These Hero's Journey tasks looked nice to do to get some gear while leveling up, until I read that the last task or two are raids. I don't understand the point of giving sub-60 defiant-equivalent bracers for this when you would have to have out-leveled them by the time you could do the task with a small group of around the same level characters.
It's a nice idea to 'encourage' grouping, but I had hoped the Hero's Journey stuff would be more friendly towards a new player who was perhaps not receiving assistance from maximum level friends.