

Your starting pool cap is a mere 500 Blood Shards - not a huge amount, especially in the face of the numbers we’re talking about for the Altar of Rites.

Whether you’re exploring the purple-highlighted shards in depth solely for Season 28’s theme or you’d like to explore the basics of speedfarming (the skills carry over between titles, regardless of the currency), let’s talk about earning increasing amounts of Blood Shards.įirst, you have to increase your Blood Shard cap But there are actually two components hidden in this requirement: unlocking higher caps (allowing you to earn up to the various thresholds of Blood Shards), then going out and collecting Blood Shards to your new threshold.

However, their value has skyrocketed in Season 28, with five different altar unlocks requiring ever increasing amounts of shards to sacrifice. Blood Shards are not a new inclusion in Diablo 3 they’ve been a necessary currency for the franchise’s current form of item gambling through the merchant Kadala, found near the Nephalem Obelisk in every Act.
