Rondel Jackson Giving Missions Before Time

[Rudra]

So I was introduced to Rondel Jackson as a contact at level 19. And his street sweep missions have been taking me a very long time to complete as I hunt around Talos Island and Independence port looking for mobs that won't stomp me for being too large a group and/or too high level. (It's been difficult to find less than purple enemies....) I've been sticking it out because I want to do his story arc. Frustrated, I checked him on the wiki and he is listed as a level 20-24 contact. I should not be able to get missions from him yet. (Though it does explain why he adamantly refuses to give me the story arc.... I thought he was a 15-19 contact and had myself level locked until I got his story arc, but while I am too low level for him to give me the story arc, apparently I'm not so low level that he is opposed to sending me to purple town to hunt mobs.)

[Jacke]

Sometimes you get Contacts a Level early.  Others have been extended a Level or two.  When running a Completist Toon, I always work on the listed Level range.  Sometimes, you get a bit more.

 

 

[Rudra]

8 minutes ago, Jacke said:

Sometimes you get Contacts a Level early.  Others have been extended a Level or two.  When running a Completist Toon, I always work on the listed Level range.  Sometimes, you get a bit more.

 

 

I'm used to getting contacts early. What I am not used to is those contacts I get early giving me missions before I am at their minimum level for their level range. Every other contact I got early was always "Come back later. You aren't ready." Whereas Rondel Jackson was "Go hunt these mobs in Talos Island and Independence Port, you can find them as +3 or higher to you in their areas. Good luck." Normally contacts like Rondel Jackson still send you into parts of zones where until you get near their level range upper limit, it is a careful dance of ambush, defeat, run away until you finish the street sweeps, but you are at least of the zone's minimum level so things may only be yellow or orange as you hunt them. Rondel Jackson's tasks as a level 19 hunting level 23s (and praying to find a spawn that is only at the zone's minimum) is ambush, run away praying to live long enough, heal up, hope spawn is still there, ambush, run away praying....