Missing in Action
Missing in Action
- Year
- 1337 AE
- Storyline
- Janthir Wilds
- Chapter
- Missing in Action
- Location
- Lowland Shore
(Janthir) - Level
- 80
- Preceded by
- Home Sweet Home
- Followed by
- Strangers among Lands
- API
- 714
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Missing in Action is the fourth chapter of the Janthir Wilds story.
Objectives[edit]
- Explore the Journeykin Outpost.
- Head westward, further into the wilds, to the kodan hunting outpost.
- Get briefed on the area by Barbed Vale.
- Learn more about the lowland kodans' kinship with nature and the journeykin. (Complete Vast Caldera's Renown Heart Assist the Kodan in Their Coursing Upland Activities (If you have already completed the "Assist the Kodan in Their Coursing Upland Activities" heart in Festering Basin, this step will be skipped.))
- Speak with Barbed Vale again.
- Head to the area where the missing kodan scouting party was last seen.
- Search for the missing scouting party.
- Meet up with Caithe and Malice.
- Navigate through the misty delta with Caithe and Malice.
- Defeat the ambushers!
- Use your warclaw to sniff for clues.
- Defeat the ambushers!
- Use your warclaw to sniff for clues.
- Defeat the ambushers!
- Examine the Rot on the ground.
- Examine the survivor.
- Defeat the stranger's spawn.
- Champion Blighted Beast
- Reconvene with Caithe and Malice.
- Complete!
Rewards[edit]
Walkthrough[edit]
- Explore the Journeykin Outpost
Arrive at Journeykin Outpost — to speak to Barbed Vale and then complete the nearby Renown Heart (if it has already been completed on that day by that character this step is skipped), then speak to Barbed Vale again.
Head to the low area just northeast of the Outpost, just northwest of Mire Switchback — , to start the next instance.
- Search for the missing scouting party
Speak to Caithe to start the search, then move northwest (make sure to be slightly behind them so they don't stop).
On the first shore is an ambush of spawn followed by having to use the warclaw's #2 skill, Sniff, to find a small object marked with a green magnifying glass. At the foot of the nearby hill is another ambush and a Sniff search, followed by another round near the top. This time the clues are replaced with 3 spots of rot to investigate.
Finally, at the top of the hill is the only surviving scout, Graced by Fire, along with an ambush by Greer, the Blightbringer, and a Champion Blighted Beast that you have to fight. The beast periodically dips down into the ground to grants itself protective boons and to create an area what will corrupt your boons.
- Since it often applies boons to itself, some form of either Boon removal or Boon corruption is good to have.
- Condition removal skills are very good here. While the conditions themselves often don't deal a lot of damage they will hamper your damage heavily.
- Be careful when applying Stability, as the Champion at the end can corrupt it into Fear.
- Ranged weapon are good to have, as both the Champion and several enemies before it will be standing inside of condition fields and might take some time to get lead out of them.
Achievements[edit]
Missing in Action | Janthir Wilds: Act 1 | 1 | 1
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Discover a Stranger among Lands.Journal: Missing in Action | Completed Missing in Action | 1 |
- Complete the story mission.
Scouting for Scouts | Janthir Wilds: Act 1 | 1 |
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Find the missing scouting party within the time limit.Journal: Missing in Action | Found the Missing Scouting Party Within the Time Limit | 1 |
- The time limit is 7 minutes.
- Simply make sure to keep moving and quickly defeating enemies until Graced by Fire is found.
- Eligibility and time left can be check via Achievement Eligibility: Scouting for Scouts
No Stranger to Success | Janthir Wilds: Act 1 | 1 |
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Defeat the stranger's spawn without dying.Journal: Missing in Action | Defeated the Stranger's Spawn without Dying | 1 |
- Simply don't get defeated by any of the titanspawn found throughout the mission (including the boss at the end) and this achievement will be completed when the mission finishes.
- Eligibility can be tracked via Achievement Eligibility: No Stranger to Success
Strange Feelings | Janthir Wilds: Act 1 | 1 |
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Hear Caithe and Malice's thoughts in the aftermath of the encounter.Journal: Missing in Action |
Talked to 2 Allies | 1 |
- Speak to both Caithe and Malice after defeating the Champion Blighted Beast, but before leaving the instance.
NPCs[edit]
Dialogue[edit]
Instance Start:
- Caithe: There you are!
