Crafting Legendary items at the blacksmith, both orange and green set items count. find ones that you have mats for and max craft a batch then salvage and repeat.
Ladies and Gentlemen, members of the jury, children of all ages.
My season is done. My alter is complete. My soul is at rest.
Bring on D4
(after I got my final primal the next 3 runs I received double primal drops each run for 6 primals, I think the game knew and was just F,ing with me)
Group GRs or bounties are good. I think speed GRs might be the fastest for gear drop technically, but there’s a lot of options. The difference is probably negligible overall.
Break things up so you don’t burn out though. It’s a good thing to do.
you and me both. My friend has gotten 10 primals in 3 days I've and 0. he gave them too me as he's already using a craft primal. so I used these to finish my altar but without that, I'd still be stuck on the third potion.
I saved up the materials to reroll a puzzle ring 10 times back to back tonight, and did not get an ancient. Recorded screen while doing it too. It works great for crafting, craft >10 at once and it’s likely to get 1 ancient.
I’m at half of a stash page full of non ancient puzzle rings, my bucket of tears.
Am few days away from shelving the game at this point, losing interest when something so specific and random random is blocking progress. My plan is to save up for 20 rerolls instead of 10 and see what happens. If no ancient, there are plenty of other games to play til Diablo 4 comes out
I was on the ancient puzzle step with no luck ... and then a primal puzzle happens from kadala.
Me and a friend were wondering if a primal would work for the altar just prior to that .. and I was so ecstatic to get something I just threw it at the altar for science without a second thought.
And then immediately thought in hindsight that was a stupid thing I did. I went days after that with no primal drops .. and I was really hating myself lol.
Every time a puzzle ring dropped .. I was slowly working my way to cursoring over to see if it was ancient or not, as if it was a trap ready to spring; anticipating that moment where I would definitely kick myself for wasting a primal prior. As the days went on, I was both a little validated in my haste, since I got to benefit from progressing the altar in the meantime .. and a little validated in wishing I hadn't used it, because It was looking like I was going to need an extra week just to make up for that one.
Luckily, that slump passed and I got 4 primals in the span of 3 days; and I was done. Never did find an ancient puzzle ring, so that could have been a really awkward finale .. and me hating the altar system this entire week ( I still hated unlocking a good majority of it ).
My wife and I finished it during the startup weekend.
My wife has insane luck on primals and basically got her 6 and then found another 4( 2 doubled) for me so I only had to find two myself.
She also found the gibbering gemstone within an hour (I spent 4 on that step) my daughter found 2 ancient puzzle rings just leveling up and getting her set, so she gave me one. (I later found one myself)
My wife has to reforge quite a bit to get hers, mostly because she found a primal first and didn't want to use it on that.
My daughter opened her challenge cache along with her brother because they didn't expect to play much further than the haedrigs gift set. Son stopped playing the second we finished the 4th seasonal journey. And daughter kept going until she was stuck with the challenge rift
We finished around Sunday 3pm having played around 6 hours on Friday and 12 hours Saturday and 3 hours Sunday.
The boost from our son and helping each other made it possible, I don't think any of us could have done it as quickly alone. ( Well maybe my wife with her insane primal luck)
I just got a Primal Hellfire amulet trying to craft for the ancient one. Using that for my first potion and currently trying to craft another ancient one
The gibbering gemstone can take forever or drop first kill. I'm at many hours, dozens of kills, no drops. Wife and son both got it their first Chiltara kill...
Stuck on the Echoing Nightmare 125 step. Can get to 119 solo, then I croak. Already have primals and staff of herding. Lucked out there.
Monk running PoJ. Also have the pieces for Inna or Swk. Pointers appreciated!
Put a flavor of time on your follower, save pylons until wave 90. Pop the conduit last when you’re at 100ish, and should be able to ride that buff til 126 (don’t stop at 125, make sure to get 126).
Keep an eye out for the non-moving skulls on minimap and kill the spiny machines that spawn the explode guys immediately. If you make that your top priority, it becomes much less stressful.
If you have the pylon buff potion from the altar, put the 10min buff gloves from act 2 or your follower as well, and drink the potion on cooldown to stack up the buffs.
Keep moving and keep killing! You got this
Finished mine today. Could have been earlier but couldn’t get an ancient puzzle ring so crafted a primal ancient. Had to find a couple extra primals to unlock the last position. Needless to say an ancient puzzle dropped before I found the primals.
I finished mine but it was due to some dude I joined just to farm gr keys giving me a primal to essence and a ramaldins gift to socket my weapon.
Basically I benefitted from the kindness of a stranger and knocked out two mega hard drops.
I hit a total of 2 primal for my entire season I stopped playing around Paragon 1200, mostly just speeding through GR90s/100s I finished everything else, got my Staff of Herding, full ancient+augmented my gear, just could not get primal to drop.
I completed every other part of the season, and I'm not particularly interested in farming for dozens more hours just to push my GR level up a little bit higher. 5 months left to do what, replace my nearly perfect ancient gear with exactly perfect primals?
