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The iksar tear is the last turning, its the only one you cannot skip, unless its possible for you to raise your faction via any of the other quests over and over and then have somebody MQ you the tear to the mob and you loot what he drops.

You can potentially skip any of the steps past the first one, just depending how many times you want (read: need) to do the other ones. Im pretty sure the most popular methods are doing Black Dire or the Rathe Mountains or CoM report parts 10-15 times or however many you need, I wouldn't know. That way you are able to skip most of the CoM parts and also the hole.

You cannot skip the Iksar Tear, unless the above method is what you would consider skipping.

EDIT: Im assuming you need max faction to not only hand in the tear but also hand in the drop off Rak'Ashiir to get your epic.