An interesting question was posed over on r/diablo4, as a players wondered why exactly there were three separate altars for the same Witchcraft powers at the Tree of Whispers.
As you may have noticed, the Tree of Whispers is host to three separate Altars of Witchcraft. Each has the Witchcraft powers available and players have been running around all three thinking that there may be different ones offered at the different altars. There’s even one that shimmers seemingly at random!
Well, as you’ll know if you’ve ever checked them, they are in fact all the same. So why would there be three?
Well, as Winter_Ad_2618 helpfully explains, the three altars represent the three Witchcraft schools, Eldricht, Phsyche, and Growts and Decay. They also each held the powers of their respective school back on the Public Test Realm, but it seems some players were confused by this and didn’t know where to find them. And so it seems Blizzard just put all the powers on all the altars! They then left them in because, well, they look nice and add to the atmosphere. But why exactly they didn’t remove the power-buying functionality from them is a little strange.
In any case, you don’t need to check all of these altars for powers! But definitely check out all altars you find in dungeons! Thosewill grant you powers from the Lost school, and allow you to upgrade them cheaper!