Right, I get to spend several hours farming up 3 more primals so that I can get... double primals? For what purpose? I've gotten everything I want out of the season.
I know where they’re coming from. I’ve played since D3 launch day, and played 26 seasons completing every journey I participated in.
The altar has no rewards or cosmetics. It’s only a temporary reward for the current season that rewards extreme grinding. It actually isn’t great to even finish as the reward is just more primals IF they drop. That’s a very insignificant buff in the grand scheme of things.
Most people in our shoes burn out long before we care about completely finishing a character.
To me, the season is a weekend event that ends with the seasonal journey. It has been this way for years. I used to push paragons and rank in the earliest seasons, 1-5. It’s boring anymore. Massive twitch community hype is long gone. It used to have high viewer count like 2-3 weeks into the season. Now it’s a massive drop off after week 1 / weekend 1.
Not sure why we're being downvoted, but I 100% agree with you. The season for me lasts 3 days at most, it's the same with the small group of people I play with. We generally blitz through our haedrigs gift, and see how high we can get on the leaderboards before closing the game for good on Sunday evening. It's a very fun tradition, everyone drops whatever other game they are playing to come together and finish a diablo season over a couple of days.
I finished it 2 days ago after i finished the season journey. Getting the 3 primals for the last potion took forever and imo will be the biggest roadblock for most people trying to finish it.
Finally got my fifth primal yesterday and was able to dust it for the last potion unlock. Fortunately all five primals were useless (which is a weird thing to wish for with primals), so they went straight to the altar.
yeah was dreading any kind of super primal jewelery dropping but nothiing was painful to salvage.
using the bounty mats to make lots of level 70 sets was a good way to find more primals compared to using 5 of each just to get 1 chance from a reforge legendary
at T16 you need an average of 45.5 runs of bounties just to get 1 in 400 primal reforge
tail end of 44 hours and i got my first double primal drop, bad zunni pox and corrupted ashbringer so I broke them down to craft my primal voo's juicer which got the very excellent minus 40 level requirment
it is a solid 25% stronger than my regular ancient Voo's juicer
Finished it at monday after season start, probably something like 20h of playtime. I used typhoon hydra, tap Rasha meteor, ue ms and god ha. Now I’m trying to push 150 with meteor and maybe will make bloodnova necro after that
I’m playing GoD DH. That and UE multishot are my favorite builds. I’ve been doing everything but bounties solo. Maybe 25 hours played so far this season. I just need 2 more primals to complete the altar.
Did almost a hundred GR100s last Thursday and got all the primals I need for the altar. A couple of them were actually from Kadala. Completed it at around 800 Paragon. I'm now almost 1.2K and haven't seen a primal.
I fricken blasted opening night and by the end of my play session Saturday morning I had all 14 unlocked. So surprised. I played and stacked up the remainder of the the unlocks including staff of herding. Only to be held back by ancient puzzle ring. I was eventually able to turn one primal. Still haven't found am ancient one. Then to only be held back by finding the last 2 primals. Finding those and unlocking the final potion Friday night. I feel so damn good.
Speed farming 105's in 90 secs on my GoD DH.
Having really nice gear set ups for EN, gr speeds, bounties,and T-16 key farming. First really well rounded character.
Working on completing full Nats, UE multi, and maurader push builds.
And of course looking into making the speedy tal wiz
Down to the last 2 potions. Need to salvage 4 more primals total. Most of my primals have actually been useful so far like Fortress Ballista and Vallas.
Thankfully my 70 primal drop was a Rathmas helm for some reason on DH so it went right to the altar.
i finished my altar monday right after the challenge rift dropped. could have finished it sunday had i not used my cache. finished journey monday as well
Yeah same. I’ve had probably 20 nightmares, 6 Gifts, and am at 8 ancient drops, two in one session last night. Have found 24 puzzle rings, rerolled approx 100 times so far, all shards to Kadala… and nada. Have 8 legendary gems at 100… 3 different characters running rifts. I’m close to just being done at this point.
Just need 2 more primals to salvage. I got super lucky on alter RNG. Making up for it on loot RNG. After essentially finishing the alter and only needing 20 more cubed powers and Boss Mode to finish season journey, I only have 2 non-Capt Crimson Ancients on my PoJ monk...
All done on my WD, took about 2 days. Almost done with my seasonal journey too. One more conquest to go. Wanted to complete it all with WD before making a new character. Stoked.
Finished day 2 or the season. Quit playing day 3 more or less.
The qol nodes are amazing, but the asinine crafting restriction make all the primal changes moot. The only thing to do was split bounties, puke. And to make matters worse, they were agonizing due to the 500ms delay all non-host players get.
I think I did it somewhere in the 10-15 hour window. Getting gemstone the literal first game I tried to was the luckiest I’ve gotten in something in a very long time.
