River District Progression

The River District campaign is large and often confusing to navigate. This page is meant to help you accomplish your goals in the River District as efficiently as possible! This 'guide' of sorts will be broken into sections, so you can read as little or as much as you need.

Campaign Progression
The most prominent part of the River District is its accompanying campaign. This will gate your progression, what items you can buy in the campaign store, and the costs of those items dramatically. In addition, certain campaign tasks are more optimally completed in a certain order. Before getting into the depths of this guide, I'll cover the different types of campaign currency you'll want to be familiar with:

Evidence of Evil/Tooltip - This currency is the major time-gate in the River District. The Daily quest Mercantile Missions grants 25 Evidence of Evil/Tooltip each day, and the Weekly quest offered by Kavatos Stormeye after completing one of the Investigate campaign tasks will also grant an additional 20 each week. The various Heroic Encounters in the River District rarely grant 1 (small) or 2 (large, such as Treasure ship) Evidence of Evil/Tooltip as part of their Great Success rewards; Lairs in the River District also occasionally reward a single Evidence of Evil/Tooltip. You will need this currency to buy unrestored artifacts.

Tainted Soil/Tooltip, Ground Jade/Tooltip, Constructed Iron/Tooltip - These three currencies can only be found in River District Lairs unlocked by the three 'Investigate ..." campaign tasks. Once unlocked, these lairs are opened by Portal Stones. They are used in restoring River District Artifacts, and cannot be traded on the Auction House! To restore a River District Artifact Set, you will need 35 of one of these currencies.

Abolethic Portal Stone/Tooltip, Fey Portal Stone/Tooltip, Fireforged Portal Stone/Tooltip - These three Portal Stones open lairs in the River District; completing these lairs is required for the Weekly and also rewards currencies used in artifact restoration. Completing the Resisting the Rituals campaign task will grant a box containing your choice of unlocked portal stones; additionally, if you do not have a portal stone in your inventory the corresponding small Heroic Encounter will rarely reward a portal stone. You may only have a single portal stone in your inventory at a time, but unopened boxes from the campaign task and other sources stack and do not prevent you from acquiring portal stones.

Spell Amber/Tooltip, Vial of Fey Blood/Tooltip, Volatile Ichor/Tooltip - These three currencies are found in various areas around the River District; almost anything you do in the River District has a chance to grant one of these currencies. They are used in restoring River District Artifacts, and can be traded on the Auction House; to reduce your personal grind, it may be more time-efficient to simply buy however many more you need for relic restoration. To restore a River District Artifact Set, you will need 50 of one of these currencies.

Arcanic Focus - This currency is found in various areas around the River District, most notably Daily and Weekly quests. It is used in restoring River District Artifacts, and cannot be traded on the Auction House. To restore a River District Artifact Set, you will need at least 85 of this currency.

Arcane Magical Writings - This currency is found in various areas around the River District, most notably Daily and Weekly quests. It is used in restoring River District Artifacts, and can be traded on the Auction House; to reduce your personal grind, it may be more time-efficient to simply buy however many more you need for relic restoration. To restore a River District Artifact Set, you will need at least 105 of this currency.

Abandoned Treasures - You literally cannot accomplish anything in the River District without obtaining Abandoned Treasures. They definitely do exist as a currency, but are dramatically unlikely to bottleneck any of your endeavors. '''To restore a River District Artifact Set, you will need at least 5,500 of this currency. Additionally, you will require this currency to purchase unrestored artifacts.'''

Regardless of what you plan to do next, your first order of business is to progress to either 'Investigate Gyrion', 'Investigate Kabal', or 'Investigate Nostura' before completing any other campaign task not a prerequisite to one of those. The reasoning here is fairly straightforward- as of the current patch, completing any of these tasks will unlock a Weekly quest available from Kavatos Stormeye. This quest yields an additional 20 Evidence of Evil/Tooltip each week, and the Lair missions required to complete it will reward you with reagents you will later need to restore a River District set, if you so desire. After this point, campaign progression will vary slightly depending on your goals!

Restoring an Artifact Set
Most players entering the River District are looking to obtain a River District artifact set. The Mirage, Aboleth, Lifeforged, and Fey weapon sets are roughly equal in power to the moderately harder to obtain Relic Artifact Weapons, and offer more varied utility cases, making them highly desirable. Each set has different prerequisites, but all four will first require you to complete the Clear The Docks task in the campaign window. This is the only prerequisite for the Mirage weapon set, which is often most useful in PvP situations. The remaining sets require an Investigate task to be completed- Investigate Gyrion for the Aboleth set, Investigate Kabal for the Lifeforged set, and Investigate Nostura for the Fey set. Additionally, you will save 60 Evidence of Evil/Tooltip by completing the Restore Commerce task, which costs 120 Evidence of Evil/Tooltip and reduces the total price of a single weapon set from 360 to 180; beyond this point, further investment in the bottom row of tasks is inefficient unless you intend to collect 3 or more artifact sets.

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