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Guide to the Assassin's Creed Valhalla River Raids endgame gameplay feature. Learn what the river raids are and what secrets they hold!

Assassin's Creed Valhalla Update ane.one.2 brought the long-awaited River Raids gameplay characteristic to the game. These raids allow you to subcontract resources both new and old to upgrade your gear and settlement.

The raids also offer new loot in the form of a brand new gear prepare. This is an high power level feature and is intended to be played and replayed multiple times.

The river raids have a number of complex mechanics that make them unique, challenging, rewarding and fun at the same time. In this guide I will prove and explicate every detail and every trick you lot need to learn to be able to accept full benefit of the River Raids in Assassin's Creed Valhalla!

Table of contents

• What are River Raids in AC Valhalla
• How to unlock the River Raids in Ac Valhalla
• River Raids Maps Overview
  • The River Exe Raid Map Overview
  • The River Severn Raid Map Overview
  • The River Dee Raid Map Overview
• Your starting time River Raid with Varn
• The Jomsviking Hall Edifice
• Varn'due south River Raid Dock Store
• How the River Raids work
  • Selecting Jomsvikings Crew
  • How to check Jomsvikings Condition during River Raids
  • Keeping the jomsvikings live
  • Food and adrenaline resource in the River Raids
  • Big Rations Chests
  • Strange Cargo Chests
  • Smaller chests
  • Locked Chests and River Raid Keys
  • River Raids Reinforcements
  • River Defense Level
  • Completed Raids notifications
• The Fable of Saint George quest
  • Saint George's set up
  • Where to find the Saint George'southward Clues
  • Difference in the river raids between gameplay difficulties
• Tips on how to play the River Raids in Air-conditioning Valhalla
• New Abilities and Skills
  • New Abilities
  • New Skills
• Ragnar's Legacy – new quest in ane.ane.2

What are River Raids in AC Valhalla

River Raids in Assassin'due south Creed Valhalla are instances small maps with a river that flows left, right, splits and tumbles around. There are a number of smaller and bigger camps, farms, settlements, monasteries and military establishments along the shores.

The River Raids were released as a new feature in Assassin'due south Creed Valhalla update 1.1.2, on February 16 2021. They are part of the Yule Festival event in the game. River Raids are free for all players who own the original game Assassinator's Creed Valhalla. River Raids are a permanent addition to the game, not a temporary event.

The River Raids are intended for high power level players that take completed the story of the game and are looking to subcontract some resource, complete challenges and collect and upgrade every possible item in the game. They are a neat add-on to the EndGame.

Each map has a number of each and each map also hides unique rewards and secrets. More on these later, of course.

River Raids are more challenging than regular raids, but they advantage yous properly for your efforts with new gear, weapons and foreign supplies which you can use to build new buildings, upgrade them and merchandise with the newly arrived NPCs in your camp to get cool new visual appearances for your longship, recruit new jomsviking warrios to join your army and more.

There are a total of 3 rivers yous can raid. Two of them are bachelor as soon as you complete the intro mission with Varn. The tertiary one is unlocked by exploring the offset two and finding clues. More on these later.

How to unlock the River Raids in AC Valhalla

To unlock the River Raids yous need to be Power level ~130 or college. You also need to have the game updated to patch 1.1.2 or higher version. The quest "A River to Raid"volition popular up in your quest log automatically when you qualify for this gameplay feature. It all starts in your Settlement Ravensthorpe. To be able to pla ythe River raids you lot need to build the Billet building and hire jomsviking by talking to the NPC at the billet.

Head to the quondam dock. At that place y'all will discover a jomsviking by the name of Varn. He is the NPC that will introduce you to the river raids. He will also take you on your get-go river raid along the river Exe, which will also serve as a tutorial for this new gameplay characteristic.

Varn will offer you to build a new edifice on the old dock, called River Raid Dock. This happens too automatically and free of accuse right afterwards you finish your get-go chat with him.

