For those who were trying to start a witch hunt on players useing the technique.SE themselves have stated they arent counting it as an exploit.


We are making the investigation and addressing of this issue a high priority, but as explained above, it involves changing the core structure of the EXP gaining method, making it difficult to address with a mere hotfix. Currently, we are aiming to address this issue with Patch 5.0.
As a result, using this method for levelling would normally be classified as an exploit, but since we were not able to address this promptly despite it being a known issue, we will not be issuing any penalties for players who are levelling in this way. However, since this was not the intended design, we do not recommend engaging in this behaviour, and exhort players to level in the normal manner as was intended.

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