Quote Originally Posted by lezard21 View Post
unable to gather Collectable/Legendary nodes
In normal times this stops people from going world to world and getting exorbitant numbers of timed nodes. It's a good thing.

visit the Firmament
A restriction put in place when worlds would zerg other's fates en masse.

or access our retainers while World Visiting.
Unless it's a bot-control measure then logically there is a design constraint with world visits here. Your retainers could well be like avatars (we do see them in the world after all), tied to the home-world. One guesses SE would need to put in a world visit system for them, and that would make the queue worse for everyone.