Either way this is a huge bottleneck and needs to be addressed. At best it's confusing and bad design, at worst bugged. Either way it's a problem that seems to be holding up a lot of people from progressing.
rectalbandit wrote: »i just did this quest. what seemed to work very consistently for me was to actually 'interrupt' (as in hold right click and then left click) the standing praying necromancers at the circles (didn't have to wait or anything).