Diablo 3 Season 28 Hardest Altar Requirement - YouTube |
| Z | 1,600 Bloodshards | Clear Greater Rift 110 Solo. |
| Potion 1 | 55 Primordial Ashes | Salvage Primal weapons. |
| Potion 2 | 110 Primordial Ashes | Salvage Primal weapons. |
| Potion 3 | 165 Primordial Ashes | Salvage Primal weapons. |
Using a 125 Whisper for this is a total waste, unless you are really rolling in them.
A lvl30 gem is enough, level one or upgrade your Bane of the Powerful you used at start and take that.
Salvage any primal item.
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I don’t think that is the best way to do it. You can just do 6 empowered rifts (or 10 normal with deaths), and you are going to need to do GR’s anyway so just spend a few upgrades on that instead of your normal gem while EN are way more rare and best kept for easy and fast 125’s.
Yeah, that’s true. EVEN EASIER to just level a gem to 30, especially one you don’t care about. I used a failed 125 (I think it was a 114) in HC to augment my weapon for the altar. I wasn’t going to use it.
When it was a new feature, yeah I used everyone I got. It didn’t matter what the level was. Of course, in my memory, they dropped more often back then. But now, it’s not a new feature, so I don’t touch anything that’s not a 125, even a 124. It doesn’t matter if it is hc or sc, I get more eventually.
Damn I got so many more last season. Not that it matters all that much since I have also gotten very few Puzzle Rings so my gem stash is a bit thin.
I knew about this at lease a week before S28 began.
Don’t blame these so called problems on anyone but you.
I did the same thing. I did read a bit here and there, so I was prepared ‘enough.’ Nope. I bungled a few times. I didn’t unlock double bounties before the 50 all bounties seal. Silly stuff like that. But eventually I unlocked everything and I am finished with the altar in SC. I could have been more efficient with my time at the altar, but I wasn’t. In the end, it really doesn’t matter, you’ll get everything.
In HC, I was prepared. I had a mental map of the altar, and I definitely unlocked double bounties before the 50 all bounty seal. All I need is 3 more primals to unlock my last potion.
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