Personally I had to laugh. I seriously love it. I mean don't get me wrong, the debuff sucks. But I was totally blown away and impressed with just the general old-school hard-core nature of the debuff. In these days and times of spoon-fed MMO's, that *claim* choices matter, but in the end, really don't make a single wit of difference, I found it refreshing to find something that said "PAY ATTENTION", and if you don't, there WILL be consequences!
So yeah I botched it the first time, even though I read the quest carefully. I wasn't sure about where the spider went after the blood. But the second time through I figured it out, and when I saw the debuff and the duration, I was like TCHYA!!
sides.. it's not like you don't have 140 other toons to go play during the duration...