Damn, people! What I am reading here, is some Heck Noobs Whine like "I must WALK somewhere", "I Was killed by moob" oh, ah, oh!
Get a clue. its supossed to be hard. If you, heck n00bs dont know the game, the RubiKa, how and where to walk, how to handle some areas, you are noobs.
Took me (exacly) 11 minutes to finish TOTW mission, from pulling it. Took me around 45 minutes to finish Smuggs Mission.
This is mission, that will grant you a lvl reward (till lvl 100 afaik) for 1-2hrs of solo fun. You cant handle it? Try another way of lvling and dont Blame FunCom and AO Dev team for being n00b.
That - was to some players that complain about they are noobs w/o knowing it.
And, back on topic. DM are nice option with good idea of useing old content.