- Malice Swordshadow: Over here, Commander!
- <Character name>: Any sign of the party?
- Caithe: Nothing yet. With any luck, the scouts got turned around in this fog and simply wandered off course.
- Malice Swordshadow: The more boots we have on the ground searching, the more likely we are to run into them.
- Malice Swordshadow: Barbed Vale Insists the area is free of natural predators. Regardless, let's stay alert.
Fight 1 Starts:
- Malice Swordshadow: We're surrounded!
- Caithe: It's never just a walk in the woods, is it?
Fight 1 Ends:
- Caithe: Looks like we've hit a junction.
- Malice Swordshadow: I'm having trouble getting a consistent read on our location.
- Malice Swordshadow: Out here, we'll have to rely on your warclaw for navigation. See if it can point us in the right direction.
On Warclaw, interacting with ???:
- A pungent smell seeps from the rot pile.
- This seems rather new...
- Malice Swordshadow: Given the nearby tracks, it seems to have come from east of here.
- Let's go.
Fight 2 Starts:
- Malice Swordshadow: Looks out! Our friends are back!
- Caithe: Had more than enough of you!
Fight 2 Ends:
- Malice Swordshadow: Which way, Commander?
On Warclaw, interacting with ???:
- A pungent smell seeps from the rot pile.
- You smell that...? Awful.
- Malice Swordshadow: Lets try heading up this hill.
- Let's go.
Fight 3 Starts:
- Malice Swordshadow: There's someone ahead!
Fight 3 Ends:
- Caithe: I think we're getting closer... But whatever we're getting closer to, I don't like it in the slightest.
Approaching Graced by Fire:
- <Character name>: Over here! A survivor!
Talking initiates cutscene.
- Graced by Fire:Stranger.
Fight 4:
- Greer, the Blightbringer: Worms, wallowing spineless in the filth they create for themselves.
- Caithe: Is...this a-
- Malice Swordshadow: A false god.
- Malice Swordshadow: Come to terrorize a new people.
- (If asura)
- <Character name>: I never thought I'd see one with my own eyes.
- (If Norn)
- <Character name>: A legendary mark! I'll mount its head on my wall!
- (If Sylvari)
- <Character name>: Its rot threatens my very being. No longer!
- (If Human)
- <Character name>: Ascalon... Kryta... Your blight ends here.
- (If Charr)
- <Character name>: Hell with effigies. Should've burned your kind at the pyre!
- (If not Charr)
- Malice Swordshadow: Hell with effigies. Should've burned your kind at the pyre!
- Caithe: Where does it think it's going?
- Malice Swordshadow: To cower. While its lackey takes the heat.
- Caithe: Need to keep her conscious. I'll tend to her while you two handle the spawn.
- Malice Swordshadow: Gladly.
(Champion at ~75% HP)
- Malice Swordshadow: I'd better be wrong. This better not be what I think it is.
(Champion at ~50% HP)
- Malice Swordshadow: (snarls)
(Champion at ~25% HP)
- <Character name>: How's the scout?
- Caithe: Holding on, but just barely. She needs medical attention.
- Malice Swordshadow: This won't take much longer.
(Champion Defeated)
- Caithe: Where are you going? Malice!
- Malice Swordshadow: Job's not done yet.
- Caithe: We'll have plenty of time for that. But for her, it's running out! She needs a healer.
Talk to Caithe:
- <Character name>: Caithe's right. We go for help first. Then we talk to the council.
- Malice Swordshadow: Fine. But this goes beyond just the council. We need to notify the alliance.
- Malice Swordshadow: And have the bodies identified...
- Caithe: Unless you want one more to identify, let's move.
- Malice Swordshadow: Once she's safe, I'll contact Crecia. Have her call for an emergency meeting.
(after mission)
Talk to Caithe:
- Caithe: Hmm...
- Everyone okay?
- Caithe: I've got my hands full with an injured kodan and a riled charr, but I'm fine.
- Caithe: I imagine the alliance is going to act fast. You should prepare your account of what happened here.
Talk to Malice:
- Malice Swordshadow: What a fight that was.
- Are you okay?
- Malice Swordshadow: Is that what I think it was?
- Malice Swordshadow: I'm okay. I'm fine. We don't know for sure... it could have been... Maybe...
- Malice Swordshadow: I need to call Crecia.
My Story[edit]
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