Is it possible to Hench Riverside

You don't have to kill anything at all in this mission, but it's very possible to do the bonus with henchmen if you have the patience (they have a hard time getting the tower rangers).

As stated before, you should use stealth to get past the towers.
Learn the movement patterns and you should be fine.
There are only a few mantle you have to fight.

When going for bonus, take archer and ele hench with you and make sure to pull all mantle guards away from the tower (the archer on top has a large shooting range).
The archer on top uses antidote signet, so make sure you degen with hexes and not poison (or interrupt the signet).

you are right, stealth is the key, however i think I've been unlucky in the way that all the groups I've teamed up with have the mentalilty of "red name must kill"

thanks for the info guys, will try tonight

If you need to I still think there is that glitch due to it most runners can run the ENTIRE mission in 5mins... hit me with a PM ( Eternal Is Sektor ) ... i miss running stuff (thank you damn factions) so ill run you for free.. most poeple charge around 600gold so its not much... they don't run bonus BTW just mission itself... it is probably the easiest shortest mission to run.

I've henched Riverside with all my characters and completed the bonus each time too. You just have to be patient and try to pull one group at a time. Once you clear the area around each tower, go for the watchman and seeker. The seeker is easier to kill so if you are a necro, you can give the watchman a little "playmate". Otherwise, ranged attacks and spells FTW. Always bring a bow. Most groups are too impatient to tackle the bonus since this makes for a LONG mission. Otherwise its pretty standard GW stuff.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have to kill that ranger boss at the end? He blocks the path, so if you can move around him, then yes, you don't have to kill anything to beat the mission.

Ya you have to kill him but hes not too hard, just run up kill him then run across the bridge. Mission completed.

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No, you do not have to kill the boss at the end. I once ended the mission accidentally while I was mapping Riverside for Cartographer, because I ran a little too far.

Henching the bonus is considerably easier with either a warrior or any character that has aoe damage that doesn't require line-of-sight. The warrior is included above because, as it mentions in the wiki, you can actually hit the rangers from the bottom of the tower, provided you are 'next' to them. No z-axis ftw. Remember to bring a longbow for pulling.

If you're not interested in bonus, Riverside becomes a trivial mission because you don't actually have to fight anyone.

yep, henched it with all my characters.....takes longer if you want the bonus, but for the patient among us its not too hard (just very long)....good luck!

Bonus can easily be henched if you have ALOT of time on your hands.

You have to Alert the tower and make everything run to it, then pick them off a few at a time by pulling them and running (Henchies dont understand pulls, so you have to break their aggro).

Also, this is WAY easier if you don't need Line of Sight...Warriors are so-so because the Guard CAN spawn far enough back where you cant melee him from down there. This is because the Henchies could never take down the Tower Guard on their own...They dont understand that you cant hit him in you dont have Line of Sight...so most of them just stand there. I did it on a ranger (needs line of sight) and it was HELL killing the tower guard...

If you want the bonus, make sure you have alot of ranged skills for the rangers up on the tower, bows might not work since it will most likely be obstructed.

I beat this mission running my Monk through it solo and got past the Guard at the bridge just by moving around a little.I forced my way across the bridge.I didn't do the bonus although that you can do solo to.

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I took henchies and did both the mission and the bonus at the same time last week for my protector and cartographer title. The thing is, it takes a really long time. The key is to pull small groups at a time. You'll notice a pattern to how the mantle patrol the towers. When you get near, they will call an alert. Then ALL the mantle in the area will gather at the base of the tower. Then they will SPREADOUT in a uniform fashion to try to find you. Just aggro 1 of them and you'll pull anybody grouped to that 1 guy. usually that means only 2-4 mantle will come at you at any given time if you stay out of range of the other squads. But you gotta kill them quick cuz the computer AI is kind of dumb. Even though they are engaged in a fight with you, the tower till call "all clear" and they will all run back to the tower -_-

So just take it slower and it's actually pretty easy with henchies. Just give yourself like and hour or two to do this mission and bonus. Because I was doing the mission, the bonus, AND defogging the map, I literally killed everything on the map except for a huge squad of undead somewhere in the middle that I was pretty sure my henchies couldn't handle. Thus I took almost 2 hours to do this map. But when I was done, I had killed just about everything including the boss guarding the bridge at the end. Then I ran back, grabbed the staff, and it was clear sailing to the end. Oh and I also didn't bother killing the zealots that show up when you get the staff. No way I was gonna risk that heh.

My Ranger henched this for the bonus awhile ago, this it's definitely possible. I was able to find the LOS of some guardtowers, but for others you can just rely on your caster hench. Or in my case I brought Conjure Phantasm to help out. The thing with hench groups is that all faults will be your own, so you can adjust accordingly(unlike PUGs that are completely random). You just need to learn their limits of what and what they can't handle.