Quote Originally Posted by Niqote View Post
I am.
Because with a thousand needles you can 3-4 shot mobs far above your level (Granted you will miss 60% of the time). So my party of 2 or 3 blue mage friends hit Northern Thanalan at lvl 23ish, Leveling slowly and enjoying hunting down the spells there only to have 2 people force us to leave because they are using the exploit to kill everything in sight in seconds.

That's not a gripe, but an example of the reality of how exploiting is affecting people who do not want to exploit. This job is being called a solo focused job, but I haven't had such a nice, relaxing time with a small group of people in this game for a long time.
If you tag an enemy, you will get full credit no matter what. It means that you can apply as much pressure on "exploiters" than they can to you. In both cases, a BLU has to pull. There is no reason why they would be able to force you to leave any more than you forcing them.

Also, a side effect to this exploit is that people are done extremely quickly, meaning that there is a high turning rate. If this wasn't the case, the zones would be overpopulated with way more players staying longer, and it'd be even harder for you to find your place in prime spots of EXP (N.Thanalan for example).
We should see something like that happen in 5.X in Heavensward zones, albeit to a lesser degree since the maps are much bigger than ARR ones.