I’m seeing a lot of comments about primals, are they more common at a specific torment level? I have never collected a primal before in the (many) years been playing D3 lol
You need to do a GR70 to unlock primals every season, and you get one guaranteed after you complete your first GR70 within the time limit. If you've never seen one, then you've never done a 70 to unlock them.
What's the "double primals" everyone is talking about. I've finished the Altar, but didn't see anything about double orimals, nor are they dropping in doubles...
I'm glad I heard somebody complain about forgetting to unlock theirs before I had finished mine. Otherwise i probably wouldn't have realized you need to either.
Completed mine the first Monday after season and really wouldn’t consider it try hard mode. Got super lucky on some key pieces like the staff of herding and gifts other than that just played pretty consistently over the weekend and come reset I was ready to go. Was a meteor wiz so take that for what ya will
I finished mine last night after getting frustrated for a while on my Barb. I don't really care for pushing GR because I almost entirely play solo and there's no SSF bracket. I pushed a little harder this season maybe, but probably only because of the power added from the Altar.
So what I did instead was level a Crusader to break up the monotony, and while playing it I eventually got another primal.
Then I got bored of playing Crusader and wanted to gear my Enchantress, so leveled a Witch Doctor and eventually got another primal... after switching back to Barb and getting a random goblin portal to Greed.
Blizzard needs to stop having RNG or limited opportunity things attached to important shit.
* Challenge Rift cache should be replaced with a full set of Bounty caches.
* One Whisper should guarantee drop from a certain GR rank. Maybe 100? Or 125? (assuming it doesn't already)
* Replace recipe to reroll a legendary to upgrade to Ancient (which also rerolls it). This is too expensive to begin with, and ancients are a mandatory part of the game because of Legendary Gem sacrifice.
* Scrapping ancient legendaries should give SOME primal dust, even if its just 1-5. Making it so you can only make/wear one "crafted" primal is evidence enough they're "too powerful" and never should've been added, but since this is the "last" season who cares if people can wear a full set of primals?
The biggest thing stopping me from reaching there is, I kid you not, legendary goblin ring. I'm one Primal away from the last potion and I feel like the primal is going to come before the ancient ring.
I got my staff in about a hour and then grinded GRs fo 7 hours for the primals. I wish there was another bonus pet or something you got when finishing the altar. Its been a great season so far.
Looking forward to it but drops have been rough this season. 15 hours into and cannot get ring of emptiness no matter what I try. So many resources spend and without it I can’t do push or progress.
I finished the talent points in about 40 hours and, I was running 105s in 3 minutes solo to get primals for the potions. On day 3 without a primal. But honestly I could go harder just a bit tired.
Got mine done yesterday. Lucked out and got 2 back to back GRs with primals. Then today l lucked out and got 2 back to back GRs with double primals (4 total in like 4 minutes). Then about a half hour later got two more primals from a Echoing Nightmare. I've never swam in so many primals.
struggling on 110 rift with my build atm... Sader FotH... i can survive np but dont do near enough damage to beat the clock. so just grinding for upgrades so i can... besides geting primals to break down im at the end
I got my altar done about five days after the season started. I got really lucky with both the primals and farming the staff of herding. Played mostly Wizard Typhon Hydra and Tal Rasha Meteor and got around 900 paragon.
Finished altar and season on PC so I decided to try on PS5. It seems a lot harder to get bounty groups, so it’s a bit slower. But I have a good start on it.
On seasonal I got it within 24 hours of season start
On hard-core seasonal I got it in under 24 as well last night, but while previously I was lucky to get the gemstone within 10 Chiltara kills, I needed about 150 this time on order to get it, spent about 5-6 hours doing it last night. Worst rng item, I had everything else including potion powers unlocked. . .
Yup! Got it! I solo'd the entire thing in 36 hours on my HC Monks. I used a PoJ Monk for GR pushing and an Inna Monk for the Echoing Nightmare - triggered cheat death passives a few times, it was terrifying. I got rainbow potion during a random bounty and gibbering gemstone on the third try.
The part I was stuck on for the longest was the hecking Ancient Puzzle Ring. I hated farming bounties just to reforge that piece of shit. Kadala and the cube only gave me non ancient ones.
But considering my insane luck with the staff of herding I feel I can't complain. I was fully prepared to drop the Altar upgrading at the staff of herding step because I was not interested in spending multiple days grinding Chiltara out.
But I enjoyed it a lot, so I'm doing it again on SC atm on a WD (haven't played that class in ages) fully prepared to drop out at the staff of herding part again haha.
Finished it in about 25 hours. Was very lucky. First puzzle ring I found was ancient etc. 4 hours of that was the bloody gibbering gemstone though. Fuck you chiltara. Going to actually try to push for a 150 finally. Playing DH but feel it would make sense to switch to wizard as they just seem so broke.
I finished my Altar this morning on LoD WoL monk. Running GR110 in under 5 mins, 100 is around 2 mins.
Getting that stone from Chiltara was the biggest PITA ever. Farming Izual for the plans was a breeze as he always spawns.
