60+ Elite Dragonkin pat right over the quest giver.
why?
because they didn’t think about what was going to happen when the dragons of nightmare were added and as such you have a half baked quick fix by moving the portal to the quest givers but not the quest givers. Hinterlands is the same but it doesn’t get camped by a group of 60+ elites.
You can approach and talk to the NPC from the water side hiding behind the portal ring.