Rite of Passage
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The three Ancients, Talic, Korlic and Madawc, guard the way to the Worldstone Keep on the Arreat Summit.
How to complete
- Climb to the Arreat Summit and touch the altar.
- Defeat Talic, Korlic and Madawc.
- Enter the Worldstone Keep through the door behind them.
Rewards
- Experience: 1,400,000 in Normal, 20,000,000 in Nightmare and 40,000,000 in Hell. The game caps it at the experience the level after your current one takes, so a low character gets far less.
Good to know
- The altar only calls the Ancients from level 20 in Normal, 40 in Nightmare and 60 in Hell.
- The full amount needs level 36 in Normal, 66 in Nightmare and 74 in Hell. Below that, the cap makes the reward worth about one level, whatever your level: waiting gives a bigger number, not more levels.
Difficulty Reward Best level Normal 1,400,000 24 Nightmare 20,000,000 As soon as you get there Hell 40,000,000 Before 75 - When to do it:
- Normal: at level 24, or right away if you are higher. Below level 25, Baal's waves give almost nothing: a character under 25 gets 2% of the experience of monsters 10 or more levels above. At 24, the reward (410,090) is more than all of level 24 takes, so it always lifts you to 25, where the waves start to pay. Done earlier, the reward is a cheaper level and you still have to grind the costlier ones to 25 elsewhere.
- Nightmare: as soon as you get there. The Ancients block the Worldstone Keep, and the waves are at their best from level 60 to 71: waiting for the full 20,000,000 at 66 throws away half of that, all for the same one level.
- Hell: before level 75. From level 74 the reward stops growing while the levels keep getting longer: 40,000,000 is 92% of a level at 75, 59% at 80, 39% at 85 and only 25% at 90.
