Please stop with the "no duplicates" and pigeon-holing our DPS into tiny windows

[Fynlar]

Your stance makes no sense. What benefit do they have to essentially lie and claim they never intended parties to rely on tank LB3 to cheese the mechanic if they actually expected people would? Tank LB3 simply gives 80% mitigation party wide, which omits virtually all of Hakutei's damage as it's entirely based on percentage.

Who says they need a "benefit"?

Bottom line is, if it were truly unintended, they would fix it. They haven't. I don't know about you guys, but for me, actions speak louder than words.

For another, they tend to get mad when people don’t do the content as they designed for it to be done.

Precisely. And they aren't getting "mad" about it here. What does THAT tell you?

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Who says they need a "benefit"?

Bottom line is, if it were truly unintended, they would fix it. They haven't. I don't know about you guys, but for me, actions speak louder than words.

For someone claiming to have watch/read the live letter, you missed quite a few details. Yoshida explained they don't necessarily want to fix it since it's a strategy players came up with they simply didn't anticipate and doing so would punish them. Regardless, by your assessment, the exploit in O5S is equally intended. You know, the one where WAR or RDM tag the big ghost, blow it up in two GCDs and completely negate a mechanic that otherwise kills the entire raid if not done properly. Hmmmm.

[HyoMinPark]

Bottom line is, if it were truly unintended, they would fix it. They haven't. I don't know about you guys, but for me, actions speak louder than words.

Or, they could be considering the fact that if they patched that now, almost four weeks after release, the earfuls from people whining about how they can no longer cheese the mechanic they’ve been cheesing all along just isn’t worth it.

Precisely. And they aren’t getting “mad” about it here. What does THAT tell you?

Still tells me that tank LB3 strat wasn’t the intended strat. Otherwise, they never would have said “We didn’t intend for players to cheese this by using a tank LB3 for the second tiger”. The developers may have their faults, but they don’t strike me as the kind to lie about things like this.

[Nestama]

Bottom line is, if it were truly unintended, they would fix it. They haven't. I don't know about you guys, but for me, actions speak louder than words.

Turn 2 enrage strategy says hello.

Funnily enough, there was a patch where it seemed SE did fix this strategy (the enrage would cast faster and such), but then they undid the fix and people could do the enrage again.