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'''Assay Row''' is the west wall of the [[Drift Network]] south wing, standing across the hall from the six-door Meridian ladder. Seven alcoves run its length, each holding a portal to a mine or quarry and a Meridian craftsperson who trades a collection task for a lesson: six of them each teach one of the fork's crafting materials - Prismatic, Tiger Eye, Tourmaline, Serpentine, Amethyst and Obsidian - and hand over the tool that works it. The seventh and last alcove has no material of its own; it closes the wall out with a two-boss fight and a single Class Ability Point.

== The wall ==
Walking Assay Row in order:

{| class="wikitable"
! Bay !! Portal !! Level !! Destination !! Material !! Craftsperson !! What you bring back
|-
| 1 || [[Peculiar Stone]] || no gate || Warehouse Annex Mine || Prismatic || [[Grainwright Alys Fenn]] || 10 Raw Drift Crystal
|-
| 2 || [[Banded Adit]] || Level 30 || Crystal Mine Low || Tiger Eye || [[Platewright Odell Marsh]] || A phial filled by breaking lampstone golems yourself
|-
| 3 || [[Open Cut]] || Level 40 || an outdoor dig site || Tourmaline || [[Edgewright Kenji Ashida]] || 10 Raw Tourmaline
|-
| 4 || [[Grain Quarry]] || Level 60 || Lugian Quarry || Serpentine || [[Ulgrath the Grain-Reader]] || 1 Serpentine Heartstone
|-
| 5 || [[Geode Field]] || Level 70 || the Obsidian Plains || Amethyst || [[Slotwright Yusra Tannim]] || 1 Raw Amethyst Geode
|-
| 6 || [[Glass Shaft]] || Level 90 || Dark Tree Crystal Mine || Obsidian || [[Glasswright Rin Kuroda]] || 10 Raw Obsidian Glass
|-
| 7 || [[Firecut]] || Level 100 || a magma arena || none (capstone) || [[Assay-Warden Vittorio Sarra]] || Both Firecut bosses dead, then a reading of First Iron
|}

== The chain ==
Six of the seven bays run in a fixed order: '''Prismatic -> Tourmaline -> Serpentine -> Amethyst -> Obsidian -> Firecut'''. Each portal from bay 3 onward refuses entry until the previous bay's material has been taught, so the row can only be walked in that sequence, and Firecut itself additionally refuses until Obsidian - the last material on the chain - has been taught.

'''Bay 2 is not part of that chain.''' Its only requirement is character level; it can be walked at any point once a character is high enough, independent of how far the rest of the row has been worked. A character can teach themselves Tiger Eye first, last, or anywhere in between.

== Materials and benches ==
'''Prismatic''' is the [[Prismatic Drift Stone]] itself: a single-use stone that sets a rending matching the weapon's strongest damage type, adds a few strokes of extra edge-work, and permanently closes that weapon to any further tinkering.

'''Tiger Eye''' is the armor-side twin of the Drift Stone: worked into a never-tinkered piece of armor it lays in one to five steel armor tinkers at once and settles a single [[Equipment Mods|equipment mod]] besides, then permanently closes the piece to any further tinkering, obsidian included.

'''Tourmaline''' feeds [[Weapon Mods]], redrawing a weapon's whole set of special modifiers at once.

'''Serpentine''' feeds [[Serpentine Salvage]], rerolling an item's enchantments rather than its mods or modifiers - the one material on the wall that works on both weapons and armor alike.

'''Amethyst''' also feeds [[Weapon Mods]], but more narrowly: where Tourmaline redraws the whole set, Amethyst swaps a single modifier at a time.

'''Obsidian''' also feeds [[Equipment Mods]], converting a piece's gear ratings into mods outright, or rerolling mods a piece already carries.

None of these materials is sold anywhere. Assay Row's craftspeople hand over a full ten-charge Hammer of their material as a one-time reward, and after that you make the salvage yourself out of loot, exactly as you would for ordinary tinkering - see [[Custom Crafting#Where the salvage comes from|Custom Crafting]] for where each one drops, and the [[Salvage Forge]] for turning loose bags back into a Hammer.

== See also ==
* [[Drift Network]] - the hall Assay Row opens off, and the Meridian ladder across from it.
* [[Firecut]] - the seventh and last alcove.
* [[Assay-Warden Vittorio Sarra]] - the warden who closes the wall's ledger.
* [[Custom Crafting]] - what every material on this wall is used for.
* [[Dispatcher Corwen Hale]] - the wing's greeter.
* [[Busy Door]], [[Rusting Door]], [[Held Door]], [[Breathing Door]], [[Miscounted Door]] and [[First Pin]] - the six-door ladder on the opposite wall.

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