The Time-Constrained Player can't (and won't) put up with low drop-rate quests usually but that wasn't my problem here. My 12 Shaman had no problem with the mobs (even phantom adds) until one random fight with a VW where a 14 named jumped me and killed me in one hit (at half health...). He wasnt an elite either. OK, but even that wasn't the problem.

The Tombstone Tavern was about three time zones away, so when I got back, everyone had rezzed and invited all their friends. It was like the Lexington Avenue Line at rush hour. Tried rezzing in corners and under water three times. Each time, I was jumped by two mages, three others and (I'm pretty sure) the entire Philadelphia Philharmonic Orchestra.

I don't mind farming through mobs for a quest (to a point). I don't even mind quick respawns (although no one has matched Ursal's record yet - he respawns before you're finished killing him) but there has to be a way to get back into the fight. Couldn't find the trick here.

Many thanks for the other posts, though; I'll try to find the Insignia elsewhere. Otherwise I will handle this quest with great abandon.