LOL wow you really hated it. Aside from the fact that there were a lot of collection quests on the second half I actually liked the zone. It also had the arena which was super cake and tons of XP/great weapon reward. I don't remember any specific quests that were "REALLY bad", just that there were a lot of collections. Obviously with 5 characters I didn't die at all.

I had 0 issues with the costume/necklace quest(s). I have 3 keys that are bound on all 5 windows that I can drop quest items to and use them on all 5 characters at once, so I simply hit the key to re-wear the costume every 20 seconds or so and never had an issue.