
This isn’t because the Staff has potent magical powers or costs much gold to make, but rather the sheer random chance that is involved in its creation. The Staff of Herding is the most difficult and onerous of them all.

The Seals and Legendary Potion powers that players will unlock with the Altar all require sacrifices of some kind - crafting materials, blood shards, even Petrified Screams, or lost souls, or a book you can only get in your Set Dungeons.


Season 28 of Diablo 3 adds some gameplay twists befitting the Rites of Sanctuary Season theme - including ritual sacrifice on the Altar of Rites of expensive items, like the Staff of Herding.
