...or just do the Talk to Wincott mission and return to your contact? <.<
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Yeah, you can do that if you want. I don't like to though because then Wincott extends the size of your contact list, which is big enough already. Plus, why go all the way to the Hollows with no travel for a little bit of xp?
There is another option. You can drop the mission from the contact that sent you to Wincott. You get the XP as if you ran from KR all the way to The Hollows and back, but you don't get Wincott added to your contact list.
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There is another option. You can drop the mission from the contact that sent you to Wincott. You get the XP as if you ran from KR all the way to The Hollows and back, but you don't get Wincott added to your contact list.
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This is the solution I prefer.
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I just added a side note to the end of the guide. You may be sent to one or two missions in the Hollows with Kyle Peck, a Steel Canyon contact. At level 14, this is the only time i've needed to go to the Hollows.
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There is another option. You can drop the mission from the contact that sent you to Wincott. You get the XP as if you ran from KR all the way to The Hollows and back, but you don't get Wincott added to your contact list.
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This is the solution I prefer.
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It's been a little while since I've had a character around that level that I actually ended up with that mission, but I don't recall it ever giving xp. Also, I tend to save my mission drop for the "hunt CoT in PP" mish I almost always get once I reach 10 and can actually get debt 
As far as the OP goes, there's a few things you were a bit remiss in not mentioning:
You can end up with *much* more than 3 missions that send you to the Hollows throughout your career, so having at least one contact there that you have the ability to buy inspirations from can be a good thing.
If you go visit Wilcotts anytime after hitting level 5, he will act as if you were referred to him so 'normal' contacts won't end up being locked into that referral mission. While this isn't as handy for people that start in GC, those that either start in AP or run the sewers up to lvl 5 aren't going too far out of their way.
Other than that, decent enough guide, I just don't find the Hollows nearly as painful since i8 with safeguard missions and temp travel powers available at level 5. 
I pretty much play solo only. I almost always start in Galaxy and I always seem to be sent to Wincott by my first contact in Kings' Row (four times last week). I just visit Wincott right after I train to Level 5, don't take any missions from him and continue with my other contacts.
But if you still want to unlock the Cavern of Transcendence Trial, just return to the Hollows right when you get to L14 and you can skip or easily clear all the missions needed to unlock the contact that offers that Trial. (You might want to auto-complete the Frost Fire mission.) So long as you do all the Hollows content solo and at Heroic you should have no problem unlocking the Trial before out-leveling the contacts. I believe you can still do the content at L15, but a character at L16 would out-level the Hollows.
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I have been playing with a lot of players who have never played before recently. Thus I guess a guide to 'no hollows' has its uses because it is very easy to just end up doing the hollows path.
I suggest being a Science background, do not go on a sewer team and complete all your missions given to you by your first contact. Then when you get your new contact, ensure you take the Vahz chain.
This was the original kewl thing to do since you get to do the whole Vahz chain, fight a signature AV, and get to do that awesome mission where you have a disease and your stamina doesnt regenerate or something.
You also get a hamidon like SO at 20 or 25 for defeating Dr. Vhaz.
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There is another option. You can drop the mission from the contact that sent you to Wincott. You get the XP as if you ran from KR all the way to The Hollows and back, but you don't get Wincott added to your contact list.
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You don't get XP from the "mission" that sends you to meet Wincott, whether you actually do it or drop it.
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I've known aboutt his method for a while, and I thought it was more well known than it really is. That is why I decided to post a guide on how to make it so you can completely skip the Hollows missions(annoying....) and still be able to go through contacts!
First, go to Galaxy City of Atlas Park when you first make your character. When you can't get any more missions from your first contact, go to Kings Row. Do 3 police band missions, solo or on a team. Then do the Atlas Park Safeguard mission you get from your detective contact. Fail or beat it (recommend beating it for the temporary travel power).
Go back to the detective contact. He will introduce you to a new contact. Do some missions from this contact, and you'll go to another one. After one contact in KR you will go to Steel Canyon. Then Skyway City, where you will be even with the people who went through the annoying Hollows missions!
A I found a side note today... as you go through contacts, you may get missions that still send you into the Hollows. But don't worry, I still have not found this happening until at least level 14. I got a Vahzilok mission that sent me to the Hollows today from Kyle Peck. Luckily the mission was right by the Atlas entrance. So don't freak out when you get sent to the Hollows, it's only one or two missions.
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but but but .. hollows is like heaven on earth!!!
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I do this;
1 - 6 (sometimes 8) run with a sewer team.
8 - 15 run scanners or regular missions
15 - 22 faultline arcs
22 - 25 Normal missions or scanners
25 - 32 Croatoa arcs
After that, I just run normal missions with some scanners thrown in when I want something very fast to do. Worked well so far, and I never even have to hear the name wincott.
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I do this;
1 - 6 (sometimes 8) run with a sewer team.
8 - 15 run scanners or regular missions
15 - 22 faultline arcs
22 - 25 Normal missions or scanners
25 - 32 Croatoa arcs
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I'd supplant the 22-25 run with the first part of the Striga content, for the temp powers. Warwolf whistles and Wedding Bands come in handy down the road!
Basically too many 50's to count, but I'm generally a brute/scrapper/tank kind of guy.
It's odd that there needs to be a "guide" for this. This was more or less the default mission path before The Hollows were implemented, except you forgot "grind in Perez Park from 8 until 11" 
I've known aboutt his method for a while, and I thought it was more well known than it really is. That is why I decided to post a guide on how to make it so you can completely skip the Hollows missions(annoying....) and still be able to go through contacts!
First, go to Galaxy City of Atlas Park when you first make your character. When you can't get any more missions from your first contact, go to Kings Row. Do 3 police band missions, solo or on a team. Then do the Atlas Park Safeguard mission you get from your detective contact. Fail or beat it (recommend beating it for the temporary travel power).
Go back to the detective contact. He will introduce you to a new contact. Do some missions from this contact, and you'll go to another one. After one contact in KR you will go to Steel Canyon. Then Skyway City, where you will be even with the people who went through the annoying Hollows missions!
A I found a side note today... as you go through contacts, you may get missions that still send you into the Hollows. But don't worry, I still have not found this happening until at least level 14. I got a Vahzilok mission that sent me to the Hollows today from Kyle Peck. Luckily the mission was right by the Atlas entrance. So don't freak out when you get sent to the Hollows, it's only one or two missions.