To learn more virtually all buildings in Ravensthorpe, cheque out the Beginners guide to your Settlement in Air conditioning Valhalla.

River Raids Maps Overview

River Exe and River Severn maps are the two on the southern side of the image below. The third map a little to the north is the River Dee and is unlocked after you explore the first two for clues. More near the Clues in the Saint George's quest walkthrough further downwardly in this guide.

The iii maps have different layouts, but they are identical in terms of deportment, mechanics, secrets and gameplay behavior on them.

The maps have a number of settlement y'all tin raid and a few fundamental locations where y'all can expect defensive establishments such equally river blockades, ambushes and chains.

Each of the 3 maps drops two of the pieces of the new Saint George's set. The items are random boodle from the large chests. Also each of the maps has one clue for the map that Varn will complete for you one time you bring him the clues.

Some other similarity are the buildings. They may be located in different places on the maps, but nearly of the buildings are the same in terms of layout. The chests, keys, rations – all are on the same exact spots for each blazon of settlement. Speaking of settlements, at that place are the following types:

• Civil settlements – farms and villages. Ordinarily contain small chests and large ration chests.
• Military establishments – large camps and forts incorporate ordinarily large supply chests and some small-scale ones.

Talk to Varn to offset a river raid.

The River Exe Raid Map Overview

There are in full fourteen locations available for raiding on the river Exe map:

• Keats Farm
• Twynam Farm
• Yeardley Subcontract
• Hamlet of Simonsbath
• Village of Dumonia
• 5x Small Camps
• Eastern Fortification
• Western Fortification
• Escanceaster Monastery
• Fortress of Exe

The River Severn Raid Map Overview

The river Severn has seventeen locations you can raid along its shores. They are as follows:

• Wyther Farm
• Lewin Homestead
• Smithe Homestead
• Line-fishing Docks
• Caersws
• Llanidloes
• Lowlands Camp
• 4x Small Camps
• 2x Island Camps
• Eastern Fortification
• Northern Monastery
• Island Monastery
• Severn Outpost

The River Dee Raid Map Overview

In that location are seventeen locations you can raid on this river:

• Rhuabon Hamlet
• Crowder's Hut
• Ery'southward Island
• Erbistock
• Deebury
• Goodwinlee
• Bunce Hideway
• Cliffside Monastery
• Riverside Monastery
• 3x Small Camps
• Staging Camp
• Hillview Outpost
• Forward Camp
• Logging Military camp
• Deva Victrix

Your commencement River Raid with Varn

Varn will take you with his own crew of jomsviking warriors to your commencement river raid to innovate yous to the mechanic. While raiding the river Exe you will learn the nuts of the river raids. This showtime quest is called "A River to Raid".

The start and most of import thing to recall is that at that place is no salve option during the raids. If you are defeated, y'all lose all of your progress and boodle obtained up to this indicate.

The first raid is no dissimilar than any other raid that follows. It takes place forth the shores of the river Exe in England and this is a brand new location on a carve up map that you lot will exist exploring.

Y'all start always at the bottom correct and follow the river. Forth on the left and right shores y'all will encounter the traditional for AC Valhalla yellow markers signifying raid-able locations.

At that place are minor camps, farms, military encampments and monastery on this map. You tin terminate to raid whatever location of your choice. You lot do not need to complete them all in one go.

The objective of your first river raid is elementary and quick. Yous need to collect a big ration chest first. Yous can find these unremarkably in civilian locations such as farms for example. You can notice one in the very beginning settlement – Keats Farm.

Return to the send and follow the river to the next raid location. Your next objective will be to collect two strange supplies from strange supply chests. These are usually constitute in miliraty camps and forts too equally in and around monasteries.

This concludes the objectives for your tutorial quest. You can now return to the Settlement to talk to Varn or go on to raid the other locations along the river.

My suggestion – render to complete the quest. There is no point raiding all locations on your very starting time run. It doesn't hurt to try and do it, though. You lot might find some secrets that y'all will learn about anyway sooner or after. They volition still be there when you visit the river next time.

