Jordan’s Missions Guide
Last Modified: April 10, 2009
Why do missions
Two major objectives of CoH/V are to level to 50 (to unlock the Kheldian and Arachnos epic archetypes) and to follow the story elements.
You can certainly go around randomly and fight things until you level, but it's much slower and a lot more boring than doing missions.
Missions get you several imporant bonuses:
- Every mission has a completion bonus for experience and influence.
- If you follow the story arcs through the missions, you get an experience bonus as well as merits for a reward.
- Many very cool maps and enemies can only be found in missions or TFs
How to do missions
There are three ways to go through missions.
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Form a team and clear it.
The biggest advantage to this method is that you can get the fastest DPS in the game. You will also get to hang out with people which is part of what makes the game fun (assuming you are in a good team (read my Jordan's Teaming Guide for advice on this).
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Clear it yourself
For certain ATs, beating everything in a mission by themselves works very well, but for Squishies, this can be grueling and slow.
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Sneak it
If you have stealth powers, you can sneak through most missions and complete the objectives without fighting everything. For a squishy character who either doesn't want to team or couldn't find a good team, this is a great option.
Getting to missions
Travel is slow and grueling at low levels and can be at higher levels too (especially when a TF or contact sends you all over the place). Make sure to read my Jeremy's Advanced Travel Guide guide for some advice on making this easier.
Your current mission is listed in the navigation bar though you can also access your current missions by clicking on the "Missions" menu (also located on the navigation bar). The default location for the nav bar is the top center of the screen.
When you're in the correct zone, a marker will show up on your navigation screen and on the zone map making it very easy to get to the right entrance (just follow the red or yellow arrow).
Now that you've met your contacts, got your missions, and found the missions, you need to know what to do with with them.
As of Issue 14, players will be able to craft custom missions. This will greatly add to the variety and imagination of the game. I can't wait 
