Actually you can, if you're terrible at pve (like me..) or determined to run frontline, you can walk all the way from ToA (about an hour and a half), and then do the back route through the right hand side of Eastern Frontier. Makes the quest a walk in the park as you might expect.
I guess you are right.
From Toa, you need to get from the black curtain, to cursed lands, nebo terrace, north kryta province, scoundrel's rise, to griffon's mouth.
From griffon's mouth, you get to deldrimor bowl, Anvil rock, iron horse mine, traveler's vale.
Then you get to ascalon foothills, to diessa lowlands, the breach, old ascalon, regent valley, pockmark flats, into eastern frontier.
From 8-men ToA, you travel through 16 areas before reaching eastern frontier. From 6-men Yak's Bend, you travel through 7 areas before reaching eastern frontier.
And remember to talk to Warmaster Riga before you start on your journey, otherwise you have to do it all over again.
Considering that you need to run through these areas in HM, it maybe more painful than the quest itself.
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By the way, has anyone noticed that these quests have become slightly harder ever since the first ele update?
I suggest completing them before the second ele update where the non-elite ele skills would be boosted even further.
