Quote Originally Posted by SeiyaSoiya View Post
yes we are regulated
but that doesn't mean we are not allowed to judge developers on a moral level, especially when we are beaten on the head about how "they cleared without the use of third party tools"
as if the prog of developers is equivalent to what players have to do to prog, i.e. restarting all the way to the beginning each wipe

yes it's illegal
yes it's against the rules
but that's not what I'm discussing here
The testers are not "progging" the fight. They're pulling open up different phases to make sure that buffs are applied correctly in situations even when players disconnect, and that nothing despawns or falls out of the map in fringe cases. You seem to have a fundemental misunderstanding of what testers do. They aren't there to prog the fight blind and then clear multiple times, they're there to make sure the DPS check is possible to hit and that mechanics don't glitch out leaving players unable to complete it.

Every bit of content in this game is designed, balanced, and tested based on the assumption that players doing this will not be using tools. Full stop. That doesn't mean testers and devs don't use debugging tools while testing to make sure everything reacts the way it's supposed to.