Ah those must have been it. I havent played since right before the druid patch came live so its been a while

The consensus seems to be that its momentarily stopped. They dont know how or why. And it offers us some time, but they dont know how much time. The tadpole is still inside our head so when the thing stops working that is keeping it in check we are royally screwed.
Hence why I say that we are infact somewhat in a hurry. We might have week or we might have a month, currently we dont know. Not really the circumstances under which id decide to delay seeking aid and decide to spelunk a few days to grind some xp.