Probably, he's a contact added specifically to give soloers a way to earn Empyrean Merits. All the contacts and missions in DA are VIP-only.
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yes, you are correct.
Lvl 50 and VIP is required for DA
Hi,
even if VIP, the guy who gives the repeatable solo missions will not talk to you unless you have already completed the new contact in PI that starts the journey to the new DA zone.
He is a policeman (?) just outside the police station door in PI.
He sends you to check out a body in an alley way just a few streets away.
The whole arc takes about 5 minutes tops with no fighting and you end up in the new DA zone with the solo contact unlocked.
Hope this helps.
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A contact in Dark Astoria (don't remember the NPCs name - it's a guy wearing flashy armor near the zone-in) tells me to come back when I'm level 50.
I was interacting with the NPC on a level 50 character when I got this response, so I'm assuming he won't speak to me because I'm not a VIP. Is that assumption correct?
I'd been a way for a while, and didn't even know about the news of the shutdown until after I'd started to explore some re-done areas in the game. This was one of the things I noticed.
Thanks in advance.