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River of Souls is a Rift world event that launched March 30 and will run in phases. We have no eta for the end of the event.
Some rewards can only be purchased from the world event merchants and certain achievements can only be earned during the course of this event.
New rifts and invasions from the Plane of Death are appearing across the world. Visit Sanctum or Meridian to learn how you can help defend Telara and earn Otherworldly Sourcestones, which can be used to obtain items of power and mystery.
Fully participating in Minor Death Rifts will net you four Otherworldly Sourcestones and Major Death Rifts net you eight. Defeating a roaming death invasion force will net you one sourcestone.
This phase started on March 30, 2011.
Invasions
Two zone invasions can be found in every outdoors zone during this phase.
Quests
Daily quests in Sanctum and Meridian each reward fifteen
Otherworldly Sourcestone. The Quest NPCs also sell the same items as the World Event Merchants. A few one-time quests can also be found during the event.
Speak to Sister Belladonna in Tavril Plaza or Seruldu Elhar in Epoch Plaza:
Speak to Brother Hyperion in Tavril Plaza or Niddya Falstone in Epoch Plaza:
A one-time breadcrumb quest can be received in several other zones which will lead you to the daily quest event NPCs in the cities.
Receive an Evanescing Shadestone and examine it to receive a one-time quest:
Receive a Shadetouched Weapon Cache by defeating a zone event invasion, and get a quest! Rewards vary by class and level.
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This phase will begin on Saturday, April 16 at noon PDT. [1]
Friday's Dev Chat revealed:
- Phase 2 of the event will begin tomorrow, April 9, at noon PDT. "I would recommend being there on time, this phase will take a different form than the current one," Krausnick said.
- NOTE: This phase has been delayed since the developer chat.
- Phase 2 will last until players beat it. Krausnick said it will likely last a matter of hours.
- Players of all levels will be able to participate in Phase 2.
- Players will receive messages tomorrow telling them where they should go for Phase 2. Cook said that for the bulk of the phase you can pick any zone and you won't be wrong.
- Much of the content you'll see in Phase 2 and Phase 3 is one-time only.
This information is from the Alpha Shard and may change before going live:
Alsbeth is attacking Fortified Wardstones, mostly of the Order of Mathos, with undead Colossi pulled from the River of Souls. Destroy these creatures in each zone to save Telara from destruction!
- Freemarch Defended
- Silverwood Defended
- Stonefield Defended
- Gloamwood Defended
- Scarlet Gorge Defended
- Scarwood Reach Defended
- Moonshade Highlands Defended
- Droughtlands Defended
- Iron Pine Peak Defended
- Shimmersand Defended
- Stillmoor Defended
The Order of Mathos have established Fortified Wardstones in all the Neutral Zones, while the Sanctum Guard is stationed in Silverwood and Gloamwood, and the Eldritch Vanguard are stationed in Freemarch and Stonefield.
Note: sometime the night of 4/10 the Fortified Wardstones vanished. Our guess is, we were not supposed to know where they are until Phase 2 goes live. Now, they will probably move them.
The starting date for this phase is TBA.
Friday's Dev Chat revealed:
- When asked if Phase 3 will begin right after Phase 2, Cook said, "Phases without specified date/times will often chain after the preceding phase based on player actions/participation in that preceding phase."
- Here is Cook's description of Phase 3: "Once you complete it the raid instance River of Souls will become unlocked - but you'll have to go through Alsbeth's reanimated minions to do it!"
- The weapons cache will be "very available" tomorrow.
- No more items will be added to the world event vendor. However, consumables will likely be added in the future to help you burn through excess currency.
- Future events will use different currency, so you can sell or get rid of currency you don't spend.
- Grim Survivor - identify the origin of Evanescing Shadestone; quest item rewarded as part of the loot from closing a death rift (may need to be one that is part of the event and/or one that is no more than 7 levels lower than your own level), complete the quest to get the achievement.
- Grim Hero - participate in the Grim Harvest final event; presumably requires participation in the final phase of the event.
- Grim Protector - participate in the Grim Harvest zone invasions; I originally thought this referred to zone invasions in phase 1, but unless there is also an unstated requirement that you must take part in an invasion no more than 7 levels lower than your own level, it may be referring to the collossi invasions of phase 2 (this would make sense, as there is then one achievement specific to each phase).
- Grim Victory - unlock all Grim Harvest achievements; get all the other four achievements.
The currency for this event is Otherworldly Sourcestone, which can be received as a quest, death rift or death invasion reward. The rewards are available from the merchants below and from at least one of the two Daily Quest NPC's in the cities. When looking at the items that can be bought you will only see the rings that your Calling can use.
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- ^ Forum post regarding the delayed start of Phase 2.
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