Further down this guide I take a dedicated section explaining all of the gameplay secrets and petty details about how the River Raids piece of work and what you demand to know while doing them. For now, let's keep with the walkthrough – next up – edifice the Jomsviking Hall in your Settlement.

The Jomsviking Hall Building

One time you lot return from the first river raid, y'all volition take to talk to Varn. He will update your "A River to Raid" quest with a new objective – build a hall for the Jomsvikings.

This building will allow you to recruit new Jomsviking warriors for your army. Each time yous visit the Hall there will be a few NPCs waiting for you to take them on a journeying. They all belong to random other players. Recruiting other Jomsviking is part of one of AC Valhalla'due south Challenges.

If yous desire to see fresh new recruits, band the bell that is simply outside the Jomsviking Hall and the existing NPCs will be replaced past new ones. This mechanic only changes the appearance of the jomsvikings. Their ranks depend on the level of the building.

You can upgrade the Jomsviking Hall using the new resource bachelor from the River Raids, called "foreign supplies". This will attract the attention of college ranks Jomsvikings to your settlement. To go rank 2 and 3 recruits y'all need to upgrade the Hall twice for a total corporeality of 800 foreign supplies to get it to an "Expansion" blazon of a edifice.

The Rank 2 recruits will cost 110 Silver to hire and Rank 3 price 120. Y'all volition need to hit the bell outside showtime to refresh the quondam Rank one soldiers with Rank 2 ones. Your own jomsvikings don't level up automatically, so if you want to get a full coiffure of Rank 2s, y'all volition need to hire eight new guys.

Your Jomsviking lieutenant tin can rank up from raiding with you lot. Each River Raid completed with your Jomsviking, volition increase their Rank.

Higher rank jomsvikings fight better and have more than slots for rations that they can stack up. Rank 2 soldiers have ii ration slots. Rank 3 soldiers take three ration slots.

Varn's River Raid Dock Shop

After the outset raid Varn will also open upward his store at the River Raid Dock and here you will be able to customize your longship (which is different than your Drakkar ship you already have.

Varn is the NPC that will outset new raids for you. Hither you can as well cull which river to raid side by side, how to customize your transport

The Longship can be customized with the same items that you purchase from the Ubisoft Store, the in-game shops or earn through completing quests and challenges.

The Longship tin can also be upgraded. It initially can only carry up to 200 foreign supplies. Yous can upgrade the longship to level three and increment this chapters. Each upgrade costs y'all foreign supplies, though. And so practice that when you can spare some of the new resources and be certain yous will continue to play the river raids to make this upgrades worth their toll.

The first upgrade costs 450 foreign supplies and adds an boosted 100 to the total capacity of strange supplies you tin can carry, the second one costs 750 strange supplies.

How the River Raids piece of work

There are three rivers available for the River Raids in Assassin's Creed Valhalla. The third river is unlocked subsequently you lot find the two Sent George Clues and bring them to Varn. There are a few complex mechanics involved in raiding them

Selecting Jomsvikings Crew

You will have a grouping of eight Jomsviking warriors that you tin take with you on these river raids. Each Jomsviking can be overviewed and replaced if you decide before you get-go a river raid.

How to bank check Jomsvikings Condition during River Raids

Each of your warriors can also stack up their own rations. When they drop to disquisitional health, they will apply up one of their own rations to restore their HP.

You tin monitor your Jomsvikings' status in a new carte. To open information technology up printing "G" (on PC).

At the top left you come across the River Raid Status. Afterward each raided locations the alarm condition of the remaining locations along that river will go more and more than warning. This means that there volition be more soldiers and better defenses waiting for you in that location.

On the left side are your jomsvikings with their health bars. Below each one are the rations symbols.

On the right side you encounter the traditional circular menu. For the river raids information technology there are two new icons added to it. The marked ane on the image above is the "Finish Raid" button. Selecting this will cancel the raid and bring you back out in the open world. The one above information technology, that looks like your Settlement icon, will accept you dorsum to Ravensthorpe and also complete the raid.