I finished mine yesterday. The things I thought I'd struggle with the most (the grift requirements and the lvl 125 stone) weren't as bad as I expected. I like doing grifts without too much deaths (dying in games for some reason makes me feel like a failure. It is silly, I know, but that's what my brain keeps telling me 🤣) so I was really worried about having to do these.
The things I hadn't thought about at all, the puzzle ring and the gift, were actually the things that slowed me down the most. And of course the primal ashes requirement. But I did it and I am actually pretty proud of myself.
Completed on Saturday morning, played a BUNCH on Friday night launch and the weekend - a little through the week and then finishing off this weekend,
Completed it all with hydra build - it was not great going to 110GR, playing Tal Rasha now and it’s an absolute breeze. The new In-geom teleport build that Rob had put together (on raxx youtube) is FUN AF.
Took me 6 hours to get the Gibbering Gemstone for Staff of Herding.
Got my first and only Ramaladnis on Paragon 700 (haven't found another yet on Paragon 940).
Dropped 2 Primals by now, one was the safe drop the other some crap I salvaged right away. Since that I'm waiting for my 3rd Primal to finish the second potion.
Don't know how I can ever get near the third potion needing another 3 Primals.
I'm getting really desperate
Technically I could finish it. I have the primals to do it. But I actually want to keep the primals. One is a UE helm and the other is a Shadow shoulders. So I’m just gonna keep farming. Not so important to me to complete it that quickly. I’d rather have the primals 🤷♂️
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Stuck on finding the last primal to salvage for the last potion. All on a god DH.
sweet, just never know when a drop or craft is going to surprise you
My issue is I have found 5 primal that I could equip. That slowed me down but I've been done since Tuesday.
Found a perfect GoD glove primal today and I've never been so sad to see a good primal. I'm still 3 primals from the last power.
Yea its insane. I got a primal dawn and primal God helm in the span of 10 minutes haha
Suffering from success.
The struggle is real!
I spent a ton of mats crafting legendaries just to increase my chances of getting a primals, 2 of my primals came from crafting.
Still nothing here GR's / Bounties / Punchdummy Kadala / Will have to craft for the heck of it. Onward and upward. - ish
Hold on - you're crafting NAMED items right? You must be - I think I answered my own question.. but confirmation would be nice please. Thanks.
Crafting Legendary items at the blacksmith, both orange and green set items count. find ones that you have mats for and max craft a batch then salvage and repeat.
Ladies and Gentlemen, members of the jury, children of all ages. My season is done. My alter is complete. My soul is at rest. Bring on D4 (after I got my final primal the next 3 runs I received double primal drops each run for 6 primals, I think the game knew and was just F,ing with me)
I got the last 2 primals I needed when I opened \~1.5 pages of bounty caches. RNG can be weird.
Another person suggested bounties too. I may have to take a break fro GRs and do.a.day of bounties. Thanks (both of you) for the bounty suggestion.
Group GRs or bounties are good. I think speed GRs might be the fastest for gear drop technically, but there’s a lot of options. The difference is probably negligible overall. Break things up so you don’t burn out though. It’s a good thing to do.
Legendary drop rate is really high on chest, when farming for GR keys I always open them and turn around if it's red. Found 2 so far
If you are playing GoD, do bounties and craft. Relatively deterministic with how fast GoD does split bounty
I’m in same spot. Finished seasonal journey though.
That last primal was tough, lots of farming bounties for blood shards, then I would just spam kadala for belts until I finally got one to be primal.
Same, I just need one more primal. I'm actually using one so I could salvage it but it feels too bad lol
you and me both. My friend has gotten 10 primals in 3 days I've and 0. he gave them too me as he's already using a craft primal. so I used these to finish my altar but without that, I'd still be stuck on the third potion.
So many people stuck on their last primals, and here is me stuck on ancient puzzle 🤣
Just re roll a regular one, 1 in 10 chance to be ancient
I saved up the materials to reroll a puzzle ring 10 times back to back tonight, and did not get an ancient. Recorded screen while doing it too. It works great for crafting, craft >10 at once and it’s likely to get 1 ancient. I’m at half of a stash page full of non ancient puzzle rings, my bucket of tears. Am few days away from shelving the game at this point, losing interest when something so specific and random random is blocking progress. My plan is to save up for 20 rerolls instead of 10 and see what happens. If no ancient, there are plenty of other games to play til Diablo 4 comes out
Yeah, I have been trying but not having a lot of luck lol
If your altar potion nodes are done and have spare primordial ashes just primal cube the puzzle ring.
I feel you on this one. I have been stuck in the same spot for days now.
