I echo Selova, and think this event is to help newer players. If it weren't, I think more duties would be available such as from HW content. I'm not surprised that those forging the path of least resistance are already calculating how to go about acquiring the most amount of tomes in the least amount of time, so I can expect nothing but Crystal Tower in alliance roulette for the next month for sure. It's pretty much that way now, so no biggie. Because of that though, I am not so certain that players trying to get through low level dungeons and Castrum/Prae actually get an increase to the amount of veterans queueing into those instances.

It's also quite clear that obtaining everything on this list is not the intention. The pool of items consists of a wide range of loot from various content in the game: Diadem, Hunts, EX primals, Raids, Beast Tribes; the only one that's really missing from content not everyone does is PvP. This gives players who don't run that content a chance at some of those rewards, and those who do run them can just take these items off of their list and focus somewhere else.

My only gripe is it's only for a month. This feels like something that should be around longer, or come around once per patch cycle.