The Forbidden Sanctum will be returned in the new season. Itemised Sanctums.
After meeting Divinia in Act 10, you'll find Sanctum items while playing maps in the endgame. These tradeable items each represent a whole floor of the Sanctum. Upon successfully completing that Sanctum floor, the next floor is generated as a tradeable item, with all your Boons, Afflictions and Resolve states built-in.
GGG has rebalanced The Forbidden Sanctum to provide more variety in the mechanics and monsters you encounter. Relics have also been rebalanced and are now tradeable. Most notably, your primary character defences are now able to protect your resolve.
For example, Lustrous Lacquer grants 50% more Defences.
In light of the new defensive opportunities and learnings from the original challenge league, GGG has rebalanced the difficulty of the sanctum, especially in later floors and has worked to add more monster and room variety to runs.
A Sanctum run contains 4 floors, each containing 8 rooms. The 8th room of each floor always contains a Boss. Players can choose to engage in a room every time they encounter the portal to the Sanctum in an area or map, or defer up to 8 rooms (1 floor) to be run consecutively at a later time. Crashing during a Sanctum room will reset progress for that room and will resume the same area on your next map. Aureus and rewards are only locked in upon successful completion of a room. Each Sanctum run is independent between characters on the same account.
Floor | Icon | Name | Contains |
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Sanctum Archives | Abandoned Library | ||
Sanctum Archives | Templar Annals | ||
Sanctum Archives | Chambers of Inscription | ||
Sanctum Archives | Holy Trials | ||
Sanctum Archives | Scriptorium | ||
Sanctum Archives | Candlelit Chapel | ||
Sanctum Archives | Merchant | Contains Merchant | |
Sanctum Archives | Accursed Pact | Contains Accursed Pact | |
Sanctum Archives | Fountain | Contains Fountain | |
Sanctum Archives | Afflicted Fountain | Contains Afflicted Fountain | |
Sanctum Archives | Benevolent Fountain | Contains Benevolent Fountain | |
Sanctum Archives | Radiant Fountain | Contains Radiant Fountain | |
Sanctum Archives | Offer | Offers Items on Completion | |
Sanctum Archives | Major Treasure | Contains Major Treasure Reward | |
Sanctum Archives | Minor Treasure | Contains Minor Treasure Reward | |
Sanctum Archives | Candlelit Chapel | Contains Varakath, the Waxen | |
Sanctum Vaults | Battleground | ||
Sanctum Vaults | Decrepit Cellar | ||
Sanctum Vaults | Derelict Caverns | ||
Sanctum Vaults | Gauntlet | ||
Sanctum Vaults | Reliquary | ||
Sanctum Vaults | Experimentation Chamber | ||
Sanctum Vaults | Merchant | Contains Merchant | |
Sanctum Vaults | Accursed Pact | Contains Accursed Pact | |
Sanctum Vaults | Fountain | Contains Fountain | |
Sanctum Vaults | Afflicted Fountain | Contains Afflicted Fountain | |
Sanctum Vaults | Benevolent Fountain | Contains Benevolent Fountain | |
Sanctum Vaults | Radiant Fountain | Contains Radiant Fountain | |
Sanctum Vaults | Offer | Offers Items on Completion | |
Sanctum Vaults | Major Treasure | Contains Major Treasure Reward | |
Sanctum Vaults | Minor Treasure | Contains Minor Treasure Reward | |
Sanctum Vaults | Candlelit Chapel | Contains Braom and Uzar, the Experiments | |
Sanctum Cathedral | Halls of Worship | ||
Sanctum Cathedral | Unholy Lair | ||
Sanctum Cathedral | Infernum | ||
Sanctum Cathedral | Crucible | ||
Sanctum Cathedral | Sanctum Bellum | ||
Sanctum Cathedral | Hall of Mirrors | ||
Sanctum Cathedral | Merchant | Contains Merchant | |
Sanctum Cathedral | Accursed Pact | Contains Accursed Pact | |
Sanctum Cathedral | Offer | Offers Items on Completion | |
Sanctum Cathedral | Fountain | Contains Fountain | |
Sanctum Cathedral | Afflicted Fountain | Contains Afflicted Fountain | |
Sanctum Cathedral | Benevolent Fountain | Contains Benevolent Fountain | |
Sanctum Cathedral | Radiant Fountain | Contains Radiant Fountain | |
Sanctum Cathedral | Major Treasure | Contains Major Treasure Reward | |
Sanctum Cathedral | Minor Treasure | Contains Minor Treasure Reward | |
Sanctum Cathedral | Candlelit Chapel | Contains Xenathar, Templar Reaper | |
Sanctum Necropolis | Lost Catacombs | ||
Sanctum Necropolis | Desecrated Crypts | ||
Sanctum Necropolis | Undercroft | ||
Sanctum Necropolis | Entombment | ||
Sanctum Necropolis | Mausoleum | ||
Sanctum Necropolis | Sanctum Sanctorum | ||
Sanctum Necropolis | Fountain | Contains Fountain | |
Sanctum Necropolis | Afflicted Fountain | Contains Afflicted Fountain | |
Sanctum Necropolis | Benevolent Fountain | Contains Benevolent Fountain | |
Sanctum Necropolis | Radiant Fountain | Contains Radiant Fountain | |
Sanctum Necropolis | Merchant | Contains Merchant | |
Sanctum Necropolis | Accursed Pact | Contains Accursed Pact | |
Sanctum Necropolis | Offer | Offers Items on Completion | |
Sanctum Necropolis | Major Treasure | Contains Major Treasure Reward | |
Sanctum Necropolis | Minor Treasure | Contains Minor Treasure Reward | |
Sanctum Necropolis | Candlelit Chapel | Contains Lycia, Unholy Heretic |
Complete each of the following encounters.