The river raid alert indicator is also available in the lesser right corner of your map:

In this black console you will as well see the number of River map clues and Gear and Weapons discovered. More on these later!

Each river offers a number of raid-able locations. The items you volition find in each one of them depend on the type of encampment or settlement:

Keeping the jomsvikings alive

If a Jomsviking is defeated on the battlefield, they will appear with a bright red circular icon above their caput and a timer scale. If you want to save them, you will need to run to the fallen warrior and heal them up. Note that healing one jomsviking requires one of your rations. If you lot don't take any rations, y'all cannot heal them.

Failing to resurrect a fallen coiffure member will result in them going back to your settlement to heal their wounds. This will leave your crew with 1 warrior less for the remainder of the raid.

When a jomsviking warrior is defeated and return to Ravensthorpe, they volition be marked with a ruby background (see image beneath). Y'all will also become a notification in the top left corner of the screen equally it happens.

When the jomsviking gets wounded and taken out of the raid, they volition need to sit down out the next raid. A red text will tell yous the cooldown they need earlier yous tin can take them raiding the rivers again.

Food and adrenaline resource in the River Raids

Around the raids there are always flowers, mushrooms and food to pick up, so you will hardly ever discover yourself without rations.

Big Rations Chests

These requite one ration to you and each Jomsviking warrior in your coiffure. They can be institute usually in civil settlements such as the small-scale farms. Each of these chests will grant y'all and each of your crew members +1 ration.

Foreign Cargo Chests

They are found in military machine establishments and monasteries and offer foreign supplies resources. Opening them volition grant you +50 foreign supplies.

Both types of chests are large ones and you will need help from a swain jomsviking to open up them – just like the big chests in the regular raids in England.

To find the large chests that require ii people to open, you tin can some times rely on the white circular icon. This one appears when a crew member has found a big breast and is asking for your aid.

Smaller chests

These contain some of the more traditional resources like Ore, Leather, some times Runes as well. You can open these chests on your own.

Locked Chests and River Raid Keys

Some times you will need a River Raid central for these chests. Any River Raid Key tin open up any locked chest located in the river raids. The keys remain in you between river raids if you haven't used them to unlock chests.

River Raids Reinforcements

Every time you complete a raid location, the warning level of the river will ascent up.

River Defence Level

The game itself will tip y'all off on that too. It is non a good idea to raid the same river over and over again. If you complete a raid on one river, make your next raid on the other river.

Later on you raid a river, for a sure menstruation of time the river will accept a much more serious and well established defenses such as chains and ambushes that volition not just deadening yous down while you sail from one raid spot to the next, simply the stronger NPCs will present a bigger claiming for you to overcome at no real benefit other than earning more XP from more than enemies defeated.

If a river raid is marked as heavily defended, raiding another river will result in the start one dropping downwardly to "moderately defended". Need more testing to observe all of the relations.

Call back, if you fall, y'all lose all of your progress and volition have to return to your last salve file, which is certainly before this raid, since no relieve is allowed during river raids.

To run into a river raid'due south current alarm status, open Varn's map and hover over the raid location to see the pop-upwardly info console.

Completed Raids notifications

When you open up and loot the big chests in a raid location, that location will be marked as completed. This doesn't hateful yous are done, though. In that location are almost e'er small chests in each expanse that are worth opening as well, then be on the look out and don't blindly trust the system when it tells you to move on to the adjacent location.

At the end of a river raid you will get a short summary of the treasures you lot accept nerveless. Note that the general resources that are available as well outside of these raids are not listed hither.

The locations alongside the river that you take raided already will remain burned for a few raids and then will get rebuilt and tin can be raided again. This is the repeatability factor Ubisoft was boasting about when they first teased the River Raids feature.

The Fable of Saint George quest

This is a split up quest that unlocks inside the river raids. You lot tin can outset information technology by either finding a piece of the gear that belonged to Saint George or by finding one of the clues for it.

