Thread: re: Known Issues After Patch 4.5 (Jan. 17, 18)

I wonder if the solution is really as convoluted as some people worry it is. Monster dies -> triggers death animation -> animation's end triggers exp. It's during the death animation that things like this and the Eureka cheesing happen, so why not, for instance, move the exp triggering to before the death animation? You can't change jobs until it dies, so giving the exp as close to the actual death as possible makes sense, narrowing the window of exploit. Granted there's a lot I don't know about how that chain of events is actually programmed, but we could be talking about something as simple as taking a line of code from an event later in the chain and moving it to one earlier in the chain.
To be honest I'd love to know why they did it the way they did. Waiting for exp until after the death animation ended doesn't seem to hold too much merit.

Originally Posted by Tempest222

SE has said this is ok to do

Originally Posted by Lodestone known issues post

However, since this was not the Blue Mage’s intended design, we do not recommend engaging in this behavior, and encourage players to level in the intended fashion.

They acknowledged it was an issue, and one that they intend to fix. The problem is how delicate the areas they'd have to fix are, and that's why they don't wanna rush it. Only reason they're not penalizing people for it is that they knew about this bug and still released BLU, so that makes it their fault.