Quote Originally Posted by ErryK View Post
Are we really arguing minutiae now in a situation where using game mechanics is unintended, especially considering the original post SPECIFICALLY mentioned that it was not unintended (ie. anything but intended)? There's a difference but this situation is not it. If they were using hacks, yeah I can see your point, but your point is lost because LB3 of any kind is a normal thing this game has as a mechanic.
That's all any of this has been -- semantics. No one has ever suggested that it was the strat that the devs specifically wanted players to use. But for the mechanic to have been given damage equal to some 475% of the average eHP of a ranged at the minimum ilvl for the encounter, where less than 10% more damage would make LB3 unusable as a mechanical circumvention, stretches the idea the likelihood of coincidence. It seems to have been tailored as to "allow for" that strategy, even if was not the "intended" strategy.

Which I happen to very much like, as it does allow for creative use of the game's general mechanics. But, again, just 10% more damage and it would not have been an option. Someone almost certainly tuned to that.

To put it another way, it was likely an intended strategy, just not to be the leading option among them. It's NA predominance was unintended, not the strat itself.