Saint George's ready

The armor related to the Saint George quest is called "Saint George's set up" and consists of five armor pieces, a sword and a shield. Two of them are located in the River Exe raid and some other two in the River Severn raid. The remaining 2 are in the third raid you unlock afterwards exploring the beginning two.

Beneath I take a quick overview and instructions on how to find and pick upwards all seven items from this set, but if you prefer, yous tin cheque out the full guide on how to get Saint George's Gear Set.

The set contains the post-obit items:

• Saint George's Cape – institute in River Exe Raid
• Saint George's Helm – institute in River Dee Raid
• Saint George'due south Armor – found in River Dee Raid
• Saint George's Bracers – establish in River Severn Raid
• Saint George'due south Troursers – found in River Exe Raid
• Saint George'south Tower Shield – found in River Severn Raid
• Saint George's Holy Sword – establish in River Dee, later defeating the Champion

The items' locations are random spawn inside one of the large chests in the big military establishments.

The set is paired well with the Bear skill tree. The set up bonus of this set is:

• (two pieces) Increment Set on after impaling an enemy. y'all tin impale enemies with a Neat-Sword heavy attack finisher or a Spear Special left-handed attack.
  Duration: 10s
  Bonus: +30.0 Attack
• (5 pieces) Additional increment to Speed
  Bonus: unknown (bewitched)

The concluding piece of the set is the Holy Sword of Saint George. It is a reward for defeating the Champion in Deva Victrix fort to the far north on the map.

The NPC is in the main hall of the castle at the far top end of the complex. It's a mini-boss fight without any exclusive or special unseen before mechanics to note.

If you want to discover more cool items similar these, cheque out the complete AC Valhalla Legendary Weapons Locations Guide. And accept a look at the complete drove of Air-conditioning Valhalla Armor Sets here on VULKK.com.

Where to notice the Saint George'south Clues

The clues are for the quest "The Legacy of Saint George". During the first 2 raids you will accept ane monastery on each of the ii rivers. Explore these monasteries to discover the clues to the third river raid map location.

You will find the get-go clue in the Escanceaster Monastery on the river Exe. Information technology's on a table in the main building of the complex.

The second clue is in the Northern Monastery on the rver Severn'south shores. It lies on a table in the side by side room to the primary hall of the master building in the circuitous.

Once you have both clues, bring them to Varn in your Settlement. He will then requite you the location of the third river raid and y'all will be able to raid it.

As soon as you return to your Settlement from the river raid, a cinematic will trigger in which Varn will tell you that thank you to the two clues you brought, he was able to depict the location of the tertiary river raid – River Dee – on your map.

This chat gives y'all 2 new quests:

• Treasures of River Dee – detect the last ii pieces of Saint George's set
• The Sword of Saint George – notice and defeat the champion to merits the sword.

Difference in the river raids between gameplay difficulties

The river raids are non affected much by changing the difficulty of the game. Same as the normal game the only difference is the level of claiming and XP earned. The rewards from the chests are the aforementioned. The number of enemies are the aforementioned, the mechanics are the same.

Tips on how to play the River Raids in AC Valhalla

There is no right or wrong fashion to approach the river raids. At that place are, notwithstanding, a few tips and strategies I would like to share with you that may help you salve yourself some fourth dimension, some effort and increase your productivity.

Offset, spend the foreign currency y'all loot to upgrade your Jomsviking Hall. After the ii upgrades yous will be able to recruit Rank 3 warriors. They have three Health Rations and are by and large better and stronger.

Also upgrade the Longship at Varn'southward store. Each of the two available upgrades will increment the full chapters of foreign supplies yous can carry during a raid with +100. The initial capacity limit of 200 is too low and y'all want to spend more than time in the river raids rather than going in and out.

I tin't tell if the gameplay difficulty level actually matters, only if you have the feel, the level and the player skills, I highly recommend you turn up the difficulty. On lower difficulties you constantly accept to click on the graphic that appears on the screen for assassinations where as on highest difficulty I inappreciably come across it.

