Turn 2 "easy mode", disables every mechanic in the fight

[Astarica]

For those asking what I think about the exploit, that's not the important part. It's what devs think because they make the rules in a MMORPG. In a MMORPG players don't really have much rights. Aside from actually quitting the game our opinions are nowhere on an equal footing with the dev. If killing Little Ladybugs yielded Allagan gear 2% of the time due to a bug in loot table, you can be considered 'exploiting' for farming those. If you're the guy telling everyone else to do this expect to be have even harsher consequences. I've seen players punished for exploiting an encounter that was bugged such that you win by just starting the encounter and hide somewhere while your ally NPCs kill the boss. So if starting an encounter can be called an exploit then of course this is an exploit too. If you look at MMORPG philosophy pretty much anything players can do that is advantageous and not intended by devs is an 'exploit', that way devs don't have to explain themselves when they fix it.

Now if you're actually interested in my personal opinion, I think it's the dev's problem that they didn't make enrage hard enough. If you're not supposed to live past 3 stack of Caduceus just make 4th stack grant 100X movement speed and 100X damage. If you're supposed to die when the timer hits 0 just have the boss AE for milions of damage, or better yet just kick you out of the zone. But my opinion really has no bearing on what a dev would think. MMORPG tends to be very draconian. If you read the EULA you'll realize you don't own anything and nothing you have has value, and you can be banned for a good, bad, or no reason. Likewise anything you can possibly do that the devs don't like is simply defined as an exploit if it eventually gets fixed.