Zen Daijun (mission)

Mission Objectives
Find the source of the plague.
 * Togo must survive.
 * ADDED: Kill Afflicted Kana.
 * ADDED: Kill Afflicted Yijo.
 * ADDED: Kill Afflicted Farmer Xeng Jo.

Reward

 * Basic completion: This Basic Objective earns 1000 Experience, 100 gold, and 1 Skill Point.
 * Expert completion: complete the mission objectives before 25 minutes (VERIFIED). This Expert Objective earns 1500 Experience, 150 gold, and 1 Skill Point.
 * Grand-Master completion: complete the mission objectives before 20 minutes (VERIFIED). This Master Objective earns 2000 Experience, 200 gold, and 1 Skill Point.

Additional Notes
The players will be placed in Seitung Harbor at the completion of this mission.

Walkthrough
Simply follow the road through the mission. Togo is level 20, and will allow characters to take on relatively large groups of opponents. The miasma exists as purple smoky cloads, often found at road intersections. The miasma causes -5 health degeneration, and spreads between characters, similar to disease, but overall is not too much a threat. The afflicted can often be attacked from odd angles to minimize the amount of time spent in miasma. Also, you can sneak past many miasma clouds (although not all of them).

You can ring the bell at any of the Shrines of Zunraa to summon Zunraa. Zunraa is only level 13 and will not help overly much with fighting, but the Blessing of the Kirin it provides will help with managing conditions as well as miasma. In addition to that, you may want to bring some condition removal skills, as there are many Afflicted Rangers around, who like to use Throw Dirt.

At the end of the mission, you will first have to fight two high level bosses; when battling these two, focus primarily on Afflicted Yijo- his Spirit Rift skill will tear through clumped players, so consider putting interruptions into the fray; Dissonance is a particularly handy spell in this situation. After they have been defeated, you will then fight a group of regular afflicted with a boss in some miasma (which is much more challenging). It is entirely possible (and advisable) to lure the Afflicted out with a ranger character and engage them at the end of the bridge.

Hint: There are occasions where enemies sit in the miasma. Fighting them in there will quickly overwhelm your healers with the constant health degen. Either lure the enemies to you, out of the miasma, or run through the miasma past the monsters and then turn around to fight them. The Blessing of the Kirin helps greatly in overcoming the miasma's effects, so keep Zunraa alive (for at least the first part of the fight). If he (she?) is dead, resurrect him (her?) at the bells before the fight.

There are paths around all but one of the miasma clouds, however following them will slow your party down. Depending on your party composition, it may be advisable to ignore the bonus, and take the alternate paths, especially if you are weak on healing. It is worth noting that you do not need to defeat all the Afflicted, and are usually good at staying where they are, so should there be an opportunity to slip past them without drawing aggro to skipping onto the next group, do so- this is especially a useful tactic when trying for the Grand Master Completion, and it is entirely possible to finish the mission in 15 minutes or less, provided you keep smart about it.