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When unlocking the Ardenweald adventure table* (this is essentially just what we know as the mission table from previous expansions with a paint job) for the first time, you are given an introductory tutorial mission to complete as part of an introductory quest.
https://www.wowhead.com/mission=2175/tutorial-spinal-swarm
You could complete the mission repeatedly provided you didn't turn in the quest. By sending out 3 champions at a cost of 3 anima you could gain an item worth 5 anima, for a net gain of 2 anima. The mission took one minute to complete. I did this repeatedly.
This is not an exceptionally fast way to gain anima. A quest will typically award 35 anima. However it can be very easily automated with a mouse recorder programme and no other special software.
I got distracted by another potential exploit and left to do some quests for a few hours, when I returned the introductory mission had vanished, so it seems that there is some trigger which removes the quest-at this time I'm unsure if that is player proximity to the command table or is something time-dependent. I will also update this article when I have tested the other covenants-you would expect all the covenants to have a similar introductory mission but this needs confirmation.
(For those still unfamiliar with adventures there is a short guide here: https://www.wowhead.com/guides/covenant-adventures-missions-shadowlands )