Mission Basics

Why do missions

The two major objectives of CoH are to level to 50 (to unlock the Kheldan archetype) 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.
• If you follow the story arcs through the missions, you get an experience bonus as well as a high-level enhancment as reward.
• Most Arch-Villains are only found in missions. Defeating an Arch-Villain gives experience equal to a mission bonus and often gives you high level Enhancements.

How to do missions

There are three ways to go through missions.

1. 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).

2. 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.

3. Sneak it

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   All About Being Sneaky
   

   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 Advanced Travel Tips guide at the end of this tutorial for some advice on making this easier.

You can see the mission marked on the map and the screen pointer showing the exact door to enter.

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