Quote Originally Posted by Vnolan View Post
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You can justify it however you like or downplay it, but they do have the tools and can use them if the situation escalates enough.

(Read: An LB giving 50% damage up literally breaking the difficulty of their content, forcing the devs to play their hand and using those exact tools and statistics to place temp bans on many people who used the exploit, even just out of fun.)

The cutscene lock took a while to be implemented, despite it being an ongoing problem for many months - years as well. Just saying, any day now you can wake up to a lovely email informing your character has been banned due to the devs wanting to place a firmer stance on the cutscene skip exploit. Like I said, it's about common sense. I know some players who botted 24/7 that have been banned, I know others who never have been. If you want to paint a target on your character's back, that's the player's choice. But they shouldn't be surprised if they suddenly have a GM zone in on that target and deliver them to the Mordion Gaol.

So as I said, it's your risk and only yours to make. Keep it to yourself to minimize innocent casualties, but you have only yourself to blame if you get put into a GM's crosshairs. As Ungermax had set a precedent for, nothing will keep you safe, no matter how innocent, no matter how much the group agrees with you, if the devs decide they want to go hard on shutting down an exploit. I'd advise to stay on the side of common sense. They implemented the cutscene lock because of outrage people were clearing the instance while they wanted to watch cutscenes. A subsequent outrage will only have the dev's iron hammer crashing down upon you.