Quote Originally Posted by therpgfanatic View Post
This is completely untrue, I got pushed out of a spot in North Thanalan right outside of Camp Bluefrog because every single enemy was killed as soon as it spawned by a Red Mage who was exploiting. He ran around both the left and right side of the maps instant one shotting every enemy before I could even tag them with so much as water cannon. I saw this occurring all over Mor Dhona too.
I can go around and one shot every mob in a zone that another player is trying to kill. That doesn't mean I'm exploiting anything. I'm just being a jerk.

The exploit only comes in if I immediately job switch so a different job gains XP from the kill than the one I used to kill the mob.

Most of those people running around one shotting stuff are just jerks, not exploiters.

But I do agree in general that SE has made a poor call by saying "we're not going to punish you, keep doing it". It just encourages more players to use the exploit because it's now been stamped as "this is okay to do". They will use it with other jobs and in other situations as well. Then they'll start using other exploits because SE has already authorized players to use this one.


I do hope they reconsider. Better for them to say "we won't penalize players who have used it until now but we will penalize those found using it going forward".


In the meantime, this explains how Derplander was changing jobs in the teaser trailer.