"The Light of Inspiration" question for Devs

[Iscah]

this was such a huge screw up that I quit playing for about a week and nearly quit playing altogether, because I thought it was a bug in the MSQ system.

You nearly quit playing... over a (perceived) minor bug in the system without even seeing if it was blocking your progress once you did what it asked you to do?

Anyway, as I said in another thread discussing this - it actually makes more sense set up the way it is. If you had to be Lv80 to begin the quest, you might have to leave the area, go level up elsewhere, come back to accept the quest... and near-immediately learn that you need to leave again and complete the role quest.

Telling you upfront that you need to clear the role quest just removes a potential layer of annoyance later on. You're immediately clear that you need to both reach Lv80 and complete the quest(s) which might even give you the EXP needed to level up.