While I enjoyed the overall story, it also reminded me a lot about how incredibly frustrating this story is frequently. The entire "get permission from the people to use the crystal tower" is a somehow even more stupid retread of one of the plot points in 6.4, where it already was stupid, runar and the night's blessed are really great at putting me to sleep, important stuff keeps being in optional content and then barely ever comes up in the msq, and I guess Zero is just on the 13th for the next 3-5 years or whenever they decide to pick up that plot thread again. sigh