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[TheMightyMollusk]

My point exactly.

It was shoved in after the fact. ShB was originally designed to stand on its own without completion of the Crystal Tower raids, as evidenced by the multiple dialogue lines, and complete lack of requirement until 5.3.

The developers do not give people choices if they want them to go one way more than the other. It is their way, or you can stop playing.

Except, it was pretty clearly written with the intent of the player knowing what the Crystal Tower is, given that it's such a central part of the plot. And the reveal of the Exarch's identity is completely meaningless if you haven't finished the quests.

ShB was written expecting people to have done it, but tried to accommodate people who hadn't, until 5.3 came around and it was just too much of a stretch to keep trying.

[Arkevorkhat]

... until 5.3 came around and it was just too much of a stretch to keep trying.

Or, they could have, y'know, not introduced a massive plothole by telling us that sending G'raha back was impossible no less than three times, and then suddenly going "Oops! I guess it is possible after all", because people were fawning over a two-bit catboy with a god complex.