Also the jomsvikings seem to be more than "focused" on college difficulties and don't do stupid things, so you'd accept to constantly follow them and save their skins. This last one might exist a result of me just beingness more focused when playing on highest difficulty, heh.

You will be frequently surrounded past multiple enemies and outnumbered. I personally love the speed of the pair of daggers and my current Burn Build works wonders. It's very like to the Assassin Hybrid Poisonous substance Build I shared with you a while ago, but instead of poisonous substance I use Fire. It's libation and less… toxic.

Cull the locations you want to raid properly. Don't just do them randomly and don't rush them. Your crew act silly often and wonder away to find trouble. Always brand sure you lot have Rations for yourself and for your warriors when you lot demand to get them up.

Raid a civil location outset to go some ration reserves for your crew. Then head for a larger location to pick upwardly some juicy loot for yourself and for your upgrades.

Each time you go out a river raid, the defenses will increase there and to lower them you accept to do another river raid. If you have something specific yous are subsequently from a sure river, and then simply enter another river raid, so immediately go out it. This will trigger the defenses drop mechanic, because the game will exist happy yous spend 50 Silver and "did" another river raid.

Afterwards a few runs the river raids will refresh and Varn will let y'all know about that when you are on the map screen, choosing which river to raid next.

New Abilities and Skills

With the release of Patch 1.1.2 Ubisoft added six new skills and abilities. The skills y'all can pick up as you earn XP from completing quests and defeating enemy soldiers. The new abilities can be found in the new river raids.

At that place are half dozen new Skills and 3 new Abilities added to the game with this patch.

New Abilities

The three new abilities are all bachelor for picking upward inside the river raids. They do non have a second tier for upgrade at the moment.

There are ii melee and ane ranged new abilities and they are every bit follows:

• Battle Weep - In a fit of rage, Eivor lets out a blood curdling scream, gaining forcefulness and causing nearby enemies to stumble backwards in fright, interrupting their attacks.
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• Shoulder Bash - Eivor performs a shoulder bash that pushes back enemies and destroys objects.
  Located in Isle Monastery on the river Severn
• Berserker Trap – This attaches a trap to your arrow, spreading hallucinatory powder. Whatever nearby movement causes the trap to trigger. Surprise clueless passersby!
  Located in Riverside Monastery on the river Exe

Check out the consummate AC Valhalla Skills and Abilities Guide for full details on how to earn both the erstwhile and new ones.

New Skills

The new skills tin can exist unlocked early on on and there are six in total. 2 for each skill tree. Hither are their descriptions:

• Assassin Carry - Automatically behave a body after a successful assassination.
• Assassin Slide - Slide into enemies and knock them off residue while sprinting.
• Power Stroke - Trigger a speed heave on the long ship at the cost of stamina.
• Arrow Looter - Eivor has a greater chance of annexation arrows from archers.
• Fight Ready - Ever start a fight with an adrenaline-filled slot.
• Long Transport Caryatid - When y'all are in command of the long ship, the crew will enhance their shield with yous.

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With the release of update 1.1.two you can continue to add more than Power levels if you were previously at the level cap of 400 and thus earn these new additional skills. You still gain two Skill Points per level every bit you lot did before 400.

Ragnar's Legacy – new quest in ane.1.2

This doesn't take anything to exercise with the River Raids, merely is office of the same game update 1.1.2. When you first log in you will receive a new quest "The Lost Drengir of Ragnar Lothbrok. To get it, you lot need to first defeat all Six Lost Drengr warriors.

This is a elementary and short quest that sends you to the pit with snakes where Ragnar meth his death. Ragnar's legendary life and achievements may non all be truthful, but his catastrophe was – dropped by one of the kings of England into a pit full of snakes.

A short cinematic plays out that shares Ragnar's final words and subsequently that you lot discover something on the basis – Ragnar's very ain seax – Drengiligr.

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