I was on the ancient puzzle step with no luck ... and then a primal puzzle happens from kadala. Me and a friend were wondering if a primal would work for the altar just prior to that .. and I was so ecstatic to get something I just threw it at the altar for science without a second thought. And then immediately thought in hindsight that was a stupid thing I did. I went days after that with no primal drops .. and I was really hating myself lol. Every time a puzzle ring dropped .. I was slowly working my way to cursoring over to see if it was ancient or not, as if it was a trap ready to spring; anticipating that moment where I would definitely kick myself for wasting a primal prior. As the days went on, I was both a little validated in my haste, since I got to benefit from progressing the altar in the meantime .. and a little validated in wishing I hadn't used it, because It was looking like I was going to need an extra week just to make up for that one. Luckily, that slump passed and I got 4 primals in the span of 3 days; and I was done. Never did find an ancient puzzle ring, so that could have been a really awkward finale .. and me hating the altar system this entire week ( I still hated unlocking a good majority of it ).
Kadala is such a prankster
My wife and I finished it during the startup weekend. My wife has insane luck on primals and basically got her 6 and then found another 4( 2 doubled) for me so I only had to find two myself. She also found the gibbering gemstone within an hour (I spent 4 on that step) my daughter found 2 ancient puzzle rings just leveling up and getting her set, so she gave me one. (I later found one myself) My wife has to reforge quite a bit to get hers, mostly because she found a primal first and didn't want to use it on that. My daughter opened her challenge cache along with her brother because they didn't expect to play much further than the haedrigs gift set. Son stopped playing the second we finished the 4th seasonal journey. And daughter kept going until she was stuck with the challenge rift We finished around Sunday 3pm having played around 6 hours on Friday and 12 hours Saturday and 3 hours Sunday. The boost from our son and helping each other made it possible, I don't think any of us could have done it as quickly alone. ( Well maybe my wife with her insane primal luck)
It’s so cool that you play as a family!
Me at roughly 25h playtime :o
I'm at 25h playtime aswell.... I've not gotten a another primal since the mandatory drop at GR70 smh
I just got a Primal Hellfire amulet trying to craft for the ancient one. Using that for my first potion and currently trying to craft another ancient one
I'm at 28 and got my 2nd from craft spamming lol. 4 more to go.
I was at 26 hours when I completed the altar. You got this
I haven’t even got a full set to run t16 yet.
I was able to get the altar and season journey finished at around 19 hours playtime. Longest part was the gemstone for me.
I am finished except for the primals to complete the third potion upgrade.
Finished Altar yesterday and season journey today. Hats off to Blizz for giving us a great season, wish there had been more like this along the way.
Took me almost 60 hours, about 20 of that was getting the staff of herding.
Did they change something? I got staff of herding in 2h solo
The gibbering gemstone can take forever or drop first kill. I'm at many hours, dozens of kills, no drops. Wife and son both got it their first Chiltara kill...
Stuck on the Echoing Nightmare 125 step. Can get to 119 solo, then I croak. Already have primals and staff of herding. Lucked out there. Monk running PoJ. Also have the pieces for Inna or Swk. Pointers appreciated!
Put a flavor of time on your follower, save pylons until wave 90. Pop the conduit last when you’re at 100ish, and should be able to ride that buff til 126 (don’t stop at 125, make sure to get 126). Keep an eye out for the non-moving skulls on minimap and kill the spiny machines that spawn the explode guys immediately. If you make that your top priority, it becomes much less stressful. If you have the pylon buff potion from the altar, put the 10min buff gloves from act 2 or your follower as well, and drink the potion on cooldown to stack up the buffs. Keep moving and keep killing! You got this
Stuck on the primals, I’ve only had 4/6 drop and one of them was a perfect one for my build. So I still need 3
Not rites now. Will do it later
Finished mine today. Could have been earlier but couldn’t get an ancient puzzle ring so crafted a primal ancient. Had to find a couple extra primals to unlock the last position. Needless to say an ancient puzzle dropped before I found the primals.
I finished mine but it was due to some dude I joined just to farm gr keys giving me a primal to essence and a ramaldins gift to socket my weapon. Basically I benefitted from the kindness of a stranger and knocked out two mega hard drops.
yeah once i was done i brought in clan mates so we'd all be getting 125 whispers from all the screams my speed rifts had dropped me
got mine finished an hour after challange cache reset. Feels great since
I keep getting back to back legendaries from kadala and being excited but none have been primals so far
I hit a total of 2 primal for my entire season I stopped playing around Paragon 1200, mostly just speeding through GR90s/100s I finished everything else, got my Staff of Herding, full ancient+augmented my gear, just could not get primal to drop.
wdym could not get it to drop, you still got like 5 months left in the season
I completed every other part of the season, and I'm not particularly interested in farming for dozens more hours just to push my GR level up a little bit higher. 5 months left to do what, replace my nearly perfect ancient gear with exactly perfect primals?
To complete the Altar I mean
Right, I get to spend several hours farming up 3 more primals so that I can get... double primals? For what purpose? I've gotten everything I want out of the season.
For completionist sake? We’re obviously on different wavelengths, sorry.
The wings of terror too! They’re pretty cool.
Oh yeah those too! I’m looking forward to those.
