don't the quest lines work for like the first 15 mins of server restarts, too?
No. Raid Plan works, but bugs right away. As soon as someone does it, next person is stuck. Next quest, Surprise Attack, does not work for anyone.
At one point, I started a thread on ROM visual glitches. One in particular placed large barrels of beer in AV. It was funny looking, and the barrels came from the festival at the time. They visual element for festival conflicted with rest of the game. That was harmless, but I guess the festivals affecting main game in unexpected ways is not new.
Crossing fingers that the report of questline working in EU are correct. The EU servers were up only a few minutes when that FB post was made.
Some first impressions:
1) Festival spam continues. NPCs are talking with everyone in General Tab, asking for help.
2) Aquarius pet looks like a dog-shaped lizard
3) New L77 POM gear - Patt/Pcrit cloak, Matt/Mcrit cloak, Stam/Parry cloak. Also, rings of same type. 6 POMs
4) Shell gear looks meh for wear, but of course, people dont pull it for that.
5) As previewed by all knowing YomanROM, Frost stats are 141/770. Compared to 9 point increase from 126 to 135 for dragon wilderness stats, this is only 6 points. So, restatting will not be hugely enhancing.