So who has finished the HW story (3.0, not 3.3) and then decided to work on their DRG? or who has finished the 2.5 story and (haven't progressed in HW) did the level 50 CUL quest?

Two MSQ NPC's who have moments of being down for the count are very present in those two instances. I think SE even stated 'different points in time' or something to make sense of it.