Guide to New Dark Astoria Repeatable Missions (and speeding them)

So, both Epharm Sha (blue side) and Maharaj (red) have 8 repeatable missions. The mission select window pairs them into 4 recurring paired selections, e.g., "Good Intentions" is always paired with "Ritual Knives". If you don't care for the pair you're currently given, then as soon as you chose one from the pair, you can then immediately abandon it for re-rolling for a different pair.

All maps are either small or very small cave. Or they are small or very small office maps with up to 3 floors. Anyone with Reveal and or a memory can quickly find and Stealth to the mission objectives. No mission is a kill-all. At +3 Incarnate level, Stealth really isn't necessary because your foes will be doing negligible damage.

All spawns at the minimal level are simply a Lieutenant with one or two Minions. Many objectives have an NPC dialog 'tell' which helps one find them right away.

So, I guess what I'm saying is that these all can be very, very short 'stealthable' missions. The reason to do that is to get the the reward table at the end faster.

The reward table includes

• 10 Incarnate Threads on a 20 hour cool down. During the cool down, you can still get 1 Thread;
• 2 Reward Merits on a 20 hour cool down. During the coold down, you can still get 1 Merit
• Super Inspiration

The following are the paired missions and their objectives and my best time in seconds:

Ephram Sha:

1. Good Intentions: kill the spawn near 3 civilians, 75 seconds.
2. Ritual Knives: click 3 glowies and kill ambush, 75 sconds.

1. A Shelter in the Storm: kill the spawn near 5 wards, 125 seconds.
2. Thinning the Herd: kill 3 'boss' spawns, 80 seconds

1. Prying Eyes: lead escort to objective, kill 3 ambushes, 220 seconds
2. Enemy of My Enemy: kill spawn near 3 NPCs, 65 seconds

1. Blade of Another Name: kill end-room 'boss' spawn, 30 seconds
2. Ancient Souls: destroy object, kill ambush, 60 seconds.

Maharaj:

1. A Little Less Fame: kill end-room 'boss' spawn, 45 seconds
2. Death's Toys: click 3 glowies, kill ambush, 80 seconds

1. Armor of the Soul: escort to door, 85 seconds
2. Death Magic: lead escort (who can be recaptured by foes) to target, kill ambush, 165 seconds

1. Allies and Anchors: kill the spawn near 3 anchors, 90 seconds
2. Culling the Competition: kill three spawns, 120 seconds

1. To Catch a {character name here}: destory object and spawn, kill ambush, 90 seconds
2. Two Birds: kill spawn near 4 Tsoo, then go back and kill the 4 Tsoo, 195 seconds

So, for each pair, there is an option to do the one that is 90 seconds or less. Or you can keep re-rolling to grab the 30-45 second mission. So, with an average mission time of 90 seconds and 30 seconds for travel, you can complete the missions at the rate of once every 2 minutes.

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This is going to come in handy for me later.

Thanks.

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Man, here you go, telling people how to speed through, getting farming going, it's the end of the game, you're going to ruin it all....


... just kidding. Nice little reference. Thanks.

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Thanks for putting this together!

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Originally Posted by Megajoule
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