Quote Originally Posted by Draginhikari View Post
It's one of those weird things that will probably always been hand-waved away for the sake of convenience. It was their first method of providing tomestone gear upgrade items through the 24 man raids and attached a vague reason for why the quest was taking place. I feel like there is a good reason why they stopped trying to find lore reasons for weekly lockouts and higher difficulty fights like extreme/savage.

I highly doubt that NPC will ever be used for anything again.
Noah will still be used to collect lovely relic 3.0 items required. SHE HAS A PURPOSE!!!