Altar

What the Altar does

The Altar takes heroes you no longer need and gives something back. It opens at map floor 400. A second, stronger Altar for shard packs opens at floor 1500.

• Reincarnation: some heroes can come back as a different, stronger form. The result is random, so it can take several tries, and a reincarnated hero can turn back into its old form if you sacrifice it again.
• Shard packs: any other sacrificed hero turns into hero shard packs.
• You can place up to 4 heroes. Each Dark Ritual returns 3; the rest wait for the next ritual.
• How many packs you get depends on the hero's stars (gear), rarity, gild, and the shards you already hold for that hero.

Before you sacrifice

1. Gear, rarity and gild are lost. Each turns into shard packs instead. Every 10 gild on the hero gives 1 pack.
2. Take the gild off first unless you want to lower your total gild on purpose. Resetting a hero's rank costs 2 souls .
3. Read the number under the hero. Green means you hold spare shards: only those spares are used and the hero keeps everything. Red means there are not enough spares, so the whole hero is used for its full value.
4. Rebuild your decks afterwards. A sacrificed hero leaves every deck and does not go back in by itself.
5. Sacrifice just before a Dark Ritual so the heroes come back at once.
6. Small bonus: put spare gear on a low hero before sacrificing it for a few extra shards.

Heroes you can never sacrifice

These heroes cannot go on the Altar at all, so gear and rarity you put into them stay for good.

Skill heroes

Shop heroes

Other heroes

Reincarnation groups

Each group below is a set of heroes that can turn into one another at the Altar. Gold frame = the form most players keep.

Reclaim recipes

Some heroes can be brought back after you used them for a reincarnation. Sacrifice the two heroes on the left together; after the Dark Ritual you get the hero on the right and both of the heroes you put in.

• Griswold can be swapped for any other basic hero.
• Put only these 2 heroes on the Altar when you reclaim, or the recipe may not trigger.

How many shard packs?