Quote Originally Posted by basketofseals View Post
"Fixing" fights because they weren't done exactly as intended is how you end up with Absolute Virtue.
I hope you're not defending the method by which AV was first killed. If you honestly believe that using a trick in the terrain to nullify pretty much ALL of a boss's mechanics is a legit strategy that the devs intended, I really don't know what to say.

Say what you like about how impossible AV was, but the "wall trick" was clearly an exploit - and this was made clear not only by the quick patch to the fight, but by the fact that SE actually went the extra mile and nullified all the item drops when they caught on to what the exploiters were doing - if I'm not misremembering, AV dropped NOTHING when it was killed in that cheap manner, and it's pretty unlikely that that was just a coincidence.