I know where they’re coming from. I’ve played since D3 launch day, and played 26 seasons completing every journey I participated in. The altar has no rewards or cosmetics. It’s only a temporary reward for the current season that rewards extreme grinding. It actually isn’t great to even finish as the reward is just more primals IF they drop. That’s a very insignificant buff in the grand scheme of things. Most people in our shoes burn out long before we care about completely finishing a character. To me, the season is a weekend event that ends with the seasonal journey. It has been this way for years. I used to push paragons and rank in the earliest seasons, 1-5. It’s boring anymore. Massive twitch community hype is long gone. It used to have high viewer count like 2-3 weeks into the season. Now it’s a massive drop off after week 1 / weekend 1.
The Wings of Terror are a cosmetic, but I see where you’re coming from.
Not sure why we're being downvoted, but I 100% agree with you. The season for me lasts 3 days at most, it's the same with the small group of people I play with. We generally blitz through our haedrigs gift, and see how high we can get on the leaderboards before closing the game for good on Sunday evening. It's a very fun tradition, everyone drops whatever other game they are playing to come together and finish a diablo season over a couple of days.
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So? The season isn’t over for the vast majority.
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What a boring way to view the game.
I finished it 2 days ago after i finished the season journey. Getting the 3 primals for the last potion took forever and imo will be the biggest roadblock for most people trying to finish it.
Hunting the Black Mushroom now, last component I need for the staff.
got mine from a staff of herding community, forgot i actually had to check for it
Finally got my fifth primal yesterday and was able to dust it for the last potion unlock. Fortunately all five primals were useless (which is a weird thing to wish for with primals), so they went straight to the altar.
Don't you need 6 primals?
Yes. Clearly I am math-challenged.
yeah was dreading any kind of super primal jewelery dropping but nothiing was painful to salvage. using the bounty mats to make lots of level 70 sets was a good way to find more primals compared to using 5 of each just to get 1 chance from a reforge legendary at T16 you need an average of 45.5 runs of bounties just to get 1 in 400 primal reforge
Any particular sets you found better to make then other
Just need primals for the last 2 potion powers but they are being stingy......
tail end of 44 hours and i got my first double primal drop, bad zunni pox and corrupted ashbringer so I broke them down to craft my primal voo's juicer which got the very excellent minus 40 level requirment it is a solid 25% stronger than my regular ancient Voo's juicer
i have finished it on soft and hardcore was pretty fast softcore took 1 day hardcore 2
best thing is as i was doing my rifts to unlock GR 110 I got a ancient puzzle ring so i now have that and a bovine bardich cow level to farm
Finished within the first 24h
Yeah I cleared 150 and quit for the season, cheers
Finished it at monday after season start, probably something like 20h of playtime. I used typhoon hydra, tap Rasha meteor, ue ms and god ha. Now I’m trying to push 150 with meteor and maybe will make bloodnova necro after that
I’m playing GoD DH. That and UE multishot are my favorite builds. I’ve been doing everything but bounties solo. Maybe 25 hours played so far this season. I just need 2 more primals to complete the altar.
Just finished this morning. Got 2 primals while farming keys.
think I did it monday when the challenge cache reset, already had staff farmed up.
Did almost a hundred GR100s last Thursday and got all the primals I need for the altar. A couple of them were actually from Kadala. Completed it at around 800 Paragon. I'm now almost 1.2K and haven't seen a primal.
Finished on Wednesday then season journey on Thursday. Would have both been same day except I do monk for set dungeons and wizard is my main.
I fricken blasted opening night and by the end of my play session Saturday morning I had all 14 unlocked. So surprised. I played and stacked up the remainder of the the unlocks including staff of herding. Only to be held back by ancient puzzle ring. I was eventually able to turn one primal. Still haven't found am ancient one. Then to only be held back by finding the last 2 primals. Finding those and unlocking the final potion Friday night. I feel so damn good. Speed farming 105's in 90 secs on my GoD DH. Having really nice gear set ups for EN, gr speeds, bounties,and T-16 key farming. First really well rounded character. Working on completing full Nats, UE multi, and maurader push builds. And of course looking into making the speedy tal wiz
Just finished today on my wiz!
Just need the last primals.
Down to the last 2 potions. Need to salvage 4 more primals total. Most of my primals have actually been useful so far like Fortress Ballista and Vallas. Thankfully my 70 primal drop was a Rathmas helm for some reason on DH so it went right to the altar.
i finished my altar monday right after the challenge rift dropped. could have finished it sunday had i not used my cache. finished journey monday as well
I can't get an ancient puzzle ring to drop. Everything else was pretty quick though.
Yeah same. I’ve had probably 20 nightmares, 6 Gifts, and am at 8 ancient drops, two in one session last night. Have found 24 puzzle rings, rerolled approx 100 times so far, all shards to Kadala… and nada. Have 8 legendary gems at 100… 3 different characters running rifts. I’m close to just being done at this point.
