Quote Originally Posted by Soukyuu View Post
This is really not the problem I am describing. There is no progression involved in solving an obscure mechanic for you as a player. You are not getting better with your class. Your skill is irrelevant while you are beating against the obscurity wall with random tries to figure out what to do, or trying to find hints you might have missed.

That is only true if you figured out the mechanics of the twister only, though.
And why do you believe that "progressing" necessarily means "getting better with your class"?
You can get better in other ways as well - this is probably one of these cases (even if excellent execution is still a very important factor)

In this case, we have a group of people who managed to do something that no one else did before; they "progressed" in the game, no questions.

The fact that they needed to use their heads and "think outside of the box" to try and figure out what the "secret" was is not something bad per se, it's a novelty (not really, The Secret World already does this) and definitely interesting, at least for me and probably for others as well.