No, and in fact... For priority contracts... Expert counts. So, play the PvE only nodes at a harder difficulty... should you choose, drop it to Expert when you need red nodes to complete those priority contracts. Do that 6 times per character and you'll receive the weekly shipments too. I tested all of this, even though I don't mind being invaded. I kill most of them. 😈 Probably killed 10 invaders yesterday in a pretty short session. Haven't fully wiped one solo yet... but I'm regularly getting 2 knocks per instance. I got good strats, working for right now. Anywho... yes, you can do 99% of everything including Priority Contracts to get the faction shipments without ever invading or being invaded. 2. For the Red Crystal... all you have to do is try. Seriously. If you fail completely, wiped without putting a tic out... it can still drop. You get loot no matter what. I'm not kidding. There's a clip of Clyde getting wiped on his 3rd attempt at invading... got the crystal. [url]https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4jDmtlZD0-4[/url] Got it by trying. No consequences but maybe your ego... I get owned sometimes. Don't let it tilt you; it's a video game. Just saying. 😇👍💠

Not really, plenty of other stuff to do