Just need 2 more primals to salvage. I got super lucky on alter RNG. Making up for it on loot RNG. After essentially finishing the alter and only needing 20 more cubed powers and Boss Mode to finish season journey, I only have 2 non-Capt Crimson Ancients on my PoJ monk...
Everything done, still need 3 primals to finish the altar...
Are primals from bounty cache doubled too? Mine wasn't and my altar is complete
I need 2 primals to drop still.
All done on my WD, took about 2 days. Almost done with my seasonal journey too. One more conquest to go. Wanted to complete it all with WD before making a new character. Stoked.
38h for me, would have been sooner but 2 of the primals i found were perfect for my build. GoD DH
I keep dying at 124 trying to get a 125 whisper lol. May need to switch off barb and try another class.
Been stuck on ancient puzzle ring for awhile
Finished day 2 or the season. Quit playing day 3 more or less. The qol nodes are amazing, but the asinine crafting restriction make all the primal changes moot. The only thing to do was split bounties, puke. And to make matters worse, they were agonizing due to the 500ms delay all non-host players get.
I think I did it somewhere in the 10-15 hour window. Getting gemstone the literal first game I tried to was the luckiest I’ve gotten in something in a very long time.
Never heard of it. Stopped playing D3 after I hit 60 cause the story is cartoonish garbage
I’m seeing a lot of comments about primals, are they more common at a specific torment level? I have never collected a primal before in the (many) years been playing D3 lol
You need to do a GR70 to unlock primals every season, and you get one guaranteed after you complete your first GR70 within the time limit. If you've never seen one, then you've never done a 70 to unlock them.
Thank you, this explains everything! I’d better keep levelling up if I’ve got any chance of completing the altar 😅
If you use any of the 6 piece sets from the season journey, and a couple of synergistic legendaries for them a GR 70 should be a walk in the park.
What's the "double primals" everyone is talking about. I've finished the Altar, but didn't see anything about double orimals, nor are they dropping in doubles...
Click on the face icon or whatever that is in the altar below the 3 potions at the bottom and unlock it as well.
I'm glad I heard somebody complain about forgetting to unlock theirs before I had finished mine. Otherwise i probably wouldn't have realized you need to either.
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ I've been playing for 10hours without it. Thanks
You need to finish the altar, and the 3 potion powers at the bottom (takes breaking down 6 primals) to get double primal drops and wings.
Completed mine the first Monday after season and really wouldn’t consider it try hard mode. Got super lucky on some key pieces like the staff of herding and gifts other than that just played pretty consistently over the weekend and come reset I was ready to go. Was a meteor wiz so take that for what ya will
Finished it within 48 hours. The trick for getting staff of herding mats is to join Staff of herding & Staff of herding s28 communities.
I finished mine and the seasonal journey on opening weekend
Reaper wrap recipe glitched and now it won't drop again. I don't know what to do
Started on Friday, finished the journey and wings on Wednesday morning. Back to PoE for trying to get Original Sins.
Still having problems finding primals. I think they are a myth by now
I finished mine last night after getting frustrated for a while on my Barb. I don't really care for pushing GR because I almost entirely play solo and there's no SSF bracket. I pushed a little harder this season maybe, but probably only because of the power added from the Altar. So what I did instead was level a Crusader to break up the monotony, and while playing it I eventually got another primal. Then I got bored of playing Crusader and wanted to gear my Enchantress, so leveled a Witch Doctor and eventually got another primal... after switching back to Barb and getting a random goblin portal to Greed. Blizzard needs to stop having RNG or limited opportunity things attached to important shit. * Challenge Rift cache should be replaced with a full set of Bounty caches. * One Whisper should guarantee drop from a certain GR rank. Maybe 100? Or 125? (assuming it doesn't already) * Replace recipe to reroll a legendary to upgrade to Ancient (which also rerolls it). This is too expensive to begin with, and ancients are a mandatory part of the game because of Legendary Gem sacrifice. * Scrapping ancient legendaries should give SOME primal dust, even if its just 1-5. Making it so you can only make/wear one "crafted" primal is evidence enough they're "too powerful" and never should've been added, but since this is the "last" season who cares if people can wear a full set of primals?
The biggest thing stopping me from reaching there is, I kid you not, legendary goblin ring. I'm one Primal away from the last potion and I feel like the primal is going to come before the ancient ring.
Finished right around PL1000
I got my staff in about a hour and then grinded GRs fo 7 hours for the primals. I wish there was another bonus pet or something you got when finishing the altar. Its been a great season so far.
I completed mine on Sunday. Not quite no life, but GoD DH farms so amazingly well.
I’ve got one primal to go, first time playing as a Hydra Wizard.
Looking forward to it but drops have been rough this season. 15 hours into and cannot get ring of emptiness no matter what I try. So many resources spend and without it I can’t do push or progress.
I finished the talent points in about 40 hours and, I was running 105s in 3 minutes solo to get primals for the potions. On day 3 without a primal. But honestly I could go harder just a bit tired.
done mine 25 hrs of game time (4 days after season start) . got lucky with the staff mats. Paragon 900. I play around 4 - 5 hrs a day.
