Everyone has their own preferences, and no two players are gonna like the same thing.

Personally this might have been my favorite solo duty ever. It's not hard and the only criticism I'd levy at it would be the active time maneuver was needlessly difficult.

Other than that, the tone and sense of dread the entire way through. God, I've never been so tense playing a videogame in my life. It was terrible, it was uncomfortable, it was unnerving and I loved it.

As for why neither of them killed you, well doing so would have been wildly out of character for either of them.
As for why this can't just be repeated well how many Ascians are left after Fandaniel? Plus the only reason is because you were ported to the chair and the entire tower is in allied hands now.

As was mentioned earlier in the thread it's alluded to that this was very difficult to do and still only lasted for about 30 minutes.

I dunno, I simply don't agree that this cheapens the WoL at all. It was frightening and I'm happy they included it.