This quest is bugged, at least on "Gilgamesh" server.

For the last three days, at least, the npc "Astidien" will not talk to you and update the quest. This is incredibly infuriating...you cannot progress through the story quest at the moment.

And its happening to everyone that comes up to that quest now, lots of people have completed it before...but now everyone gets stuck. There have been TONS of people putting in bug reports and it STILL isn't hotfixed? Why not?

I don't play the game for FATE grinding because you can't unlock anymore quests or dungeons. I give it another day before I move on to a new game.

Sure for a I can see bugs like this arise, but too leave it going for at least three days when its completely debilitating to the gameplay? Unacceptable.