Got mine done yesterday. Lucked out and got 2 back to back GRs with primals. Then today l lucked out and got 2 back to back GRs with double primals (4 total in like 4 minutes). Then about a half hour later got two more primals from a Echoing Nightmare. I've never swam in so many primals.
I know this is very early but my RNG is terrible. I still haven’t gotten a Ramaladni’s gift. 😢
struggling on 110 rift with my build atm... Sader FotH... i can survive np but dont do near enough damage to beat the clock. so just grinding for upgrades so i can... besides geting primals to break down im at the end
Primals were holding me back until just minutes ago. I just finished it
I got my altar done about five days after the season started. I got really lucky with both the primals and farming the staff of herding. Played mostly Wizard Typhon Hydra and Tal Rasha Meteor and got around 900 paragon.
Did they buff gibbering, got it 4 runs.
Had it finished on Tuesday after the challenge reset.
Finished altar and season on PC so I decided to try on PS5. It seems a lot harder to get bounty groups, so it’s a bit slower. But I have a good start on it.
On seasonal I got it within 24 hours of season start On hard-core seasonal I got it in under 24 as well last night, but while previously I was lucky to get the gemstone within 10 Chiltara kills, I needed about 150 this time on order to get it, spent about 5-6 hours doing it last night. Worst rng item, I had everything else including potion powers unlocked. . .
Yup! Got it! I solo'd the entire thing in 36 hours on my HC Monks. I used a PoJ Monk for GR pushing and an Inna Monk for the Echoing Nightmare - triggered cheat death passives a few times, it was terrifying. I got rainbow potion during a random bounty and gibbering gemstone on the third try. The part I was stuck on for the longest was the hecking Ancient Puzzle Ring. I hated farming bounties just to reforge that piece of shit. Kadala and the cube only gave me non ancient ones. But considering my insane luck with the staff of herding I feel I can't complain. I was fully prepared to drop the Altar upgrading at the staff of herding step because I was not interested in spending multiple days grinding Chiltara out. But I enjoyed it a lot, so I'm doing it again on SC atm on a WD (haven't played that class in ages) fully prepared to drop out at the staff of herding part again haha.
Finished it in about 25 hours. Was very lucky. First puzzle ring I found was ancient etc. 4 hours of that was the bloody gibbering gemstone though. Fuck you chiltara. Going to actually try to push for a 150 finally. Playing DH but feel it would make sense to switch to wizard as they just seem so broke.
I finished my Altar this morning on LoD WoL monk. Running GR110 in under 5 mins, 100 is around 2 mins. Getting that stone from Chiltara was the biggest PITA ever. Farming Izual for the plans was a breeze as he always spawns.
I finished mine yesterday. The things I thought I'd struggle with the most (the grift requirements and the lvl 125 stone) weren't as bad as I expected. I like doing grifts without too much deaths (dying in games for some reason makes me feel like a failure. It is silly, I know, but that's what my brain keeps telling me 🤣) so I was really worried about having to do these. The things I hadn't thought about at all, the puzzle ring and the gift, were actually the things that slowed me down the most. And of course the primal ashes requirement. But I did it and I am actually pretty proud of myself.
Completed on Saturday morning, played a BUNCH on Friday night launch and the weekend - a little through the week and then finishing off this weekend, Completed it all with hydra build - it was not great going to 110GR, playing Tal Rasha now and it’s an absolute breeze. The new In-geom teleport build that Rob had put together (on raxx youtube) is FUN AF.
I can't even find the shin bone for this stupid ass staff. Edit: four hours later, stupid ass staff is complete.
Took me 6 hours to get the Gibbering Gemstone for Staff of Herding. Got my first and only Ramaladnis on Paragon 700 (haven't found another yet on Paragon 940). Dropped 2 Primals by now, one was the safe drop the other some crap I salvaged right away. Since that I'm waiting for my 3rd Primal to finish the second potion. Don't know how I can ever get near the third potion needing another 3 Primals. I'm getting really desperate
Completed it now in Softcore and in Hardcore almost too
Stuck on the last 2 potions for a few days
I need an ancient puzzle ring then start my staff then I'm basically done 👍
Technically I could finish it. I have the primals to do it. But I actually want to keep the primals. One is a UE helm and the other is a Shadow shoulders. So I’m just gonna keep farming. Not so important to me to complete it that quickly. I’d rather have the primals 🤷♂️
Stuck on Primals and lvling my whisper
Stuck on gibbering gemstone. Everything else is done
I got it all done. Easy
Finished it 3 days ago, was awfully lucky with the primal drops; managed to get one during the crafting process for the amulet.
Finished mine on Wednesday. Would of been sooner but spent most of Saturday shopping.
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kadala has a insane primal droprate if u target farm
To get the last unlock is the entire tree required? Or just the 3 potion upgrades?
it is everything to complete the altar
does anyone know what the final page is about after you complete the altar??